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  The next cover-up or scandal?

  by kwintestal in

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  my personal thoughts are this.

  with the population aging and with jw's becomming incresingly poor, there will be a lot more elder abuse, and i don't mean congregation elders, but elderly people.. does anyone know of this taking place in the congregations?.

  kwin

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  They didn't have kids, due to WTS pressure, now they've got very little family; they didn't have retirement plans, thank to WTS pressure, and now they have very little money.

  Exactly, hit the nail on the head. Most elderly people have family to care for them, but ones who followed the Watchtowers councel do not. I remember Ray saying in his book how this was a very hard feeling for him and his wife due to them not having children. They are both up in years and his wifes health is not the best, and no children to help with thier needs due to the Watchtower's repeated message of not bearing children in this time of the end. It was sad when I read that, but yet its sadder because that is only one case out of probably many.

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  The next cover-up or scandal?

  by kwintestal in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my personal thoughts are this.

  with the population aging and with jw's becomming incresingly poor, there will be a lot more elder abuse, and i don't mean congregation elders, but elderly people.. does anyone know of this taking place in the congregations?.

  kwin

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  Even though this might not legally be elder abuse, I think it's just as bad.They sure aren't being too "god-like".

  I second this thought, what happened to caring for the elderly, or showing proper respect for your parents. Just another double speak standard that looks good in print but is far from the norm in practice. Not that their are not ones that do care for the elderly but the majority are far to occupied with other congregational activities to even take note of these ones. They become just a familar face at the meeting and might get the occasional quick hello as ones pass them by to go talk to their click of friends after the meeting.

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  Inactive ones - new light.

  by unique1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i didn't go to the district convention this year.

  my mom however did and she sends out a daily text email every day.

  she asked all members of the email group to share their favorite part of the convention.

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  eeeeks! Sorry bout the double post, my connection is not always the best and it went stale on me and I hit post again but I guess it did post both of them.

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  Inactive ones - new light.

  by unique1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i didn't go to the district convention this year.

  my mom however did and she sends out a daily text email every day.

  she asked all members of the email group to share their favorite part of the convention.

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  talk about how we should treat inactive ones. That the talk wen over how all witness should be extra kind to inactive ones in hopes of drawing them back.

  5 years+ still counting, still no kindness. Suppose I have that "innactive apostate state of mind".

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  Inactive ones - new light.

  by unique1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i didn't go to the district convention this year.

  my mom however did and she sends out a daily text email every day.

  she asked all members of the email group to share their favorite part of the convention.

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  talk about how we should treat inactive ones. That the talk wen over how all witness should be extra kind to inactive ones in hopes of drawing them back.

  5 years+ still counting, still no kindness. Suppose I have that "innactive apostate state of mind".

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  The next cover-up or scandal?

  by kwintestal in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my personal thoughts are this.

  with the population aging and with jw's becomming incresingly poor, there will be a lot more elder abuse, and i don't mean congregation elders, but elderly people.. does anyone know of this taking place in the congregations?.

  kwin

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  The closest to senior abuse that I have personally witnessed is a couple that had the wifes elderly mother come and stay with them for awhile. Of course she had to pay her share and they even pushed her into the religion which was new to her and she didnt fully understand. She began to develop dementia though and suffered from what I believe was palsy by the symptons she showed. Of course this was a no no and an embaressment to the PO and his wife, so she was shipped off to live with her other "worldly" daughter. All of a sudden the meetings that had been so important and the fellowship she had was stripped from her as she was becoming a burden. I could never see the justification or love in this experience. Even further this couple couldn't be bothered with the burden of picking up the elderly mother to bring her to any meetings. In effect she castigated to the wayside just like so many others.

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  You Might Be A JW If.......

  by Sunspot in

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  you might be a jw if...... .

  be a jw.

  you are a jw.

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  Good List. Appreciate the hard work in making it. Lots of typing. lol

  If you are a male and your first reaction to a brief interruption of
  
  a meeting - by the entrance of a beautiful woman wearing a miniskirt -
  
  is "how immodest that sister is," then you are a JW.

  I just can't imagine responding that way, Id be like. Immodest hell no!

  I definately can picture ones responding that way though. Brother Staunch responds "That skirt is above the knee and against Watchtower rules, how immodest that sister is." While Brother Staunch's wife knods in agreement, while truly she is only jealous cuz she would look like a sack of potatoes in it. LMAO

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  Sure is Quiet. Who's all on tonight?

  by Ticker in

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  im on this board tonight on a dreadful monday evening lol i hate mondays, cuz monday means work and a whole week of it.

  maybe i'll be better by about thursday.. ticker

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  Im on this board tonight on a dreadful monday evening lol I hate mondays, cuz monday means work and a whole week of it. Maybe I'll be better by about thursday.

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  Did anyone see The Simpson's tonight"

  by claytoncapeletti in

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  tonights episode of the simpsons was about homer's prophecies for the end of the world.

  in classic simpson's style they bash apocalyptic cults and the idea of an upcoming armaggedon.

  it was great when they showed homer coming up with his date for the end of the world; it sounded a lot like the watchtower's version.

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  I love it when the Simpsons poke fun at stuff like that, its so damb hilarious. I missed it but maybe catch a rerun of it.

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  Phrophets/Not Phrophets Yet Another Double Standard looked at

  by Ticker in

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  2. beliefs

  we know that in all fairness the governing body claims from time to time, that they are not phrophets and they are merely men and make mistakes.

  this admission usually follows a blatant and embaressing failure of some englossed speculation that proved false.

  but do they clearly not claim the role of a phrophet or do they like to ride the fence, hence double standard example 2. they have their followers believing two contrasting beliefs at once.

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  1971 quote is also validating (indirectly) and feeding the 1975 hype ....

  I noticed this also. Its intersting to see the loaded language used in bolstering the numbers. If you cut through it and see it for what they are really meaning, it amounts to "get off the pot or fence and get baptized. No time to sit undecided, your either in or you are going to be destroyed at armagedon along with all other non witnesses. No options your either with us or against us and if against then you will die, if for us you'd better listen up, obey, and no wishy washy lazy witnesses."

  To a indoctrinated witness this language is very clear and holds a message that dire results will come if one does not believe every utterance of the Watchtower Society. To one who had no previous experience with the witnesses this language would read very different.

  Good Point and thanks for mentioning that.

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