Moving to where the need is great (page 2)

headmath

I was a dub for 30 years and I heard that phrase" move to where the need is great" thousands of times. The WTS is guilty of using heavy brainwashing tactics to carry out their wish.

I hate the WTS for their brainwashing tactics. They are bastards

one of the women that studied with me did this. She was a lightning bolt of godly zeal. i remember a day when she went out in service even when she had premenstrual cramps so bad she was grimacing and fidgeting in the car. she was out every day, every damn day ...well she moved out to some carribean isle to help out because the door-to-door work didn't challenge and/or persecute her enough.

you know what happened?

she was reproved by the elders there for being 'too zealous'.

the same sort of 'you're a liar' response to doing an excellent job. unbelievable. you can't win for losing,and it just goes to show that if you actually live up to the example set in their publications that you will be a very unbalanced person.

she's moved back to the old congragation now, so i hear.

Lady Lee

I had never really thought about her calling me a liar and what that meant in the grander scheme of WT life. But you are right. Being too good wasn't looked on very kindly at all. I can think of dozens of examples of people really living the WT expectations. They were mostly looked at as unbalamced and yet that is what we were to be.

You can be a good witness but not a too good witness

TheKings

like the mosaic law which no on one could attain to no matter how pious.

blondie

The need was great for what?

More publishers?

Many times there were already plenty of people, they just weren't motivated to go door to door.

More elders?

Many times there were elders already, they just weren't obedient to the WTS. I can remember one couple who were sent into an area found that the congregation was divided into 2 warring factions. The only thing they could agree upon was their joint resentment of this couple that the Society sent. Everyone boycotted the meetings for 6 months with only these two showing up.

Better organized elders

I can remember a couple that had to sort out the accounts, the literature/magazines, territory, see to it that the KH was repaired and the bills paid. The last accounts servant had absconded with the funds.

Blondie

Virgochik

My cousin flops back and forth between home, with her parents, and Paraguay. She goes to where the need is mucho for awhile, then Daddy flies her back home. She is close to thirty, has shown no interest in marriage, or getting a job and her own place. Yet, the congo is so proud of her, doing Jehoopla's missionary work. Or whatever they call it nowadays. I think she's avoiding growing up and standing on her own two feet.

SirNose586

The "need is great" everywhere. You visit a congregation and they ask if you are joining. You visit another country and they talk you into moving there--I know because it happened to me in Mexico. Everyone needs help and the congregation members latch onto whatever glimmer of hope wafts their way...

juni

Yes I was ready to pack my bags and pioneer in South Dakota where there were few Witnesses in the early '70s. Along w/2 kids! I was a freakoid looking back at it now.

Then my husband put his foot down. Thank God! Don't take it personal Gary Buss!

Juni

darth frosty

How many do you think did this in an effort to find a mate?

Highlander

The "need is great" everywhere. You visit a congregation and they ask if you are joining. You visit another country and they talk you into moving there--I know because it happened to me in Mexico. Everyone needs help and the congregation members latch onto whatever glimmer of hope wafts their way...

hahaha, I can attest to that as well. My wife attends a filipino congregation here in Long Beach. I attended with her once a few weeks ago. When the local 'brothers' there met me, they made a comment that I should be their future 'elder'. I could only laugh at that comment. I don't even speak their language!!! haha. I have a 'elder' relative that took his family to a small rural town in southern minnesota because of their desperation for witnoids in the local congo. Ultimately, it cost him a lot. His wife left him, his daughter was df'd and has two kids from two fathers. His son just left a failed marriage and is back living in that same small town. This elder relative gave up so much financially that it was quite a hardship on himself and his family. I think his elder responsibilities at the kingdumb hall really did most of the damage to his family. It's really a shame. I really like him and his family. Too bad things worked out this way. My parents did the need is great thing too. They moved to rural wisconsin, just east of the border with Minnesota,,, I believe the congo they went to was in Luck, Wisconsin. They pioneered for years until I came along. We continued to live there till I was about 4 years old then moved back to Minnesota, which is where both my parents are originally from. Dad eventually wised up to this cult and did a very successfull fade. Mom is still a gung-ho j-dub. I think she'll always be one. I know my parents gave up a lot financially,, fortunately they were young enough to recover quite nicely from it. I guess having kids can bring a person back to reality. Well, at least it brought my dad back to reality.

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