so i'm working on another (fictional) book project and i need some historical help.
i came into the borg in 1973, just as they were starting the new elder arrangement.
i know that before that there was a presiding overseer who (as i understand it) ran the show.
Do you intend to self publish or seek an agent? Back in the dim, now distant past I wrote a YA series which was published in the 1970s. I wonder if specifying a religion for your character is a good idea. Janet Reid takes questions from writers. She's an agent I trust. She has two blogs. Submit a question through her queryshark blog or directly to her email. Ask.
The idea sounds good. I wish you success.
i am a bereavement coordinator with a hospice company.
i have noticed that most often jw patients decline chaplain care and also the family ends up declining bereavement care.
where i work our chaplains do not proselytize at all...they merely walk with the patient in their faith at the end of life.
Within Witness comfort zone is a caring, liked elder. Those are few and far between. But you can contact the nearest congregation and explain the need for an elder visit. Elders are semi-trained, but at least your Witness patient will have someone visit from within their comfort zone. You and the clergy onsite will make them suspicious, both of your motives and your methods.
If elders are not already visiting (you may not recognize them as church elders.), then call. Make them do their job. Shame them if necessary, though politely. If you wonder about the status of visitors, ask them if they are 'from the kingdom hall.'
There ARE educated Witnesses, but the organization is deeply suspicious of secularly educated people. This is especially so of anything resembling psychology, psychiatry, or religion.
Oh and that song, Lois, first appeared in Songs of Praise, the 1928 songbook.
At 90 I'm dependent, which I hate. I'm diabetic, with all that comes with it. I sleep in two hour bursts. I've developed seizures. I forget everything, then remember everything, even things I'd rather forget. I was a Company Servant when we had those, then Congregation Servant. You may have heard me at District Conventions.
A long train of things finally led me to resign as an elder, citing declining health. I keep my opinions to myself for the sake of my wife and kids and grand and great grand children who are firmly committed to the Watchtower. I met, though I did not know well, many of the historical figures: Knorr, Franz [a repulsive little man], Miller [who never got over being a Marine.] and others. Macmillan was a guest in our home a time or two. Liked him.
Now, I believe some of the basic doctrines, but reject the self-elected governing body as a scriptural institution. There's a stout list of things I do not believe. But I most object to the self-entitled, un-scriptural views of those in authority. They browbeat their fellows. Okay enough of an old man's complaints.
I turn 90 this fall.
Finkelstein,
First edition was 1944, revised in 1948, the year I was baptized.
When I was baptized this was the songbook we used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYiDUtPgJlk&list=PL07031E4EABA44D5C&index=3
my dearest dad is 90 years old today.
we are far away, separated by geography, but never will i allow an organisation that indoctrinated false love separate me from my dear dad.
i love my dad and we had our differences but never will i allow that organisation take away my love for my dad.. happy bithday dad.
I turn 90 in the fall. This post touches my heart. I'm dependent on family. Only one of my children knows how I feel about the Watchtower these days. Aside from doctrinal issues, it fails its people. Family comes first. A belief system, an unstable, shifting, self-aggrandizing system is unworthy.
schulz and de vienne [ https://www.amazon.com/separate-identity-organizational-readers-1870-1887/dp/1304969401 ] continue to work on volume 2 of their book.
you can see a partial version of a chapter on expectations for 1881 on their blog.
it's rough draft.
Schulz and de Vienne [ https://www.amazon.com/Separate-Identity-Organizational-Readers-1870-1887/dp/1304969401 ] continue to work on volume 2 of their book. You can see a partial version of a chapter on expectations for 1881 on their blog. It's rough draft. An introductory note is self-explanatory. http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/
in re "the last trump"bro.
h. b. rice, editor and publisher of the last trump, has been obliged by circumstances beyond his control to suspend its publication.
knowing that such a course was probable, we two months ago proposed to bro.
You can follow Schulz and de Vienne's current research here: http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/
