Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?

[Pudgy]

If you get close, you can hear some of them screaming for help!

help!  Help!

help. help help!

 

[Pudgy]

The moral of the story is this:

No matter how badly screwed up our Theology is, we could be an ugly epileptic baby cockroach having a stroke, drowning in cold coffee.

 

[Thinking]

5 hours ago, Pudgy said:

 

Sometimes, the “Elephant in the Room” has to be there for 40 years before people will admit he is really there, after denying it for 38 years.

That does not take humility.

It takes inevitability, in the face of hundreds of thousands of people that will not drink the Kool Aid.

I was there before, during, and after 1975, and was paying attention.

It was a deliberate attempt to scare the Brotherhood artificially.

What the GB LEARNED, is that you cannot fool all of the people … all of the time.….. and that loss of credibility has serious consequences.….. but that’s OK, the GB never missed a meal, or slept cold.

…….. and NOBODY GOT FIRED or demoted.

 

I’m not disagreeing  with you with that…what you have said is true…but the brother who gave the talk was humble  enough to admit the error…I like brothers like that…and the moral of the story Pugsy has nothing to do with cofffee…it is….don’t trust anyone but Jehovah and Jesus..and be like a beroean…who were more noble minded than the Corinthians and took responsibility for their own spirituality.

Many left over that,,,shaken because they looked to men….and a date…

If you lived thru  that you would also know many did not go along with it…

 

 

[Pudgy]

I was overseas working at the time, and I did not speak the local languages.

By the way, my kind of humor is usually reserved to guys my age who grew up reading MAD Magazine, and like  stand-up comedians like Robin Williams and Lewis Black.

[Thinking]

15 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

I was overseas working at the time, and I did not speak the local languages.

Well that’s a cop out…

[Srecko Sostar]

9 hours ago, Space Merchant said:

That situation could be equated to something like that of a game of Telephone. Whereas something is said and down the line, caused some form of division and confusion. So someone who was excited must have said some things that got other people talking whereas others understood the context of what is said and did not partake in spreading what the others were doing, hence the notation of 1975. Plus times in the 70s were different, to the point people do literal action after some things were said, as is excitement of somethings which could lean to action.

That “broken phone” game has a bunch of written text. So, your argument and illustration is meaningless.

Are you trying to say that people today are less prone to naivety than in the 1970s? And that today’s JWs think more with their head than their predecessors, so they’re more careful and don’t listen to GB enough? Today’s JWs have a unique circumstance compared to their 1970s predecessors, and that is; more information about WTJWorg. And an increasingly rich history (and present) of failed doctrines.

[Pudgy]

It often takes a hundred years.

[Thinking]

25 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

I was overseas working at the time, and I did not speak the local languages.

By the way, my kind of humor is usually reserved to guys my age who grew up reading MAD Magazine, and like  stand-up comedians like Robin Williams and Lewis Black.

So?

[Pudgy]

So?

Either you “get” innuendo non-sequiter nuanced humor …. Or you don’t.

Usually, those that build pictures in their minds with each word in a sentence they read, “get” visual humor as well.

[Pudgy]

THIS one is to me, incredibly Brilliant humor!

 

[Arauna]

3 hours ago, Pudgy said:

No matter how badly screwed up our Theology is

Sorry - broad strokes like that is not acceptable to me.  Our core teachings are absolutely solid!  no argument about that.  The few mistakes due to over zealousness or some human fault is zoomed into by critical people with superior feelings  and used as a pulverizer to trash everything!  Don't agree with you.  I was also around in 1975 and it was not as bad as you-all make it out to be.   

Jesus always spoke the truth and the pharisees /(super apostles) found fault with him.  

[Pudgy]

I was speaking about “our Theology” To include all living things on planet Earth. Please go back and re-read that post with my intended perspective and see if it looks better then.

My “broad stroke” was intended to be understood as planetary in scope.

Perhaps I should have been more specific, but I did not think it would be misunderstood.

Also, I am five or more years older than you, and was in California when the hustle started, an the Congo in late 1974, so our experiences might be expected to be completely different.