In any kind of sales if you are leaving promotional material you should tip extra! JWs started out as unapologetic sales people. They need to use common sense. My mom has never left tracts or magazine's, thank god. I know many who do, though.
JWdaughter
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Simple, basic manners would be a good start
by stillin inthe witnesses are really challenged socially.
in their own little world, they seem oblivious to the niceties of saying thank you or that they are sorry for some minor wrong.
these things help life go more smoothly in the real world, like a social lubricant.. i'm simply appalled at the fact that an elder's son, who was married more than a year ago, has never sent out thank you notes for all of the gifts that the congregation gave him for his wedding.
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Breaking Heart Needs Help
by thankyou inwas happily married many yrs unconditional love till wife went heaven yr n half ago.
3 mos ago sun morn.
when i once asked her if she been abused, cause seems like it, she didn't ans just hung her head.
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It was good of you to try and help her. Some are not ready to receive it. You still helped because she knows there is a person in the world who cares about her. That will always stick. Take care of yourself! -
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CO Comes Up With A New Way To Be Judgemental...
by JW_Rogue inat the latest co visit something very strange happened.
during the meeting with the elders and servants he passed out a copy of a hypothetical publisher card and asked us what we could learn from it.
upon receiving it i saw that the average hours were pretty good, it had return visits and quite a few bible studies.
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JWdaughter
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Aus Bethel reducing numbers dramatically.
by joey jojo insorry if this is old news but just heard that there will only be about 75 people left at sydney bethel after layoffs.
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Something interesting!
by John Aquila ini was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.
we both served as elders for years.
he is in his late 70s.
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JWdaughter
Back in the olden days-early 1980s, when I left, there were a lot of ex JW groups. Yahoo meets had nothing on yellow pages, little nickel want ads and newspaper blurbs about JWs. I'm not surprised that a more mature generation has recognized and joined together. I would suggest that there might well be a little more dissent than acknowledged, but these folks are meeting with carefully gathered, like-minded friends. They don't want to undermine their whole life, but they can't buy into all the nonsense. Good for them. I'm almost 50. In 10 years, I hope I see a very different org. Those 80 year olds have to see whatsoever is going on now, knowing they will not see a significant downfall of corrupt leadership. :(
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Personal experience rant
by Crazyguy inso i was reading over new member hollywood 20s experience and thinking of using it when i'm going to talk with my son that their trying to get baptized.
so that with all the other things through my mind i decided to say some things to him about what's going on with my daughter.
so this is what happening with her.
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JWdaughter
I hope your daughter is well soon. Im glad your wife didnt decide the donations would be better spent on the world wide work! -
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Executed Jehovah's Witness under Hitler were more Christian than Jdubs
by suavojr inhas anyone noticed how the phraseology of this letter is so far away from todays jw theology and idioms used?
do you notice what word is missing?
how would any of us be viewed in the congregations if we were to speak or write this way?
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Just found out their about to baptise my 14 year old boy.
by Crazyguy inthere doing this right under my nose but i just found out.
not sure what to do but would like your help on getting me wt information on my headship role and how they shouldn't be doing this with out my permission.
also would like some help on showing my son the ramifications on what happens to someone when they get baptized and how they'll expect him to treat me.
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JWdaughter
It's not a legally binding contract to anyone but the Borg. Just say no, he is immature and not prepared for the implications. You are the dad and it's your decision. -
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Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?
by cappytan ina year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.
world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.
so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?
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JWdaughter
Syrians and Lebanese people are basically the same people. The culture is very similar. Most are pretty secular and the religious are mostly not radicals. Qatar, Saudi and other countries are NOT "just the same" as Syria. They don't speak the same dialect and have an entirely different culture. Most in Syria OR Lebanon would be more comfortable in Europe than Arabia. Most would not really want to go further into the areas that are besieged by ISIS. I wouldn't! We keep hearing about them making insurgencies to Egypt, Arabia etc. Little tiny Bahrain and Qatar are NOT equipped for that kind of influx infrastructurally. The climate rather precludes just sticking them all in tent cities in the desert. They aren't Bedu, and the desert is not mildly desert-like. It is serious. Qatar has the money, but struggles to provide, even with all the money, water and sewage services to the current population.They are growing and trying to make more infrastructure, but they are likely overcome by the immigrant workers already there right now building the new infrastructure.
I wouldn't stop in Lebanon, I'd keep heading west. Not because I am greedy or a bad guy. Because ISIS has already rooted them from hearth and home. They want to feel safe again. They want their children to get an education. Look what happened to Palestinians. They want away from all the crazy political crap and I don't blame them.
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Yearbook - will they drop figures that show a decline?
by freddo indo you think the yearbooks will stop showing negative information as the numbers stagnate or even drop?
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JWdaughter
I think judiciously rearranging branches and territories has masked some of their churn and where the biggest decreases are.