Categories and Labels

by Vitameatavegamin 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  Vitameatavegamin

  Have you ever felt as a JW that you had a label on your forehead? There may be a good reason for that feeling. You do!
  I don't know why, but I was thinking about this today and wondering if the Elders and others in the Cong. know you by name or do they know you by category? Let's take a look at these for a moment:

  1. Unbaptized publisher

  2. Approved Associate

  3. Unapproved associate

  4. Publisher

  5. Irregular

  6. Inactive

  7. Marked

  8. Reproved

  9. Disfellowshipped

  10. Apostate

  A name for everything.

  Vita.
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  JBean

  I believe you left out: Pioneer, Auxilliary Pioneer, Circuit Overseer, District Overseer, Missionary, Gilead Graduate... on and on...
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  Vitameatavegamin

  Hey JBean-

  I felt the others were more positions than labels. That is why I did not mention them. Thanks !
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  DIM

  more and more each day i think i'm being labelled as:

  irregular
  unapproved associate
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  JBean

  Ooops! Sorry : )
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  NameWithheld

  And there's ...

  illregular but donates a lot of $$ so we upgrade to Approved Associate

  illregular but helps elders out or employs elders so we upgrade to Approved Associate

  and many more!
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  Simon

  Some of us probably do or have belonged to more than one of those labels. Can we add all our points together to get a maximum score or do we just have to pick our highest rated?
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  ISP

  .......and of course you will see that all those labels and categories were in evidence in the first century...just open your bible and see. Gods people have always needed a multitude of labels to identify the different types of worshipper.

  ISP
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  TR

  "Spiritually weak"

  That one seemed to be thrown around quite often.

  TR

  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  —Edmund Burke