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  New KM Tries To Make Old & Young Feel Guilt...

  by minimus in

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  what is your priority?

  that is the article that's on page 8 of the feb. km.

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  jimbob

  Minimus.....this is true. Both my wife and I feel very strongly that the Society is all about guilt. As long as you are in the borg, you will always feel guilty. Guilty for not studying enough, or praying enough, or going out in service enough, etc....

  The Society continues to try to manipulate weak minded people.

  While this is true because there are weak minded people in the borg, I also feel that there are also ones who aren't. I never felt I was weak minded, but yet I always had guilt. I feel it's just part of what the Society does to try and keep people from leaving and to keep them in line. When you've grown up in it, you don't know anything else and you feel you must obey the Society. And if they tell you to do something, then you should be doing it. And if you aren't, then guilt sets in. Because I'm not weak minded, I was able to finally see through the smoke and become guilt free. Unfortunately, there are many who are weak minded and will forever be blinded.
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  New KM Tries To Make Old & Young Feel Guilt...

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is your priority?

  that is the article that's on page 8 of the feb. km.

  notice some quotes.

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  jimbob

  Gopher is absolutely right....what good things do they do for others?? If they think peddling a couple of magazines every Saturday morning is "doing good", they're sadly mistaken. It's always amazed me how they put down any type of community service that helps others because in their eyes it's pointless, because after all, only god's kingdom will solve all problems.

  Is it really necessary for both husband and wife to be secularly employed?

  Once again, they have laid the guilt trip on the R&F. Unless the WTBTS is going to start sending out monthly checks to everyone, what business do they have even questioning whether or not it is necessary for both spouses to work? The WTBTS isn't paying for bills, or putting money away for retirement for me, so what concern is it of theirs if we both work? This just kills me! The guilt they lay upon everyone is ridiculous. For years my wife has felt guilty for working because the Society indoctrinates the Witnesses that it isn't right for both spouses to work. One should work and the other pioneer. Since we've left the borg, she's finally beginning to accept the fact that a woman can have a career. The Society has always made the women feel bad if they work outside the home and don't pioneer. (Especially if the husband has a lucrative career already) I feel sorry for those still in!!
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  The Emblems

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing that used to really boggle my mind were the emblems at the memorial.

  i thought it would be much more sacred than going out to the grocery store and buying a box of passover crackers sitting right next to the vegetable thins.. i wondered why the wts never baked the crackers and brewed the wine themselves, instead of letting a worldly company do it for them.

  worldly companies are dishonest, and there could be additives and all that other good stuff in the emblems.

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  I always remembered that after the memorial, one or two of the elders would usually take home the wine and finish it off. They never gave a rat's ass about the bread. I'm sure if the bread contained alcohol, they'd polish that off too. And wasn't it funny how some people would always go out and party after the memorial. Woohoo!! We celebrated Jesus' death.....now let's all head to the lounge at Las Margaritas and have a few Coronas.
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  field service

  by DIAMOND in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is the deal with field service.

  you know i'm doing that slow fade thang (really slow).

  but i was at the meeting sunday (the only meeting i attend).

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  Neonmadman stated:

  To listen to JW's, field service is the cure for everything. Discouraged? Get out in service more. Depressed? Get out in service more. Family problems? Health problems? Job problems? Doubts about the organization? More field service will cure anything!

  Your friend thinks that, whatever it is that's keeping you from "doing more," getting you out in service will be a step toward solving the problem. After all, your real problem, in their eyes, is low spirituality - measured, of course, by the fact that you aren't spending enough time in field service. Besides, until you get active again and start doing what you "should be" doing, you really aren't good enough association for those social activities you mentioned.

  Great religion, huh?

  I think you hit this one dead on!!!! Can't say it better myself. That pretty much sums it up as to what JW's think is the cure-all for everything. Service is kinda like duct tape. There ain't nothing it can't fix!!!!!!
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  What Happened to Magazine Day?

  by Blueblades in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  generally,saturday is designated as magazine day.street magazine work may also be engaged in.the more people that read our magazines the better our preaching of the kingdom good news will be.. so what happened to magazine day?i remember when we used to " blitz "a four block area in a short period of time on saturday mornings.not anymore,we can't let them apostates get anymore of our magazines!

  stop the subscriptions !

  no more magazine day !

