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  Elderettes

  by snowbird in

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  i lol whenever i run across this term because it aptly describes the elders' wives i've known.. bossy and domineering for the most part, they delighted in being the alpha females and watched jealously to see if any other female received undue attention from the body of elders.. i remember one who told me that my dress was too short, another said i was spoiling my daughter, and yet another wanted to know from where i was buying her clothes!.

  too much!.

  lol.. sylvia.

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  Didn't think of that ...

  Sylvia
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  Elderettes

  by snowbird in

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  i lol whenever i run across this term because it aptly describes the elders' wives i've known.. bossy and domineering for the most part, they delighted in being the alpha females and watched jealously to see if any other female received undue attention from the body of elders.. i remember one who told me that my dress was too short, another said i was spoiling my daughter, and yet another wanted to know from where i was buying her clothes!.

  too much!.

  lol.. sylvia.

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  One who somehow managed to find out who was going to get DF'd or "read off" (reproved) before anyone else knew it.

  Did her husband talk in his sleep?

  Sylva
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  Eccentric Jehovah's Witnesses

  by snowbird in

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  so as not to hijack logcon's thread about crazy things jw's have said to householders, i'd like to start one about just plain old odd jw's.. for example, i knew this dear, dear senior brother who would carry a small bag of peanuts in one pocket of his suit coat and a small plastic bag of brown sugar in the other.. during that time, we would stay out all day long because the territory was extensive.. can't you just picture that precious soul alternately tossing a few peanuts/crumbs of sugar into his mouth as he schlepped from house to trailer, from trailer to house?.

  the householders would usually offer us water, lemonade, kool-aid, or soda pops, so no problem with finding something to quench our thirsts.. those were the days!.

  sylvia.

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  snowbird

  LOL at all the examples!

  Sylvia
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  The WT and it's views on depression.

  by quellycatface in

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  as a few of you may remember, i suffer from bipolar.. when working at the uk home office, i was signed off by my doctor with depression and anxiety.. in the space of 11 months i was assessed by 2 home office doctors, both diagnosing me as unfit for work.

  i eventually left.. how therefore, can stupid little people in the kh say you'll be better doing fs, ministry school and being regular at meetings??.

  they have to be the most un-empathetic bunch of people on the planet.

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  Thanks to both of you.

  Sylvia
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  The WT and it's views on depression.

  by quellycatface in

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  as a few of you may remember, i suffer from bipolar.. when working at the uk home office, i was signed off by my doctor with depression and anxiety.. in the space of 11 months i was assessed by 2 home office doctors, both diagnosing me as unfit for work.

  i eventually left.. how therefore, can stupid little people in the kh say you'll be better doing fs, ministry school and being regular at meetings??.

  they have to be the most un-empathetic bunch of people on the planet.

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  *raises hand*

  I'm on disability for depression and anxiety.

  It is a beast!

  Does anyone remember the account in the WT or Awake of a German convert whose mate left him and took their child because he decided to become a JW?

  This would have been during the early or mid-90's, I believe.

  The account stated that he was so disheartened by this that he used to bite his lips and grip his briefcase so tightly while in field service.

  I often think of him and pray that he sought professional help.

  Sylvia
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  If The Organization Was A Country, Then.......?

  by metatron in

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  a different way to look at the organization.. suppose that the organization was a country of 8 million or so.

  given that jw's believe that god will one day slaughter everyone else and leave them to inherit the globe, this is a fair matter to think about.. would "watchtowerland" be a theocracy..... like iran?.

  would it be ruled by a group of old men........like the former soviet union?.

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  If the Org was a country, the defection rate would be off the chart.

  Sylvia
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  My personal movie review: Darren Aronofsky's NOAH

  by Terry in

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  noah, my movie review.

  you may have already judged this film and you've never seen it!

  like many of its critics, you think you know what you're going to see and .

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  Amen!

  Sylvia
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  Can it be said mankind has tried....

  by punkofnice in

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  ....every form of government there is?.

  the watchtower claims this is why armageddon hasn't come yet....apparently ol' j-man is showing how awful man is at governing himself.

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  The WT claims a lot of stuff, but I grudgingly have to concur in this matter about man's inability to govern himself so far.

  Man has tried all sorts of governmental experiences, and come up short every time.

  LOL.

  I've come to the conclusion that something within us has to change.

  That is the Bible's view also.

  Sylvia
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  Huge Rise In US Religious Disaffiliation

  by metatron in

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  http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526111/how-the-internet-is-taking-away-americas-religion/.

  an interesting analysis of the view that the internet is killing off religious affiliation.

  at any rate, the trend is there, whatever the cause.. .

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  Yes, and then you find those voices that express the same sentiments as yours, and you think, I'm not alone in feeling this way.

  Group think is a powerful motivator to action.

  People are fed up, I tell you.

  Sylvia
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  If you Believe in the Lord's Supper

  by designs in

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  so this time of year we get all of the feedback about how the majority of jws (and we) didn't partake.. if you self identify as a christian what do you believe about the bread and wine.

  are you catholic and believe in transubstantiation, or greek orthodox and believe in the mystery of the real eucharist, or protestant and believe only in the symbolism of the bread and wine.. do you serve grape juice and soda crackers (chruch of christ i attended), real wine, real matzah, wafer, other.. do you take communion daily, weekly, monthly, annually.. how important is communion to you..

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  Well said, Crazy Guy.

  Well said.

  During the early days of Christianity, once a week seemed to have been the norm. (Acts 20:7)

  Sylvia