Review and Comments on the New Elders Book (page 3)

poopsiecakes

Personally, I can't wait till the term Brazen Conduct is used to apply to a brother who refuses to shave his beard or to a sister who refuses to wear a skirt to every meeting or in service. You know some elder body somewhere is going to do it eventually.

punkofnice

@poopsiecakes =

Brazen Conduct is used to apply to a brother who refuses to shave his beard

That's un shaven conduct.........or is it sans razor conduct?

The new skin the flock book shows to me (ex-elder), how controlling the GB are becoming....so cultish!

MrDarkKnight

@Quendi - Part of me moving on with my life is coming to grips with the reality of what I have done, the people I have hurt, the lives I have ruined, taking personal responsibility for it and striving each day to be a better person. You are not piling on. I am paying a heavy emotional price for the prominence, priviliges, prestige and plaudits of mean I strove for and achieved and for a time enjoyed. You are in fact the lucky one, and yes you have been spared the sleepless nights that have plagued me.

@NC - The "confession of past sins rule" has allowed many a guilty elder to keep on serving. This one really hurts. We stuck it to the rank and file, but protected our own. Shameful and disgraceful. Now some of the same men I protected are trying to hunt me down and "meet" with me. However, when you know how the game is played they can't touch you. If they do anything outside that manual I will sue them each INDIVIDUALLY and they know it.

@daringhart13 - I feel your pain. I was considered by the rank and file one of the "loving elders" too. What dream world we allowed ourselves to be in.

@Botzwana - LOL!!! No pun was intended..

@mochamint22 - The mind is powerful. When you suspend reality and just believe, you reject the truth of a matter to maintain the illusion. Until a person is ready to accept reality and the consequences of their actions, they continue to suspend reality. This is the state many JWs are in right now. They are living a world of suspended reality because they are not ready to accept the unavoidable pain the accepeting the truth will bring. What they do not understand is that after you get through the pain...there is an unbelievable peace and tranquility...and genuine happiness.

@mickeymouse - Yeah, I was in disbelief when the various levels of pornography were explained to me. Still images are one degree, moving images another. If you masturbated it was another level. If it was heterosexuals it is one level; if is homosexual it is worse and so on...my question is, who watched all this stuff and categorized it? That must have been one "hard" assignment.

shamus100

Mr. DarkKNight just made me spit my morning coffee out.

MrDarkKnight

Poopsie - The first thing I did when I quit was grow a beard. It freaks JWs that know me out because to them it suggests that I have lost my mind. The fact is I may have lost my mind, but I found my soul.

poopsiecakes

How deliciously brazen of you, DarkKnight!

NewChapter

LOL that pornography break down was inevitable. It wasn't a disfellowshipping offense for quite a while unless it was shared with others. This was like a green light and they knew it. We know how they respond to green lights---they heap on as many regulations as possible. They don't do well with clear black and white issues--they MUST muddy the waters and keep everyone guessing. They aren't going to list all these levels of pornography in a WT--which means the r&f will never really know where they stand unless they confess to the elders, who can then take it all apart and decide FOR them. Genius. Before this a dub could reason that they weren't obligated to go to the elders, now they don't know what the hell to think. Thinking is strongly discouraged.

NC

Mad Sweeney

You haven't lost your mind, bro, you've lost your "cult mind control."

shamus100

Hither, you two, I'll show you some "Brazen Conduct".

cptkirk

this may have been covered but, can someone tell me why there is such enormous secrecy regarding this elders book? i mean if you could have an honest conversation with the folks that wrote it, and you said to them "hey, why is it so hugely important to keep this book secret?", what would they say?

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