http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/15/bauq1p2ph2.dtl.
sadly there are details which may make you heave or want to commit violence..
I think it's noteworthy that this is the first time I know of that a representative of the WTBS has used the term "Rank and File Member". I know it's used a lot in the discussion board, showing that there IS a hierarchy. But this is now a public admission from the WTBS of that hierarchy..
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i was raised in a city hall.
it was pretty evenly split.
i wasn't raised in a blacks vs. whites environment.
If anything, I would say that the older ones would be a bit more prone to pass along an off-color (no pun intended) joke in a whispered voice to another. I remember my dad admonishing, or all people, Marion Dunlap, for stating he was going to visit his "Black Bible Study". My Dad replies "If he was White, would you say you were going to your White Bible Study?". Marion graciously admitted that this was indeed the wrong way to think.
So I guess I could say I saw some minor racist "qualifiers" in my youth. Not so much now, and especially not among the young ones, as the amount of inter-racial relationships in the org seems to be mirroring what is going on among Non-Witnesses. Which is fine with me.
i taped it and i'm just watching it, patient has to have spleen removed....no mention yet that jws, just that their religion does not allow blood transfusions.
also she refuses durgs which is not a jw thing.
evidently they did not tell the doctor ahead of time or present a medical directive.
Eh, I never have liked the way they do this on TeeVee. They never get the details right. The the Dubs who watch it (if they do) sneer and laugh at "how wrong they got it", and it reinforces their determination. I would like to see one where they show it EXACTLY as it would happen, and have it end in tragedy, with a child suffering in pain for hours before he finally expired, with the committee elders "encouraging" (threatening) the parents with the dire consequences of allowing blood. Make it hit closer to home for people. It's one thing to show adults making dumb decisions about themselves, it's another to show how it would affect the life of an innocent.
candace asked me to tell you thank you for all your kind expressions of support.
this really means a lot to her.
she wants you to know that she is coping well with all the stress and excitement, even though she's had years of anger and frustration because of being abused for so long, first by the molester, and then by the wt.
Good on ya, Candace! This is a huge victory!
there are english speaking denominations that actively use the emphatic diaglott.
the wtb&ts is the only publisher providing new printings of this nt interlinear.
the r&f jehovah's witness doesn't use the diaglott (not even the jw version of it "kingdom interlinear translation" that supplanted it).
i'll always remember this issue of the awake warning jw parents about comic books and why they were so dangerous.. the cover had a kid on the front sitting indian-style reading a comic book, wide-eyed and smiling.
came out in the early 1980's.. i'll always remember it because it screwed up one of my favorite past-times: i was around 13 years old and a hardcore collector.. after this article, it was a continual tug-o-war with my dad over comics....and it lasted until i was 18 and moved out.. .
here's what was telling about that article:.
Unlearn, I posted about this very thing a few months back!
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/219937/1/Comic-Books-The-1983-Awake
Included is an article from "The Comics Journal" in reaction to this Awake magazine.
Thanks for bringing up some very valid points. I had the same reaction back in '83 that you did.
Additionally, some of the examples in that gallery were from the friggin' 50's!
of a sort.. i have been with the same company for 24 years, and the last 5 have not been very enjoyable for me.
i like the owner of the company, but the management team is terrible, and the dept.
i work in (tech service) is demoralized.
Shopaholic -" 24 years at one place no longer reads as loyalty on an IT resume." - That statement is kind of jarring;What DOES it read as?
Jim from TX- You are correct, I have not been hired yet. What raises my optimism is that the head of IT is the one that made it a point to make sure I was aware of the position, he told me what it paid ("now, that may be a pay cut to you!" Hah!) and stated that even if I didn't get hired for this job, he'd try to create a position in the department for which they could hire me. Plus, one of the other decision makers also emailed me the job listing, asking if "I knew anyone that might be interested". When I told a VP of the bank that I was submitting my resume, she immediately shouted, "Did you use me for a reference? I'll make sure that N--- gets a glowing report from me!". They know I am 110% familiar with their phone system (one of the duties of this job) as well as someone that they could train for their other duties in their IT infrastructure. I have been in the banking environment before (I was a teller in college). I mean, I know there are several candidates for this job, but I know they are very eager to make sure I interview. I am breathing very deeply, believe me, head between knees and everything. This "feels" very, very promising. I have floated out resumes before, but this is the closest I have ever gotten to having real hope for a change.
