Posts by AnneB

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SEND THEM ALL !!!

by Tech49 in

i dont see anyone else mentioning it, so i will: last night at the service meeting there was a letter read, from the most holy 8.. a request for more workers!

and this one with new addendums!

i am pulling from memory, but pretty sure i have it right (feel free to correct me if someone else hears the letter too).. .

Waaaaiiit a minute! They want applicants to include a copy of the Employment Authorization Card...in order to "volunteer"? It sounds to me like WT considers these people "employees." Bet they won't be able to claim benefits, even in case of injury on the job!

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Worst yb experience I have ever heard heartwrenching

by Skinnedsheep in

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he sold his bicycle.

malachi, an elder who lives in burundi, earned his living by farming and by transporting loads on his bicycle.

in order to support their kingdom hall construction project, malachi decided to be at the construction site every day.

AnneB

Malachi is one smart guy. He figured out that with the skills he could learn on the construction job he'd be able to make a big step forward in life, so he figured out what it would take to care for his family in his absence, figured out how much of a bribe it would take to get himself a spot on the construction crew, and went for it.

Good going Malachi!

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2014 DC: Fewer, but larger venues in the U.S.

by doinmypart in

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in the u.s. there are fewer venues this year, but they will be held in larger facilities.

as long as i can remember my family travelled no more than 2 hours to attend and in the last few years the dc was local (within a few minutes travel).

this year my family is driving 6 hours to a major u.s. city.

AnneB

...doubling up on families in hotel rooms...

What??? They don't even want people getting too close out in service and now they want publishers to share a bedroom???

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The Graphene Revolution

by metatron in

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http://gigaom.com/2013/07/15/what-is-graphene-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-a-material-that-could-be-the-next-silicon/.

suppose someone invented a new substance that seems to come straight out of a science fiction novel - a sort of saran wrap that is 300 times stronger than steel.

suppose they thought up new and astounding uses for it seemingly every month in field after field.. it could change nearly everything and few people are noticing.... metatron.

AnneB

few people are noticing...

Well, aren't you special!

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My parents threw me away

by mzmmom in

need to put it in writing.

i think of it every day.

i know so many of us have gone through this, but it sure hurts.

AnneB

When someone, even close a close family member, won't have anything to do with you, don't look at it as a hardship, rather as a relief for you.

You may love that person but if they're willing to turn against you then it's a good thing that there will be less of a relationship.

If and when the time comes that the person has a change in outlook, then you can cautiously reunite, if you decide that's what you want.

You may find that time away lets you see things from a differrent perspective, and that the person you care so much about wasn't really heart to heart with you even before the separation.

From life experience,

AB

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14 months after printing the "Steve and Selma" article, guess what the Society's latest Awake is about...

by cedars in

you guessed it.... .

http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=201304&output=html&pub=g&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

cedars.

AnneB

sd-7 wrote:

If you were coming down the same street every day and got beat up by someone, even if they didn't leave any marks, you might decide, if you could, to just take a different route home, or maybe call the cops, or something else rational. But you come home and get beat every day

Isn't this a description of bullying? Of the interaction between bullies and their victims?

Is the implication here that WT/JW's sets up its adherents to submit to bullying without recourse?

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Has anyone ever been asked by an elder if your putting donations in the boxes

by label licker in

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i was in the truth for two years and an elder approached me and said i couldn't get anymore literature until he spoke to me about something so six weeks went by and then i confronted him aa to when that meeting would be for i had a study that was waiting for her bt book.

he said he wasn't finished gathering his information but that it would be soon so i waited.

and i waited.

AnneB

FYI on the cost of producing a book...it's miniscule. Several years ago I worked for an educational book publisher; you know, the ones who put out those heavy, thick college textbooks that cost upwards of $150. Cost to print? $.51. Fifty one cents USD. When a mistake was made and a wrong or damaged book shipped out, the company didn't even want it returned because the postage was far more than the raw cost of the book!

That was a publishing company that paid wages and benefits. WTBTS doesn't even have those expenses, so why should they browbeat the congregation into making budget-breaking donations for literature?

I do remember that WT sent out a letter saying that orders for deluxe Bibles and premium publications such as the Insight books and bound volumes went up when the pricing arrangement changed, and that donations had gone down. Their solution? Withhold extra literature from the congregations until contributions matched the level of literature ordered. That was in 1991 or 1992. I remember it because I was approached and told that my literature orders were not going to be filled until my contributions increased. I was stunned, because I contributed $100 at a time. The elders claimed that no such contributions were ever made in that KH. I didn't know what to think or say back then but now I wonder if the person emptying the contribution box was pocketing the money.

When I figured out TTATT I threw away the literature...so the whole thing was an exercise in futility anyway.

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