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  Farkel......

  I only had one RV. We always did everyone else's in the car group. I usually would say either I already did mine, or I would just do the one. Since we maybe did 3 or 4 RV's all morning (because break took up a lot of time) having only 1 RV was never a problem. And besides, everyone else's RV's were always ones they had hung onto forever. I never remember anyone having a "new" call to go on.

  Edited by - jimbob on 14 January 2003 11:4:12
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  What Happened to Magazine Day?

  by Blueblades in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  generally,saturday is designated as magazine day.street magazine work may also be engaged in.the more people that read our magazines the better our preaching of the kingdom good news will be.. so what happened to magazine day?i remember when we used to " blitz "a four block area in a short period of time on saturday mornings.not anymore,we can't let them apostates get anymore of our magazines!

  stop the subscriptions !

  no more magazine day !

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  I can definitely vouch for what Blondie said. In the two years prior to leaving the borg, I NEVER did any door to door. It was always RV's. And I never drove, so it was always left up to whoever's car we were in as to what we did. I worked with elders and ministerial servants, and they never did door to door. It was always.....do a couple of RV's....then take a half hour break (this could be coffee and doughnuts or a full breakfast at Denny's)....do one more RV..then back to the hall to be dropped off. This was the same scenerio time after time. Nobody does door to door anymore.....except for maybe a few diehard pioneers during the week.
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  It is now 2003.... Where is Armageddon?

  by Nosferatu in

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  2. friends

  i find it extremely amusing how each year is passing without armageddon.

  "for the year 2000, i visualize a world transformed into a beautiful paradise!

  but i don't think that either the present world or its rulers will live to see that day.. we are living in the last days of the system of things.

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  I actually went and looked up this quote in the '86 Awake. What's even more interesting is what is quoted 2 paragraphs further. It says:

  A close examination of Bible prophecies showed these young Witnesses that we are now living in a privileged period of history for the time has come for God to intervene in human affairs and rid the entire earth of unrighteousness. The Scriptures call this short period preceding God's intervention "the time of the end" and specify that it will not last longer than a "generation". Since the "generation" of 1914 is now well advanced in years, God's promise is really up-to-date news for young people today.

  Seems to me quite a few generations have come and gone since 1914......oh wait, they changed that doctrine in '95. Silly me!!! Well, I guess this isn't "up-to-date news", now is it????
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  A Witness Response to Our Disassociation

  by Princess in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i received this email on saturday from [email protected] .

  good job eh?

  your father pulled your mother out now u and your husband or out .

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  jimbob

  He's a wastewater treatment plant operator? See, he's used to being around sh*t everyday. That's why he enjoys being a JDub!
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  JW lawsuit on CNN!!!

  by VeniceIT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  cnn's readerboard tonight said something to this effect.

  "4 women sue jw's claiming they were molested by a nv leader, and that the church covered it up".

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  "Our church policy protects children, not molesters," Brown said. "Molesters are punished, generally the most severe way, which is disfellowship or public reproof."

  Public reproof is a severe punishment for child abuse?? Give me a f***ing break! Gee, maybe I should go rob some banks, or maybe work for Enron as an accountant, because I'll only be reproved. Does he realize how stupidly asinine this comment sounds. Is somebody who's not a JW gonna feel that dfing or reproving someone for molestation is a severe punishment? Try and tell that to the parents of the abused. What a joke! Gee, if a child's abuser is publicly reproved, I'm sure the parents will feel justice has been served. If JR Brown was a public spokesperson for a REAL corporation, he would've been fired a long time ago!!
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  Oral Sex

  by Yerusalyim in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  that always gets your attention, huh.

  ok, i'm watching the "o'reilly factor", they just aired the case of two hs students who engaged in oral sex on a bus in silverlakes maryland while several other students cheered them on and the bus driver did nothing.

  the principal of the school system didn't inform the school board until after the local newspaper broke the story and he refuses to say how the students will be punished.

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  jimbob

  The only thing I ever got on a school bus....was get picked on. My how times have changed!