In my experience - which is expansive and covers many, many congregations - PO's are the ones that cause most of the problems in the first place. So putting them in an even more 'privileged' and 'powerful' position sounds like a recipe for disaster. Conversely I've said for years that the 'rotation' arrangement should be bought back to lessen the 'power-mongers' control.
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224News from Bethel Heavy
by cinnamon1642 inpioneer hour change is legit.
letters are being mailed out soon to all congregations for announcement in early october right before the tract campaign starts.. .
elimination of circuit overseers.
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Personality disorders among jw elders
by badboy ini had one that singled me out on a talk.
i was supposedly working on warmth and enthusiasm, which they should reasonably have known i could not do properly without hope with the opposite sex (which they blew on the promise of).
this idiot gave me a w on that point, after i had previously been marked i on the same point (and this idiot was not known for giving w's first and asking questions later--at least then i could have understood that he was just picky).. this same hounder also continually dallied at the kingdumb hell after promising me rides back and forth.
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I've met more than my fair share of 'control freaks'
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Is age just a number? 30 year difference between partners....
by LouBelle ina collegue of mine, a mother of 19 year old twins is distressed.
her one son has been going out with an older women (this came to light when the other twin was sick and tired of all the lying going on) the truth is that the older women turns out to be her very good friend, who is now 49 years old.
let's call her madam x.. madam x is a very '"sweet"" woman - i know her, as i used to work with her.
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Age IS just a number. As has been said previously - it's their business, and if it makes you feel sick; YOU have a problem.
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Places that won't exist in the "Paradise Earth"
by Zico inmachu picchu, peru.
itsukushima shrine, japan.
taj mahal, india .
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For all those in the UK "Hooters" has been in Nottingham for many years.
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How to find new friends?
by socialdistortion inhi... my name is chrissy & i have been away from the "truth" for 8 years now.
i married a "brother" when i was 20. i was humiliated by the "elders" in the backroom for oral sex & publicly humiliated but never disfellowshipped.
my husband & i left the truth together after moving away from the area where we lived when we were witnesses.
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It's no good telling people to "be outgoing" or "be positive" that's like telling someone to "be rich". That's like the "organization" telling you that if you think that the congregation lacks love it's because you're not showing any. Fair enough those abilities will certainly help you to make friends, but sometimes you need others to make the initial effort. For example, if you're hanging from a cliff it's no good someone saying "pull yourself up" if you're not strong enough to do so, you need someone to pull you up. The ability to "be outgoing" may be beyond someone due to their emotional, mental or even physical health.
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2008 Keep Yourselves In God's Love--PDF!
by Atlantis in2008 keep yourselves in god's love--pdf!
bookmarked searchable reduced to 2.4-mb from (anonymous-5) please note the "appendix" of this book!
click the link at the bottom of the next page.
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It's released on Saturday. Don't get me talking about the 'Respect for Authority' chapter.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 06-08-08 WT Study (GUIDANCE)
by blondie ingod's guidance = only the guidance of the wts/fds/gb.
when, though, do we need that guidance?
god's guidance = wts/fds/gb guidance.
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How on earth are the elders "qualified to help"?
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Convention Badge 2008
by IMHO incould someone scan the lapel badge for this years convention and put it up for download?
many thanks
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Could someone scan the lapel badge for this years convention and put it up for download? Many thanks
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Names have been changed. Why?
by easyreader1970 inthe only time that the watchtower publication uses the real name of a person mentioned is when it's some biographical experience that is the entire article.
anytime a witness is quoted in an article or other publication, they always include a footnote.
"i studied medicine because i wanted to use my life to help people.
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Yet the Bible always uses real names? One of the reasons we are told that the Bible is true is the candor of its writers.
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I need to write to the GB
by Mrs Smith ini then asked her if she agreed that the bible is very clear that no one knows the time or the hour.
so i told her that i feel that the gb made a mistake and they should be humble enough to admit to it.
they made a mistake and they should appologise and be humble about it.
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If anything they will say that they are not saying they know the day and hour, but only the generation.