Posted by John de dunker [Beaver] on October 29, 1999 at 22:06:29 {CAtoZJLIp2S2pgVcL2CgJusvla2o4k}:
Neighbors had a little birthday party for me tonite and as I was sitting there waiting to blow out the candles and listening to them sing, a thousand thoughts must have raced through my mind. I tried to figure out what was so wrong with this. Friends coming together to wish someone well and do a little something special. Everybody laughing because I burnt my finger on a candle, drinking a bottle of Dutch beer and eating bar-b-qued steaks. Yeah, God this was just the most criminal night of my life and if this kindness shown to me by some friends is so horrible to you then I guess I really don't much care about your miserable new system. I'll take the neighbors, their thoughtfulness (their beer) and their pagan, heathen ways any day of the week. I find your worship to be tedious and boring. The WTS has removed all the joy from living and made service to you a bag full of books with the proceeds from the sales going to a bunch of lifeless old men who care not about happiness of their followers. These old men only desire service to a sales chart and the quality of life for their followers matters not. If the requirements for life are selling books and listening to dull talks by men who like the sound of their own voices, I will gladly die blowing out the candles on my birthday cake.