Oliental fliend say:
Person who think can get to King by following Bishops get Rooked ....
The Berean
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Awake 1973 ="Chess causes family fights and is a game of War not for Witnesses!!"
by Witness 007 inmost brothers are shocked when i tell them chess is banned because it's un-wholesome!.
awake 1973 3/22 p.12 ..."the spirit of competition between players can lead to unpleasant circumstances...most families manage to keep the conflicts that arise in a game to the chess board.
but, in some homes tensions linger long past "checkmate.
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How Do YOU Handle Busybodies?
by minimus inwe all know elders believe they have the god given right to ask any question they want, especially if they are "investigating" a matter that could be "judicial" in nature.
but not only elders are known to ask personal questions.
i've seen elder's wives ask inappropriate questions simply because they were "elder's wives".
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How Do YOU Handle Busybodies?
by minimus inwe all know elders believe they have the god given right to ask any question they want, especially if they are "investigating" a matter that could be "judicial" in nature.
but not only elders are known to ask personal questions.
i've seen elder's wives ask inappropriate questions simply because they were "elder's wives".
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How would you respond if a Witness tells you that you are "negative?"
by BonaFide inwhen i bring a subject up and then talk about old wt's or the blood fraction, i occasionally get that response.. yes, i know i can reply, "but i am telling you the truth.
don't you want the truth?".
but i am looking for something more subtle, something that can help a witness to get beyond their cognitive dissonance.. but without a standoff.
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The Berean
Think of it in terms of photography. A " negative " is a dark shadow that becomes clear over time as the picture gets "lighter and lighter." (Provertbs 4:18 NWT)
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Did you come here on JWD/JWN because of congregation injustice?
by asilentone ini did, but i have never told my story, i could not tell you my story here because it would be too revealing as to who i am.
if i did not experience like what i have experienced, i would probably avoid those damn apostate sites like this site!
well, i think it is a blessing for me to join this site because i have learned alot!
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The Berean
If I might expand slightly as to one fatal flaw in organizational command I have observed during the past fifty years.
First, allow me too say that I believe in "Community Responsibility." When an individual person who has been appointed to shepherd the "flock" perpetrates an injustice ... everyone in the chain shares the blame. From the rank who appointed such an individual and choose to ignor misconduct to the file who enable such to occur and do not rise up.
For those giving the Old Testament credibility, the Nation of Isreal was convicted as a entire group of allowing corruption to continue. Proverbs 11: 1 talks about a "cheating pair of scales" being something detestable to God. That is the reason that I am here. It is the bias toward those in prominent positions, the double standard of enforcement when those taking the lead commit serious error and it is kept hidden, it is the nepotism that I am sure many of us recognize, and it is because, as a sub-culture, JWs kill their wounded.
Everyone associated is culpible. Certainly a "faithful and discreet slave" would only act according to what they are being told to do by those they are serving ... and a slave would not blame ANYONE else when something goes wrong and keep his house and head. And why should the sheep watch apathetically as fellow members of the flock are eaten by wolves and not demand that the shepherds get out of their tents and "lay down their lives" for those they have been assigned to protect? It is my conclusion that Jws are led not by shepherds but by "hired hands." ( John 10:11-14)
That's it from my corner ....
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What is this about?
by cameo-d inwhat is he doing with this barbie on a stick?.
is he looking up her dress?.
why red?.
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The Berean
It's actually one of Jeff Dunham's puppets ... "Chick on a stick."
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The Berean
Doomsdayers tend to attract nay-sayers. I am not sure which came first the seed or the soil ...
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Things that we on JWN have in common
by BonaFide inhere on jwn, i have noticed the following things we have in common:.
we all thought we were alone with our doubts.
we all sat at meetings feeling something was wrong.
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The Berean
I would guess that most of us are leaders who were convinced to believe we should be followers.
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The Berean
A truly humble person does not "label" themselves or anyone else. In this case, a meek individual will concede that most people vacillate between humility and arrogance depending on the circumstance.
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Who have you lost?
by alamb ini wonder if we each put up who we lost from our lives and how long ago if it would be a testament to those who might find this thread and think.
the absurdity.. my parents: 12 years.
my brother: 12 years (he is now married).
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The Berean
This thread helps me to understand the pain of loss that many here continue to suffer. You see, I have never experienced that form of attachment (except conditionally) so I have always been sort-of alone ... but perhaps my fate is not as sad as those "belonging" and then finding themselves alienated ... Sorry.