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  Nowadays How Does One Become An Elder?

  by minimus in

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  i was appointed jan 1 1980 and back then it was a big deal to“qualify”.

  i was the youngest elder appointed in the district!

  i actually studied everything from the societies publications and listened to anything i was told to do.

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  You have to be a parrot who can mimic words without comprehending them.
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  Behaviour in bethel are they like the jw dramas?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what i mean is, i've discussed recently how odd the behaviour of jws is on the drama films that they show at the conventions.

  i'm wondering is the reason why it's so odd because that how's the jws at bethel talk and act in real life?

  is the behaviour at bethel so warped from the outside world that they actually think that their behaviour is normal?.

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  There is such a massive grand canyon sized disconnect between the perfect JWs, the idealized jw life shown on the screen of borgbroadcasting and regular jws in real life it' not funny. I have never evr met a single jw remotely like the ones portayed in the videos. And I think that gulf of difference only becomes more apparent the further you get from Branch offices and into poor urban and rural areas.

  The videos paint this impossible standard of what an ideal jw looks like which ultimately just adds to existing feelings of unworthiness and inadequacy for many striving to be perfect but always falling short.

  Being a jw is bad for your mental health.
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  Reconnecting by chance after a respectful parting.

  by Ayeitsbooboo in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  a bit of context on the situation that occurred 8 years ago.. i grew up with this woman.

  beautiful person, not hat asthetically, just such a great human being.

  we always had feeling for each other.

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  sparrowdown

  Give it a whirl, why not, just remember, be careful what you wish for.
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  Cotton wool jws

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there was a talk i heard recently given by a top bethel bro, he was complaining that the type of young jws that have been joining bethel in recent years has been totally unfit for work or even life.

  he called them "cotton wool jws" as he says that the parents of these young ones have kept them so sheltered from life that by the time they are of age to strike out on their own they are completely unable to cope socially, emotionally, mentally and that they have no practical life's skills or instincts of common sense or responsibility.

  he said that the brothers at bethel have to work at peeling off the layers of cotton wool these ones have come wrapped in and that often when exposed to the reality of life away from mummy they quite literally go running back home.. for once i actually agree with a brother on the platform, i've met many a young teen or young adult whose life has been one long warm bath as it were.

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  sparrowdown

  Yes the borg's very "best fear-based-life ever" creates impotent people.
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  Cotton wool jws

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there was a talk i heard recently given by a top bethel bro, he was complaining that the type of young jws that have been joining bethel in recent years has been totally unfit for work or even life.

  he called them "cotton wool jws" as he says that the parents of these young ones have kept them so sheltered from life that by the time they are of age to strike out on their own they are completely unable to cope socially, emotionally, mentally and that they have no practical life's skills or instincts of common sense or responsibility.

  he said that the brothers at bethel have to work at peeling off the layers of cotton wool these ones have come wrapped in and that often when exposed to the reality of life away from mummy they quite literally go running back home.. for once i actually agree with a brother on the platform, i've met many a young teen or young adult whose life has been one long warm bath as it were.

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  sparrowdown

  I think this has been happening for a while because I spoke to a guy once who was in Bethel in the 80s and he said they were complaining about the newest batches of bethel boys all being "clones" as they called them, they looked and sounded the same amd were very "delicate" in constitution.

  So, it could only have become worse since then for sure.
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  MUST WATCH! Watchtower's Shocking Admissions

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower's shocking admissions.

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  Hearing the WT hollow men speak makes my brain hurt.
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  Just asked JW wife to quit

  by rathernotsay in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i wont get into why i asked my jw wife to leave... theres another thread for that lol... but more out of pure curiosity i asked her just now... "in order to save this marriage would you leave the jws?

  ", it was a snap call no, like not even a second to pause and think about it, which kinda took me back a bit, followed by a angry "why would you ask me that now?

  " (shes going out witnessing with my kids and her friends).

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  When someone is still under WT's spell it's nigh on impossible to get through to them.
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  The JW take on Black lives matter at the summer convention

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  another "gem" from the convention.

  there's a talk about remaining neutral.

  one of the topics they say jw's should avoid is the topic of "peoples lives matter" which is barely veiled code for black lives matter.

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  sparrowdown

  We know how quiet they would be about persecution "wah wah wah" is what they say.

  In fact they invent persecution just so they can be persecuted because persecution is so hot right now.

  #GBtoo has a nice ring to it.
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  MUST WATCH! Watchtower's Shocking Admissions

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower's shocking admissions.

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  sparrowdown

  If they're laughing at a trailer KH they must really ROFLMAO at the hut style and shanty town KH's in Africa and other poor countries. 😯

  These guys are psychopaths.
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  The JW take on Black lives matter at the summer convention

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  another "gem" from the convention.

  there's a talk about remaining neutral.

  one of the topics they say jw's should avoid is the topic of "peoples lives matter" which is barely veiled code for black lives matter.

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  sparrowdown

  Speaking out of both sides of their arse as usual. WT are using media more than ever these days to cry foul about the Russian ban to promote letter writing campaigns, conventions and carts and issue statements about how they "abhor child abuse" and whatnot should we believe media then?