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  I miss the 'good old days'!

  by Outaservice in

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  lets see now.......... monday night: prepare for the tuesday night book study i will conduct.

  also, have the family monday night watchtower study preparation.. tues night: drive over to an almost inactive brother's house to conduct the book study.

  prepared questions for the children ahead of time.

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  SirNose586

  Heh, do you really miss them?

  I. Behavior Control

  1. Regulation of individual's physical reality

  a. Where, how and with whom the member lives and associates with
  b. What clothes, colors, hairstyles the person wears
  c. What food the person eats, drinks, adopts, and rejects
  d. How much sleep the person is able to have
  e. Financial dependence
  f. Little or no time spent on leisure, entertainment, vacations

  2. Major time commitment required for indoctrination sessions and group rituals

  3. Need to ask permission for major decisions

  4. Need to report thoughts, feelings and activities to superiors

  5. Rewards and punishments (behavior modification techniques- positive and negative).

  6. Individualism discouraged; group think prevails

  7. Rigid rules and regulations

  8. Need for obedience and dependency

  Good god, Dub-ism hits all points!!
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-20-06 WT Study (MURMURINGS) Post 8/20

  by blondie in

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  i will not be able to post this until the evening of 8-20. i worked on 8-27 by mistake and will be out of town until sunday evening.

  keep free from murmurings .

  "--philippians 2:14 .

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  SirNose586

  since they have already mentioned about murmuring against God it makes you wonder about why they say "an even more dangerous form of murmuring...against the earthly part of Jehovah's organization.”

  WOW. Murmuring against god is not as bad as murmuring against the bOrg. Amazing. Thanks for the review, Blondie. You know what's great? I'm reading next week. I swear to Bob, this always happens. I had to conduct when the study was about 607-1914. Now I get to read about saying bad things about the bOrg. Next thing you know, I'll be giving a talk on how we "protect the little ones from harm." Figures.

  Gary suggested that this could be the setup for the "big horrible announcement" that's got everybody in a tizzy.
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  Disco Banned?

  by Wordly Andre in

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  i am a bit too young to remember this but, was disco really banned by the jw's??

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  SirNose586

  A friend in the hall told me the same thing as most of your responses. It was cool at first, then the bOrg clamped down on it and they stopped going. "The Society always knew what was right. They knew the dangers behind it. I thank them for their wisdom," she told me. I felt like asking, 'couldn't you have made that decision in the first place? If the society didn't clamp down on it, would you still have gone?' But I didn't feel like raising any trouble, because she's a good friend to my family.
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  how evil are you

  by peacefulpete in

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  take the test:.

  how evil are you?

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  SirNose586

  You Are 38% Evil

  A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

  Figures.
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  Sheep

  by lowden in

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  2. friends

  so there i am yesterday, driving through the lovely english countryside enjoying the rolling green slopes of the hills.

  now in my part of the world (lancashire) there's lots and lots of sheep!!

  they look lovely mooching around in the grass and moorland totally oblivious to what's going on around them.. until they stand in the road in the path of your car.......licking the tarmac!!.

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  SirNose586

  Helpless...dense...followers, not leaders...every high control group wants sheep. Interesting observation, lowden.
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  What is the JW View of Clowning :o)??

  by Seeker4 in

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  (i threw this into the "jw view of cloning" thread yesterday, and thought maybe a few would like to have some fun with it so i gave it its own thread.

  there was this comment in a letter to the body of elders about clowning in march 2003:

  "as to the matter of clowning, we can see from phil.

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  SirNose586

  And I think there must have been a time when the Society was on a tear against costume partys, as all the DOs were mentioning them negatively when the met with the elders at the assemblies. At one the DO put down some poor sister because she attended dressed as George Washington.

  What assholes.

  S4

  Oh, they still are! About four or five months ago, there was a costume party amongst the youngins in our hall. I didn't want to go. Sure enough, they took cell pictures of the event and eventually they ended up in the elders' hands. The inquisition began. A good friend of mine was caught crossdressing. I got questioned if I went, but thankfully I didn't go. Not too long after the investigation ended, there was a local needs part on the dangers of crossdressing.
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  What is the JW View of Clowning :o)??

  by Seeker4 in

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  (i threw this into the "jw view of cloning" thread yesterday, and thought maybe a few would like to have some fun with it so i gave it its own thread.

  there was this comment in a letter to the body of elders about clowning in march 2003:

  "as to the matter of clowning, we can see from phil.

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  What would the Dubious 12 say about Krumping? (wikipedia it)
  

  daniel

  Suggestive dance with roots in pagan Babylon. True Chistians TM refrain from dancing in anyway that could be enjoyable, lest we invite demons into our hips and knees.
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  Letter to the Editor about jw's

  by Mamacat in

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  this was in our sunday paper.

  i remember once in field service, an elder ran over a trashcan and never even stopped to set it back up, so this comes as no surprise to me.

  how rude.

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  SirNose586

  I guess all those little lectures given to me that we're "spectacles on stage" are really true! I'll try not to mess up anyone's yard from now on.
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  Is it time for apostasy to get organised?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. suggestions

  i like things the way they are right now.

  the watchtower are never sure which direction the next 'assualt' will come from and we often get the jump on them.

  but i was wondering if, in addition to all the solo efforts, it might be time to set up something a little more permanent.. i know that my disfellowshipping is only a matter of time - perhaps months - and when it happens i'll have the freedom to act in a way that i cannot risk at present.

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  SirNose586

  Hey, suicidal people have help lines. People who get tossed to the curb like yesterday's trash by the bOrg need that emotional support that they eventually return to the org. to get. Your charity could be the factor that helps people to escape and stay out. Godspeed, Nicolaou.
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  Watchtower display in Yellowstone Park this morning

  by RunningMan in

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  this morning, i drove through yellowstone park, on my way to jackson hole.

  just before noon, i saw a sign that said, west thumb geyser basin.

  it looked interesting, so i wheeled in.. after seeing the geysers, i noticed a couple people sitting behind a desk with a display beside them.

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  SirNose586

  Heh, where's Yogi and Boo Boo when you need them? You should offer them a pic'inic basket filled with anti-witness books.