Posts by All for show

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Quality of newer membership

by Lostandfound in

on a previous post mamacita29 pointed up the low quality of new jw converts.. is the quality falling even more as the society use lower than low meeting, talks, broadcasts etc.. when i was active initially the organisation and standards seemed totally different today.

i have seen hard working intelligent elders fall by death or exhaustion.

the younger generation that came along never really grasped responsibility hence shortage of good elders, never mind the watered down to almost nothing quality of meetings.

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I am mid 30's. I remember as a kid being intimidated - that answering and service was so hard and serious. In my mid/late teen years I noticed service was about the breaks and meeting answers were easy and lame. My older family members complain how simple and pathetic the literature is. They justify lack of quality that people all over the world are reading the same thing and its for all the 3rd world country JWs to understand.

In fact most can't go to meeting because they just can not stand listen to the drivel. Boring horrible speakers, lame lessons, and the same 3 chosen/exemplary people are allowed to comment. YES- they obviously do not let certain bro/sis comment, you can tell the body doesn't like them. There is a newly baptized sister....mid 20's dumber than dumb. She was raised around Jw's - Quit her part time job to pioneer- has no car and depends on others to pick her up. She is used as an example. barf.

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Seeking advice doctor & staff presentation

by azor in

my son is nearing completion of his 3-1/2 year chemo journey.

i have an appointment with his primary oncologist at the end of next month as an end of treatment exit meeting.

she and her team are leads at this particular hospital.

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Azor- I understand now with that clarification. It would be excellent to inform doctors that JW's need more insight in to these rights.

You know your medical team, I do not. I was only speaking from the backside, what patients see and who doctors are are completely different worlds. As I mentioned, they are not too invested in the social side of things, which is the JW world for us. That is huge to us as JW's definitely. I was only offering that doctors livesnare chaotic and stretched to the maxed time wise. They spend countless hours outside of the hospital with the latest research, studies, and must be kept up to date to keep their licensure. What is expected outside of their normal shifts- is incredibly demanding. I am only offering this, so that your time is most effective for them, your audience. Whatever you have planned - my advice- keep it short and sweet. Something they can read on their own time would be most beneficial.

I wish you and your family the very best and am so glad you got your family out!

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Seeking advice doctor & staff presentation

by azor in

my son is nearing completion of his 3-1/2 year chemo journey.

i have an appointment with his primary oncologist at the end of next month as an end of treatment exit meeting.

she and her team are leads at this particular hospital.

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Azor- I am not sure what you mean.

"How do you think they would respond bringing up that many parents do not know or really understand how confidentiality works."

Could you expand on this? I am not sure what I am missing.

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Seeking advice doctor & staff presentation

by azor in

my son is nearing completion of his 3-1/2 year chemo journey.

i have an appointment with his primary oncologist at the end of next month as an end of treatment exit meeting.

she and her team are leads at this particular hospital.

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As the spouse of someone who is in the field- Just thank him/them. They know JW's and blood is crazy already. They have limited time and DONT want to have religious discussions- Doctors brains are not wired for this- they like solving problems only, of the medical kind. The biggest thing people forget, doctors have families and personal lives. Everyone wants their life saved and the best doctor possible. This comes at the expense of his spouse/children. Getting acknowledgement that the doctor gives much of his free/family time caring for patients beyond the hospital setting (which most patients don't see) goes a long way in the medical teams mind and heart.

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Some thoughts on the new midweek meeting

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

the new midweek meeting has been running for a month now.

here are my thoughts on how it is going so far:.

1) elders are looking frazzled from being on virtually every meeting and having to prepare unfamiliar formats for items.

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My mom- who will find any excuse to not go to meeting- Came over to tell my husband how amazing the new meeting was...blah blah blah. Funny enough- it is almost February and she hasn't been to but one of these meetings! So amazing you say!?

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A conversation with my dad

by magotan in

i talked to my dad today, after i text him when i was angry after a night out.

i'm starting to get closure on my parents relationship with regards to me.the dynamic between them versus me is abusive.

my dad didn't think i had any reason to be bitter.he said i chose to leave "jehovahs people" and this is what i should expect as treatment.

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My mom especially, is the same way. In her 60's, the end hasn't come, never thought her children would have children... doesn't believe most what the GB is saying. Yet- where else should she go? My siblings think they are scared-lost-and don't know what to believe while facing the last 10/15 good years of their life.

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44 years old and having I.V.F help to have a baby thanks too bastard "this Generation" lies!! Wife wants kids in 2016! My story.

by Witness 007 in

as a young witness married couple in the 1990's we knew "this generation" of 1914 did not have long to go!

oh how cute a young pioneer couple we were.

we wont have kids till "afew more years pass" and we are in the new system.

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IVF is DF offense... or if you are using someone else's egg and sperm?

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The wt has now changed Jesus definition of neighboor

by poopie in

jw
friends

the man asked jesus who is my neighbor jesus stated the one who acts mercifully toward other humans.

not good enough for watchtower neighbor must fit in three catagories only according to yesterdays wt wow changed the words of the son of god.

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Perhaps your neighbor at the end of the block was shoveling snow. They aren't too old, mid-60's, but you are a decade or two younger, but they are having an obviously difficult time. You are late to meeting/service, do you keep driving by because you're on your way to meeting? Or, as an act of loving your neighbor (yes the neighbor at the END of the street, not the one literally next door) do you stop and help out?

I would guess the average JW is not going to stop. They can't count time and JWs would not understand their tardiness for being neighborly.

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The wt has now changed Jesus definition of neighboor

by poopie in

jw
friends

the man asked jesus who is my neighbor jesus stated the one who acts mercifully toward other humans.

not good enough for watchtower neighbor must fit in three catagories only according to yesterdays wt wow changed the words of the son of god.

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You don't meet 'everyone' in the ministry. You meet people who are at home in your specific territory. What about people you meet at the grocery store, an older women in need of help, a poor homeless man standing outside? You're not in the ministry so you don't help. Now, if you were in the ministry, a JW would give them a tract and move on. Actual aid. Oh, thats what the 'kingdom' is for.

If I considered my husband my closest neighbor, the average person with half a brain would give me some serious side eye.

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44 years old and having I.V.F help to have a baby thanks too bastard "this Generation" lies!! Wife wants kids in 2016! My story.

by Witness 007 in

as a young witness married couple in the 1990's we knew "this generation" of 1914 did not have long to go!

oh how cute a young pioneer couple we were.

we wont have kids till "afew more years pass" and we are in the new system.

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Is your wife awake?

We know quite a few people who have gotten pregnant easily into their 40's with IVF. My husband is in medical and its pretty common now, a lot of women are waiting due to careers not a religious cult to have kids well in to their 40's. We live in a metropolitan city so that may be part of it. I wish you the best!