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  How Do Elders Feel About Their Position In The 21st Century?

  by minimus in

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  when i was appointed as an elder, i was very proud of my accomplishment in the theocracy and actually believed that jehovah god appointed me and that i would prove to be an excellent society man and maybe even make it to circuit overseer!.

  how silly, huh??.

  fast forward to 35 years later, and i wonder how many appointed men truly love their positions and duties.. any appointed men want to give their opinion on that?

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  minimus I truly thought I would be able to make things better for all in the kingdom hall. But I might as well drove nails into my eyes. It would have been less painless. All the things we had to do. Treated like you was being paid to to this. I know serveral retired preachers who get a small pension for their service. And I think boy that would have been great to have gotten something like that. But no I was to dumb and truly believe you had to do all this for free. The system that is set up is to high controlled from the top-down. Don't think for one minute what you hear from the stage is coming from one elder it is drilled into them to follow those outlines to a Tee. If they veer from it you can tell in a instant. It is one of the most thank less jobs out there. Yes I know there are those who are on a big ego trip but for the sincere ones they will be chewed up and spit out. Still Totally ADD
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  How the organization can survive and thrive in the 21st Century

  by kneehighmiah in

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  let's face it.

  after 2014 comes and goes uneventfully, reality will hit hard for many.

  the organization will fall apart and apathy, inactivity and bitterness will rule.

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  Dream On. Still Totally ADD
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  That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  leaving the university with my degree!.

  exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

  i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!

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  Great News Billy. Right now I am listening to Pink Floyds "Schools out forever" on the radio. So with your new sheep skin what are you going to do? Good luck to you for whatever you do. Still Totally ADD
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  last big convention-last memorial buzz

  by scotoma in

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  are others hearing this meme from speakers at their congregation?.

  is it a newspeak technique for instilling a sense of urgency?.

  if it is - it's more manipulative than 1975. it seems like a way of getting around over use of the word "soon", "just around the corner".. maybe after 100 years of waiting they feel they need to approach it from another angle.. i should mention that the qualifier "may" is added "this may be our last___________________ fill in the blank.. lots of wiggle room.

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  You are so right LisaRose in what you said. My father died 5 years ago this June, my mother is in a nursing home with her mind gone. Yet from the time they came in 1953 they was told they would never grow old and die. Their children would never go to school. This old system may be gone or surely over with in just a few years. Will here it is 2014 and life keeps going on. Their generation almost gone and their children generation getting pretty long in the tooth. This is the hold cults know how to use best. Still Totally ADD
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  Counting tracts as placements on reports now?!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  ahhhhhh......man....... .

  so now we have to count all tracts / leaflets / meeting invitations etc as placements on the monthly report slip???.

  is this just another method of control or accountability!

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  I placed 100 placements at the local out house. LOL Still Totally ADD
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  Is it true that the GB is soon planning on ditching the 1914 doctrine?

  by yogosans14 in

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  or atleast tweaking it again... apparently there has been rumors of this coming out of bethel.

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  It reminds me of the old Sat. night routine of the exorcist. At the end he reads 666 on the forehead of the kid and looks at it backwards and says "we are all right it 999 not 666. It's not 1914 it's 4191. So don't worry. Still Totally ADD
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  The official COSMOS thread

  by Jon Preston in

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  so what does everyone think this far?

  please theist feel free to add your opinions if you e watched so you can also appreciate certain facts weve learned....and hey theres speculation too!

  but non judgmental speculation;-).

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  It's obvious none of you saw the orginal Comos with Carl Sagan on PBS. Now that was boring but very informative. And yet all I can remember from that show was the universe has billions and billions of stars. My first baby steps that help me question the cult. Any way I like the new show. True it is boring in some parts but I love his make believe space ship. And just like the old show it is very informative. Still Totally ADD
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  Fear leads to becoming uneducated

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  the other day my wife and i listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better.

  one of the things the speaker brought out was on education.

  she brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning.

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  Made Lemonade I know I am not to blame. I blame squarely on the head of the Wt. for this. The PO has longed died. This happen in 1962. My mind could not handle what happen to me at such a young age. It was not until I went and got help for my depression at the age of 53 did it finally came out of me. All my life I would be haunted by a memory of a man naked standing over me. With help I was finally able to put all the pieces together. By then he was dead. Back then I don't even know if the police would have done anything at all in that little small town I came from. At any rate I survived and am proud of it. I wish I would have had someone like you around when I was kid. Maybe this guy would have been put away. Thanks for your concern. Still Totally ADD
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  JWs in Florida and California. Is there really a difference?

  by BU2B in

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  i have heard over the years from many different people about how jws in those states are unlike elsewhere.

  the parties they have, the way they dress and the permissive attitude.

  i just heard from a sister that is from florida, that if you are not "spiritually strong" you will "fall out of the truth" down there.

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  Living in FL for 40 plus years I never saw any of the things you all are talking about. All I saw was old people filling the halls. Most of them came in after they worked all their life and was retired telling us younger ones not to send so much time working or buying a house or a new car because the big A was around the corner. After all if you don't have the money to pay cash why are you even thinking about buying it. And to have a child!!! Forget that one. All the old women coming to your wife telling her Woe to the pregnant women in the last days. I did not see partys or any kind of fun. Just a bunch of old miserable people wishing they was young again. Still Totally ADD
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  Fear leads to becoming uneducated

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  the other day my wife and i listen to a talk about making the planet and it's people better.

  one of the things the speaker brought out was on education.

  she brought out studies show that fear causes a person to keep from learning.

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  jgnat I think alot of poeple don't know where anything is. I use to love geography in school. But everytime I got excited about something I was learning my father would always tell me I will not need to know that in the new system. I do remember just before the first men landed on the moon my dad keep saying Jehovah will not allow it to happen. Because he only gave the earth as a home for man not the moon. Of course man did land on the moon and I was just so happy it happen. I loved the space program when I was a kid. But again my father would get angry with me and tell me god did not like what man was doing and I should not like it also. Instead I should be preparing myself for jail, bethel or poineering. After all we was god's people and this is what god wants us to do. It's no wonder I suffer with PTSD. It was because of great fear that keep me in.

  Giordano demons was big in my life also. I was scared to death a demon was going to beat me up.

  Apojnophos thank you for listening to my rant. I much better now but it caused a big part of my life to be wasted.

  Thank you all for your comments. Still Totally ADD