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  Picketing

  by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ in

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  whatever 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

  Counter what, the attendance or the media coverage? Please elucidate.
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  Picketing

  by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whatever 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

  Then it's the media coverage, not the picketing. Media coverage enhances all sorts of activities, even attendance at District Conventions.
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  Picketing

  by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whatever 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

  But the topic is "picketing", eh?
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  Picketing

  by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whatever 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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whatever 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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whatever 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 in

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  thought 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 in

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  it 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? in

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  a bit of a distance from us but we felt it.

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  5.6 located near chino hills

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  AnneB

  http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/
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  Help/Advice

  by andrrea in

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  2. family

  i'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).