But the topic is "picketing", eh?
Posts by AnneB
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42Picketing
by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ inwhatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
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Picketing
by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ inwhatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
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AnneB
"... "Oh no without the picketer's I would never had the tract..."
The people who handed you the tract were doing two things, carrying around signs and handing out leaflets. It wasn't the picketing that you paid attention to, it was the leaflet.
You can't say you would "never" have had the tract, you might have acquired the same information in some other way.
The fact that you made fun of the picketers but did accept a leaflet seems to support the notion that picketing is relatively ineffective, even offputting.
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Picketing
by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ inwhatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
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AnneB
"... year a leaflet was placed in my hand and I read it..."
So it wasn't the picketing that did it at all, was it? It was reading the leaflet.
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Picketing
by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ inwhatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
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AnneB
"...just a sign to tell you to think!..."
IMO, picketing isn't popular because it only tells what the picketer is thinking, it doesn't really affect the thinking of the target audience. "Good" JW's close their minds, if not also their eyes, to "apostate" messages on picket signs and mentally compare the picketers to the demonic forces who oppose their God and his purposes.
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Recovery from Rejection
by purplesofa inthought someone besides me might find this information useful.
i think it can be used to help those that are df, shunned, or just leaving the organization.. http://www.boblivingstone.com/content/recovering-rejection.
recovering from rejectionwe all get rejected at different times in our lives.
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AnneB
That article seemed to me to be playing "one up"; that the person (or group) doing the rejecting had the freedom to reject an individual and that individual had no choice but to learn to accept and cope.
That's all very fine for when the person has a "right" of rejection, but what about when they don't?
In cases of DF'ing the rejection is mandated by people who don't have a real right to force their decision on anyone else, but do, so that 6 million+ people will reject an individual without ever really making up their own minds whether they want to or not.
What about people who are too immature to really know what they are rejecting as in the case of a child or an ill-informed person?
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Earthquake in So Cal
by AudeSapere init was a good one!
happened just a couple of minutes ago.. mostly up and down movement with one good tilt toward the north.. first report i got was 5.8 centered in chino hills.. -aude..
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AnneB
For those who want a sampling of what an earthquake is like:
Copy and paste the following to the address bar of your browser
javascript:function Shw(n) {if (self.moveBy) {for (i = 35; i > 0; i--) {for (j = n; j > 0; j--) {self.moveBy(1,i);self.moveBy(i,0);self.moveBy(0,-i);self.moveBy(-i,0); } } }} Shw(6)(nothing bad will happen...just some fun!)
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Earthquake
by wha happened? ina bit of a distance from us but we felt it.
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5.6 located near chino hills
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Help/Advice
by andrrea ini've been lurking here for a while, reading and learning.. i'm not jw, nor have i ever been.
recently however, my younger brother (he's 25 years old) began dating a girl (she's 27) who is jw.
she has succeeded in completely converting him, to the point where any discussion about jw turns into a screaming match.
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AnneB
She has regularly slept over at my parents house (in the same bed as my brother...
Why not try the obvious? Tell the elders! Your family knows it happened, right? That's the "two witnesses" they need to take judicial action against this girl for "porneia". One witness to the event is supposed to be a JW; that would be her. If she tells the truth she'll be disciplined by the elders (reproof, disfellowshipping), if she lies your brother will see another side of her..and of JW's.
Maybe if your brother sees what it's *really* like to be a JW he'll wise up and quit before it's too late (baptism).
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Urgent health alert.
by IP_SEC indangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide now found in every river, lake, and ocean on the planet.
it was only a matter of time.. http://www.dhmo.org/.
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AnneB
You're behind the times with this one. The warning was given on JWD in '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '07.
One word: Search
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Best JW tall story/variations of it?
by KW13 indont just list one, list them all so we can laugh because in all honesty i can't believe we believed some of them.
for example, i was told annie lennox stopped a concert to ask if there was any jw's in the audience, and if there was could they leave as they were stopping the demons getting through...is this even remotely true?
did annie lennox ask the jw's in the audience to move because they were stopping the snack lady getting through...and it got twisted through chinese whispers.... the other day (i felt sick) one witness was banging on about how amazing it was that the watchtower society's building was the only one standing still...wtf...my stepdad responded with a 'wow thats amazing' and the first brother was like 'yeah i know'...grrrrrrrrr aaaaaaaah screaaaaaaaaam .
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AnneB
A man with OCD was so depressed he tried to kill himself by putting a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. The man survived and cured his OCD. Used as an example to say "just coz so-and-so tried this or that, doesn't mean everyone should". Have they seen what damage a shotgun at point blank range does to someone.
This one's true: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D91730F936A15751C0A96E948260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Children's%20Health
Once upon a time a brother I once knew accidentally left his Bible on a bus bench after "street witnessing". He went back to look for it but it was gone. Several months later, *his* brother delivered a talk at a Circuit Assembly. After the session ended a stranger walked up to that brother and asked if he was related to "So-and-So". He answered yes, that the man was his brother. The stranger pulled out a Bible and asked if he would return it to his brother. He found it on a bus bench and, yes, was now "in the truth". I knew both brothers involved, both tell the same story. Oddly, they have never named the person who found the Bible!