Posts by Trevanian

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HAVE SOME FUN WITH THE NOV WT COVER!!

by Mary in

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ok, here's the original:.

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and here's a blank one for you:.

Trevanian

BAD PEDICURES:

Should God's Servants Still Tip?

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Why? - Is it just me?

by IMHO in

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am i the only one that is wound up by the way the watchtower writers speak down to their readers in their writing style.

for instance; with regard to the use of the word "why"?

for example this last weeks watchtower paragraph 17 said "the finest way to show mercy to those outside the christian congregation is to share bible truth with them.

Trevanian

It's carefully designed rhetoric which appeals to the lowest common denominator amongst the readership. Also, it's parent-child-speak.

Think about how a parent speaks to a child.

"You shouldn't run into the road. Why? Because a car may come along and hit you."

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I know another poster!!!

by purplesofa in

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i think this poster and i met online in 2001. early 2002, a jw girlfriend of mine came over from australia, i had a "get-together" at my house for some of us chatters from about.com.

i think that is where we chatted then.

i am not sure if it was shut down at that time or not.

Trevanian

Sorry for the slip in the spelling of your nickname.

You're completely forgiven.

Everything I do is of my own free will.
The blame game is over when this statement is made.

I was being ironic.

JWs believe they are turning in service reports of their own free will. JWs believe they are doing field service of their own free will.

When in fact it's all the result of high-control group behavior.

This is a tragedy.

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I know another poster!!!

by purplesofa in

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friends

i think this poster and i met online in 2001. early 2002, a jw girlfriend of mine came over from australia, i had a "get-together" at my house for some of us chatters from about.com.

i think that is where we chatted then.

i am not sure if it was shut down at that time or not.

Trevanian

Nice to meet you Trevarian

Thanks, but it's Trevanian.

hope to hear more from you on the board.

You probably won't hear too much from me. My message is simple, but people don't take too kindly to it.

Be honest. Think through the issues honestly, and then decide if you can live the dishonest life that Jehovah's Witnesses require you to lead.

It's as simple as that.

If you can deal with the cognitive dissonance, the raging in your brain, that says:

"This is crap."

"No it can't be crap. I've always believed this."

"But it sounds like crap."

"It can't be rubbish. My parents before me believed it."

"But it still sounds like nonsense."

"How could my dear parents have believed nonsense?"

"It's not their fault. But it really seems like life control."

"No, it's not life control. Everything I do is of my own free will. Every hour I turn in on my service report is my own free will."

"But they are making you do it."

"No, they're not. I get in my car and go on field service on my own. Nobody holds a gun to my head."

Well, then they have you truly in their grasp.

If one person honestly evaluates their own life in the context of this post, I'll be happy.

Be honest.

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i just got a call from an elder from my old kh, i have not been to meeitngs since april 2007. i recently took my daughter to thier first b-day party, (their cousin), anyways, they want to ask if i celebrate b-day now.

i told them i'd speak with them later.

so, since i ahve been inactive since april can they df me?????

Trevanian

You still can't reason with a JW on birthdays, so don't try.

Exactly. It's one of those teachings that make no sense whatsoever, except as a way to enforce an "us and them" mindset.

Us against the world.

Which is purely and simply cult behaviour.

Lie about the party and pick you time to leave the KH on your terms.

NO!

Don't lie.

Be the bigger person. Take lying out of the picture.

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Did you lie?

by pratt1 in

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Trevanian

Just so you know...

As I'm sure many of you do...

Psychometric testing evaluates your lying.

It works off the assumption that everyone lies. Which we do of course, deal with it.

So if you claim not to lie, well you emerge as a big liar.

Take that and put it in your pipe and...

So... have you ever smoked?

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I know another poster!!!

by purplesofa in

jw
friends

i think this poster and i met online in 2001. early 2002, a jw girlfriend of mine came over from australia, i had a "get-together" at my house for some of us chatters from about.com.

i think that is where we chatted then.

i am not sure if it was shut down at that time or not.

Trevanian

The honeymoon is over. We are lightyears away from coming online in 1999.

The honeymoon is indeed over.

However, who can forget the original H2O in 1995?

I am beginning to wonder if I know you, maybe as another poster?

How far back does your memory stretch? Or indeed, how near?

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

edited to add: I wish everyone I met online as JW's would get out. I loved them dearly.

Exactly, purps. That's why we're all on this silly board, right?

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I know another poster!!!

by purplesofa in

jw
friends

i think this poster and i met online in 2001. early 2002, a jw girlfriend of mine came over from australia, i had a "get-together" at my house for some of us chatters from about.com.

i think that is where we chatted then.

i am not sure if it was shut down at that time or not.

Trevanian

This disturbs me.

Why do you call it "the truth"?
cuz that is just what it is called.

purps, that's not what it's called.

It's called by many names, but the truth is not one of them.

Unless you're one of them.

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I know another poster!!!

by purplesofa in

jw
friends

i think this poster and i met online in 2001. early 2002, a jw girlfriend of mine came over from australia, i had a "get-together" at my house for some of us chatters from about.com.

i think that is where we chatted then.

i am not sure if it was shut down at that time or not.

Trevanian

This is an exciting thread for you, purps. Much going on!

Welcome to the Board Trevanian......btw why did you choose that name?
purps

I've been here for a year or so, but thanks for the welcome.

Trevanian is the author of a brilliant book titled Shibumi. Read it if you get a chance. And you heard it here first - I think it may be made into a film soon.

For decades the identity of Trevanian remained unknown, although after his death in 2005 he was revealed as Dr Rodney Whitaker.

Read Shibumi if you get a chance. You'll understand why once you've read it.

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Help - running out of "excuses" for not attending meetings

by truthseeker in

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my situation as some of you know, i'm married and my wife is a jw and still wants to go to meetings.

i on the other hand do not.. over the last few years, i have suffered with poor health and i also studied, so when i was studying i would say "i'm at college/doing homework/taking exams" which for the most part was true.. i also have ill health, suffer with chronic chest infections for part of the year.. trouble is, people at the hall are having a hard time buying my excuses, or if my wife tells them the reason i'm not there, they now start giving her the eyeroll, or they say to her "well, you're here and so am i.".

not one of the elders calls to see where i am, what they can do.

Trevanian

Try to work on your wife in a kind way to really subtly get inside her head without her knowing you are getting inside her head ! It is a real art , and a high wire act in that you as a fading witness are still married to an attending meetings witness.

Mr Flipper, I am horrified that you are advocating subterfuge and dishonest techniques.

'Fight fire with fire' may be an English idiom, but do you want it to be a characteristic of your life partnership?