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  PEER PRESSURE!!! I gave in to Pioneering during August...I feel dirty...

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, i'll admit it...i am weak.... as everyone knows, the pressure to "pioneer" during "the most momentous, awesome, amazing, centenary anniversay of jesus invisble kigdom rule, & distribute tracts about a dodgy website" campaign is very strong at the moment.... also, many will have read my threads about the extreme views and expectations in our cong for "all appointed men to pioneer" etc..... every elder and ms and their families have been announced as pioneering....i mean everyone's name was read out except mine..... i was not going to do it, as i do not believe anyone should be forced...(and of course its the last thing on earth i would rather do anyway since learning ttatt).

  but i am not quite ready to make the break yet, so i realised that i would stand out more if i didnt put in a form to pioneer.

  yes it would make me more conspicious, and make fading harder to do...it would bring more heat on me if i didnt pioneer.. so i gave in and submitted a form.... now, of course, i'm only going to make sure i'm seen at the key field service groups etc...but then go and do something more interesting...like count blades of grass..... ahh....i feel hypocritical to myself now......

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  sparrowdown

  Just be kind to the householders and pretend to be selling avon or something,

  anything is better than trying to push the blue square website on someone.

  PETH -(People for the Ethical Treatment of Householders )
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  Convention visit observations

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this weekend we visited the convention.

  my findings:.

  - no jw.org marketing here at this moment.

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  sparrowdown

  So talking with resurrected girl after she flatlined in the emergency room wasn't even just a leetle bit crazzyy?
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  GB member Anthony Morris mentions concerned JW letter at RC

  by Acluetofindtheuser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gb member anthony morris mentioned a letter that was sent to bethel by a concerned jw fearing the gt.

  he mentioned it on the last sunday talk.

  i always wondered if any letter sent to bethel ever reached gb eyes.

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  sparrowdown

  They would probably have a bunker with enough food for them (GB).

  The rest of us can starve- what do they care they will going to heaven.
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  Wow! Are You Stumped By Anything This 'Still-in' X-JW says?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzn9aric28.

  i think he needs help.

  i feel pity for him..

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  sparrowdown

  Yes, a "still in" JW said to me when I asked if she feels the Lot story is appropriate for very small children.

  She told me that she "wasn't familiar with the account" and "if she had read it she couldn't recall what it was about, except for homosexuals"

  WTH???????
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  The JW.ORG craziness has begun....

  by cultBgone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i guess it was bound to happen..... just saw a facebook post where the user updated their profile picture to be the blue square jw.org logo.. .

  don't know whether to laugh or cry.

  worship the borg, you people!!!

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  sparrowdown

  Maybe they should make an 'adjustment" to that phrase.

  "free advertising, free advertising, free advertising for the org"
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  WT black and white thinking is laughable

  by Batman89 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so im reading the oct awake article on jw.org: how do you mesure success.

  the article gives you two differnt scenarios for two differnt people and you can "test yourself" to see which type of success means more to you.

  alex.

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  sparrowdown

  So what's the lesson boys and girls?

  Honest and hardworking = healthy, happy, flourishing business.

  Competitive, driven, workaholic= the wolf of wall street.

  Because obviously there are only two types of businessmen.
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  DF=death

  by doneandout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  our last midweek meeting was going along as planed, then after the last talk, an elder was called up to say: member x is no longer a jw, please sing.... after the song it was silent (compared to todays were people started talk right away) and the father had his head down with someones hand on his back.

  i didn't catch what they were saying, but the pose said: i'm sorry for your loss.. it was a weird night thinking how leaving a religion could couse such sadnness.. jw.org.

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  sparrowdown

  The announcement may as well be

  "We would like to announce that from this date, so&so is dead to us"
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  Richard Dawkins defends “mild pedophilia,” says it does not cause “lasting harm”

  by chrisuk in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/.

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  I know Mr Dawkins claims 'no lasting harm" to himself from what would be considered inappropriate touching.

  But how does he know? Sometimes there can be all sorts of personaltiy distortions that if you traced them back

  they will have started after such "harmless" events.

  It is impossible to know what he would have been like if he had never experienced those things.
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  The JW.ORG craziness has begun....

  by cultBgone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i guess it was bound to happen..... just saw a facebook post where the user updated their profile picture to be the blue square jw.org logo.. .

  don't know whether to laugh or cry.

  worship the borg, you people!!!

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  sparrowdown

  These people have little else to get excited about, except a sad little blue square.
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  Just got off the elevator with Anthony Morris

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at the international convention here i just got off the elevator with anthony morris.

  he was heading to the basement and i was heading up to administration.

  i rode one floor down with him before i went up to my destination.

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  sparrowdown

  You should have asked him what it feels like to have a cult following.