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...
"...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.
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.
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?
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..
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!)
a bit of a distance from us but we felt it.
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5.6 located near chino hills
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.
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).
dangerous 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/.
You're behind the times with this one. The warning was given on JWD in '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '07.
One word: Search
dont 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 .
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!
i prayed before i came on here.
i know that it weird.
i have been reading here for a long time.
"I hold some privileges"
Which "privileges" do you hold? The one that graciously allows you to spend hours away from your family "shepherding the flock"? The one that requires you to spend more time (and money!) away delivering scripted propaganda? Or perhaps it's the one where you take time off your paid employment and act like a construction worker putting up buildings that you must also pay for but will never own? Or is it the one that filled all our hearts with gladness, the most excellent privelege of lawn care and toilet swabbing one Saturday a month while at the same time juggling field service hours, child care and home responsiblities? You were saying something about being in so long you only know one way of thinking? Time to stop thinking WT is doing you the favor here!
Do they have "the truth"? The whole truth and nothing but the truth? No. Some good points? Yes...but they squeeze all the joy and benefit out of it by loading on the man made rules and regulations. If it could be as Jesus told the people 'do as they say but not as they do' it might be OK, but you can't; it's their way or the highway.
Get ready for the ride of your life! Getting out the door is difficult but once you're on the road the weather's fine and the view is fantastic!
i go back and forth everyday.
one day i'm like, "suppress your gay feelings and what you think is wrong about this organization and keep going forward because you want eternal life and all of your friends are here and it's as close to the truth as it can possibly get so just deal with it.
" others i'm like, "live your life.
You're trapping yourself with your own question. By phrasing it that way you are pre-supposing that God actually has an organization. What if he doesn't? God is organized, sure, but that's different than having an organization.
First figure out if you think God has an organization (on the human level) or not. Second, you can work on whether it's WT or it isn't.
Personally I don't think you'll need Step Two.
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words of wisdom at the kingdom hall went something like " don't marry for looks because looks fade.
" what i want to know is if the person you married turns out to be a crabby old miserable so and so how do you cope with ugly personality plus ugly looks.i mean if you marry a looker at least you have enjoyed some vision of delight, if you get stuck with both you are in a double bind.
The C.O. told our congregation "marry someone more spiritual than yourself".
