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Any strategies to deal with elders who just don't like you?
by toto555 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so any ways to deal or cope with elders who just don't like you (you didn't do anything wrong or they're just making stuff up about you) assuming that you can't leave?

especially when it comes to for example becoming appointed as an elder.

or are you pretty much "dead in the water" if the elders are determined to like you despite reasonable efforts to win them over.
compound complex

A belated welcome, toto555!

So many excellent thoughts are presented here.

'Kill them with kindness,' as stillin said and gave examples of worked for me. Little drops of water -- continually -- did the trick. Like The Searcher, I was overlooked constantly at Q&A sessions, even if mine was the only hand raised. Veiled comments about me, too, came from the platform. A trusted friend was warned by a particular few not to talk to me.

Now I laugh!

I'm in a different hall now and the lovebombing I get is genuine and heartfelt. I love these people -- I need community -- and I've decided that crazy doctrine and weird rules and regulations will not again separate me from family and lifelong friends.

Best regards.

CoCo
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Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?
by compound complex in
1. jw
2. friends
greetings, health-conscious friends:.

i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

.. what do you eat and drink?.
compound complex

Thanks, happy eaters!

Signing off and heading to the dogs . . .

Love,

CoCo
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Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?
by compound complex in
1. jw
2. friends
greetings, health-conscious friends:.

i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

.. what do you eat and drink?.
compound complex

It does help, stillin!!!

Are Brownie points fattening?

Keep it up!

CC
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Do you eat foods labeled "low-fat"?
by compound complex in
1. jw
2. friends
greetings, health-conscious friends:.

i had a wonderful cup of peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.. just isn't the same .

.. what do you eat and drink?.
compound complex

Greetings, health-conscious friends:

I had a wonderful cup of Peet's coffee today at a friend's house, but had only low-fat half-and-half to add.

Just isn't the same . . .

What do you eat and drink?

Thanks.

CoCo Consumes Nice Fats
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"...A God's Voice, And Not A Man's!" (Acts 12:22; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4) ... That Day Is Here!
by bjc2read in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
question: how are members of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses themselves, actually viewed by jehovah's witnesses today?.

well, the following related experience may help answer that provocative question, giving us a glimpse of what the possible future days will bring us.

yes, the answer to that question may even be quite shocking to us, ... with simply terrible, disastrous results!!!
compound complex

There were two Brothers Knorr.

During one of many slide presentations of official WT sojourns to the Third World was a shot of Nathan Knorr holding in his arms a little African Witness boy. He was chuckling over the fact that the parents named the lad "Brother Knorr" in his honor. What a namesake!

Where are you, Brother Brother Knorr ? You'd be about 40 years old by now.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/124322/1/Nathan-Knorr-Holding-Brother-Knorr-Memory-Lane#.U2Pm_t31vaY
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Come On And PLAY!!!
by snowbird in
1. social
2. entertainment
this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

come on, y'all.. sylvia.
compound complex

Nan & rip:

CC
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Come On And PLAY!!!
by snowbird in
1. social
2. entertainment
this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.

come on, y'all.. sylvia.
compound complex

Billy Crystal's movie "City Slickers" had him and friends -- all them rascals -- toting pistols in their western adventure. Maybe not . . .

flotsam, jetsam, lagan
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MARTIAN novel prologue: teaser
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
prologue.

weapon-flash burst and thundered ominously outside the atmosphere bubble of mars colony 7.. .

"this is captain nobile, now here this!
compound complex

Good work, Terry!

Holst's "Mars the Bringer of War" would be the perfect musical backdrop.

I find your style evocative of Clark Ashton Smith, whose grotesqueries make the anticipant reader squeal with fiendishly lip-smacking relish and quiver with timber-shaking undulations.

Love, too, those ululations . . .

CoCo, who loves all things Aries.
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OK..Seriously..Has GOD ever answered your prayers????
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
look...i am not an atheist.

even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.

the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.
compound complex

Greetings, DATA-DOG:

Taking into account all that has been said on this thread and others like it over the years, I tend toward other explanations for why a prayer may seem to have been answered. My prayers of yore had been "answered" in relation to my activities and conduct as a JW. Therefore, I don't know where Jehovah actually fit in as I consider my current belief-in-flux position.

Nonetheless, one experience that still has me nonplussed centers around my life in Brooklyn and Manhattan, circa 1970. I took a noisy bus ride to a forgotten destination, but recall that the friendly driver said to sit behind him so he could tell me when we arrived at my stop. He chatted loudly away and, as was my wont, I wanted to witness to him: impossible, due to noise and confusion. Over the course of the lengthy trip, he revealed point by point personal information: the district he inhabited; the street he lived on; the number of his apartment complex; his name. All this was given me as he gabbed away; I didn't ask a single question.

I got off, went my way armed with this vital back call material. Somewhat later, Truth book in tow, I located his apartment complex and found his name, Patrick Davis, on the registry and went to his door. He was surprised to see me and I gave him the book . . .

Wonder where he is now.

CC
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Possibly the creepiest thing I have ever seen.
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/7bhfbsjycap9gurjx8e4.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/q2ez9si8kwcze4h7pft.jpg.

http://www.freeimgshost.com/fullsize/0a2s84sh0thc27bo11tr.jpg.
compound complex

Yes, Tal, you remember correctly. More info if you want it!

I always enjoy your point of view.

Love,

CoCo