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  The Simultaneous Corporatization of the WTS and Increased Sense of Entitlement of Members

  by daniel-p in

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  one of the ironies of corporatizing your business/operation is that in your search for effeciency and production, you sacrifice employee loyalty as they increasingly see themselves as dispensible parts of a machine where the whole is greater than the parts.. before, you were less efficient, but you had loyal workers and people who felt like they were a part of something that valued them.

  now, they see the company as a means to get what they want, and a sense of entitlement and resentment takes the place of honor and loyalty.. the watchtower society has been rapidly corporatizing its structure, management style, and policies since the 90s, and especially in this decade.

  i remember when i first went to bethel in 2000, and there were more than a few special bethel talks on how they didn't want to run the organization like a corporation, that they wanted it to be a family.

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  I agree, yknot, there is bad and good that might come from legalization of policy and doctrine.
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  Did You Ever Spank Your Kids?

  by minimus in

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  were you spanked?.

  is spanking "wrong"?

  (they say your iq might be affected adversely from being spanked)..

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  Okay, I've skimmed the actual study and this is what I've found:

  1. While significant (p<.01), the effect of corporal punishment on cognitive ability is not overwhelming. The correlation coeffecients are -.10 and -.12 (for the two age groups sampled), which signify relatively low effect sizes. On the other hand, meternal cognitive stimulation accounted for way more in how the child performed cognitively (.31 and .28), as well as maternal emotional support. WHat this means is that, while yes, spanking has a statistical negative corelation with cognitive ability, maternal stimulation and support is WAY more important.

  2. This is the bombshell, if only newspapers knew what the hell they're talking about and were less interested in sensationalism. As another poster astutely observed, correllation never, ever implies causation. However, our instincts often get in the way and want to immediately fill in the gaps, looking for the answer and reason to the problem. We'd rather have a quick answer rather than an open, unanswerable question. Well, come to find out, the study states the following:

  The regression coefficients in the first row of Table 4 show that each increase of 1 unit in the four~category CP scale is associated with a decreased cognitive ability relative to other children of 1.3 points for children age 2-4 and a decrease of 1.1 points for children age 5-9. These are statistically significant but not large decreases in cognitive ability. This does not mean that spanked children became less cognitively adequate. Rather it reflects the fact that their cognitive ability was measured relative to the performance of other children of the same age. A cognitive ability score of 100 indicates a score at the mean for children of the same age. To maintain a score of 100 over a 4-year period, a child's cognitive ability must increase during those years at the average pattern. Thus, the decreases associated with CP do not indicate an absolute reduction in cognitive ability, only that CP is associated with failing to keep up with the average development of cognitive ability. (Straus and Paschall, 2009; pp 13-14)

  To put it another way, the fact that the children scored lower on cognitive testing doesn't mean corporal punishment (CP) is what caused it, rather, that the very administration of CP was associated with a child's slower cognitive growth. In other words, a perfectly reasonable theory to posit with the data at hand is that parents were getting frustrated with their slow children, and punished them accordingly.

  Kind of hard to swallow, isn't it? Yet, this is a perfect example of taking the results of a study that finds various correllations of phenomena and creating a message that it doesn't really support.
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  Did You Ever Spank Your Kids?

  by minimus in

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  were you spanked?.

  is spanking "wrong"?

  (they say your iq might be affected adversely from being spanked)..

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  Scratch my last comment. I'm reading the article now, and the researcher used a dataset that was already compiled, meaning that he did not administer the survey/interviews himself.
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  Did You Ever Spank Your Kids?

  by minimus in

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  were you spanked?.

  is spanking "wrong"?

  (they say your iq might be affected adversely from being spanked)..

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  I haven't read this article... however, I would suspect heavy bias. The reason is that who would dare to publish null results in this case? In other words, who would carry out, fund, publish, and spread the word about, a study that concluded spanking had no significant adverse effect? The answer is that no one would, for obvious reasons. Thus, the researchers who designed such a study likely already knew the results they wanted to find.
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  The Simultaneous Corporatization of the WTS and Increased Sense of Entitlement of Members

  by daniel-p in

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  2. friends

  one of the ironies of corporatizing your business/operation is that in your search for effeciency and production, you sacrifice employee loyalty as they increasingly see themselves as dispensible parts of a machine where the whole is greater than the parts.. before, you were less efficient, but you had loyal workers and people who felt like they were a part of something that valued them.

  now, they see the company as a means to get what they want, and a sense of entitlement and resentment takes the place of honor and loyalty.. the watchtower society has been rapidly corporatizing its structure, management style, and policies since the 90s, and especially in this decade.

  i remember when i first went to bethel in 2000, and there were more than a few special bethel talks on how they didn't want to run the organization like a corporation, that they wanted it to be a family.

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  yep
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: The Radio Shack of Religions

  by whathehadas in

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  if you ever been to radio shack, you would notice how relatively small the store is.

  yet according to advertisements and sales associate suggestions, they have in the store everything that you will need which is electronic related.

  they have all the answers for your technological wants simply put, or is this really the case.

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  When I saw the title to this thread I thought the analogy was going to center on how generic they are. Like Radio Shack, Jehovah's WItnesses have nothing but a sloppy collection of other religions' parts: there's nothing really unique or authentic about it.
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  Falling Asleep at Work

  by daniel-p in

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  so who has a job that is boring enough to fall asleep at?

  i've never yet fallen asleep on the job, but it would be very esy to do so based on how inane most of my work is, despite the fact that i actually do use my brain.

  sometimes it's just so dry and technical i can't keep it up.. i have a nice fancy chair that leans back to my specifictions of resistance, so it would easy to tilt back and snooze a bit.

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  must... crawl... under... desk...
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  What do you think about this quote from the 2003 District Convention talk "Beware of the Voice of Strangers"?

  by LUKEWARM in

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  [23:23] so friends, hypothetically, and i repeat, hypothetically, even if an angel were to come down here and land on this platform, today, at this moment, and to present something to us that didn't fit into the pattern of truth, what should we be ready to do?

  we should be ready to say, " hold on there, that doesn't fit into the pattern, and i am not going to listen to it!

  " yes, even if it were one of jehovah's angels.. .

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  This all comes back to what valid basis one can claim that the GB is God's chosen channel of truth.

  ... because they say they are!
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  Phobia's.......

  by angel eyes in

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  do any of you have phobia's??

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  ok ok....we could dance then????? play football??????? throw water balloons at the people below???

  hows that Daniel p

  Either that, or you're off you fucking rocker, tripping balls, and in a mental fog all at the same time.
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  Phobia's.......

  by angel eyes in

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  do any of you have phobia's??

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  I dont mind rats or mice, i'll protect you from them...will you protect me from spiders though?? and if we get stuck up somewhere high...well we could always sing lol

  Wtf. Everything this person says screams troll.