As far as loyalty to my company owner, there have been the occasional wonderful generosities that he has done for me. I am a trusted employee, no one makes me punch a clock, I can come and go if I need to attend a school event or assist a family member. My current job tasks let me get out of the office and see the sun, do the occasional road trip. It's not a bad job, it just doesn't pay anything.
On the minuses, I can never fully "leave the job" when I go on vacation or sick leave, because I am the only employee that has received the proper training for certain products. My opposite number learned a long time ago that if you know how to work on product, you get to work late. If you don't know, you get a pass. I set the bad precedent (bad for me, good for the company) to self-start and learn the new products immediately, without being told to do it. That springs a trap on you, if you are the only one who does that.
I have been with this company since its inception. I looked at it from the beginning as "I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, it's a new company, the kinks need to be worked out." Then, five years later, the company gets reinvented, pointed in new directions, so I would hold off again. Then, it happens again. And sits the income is primarily derived from sales, and you go where the sales are, and things in this field change rapidly, plans and promises that are made can be made null and void due to new circumstances. Now, I don't blame upper management for events and things that can't be controlled. But I DO know that I get a little miffed when I see large houses, big trucks, and other living large items being purchased by said people, and while I am cutting it to the bone during the "lean times", I see no such things occurring on that end.
Anyway, sorry about the long winded rant. It's a "love/hate" thing, like a lot of troubled marriages, I guess. You hate to walk away from such a long relationship, but you know it's not healthy for you to continue with it.
of a sort.. i have been with the same company for 24 years, and the last 5 have not been very enjoyable for me.
i like the owner of the company, but the management team is terrible, and the dept.
i work in (tech service) is demoralized.
Of a sort.
I have been with the same company for 24 years, and the last 5 have not been very enjoyable for me. I like the owner of the company, but the management team is terrible, and the dept. I work in (Tech Service) is demoralized. It seems like everyone hates their job, and the pay has been stagnant. I myself should actually be paid higher than I am, per industry and regional standards. I have stuck it out due to hard headed loyalty to the owner, but truthfully, they can't afford to pay me what I am worth, and I can't afford to work here any more.
Earlier this week, I was "strongly encouraged" by one of my clients to apply for a position that had opened in his bank. It requires the same skill sets that I have, it actually reduces my area of responsibility (going from a territory of 100's of systems to maintain to a much smaller grouping of equipment), and it pays 33% more than I am making now. Plus, I am pretty sure that my portion of insurance payments will go down, due to the larger staff (not sure about this, but would be surprised if not the case), which will also be an increase in take home or in savings contributions. Plus, no more driving all over the state to maintain equipment and to fix sudden emergencies, no more college campuses and hospital systems to deal with, a great reduction in stress.
So, I submitted my resume. This morning, I got the callback, they want me to come in fill out an application. My name had been "flagged" by IT as a candidate to talk to. The IT decision maker is the same person who encouraged me to apply, so I seem to have an "in".
This is all so new to me, I feel like a housewife who has been married for 24 years, taken for granted, told that this was the best that could be, and now being wooed by someone who makes her feel sexy and alive. Or I feel like the hamster in the cage, where the door has been left open, and I could escape, but "my cage is comfortable, I have my water bottle, I have my pellets, I have my wheel. Outside is scary!"
Anyway, I feel bad in some respects, with regards to the owner. I know that if I leave, this is going to be a huge hit to the service dept. (due to the fact that my co-worker has not been given the proper motivation to get his skills and certifications up to where they really should be. He may have to find that motivation very soon!). I don't know if friendly relations are going to be able to be maintained. That bugs me most of all, since I it bothers me when people have reason to dislike me, and this would be a pretty good reason.
Anyway, can't talk to any coworker about this, so I am sharing with you all.
awake 1980 12/08 p.11 the exorcist -"many reports are on file {where at bethel?
} of the adverse effects it had on those who saw it.
mureen was an atheist...after seeing the film i knew something was happening to me, i was shaking all over....i knew there was something in the house as i could feel it with me wherever i went....i knew of a family of jehovah's witnesses near by so i jumped at the chance to study with them.... awake 7/22 p.31when the motion picture "exorcist 2 was show on u.s television, a mother and her 4 year old daughter in whitchita falls texas watched it together...one scene is said to contain cutting out of a girls heart to get rid of the demon.
The real tragedy about the mother and her little girl is that the girl had to lose her life over a really sh!++y movie. (If that story is even true, which I doubt. Ask me about "my girlfriend in Canada" sometime.)
