I exchanged a few emails with this Steve K. Joker too. He is stupid beyond belief, and I refuse to waste any more of my time on someone so utterly worthless. He maintains that it was my ex's own fault that she was sexually abused beginning at 4 years of age.
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i know some former witnesses away from the board and when we have talked, we have commented on how we still see people put elders in this category, even after the exit.
once in a discussion with someone who used to be an elder, the person who used to be an elder did something kind of harsh in their comments.
the person in the group stated, "there is no way someone like you would have ever been an elder.
I've known a couple of elders who were decent men. One eventually burnt out, and the other is no longer a JW and he posts on this board. For the most part, I consider elders the lowest of the low. They are elders because they know how to play the game - they kiss the asses above them while shitting on the people beneath them. They are, for the most part, stupid, uneducated little men who could never hold a position of authority in the real world, so they abuse the little authority they have in their foolish cult.
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the watchtower thrives on the pecking order.
who's in line next to "be used"?
who can we allow to "handle the microphones and mow the lawn"?
I was relieved of all my priviledges because the Circuit Overseer was insisting that they stop dicking around and recommend me. It seemed he was of the position that if I had so much work and did it faithfully, then they had to appoint me. Their answer was to relieve me without even the courtesey of a hearing with me or notice. I simply walked into the Hall one night and was informed by the MSs that they were no longer allowed to use me. I found out why later.
That is exactly what happened to me! They even wouldn't let me pioneer™ anymore.
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for me, it was realizing that nearly every prophecy or commentary on a scriptural passage has changed.
througout the years, it's been new light, old light and even blinking light.
It was a number of things that set me off. Like Scully, I was treated in a very shitty way by the congregations I was in, to the point where, while I was still a believer, I had no desire to survive armageddon™ and live in a world filled with such assholes. I had decided that, should I survive, I would shoot myself. I was enraged when I became aware of the scope of the child abuse problem and the Society's policies on it. That led me to do a thorough investigation of the doctrines and history of the organization.
In retrospect, I'm very happy that Jehovah's Witnesses treated me like shit, and that I had no friends to leave behind. It made it easier to do an honest investigation into my beliefs and the organization I was associated with, and it made it much easier to leave.
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the watchtower thrives on the pecking order.
who's in line next to "be used"?
who can we allow to "handle the microphones and mow the lawn"?
I used to get a little pissed when all the Brothers™ were getting appointed as ministerial servants™, particularly when they weren't doing the jobs assigned to them, and I was having to cover their asses.
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she found the united book, open as if i was saving a spot from where i had last finished reading.
she found it and said, "bethel, don't read this we have an updated version!
" i said, "why do they need to update it?
she found it and said, "bethel, don't read this we have an updated version!"
I would take her suggestion a step further and not read the updated one either. It'll be obsolete in a year anyway.
The Watchtower is a bit like Microsoft in this respect. You're always having to upgrade, but very little new useful functionality is included in upgrades. It's mostly patches to cover up vunerabilities.
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-----------------my husband likes to go to bed early between 10 and 10.30 pm.
he gets up early so i dont mind, but he wants me to go with him.
sometimes i dont but tonight i did,cos he hates going by himself ahhhh.
You may consider scheduling a sleep test for him. One of the symptoms of sleep apnea is snoring. Another is always feeling tired. It nearly killed me several times due to my airways collasping when I was sleeping. A CPAP machine is quiet and most insurance will pay for it.
I've been using a CPAP machine for about 5 years now because of my sleep apnea. It's eliminated the snoring and I sleep properly now. I tried the laser surgery before that - very painful and it didn't cure the apnea anyway. W
here is the original one:.
here is a blank one for you to add a caption to:.
have fun!
This toer5777 is pasting crap on all the threads like it's a tract day.
That's one way to boost his field service report. W
i have not yet to find another organization in the world that is like jw.
yes it has made mistakes, there imperfect humans, but what other organization in the world goes preaching house to house like jesus did.
why is that jw are persecuted all over the world?
toer5777, you may consider reading the forum rules. You're posting the same thing on multiple threads, and this could be considered spamming the board. A moderator might delete the posts, and even your account for this.
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i have not yet to find another organization in the world that is like jw.
yes it has made mistakes, there imperfect humans, but what other organization in the world goes preaching house to house like jesus did.
why is that jw are persecuted all over the world?
Beliefs and Customs That Displease God
I think they forgot to mention that he hates false prophets.
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