I just got into JW.org’s Wi-Fi network.

[Pudgy]

Soon it won’t matter …. the generation that knew the Truth will have all died off, and agenda driven people will win.

… as “history” is beaten to fit, and painted to match, one detail at a time.

Double-Plus Ungood … but that’s how it goes.

(Sixty years from now all JWs will know that JW men NEVER had a problem with beards, and no one will have any idea what the “Overlapping Generations  Chart “ was.)

… but that’s how it goes.

 

 

[Matthew9969]

On 4/10/2024 at 11:00 AM, JW Insider said:

Speaking of security. It’s much tighter than it was in 2019 when I was here last. There is the iron gate out front and the brother has to make a phone call with your name and appointment confirmation # to another person inside before they open it. Then you must stop for an attendant who asks you for the info again. Then a parking attendant. Then a brother at the main lobby door who only lets you in with a card key. 

I was just in Patterson to see the Bible Village “Museum” tour. It was excellent but too short. They also have a “legally establishing the good news” tour/museum and a Gilead school historical tour which now covers the other schools more extensively than before. 
 

I am back in Warwick now. Got here a bit early so I’m looking out on the lake. Very nice. I’ve worked while looking out on this lake before. But for IBM and not the WTS. IBM is at the other end of the lake. We used to handle our disaster recovery setup with them and I was sent here twice for my secular work. 

Dang, why the need for so much security? That truly does sound like a billionair den. I'd be willing to bet those guys were packing heat.

[Pudgy]

… There is a name for those people who don’t have beards, don’t know how to use tools, and don’t carry weapons.

Women.

[TrueTomHarley]

16 minutes ago, Matthew9969 said:

Dang, why the need for so much security?

Waiting for the attack from those IBMers across the Deep Blue lake, no doubt, led by Watson himself.

[JW Insider]

42 minutes ago, Matthew9969 said:

Dang, why the need for so much security? That truly does sound like a billionair den. I'd be willing to bet those guys were packing heat.i

I doubt it. Bethelite guards used to carry guns in the factory up until the 1960s. I recall a well known story of a brother who shot up a large roll of paper for the printing press because it shot at him first. (Actually it “popped” several times because that’s what tightly rolled rolls of paper will do when they contract and expand from temperature changes. 
 

I’m told that the biggest concern is keeping out protesters. Also the “webmaster” told me that they also are always on the watch for hackers who try to get inside the network to get to the databases. That was the gist of my hacking jokes that started at the top of this thread. 

[Pudgy]

Wow! 

I am sitting in my car at a typical WalMart mall, with lots of gunfire going on in the distance.

[JW Insider]

13 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

I am sitting in my car at a typical WalMart mall, with lots of gunfire going on in the distance.

Same at our Costco. It’s next to a firing range in constant use by local and county police. 

[TrueTomHarley]

4 hours ago, George88 said:

How about any other negative thing you can offer against the Watchtower. I find your post extremely poetic, not funny, just poetic being you are a former Bethel member.

Okay, so I know this post is not addressed to me, having never been a Bethel member, but I did visit there once, as a young man, and dined with them. I quickly got the sense of the food-plate flow, that after prayer, everyone picked up the serving dish nearest him or her, helped themselves, then passes it around till all ten people had been served. So, when dessert came, strawberries, I saw the plate start with the person on my immediate left and head clockwise. When it finally makes its way to me, I knew everyone had had their shot, so what remained was mine. Alas—I did not realize that some postpone their desserts and have it later!

So here I am, munching away, when someone says, ‘Hey! Who took all the strawberries?!’ Whereupon, I looked up, strawberries hanging from my mouth, and made like Chuck Berry: 

“It wasn't me, Sarge. Uhm-uhm, Sarge, it wasn't me. It must have been some other body, Uh, uh, Sarge, it wasn't me.”

 

[JW Insider]

6 hours ago, George88 said:

The issue in New York was the significant presence of gangs, which led to the perceived necessity for armed security.

You might be right, but I have a feeling it was more of a carryover from the 1940's. This was a rough era for the Watchtower, and opposition could get crazy in some areas of the US. I don't know that they ever had much of a problem with intruders. The guards did their rounds at night, and couldn't turn on any lights, with just a flashlight through dark hallways and corridors. 

At Brooklyn Bethel, every four to six months, all single brothers (under 30, I think) would get an assignment for either night-time dish duty (to help out the overnight kitchen crew) or guard duty. I always traded my dish duty for night-time guard duty because it gave me the morning off the next day, and I hate doing dishes. But we had no weapons and were told never to approach an intruder, just call the police. In fact, it was just a matter of walking around with a key and turning it into a "time-clock" at a location on two ends of each floor, and making that round two or three times during the night. If we found windows open we were to close them, and if we found any lights left on we were to turn them off, of if we smelled an excess of 'flammables' we could turn on a light and investigate. I was told that making these rounds reduced our insurance rates considerably. The closest thing to an intruder I ever found was a Bethelite who had stayed in the Squibb factory building overnight to hide away in a dark place with someone I assumed was his girlfriend. 

[TrueTomHarley]

7 hours ago, George88 said:

There's no need for me to narrate my entire life story

I think there is.

[Pudgy]

… does this mean I have to rent a defibrillator?

[TrueTomHarley]

1 hour ago, George88 said:

I disagree. The issue is that some of you believe only your complaints matter. However, seeking approval from you all serves no purpose in the eyes of God. Therefore, it is clear that my priority is not to impress any of you.

As Jehovah’s Witnesses, we are encouraged not only to take an interest in people, but to ‘love people’—the title of our latest brochure. The “eyes of God” want us to do this. It is very hard to do this with someone who reveals nothing of himself, who eternally thinks everyone is out to get him, and who seemingly exists only to criticize others.

You should spill more.