Posts by berrygerry

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I have nothing left in the tank, I need help

by Yondaime in

i dont have the willpower to attend meetings anymore.

i'm literally on the sound system list every week.

i'm either reading on sunday or tuesday, praying on tuesday nites, adjusting mics, passing mics, or working the sound system, or doing last minute parts for the service meeting.

berrygerry

I dont have the willpower to attend meetings anymore. I'm literally on the sound system list every week. I'm either reading on Sunday or Tuesday, praying on Tuesday nites, adjusting mics, passing mics, or working the sound system.

or doing last minute parts for the service meeting. Not to mention service on Saturdays and Sundays.

I found doing the mics, and even reading, helped greatly for the meetings to pass.

Doing parts, though, and service, can suck out of you.

Try and see what you can escape from while keeping your sanity.

If you can do nothing, go to a doctor, and tell him about your workload.

He'll readily give you a note to take a break.

Explain to the appropriate elder that you need to take a break to rebuild - and that you will be of zero use if you have a breakdown.

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Anybody else relate, "Take me to Church" by Hosier to the KH and elders?

by EndofMysteries in

jw
friends

a good chunk of this song matches up to a life as a jw.. here are some lyrics and how i relate it.. .

my lover's got humour she's the giggle at a funeral knows everybody's disapproval i should've worshiped her sooner (whole verse about perhaps a spouse who left first and shunned by all, and now the other spouse who finally left should have supported them long ago) if the heavens ever did speak she's the last true mouthpiece every sunday's getting more bleak a fresh poison each week (the gb say they are the 'mouthpiece' of god.

this persons other is who revealed ttatt.

berrygerry

Never scrutinized the lyrics, but love the song.

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Jehovah's Witnesses child abuse and judical comittees, YLE TV1 News 11/1/2014

by tunnistaja.ee in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnoslbdatzc.

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berrygerry

Thank you for the post and the links.

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Attracting young ones to the org

by Gratefullyunstuck in

jw
friends

noticing a lot of posts and behaviours of the org that they seem to be trying to appeal to the younger generation.

im wondering if they are jumping on the back of a popular young clothing brand called jack wills.. a lot of their clothes have jw logo on them.

i wonder when searching this logo 'jw' on internet, where the search takes them?....................hmmmmmm!.

berrygerry

Hmmm.

Versus

As a single male, I gotta say, it's a tossup (i.e. image 2 makes me want to toss up.)

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Attracting young ones to the org

by Gratefullyunstuck in

jw
friends

noticing a lot of posts and behaviours of the org that they seem to be trying to appeal to the younger generation.

im wondering if they are jumping on the back of a popular young clothing brand called jack wills.. a lot of their clothes have jw logo on them.

i wonder when searching this logo 'jw' on internet, where the search takes them?....................hmmmmmm!.

berrygerry

Having elders and other pedophiles and molesters abuse the children seemed to work for quite a few decades.

The internet era no longer allows the above to work as well as in the past.

Hence, WTS marketers have adopted the McDonald's approach with Happy Meals and toys as the draw.

Whether this will reduce the churn rate of children remains to be seen, but I doubt it will make any difference.

As for Caleb and Sophia - Sophia did survive the Apocalypse, but did not fare that well in the long run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SV9hS14_5Q

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Oh Irony of ironies: Googling for a problem caused by the WT and getting a solution from JW.org :-(

by BluePill2 in

i have to share this with you.. after leaving the borg i had to concentrate to solve so many personal problems (financial, child custody, etc.

) that it left me with a poor social life.

i just didn't have the nerve/time to make new friends.

berrygerry

Then you realize, BP2, that you have provided additional credible backlinks with your post (I never link to mother Borg from here - and Simon, you should script up "nofollow" for Borg sites).

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Is shunning an expression of love or just a place for the shunner to hide?

by cha ching in

to three people in my family, disfellowshipping / shunning is just a tool the wtbs uses to hide what really happened.... they don't want people to 'see behind the curtain.'.

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berrygerry

Shunning, à la WTS, is abuse of the worst kind, plain and simple.

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Why do "Awake" vloumes only start at 1970 on computer disk?...interesting!

by Witness 007 in

yet watchtowers go way back to 1950's....i picked up three awake volumes 1967-1969 i was struck by the poor science {aluminium is posion}, demon articles and anti-organ transplant articles.

also much was said about 1975 being the end of the system and "the generation.

" it feels like fred franz was writting alot of these which now is plain embarrasing and better left un-published.. .

berrygerry

A few days ago, I pointed out some of the crazy stuff from the past to my half-in/half-out child.

The child said, "But that is so old."
I said: "Oh, so truth has a best-before date. So when does the info in this (Current mag) become outdated "truth""?

No reply.

Point made.

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