I was also very young when appointed and I guess I really wanted the job back then - basically for two reasons: I really had not anything else in my life and I also loved giving talks, that really was my thing and I guess I was pretty good at it (maybe that was the main thing why they appointed me). It didnt take me more than 6 months or so to see through the whole thing, how it was all about politics and rules and how little holy spirit had to do with anything of it. Some elders really love their "positions", they want to look important, they are so nice to CO's so they can get some program parts in the assemblies... and often they dont do a lot of FS (there are some exceptions though but they are minority) though they talk a lot about it on the platform, in reality its often those poor single pioneer sisters who work the hardest in the field while the elders travel all around the world and buy new fancy cars..
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Everything About Being An Elder is Weird (my misc rambling memories of being an elder)
by AllTimeJeff infor any brother who is a jehovah's witness, the goal is put before them to reach out for the privilege of being an elder.
i can only speak for myself, but being born into the religion, i wanted to be an elder since i was 5. i would have much rather wanted to be a doctor or engineer, but those are the breaks..... i'll skip the part about what it takes to reach out, all the crap you have to put up with as a ministerial servant to get appointed, and go straight to the reality.. i know many elders who sincerely just wanted to be shepherds.
i did want the spotlight.
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News from Bethel Heavy
by cinnamon1642 inpioneer hour change is legit.
letters are being mailed out soon to all congregations for announcement in early october right before the tract campaign starts.. .
elimination of circuit overseers.
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Nostromo
Didnt someone say earlier that some new GB members might be appointed there?
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JW diseases
by highdose inon the subject of health matters i was mentaly listing all the comman illnesses that the dubs lay claim to, most of the time this is self diagnosed and with no imput from a dr. in fact the comman story is that "the drs won't belive me!".
a large number of jw's i knew went and got tested for allergies, this was the big thing for years.
every single one of them turned out to be allgeric to the same stuff ( wheat, dairy, sugar) ... i should point out that they all went to the one "dr" for this, the "dr" in question had never had any medical training and had done only a basic course.
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Nostromo
ME not a real illness?? I have seen people with this syndrome who really cant get out of bed because of the extreme weakness. Shame on everybody who claims thats its not a real illness. Sure some people can fake they have it but there are a lot of people who do really have it.
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Jesus' Role as Mediator
by sd-7 ini just had a thought--never a good sign, right, ladies?--about jesus' role as mediator, as defined by the watchtower society.
i personally experienced a particularly interesting moment with my mother back when i first started to lose faith in the borg.
(i'm actually going to use that term, borg, now because "organization" makes me cringe every time i hear it, even when it's used at work.
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Nostromo
Yep you are right, this is just one of those many things they are wrong.
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New Songbook Songs for download at JW.org
by cattails inthe new songbook's songs piano arrangement and the choral voice versions are available for download at http://www.jw.org/
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Nostromo
The melody of "from house to house" has been totally changed.
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1914: Jehovah's Witnesses Proudly Proclaim when Jesus became King
by JWMediaFilms in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wbbecqzbw.
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Nostromo
As other have said the video would be good if there the error about Matthew 24:29-31 was not there. That needs to be fixed.
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Nostromo
I dont understand why people would make fun of ill people ("self-diagnosed" or not, some illnesses today are so complex and unknown that they are always not so easy to diagnose anyway, like it might be with MCS or CFS for example)
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Jehovahs Witnesses and mental illness
by missellie inhi, i was wondering if any of you have any statistics when it comes to the percentage of jws or ex witnesses reporting to suffer from mental illnesses?
i have tried to google this but not got very far..
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Nostromo
Yes, though they admit now that these are real illnesses and can and should be treated maybe with pills - they would never admit that the illness has something to do with the Jw religion.
I have seen a therapist and told her how the "spiritual conflict" is continually causing me severe anxiety and depression and she totally understood me. Another one said that I'm not the first Jw who she has seen who has this kind of issues. I wonder what some elder would have said if I told him the same things?
And the suppressed sexuality, yes! That can really make you go nuts. After all, isn't sex one of man's (I mean both sexes here) basic needs? I'm pretty sure that many Jws who suffer from depression etc suffer it because of this issue - or at least its one of the main factors.
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Recorded Judicial Committee Meeting on Youtube You Won't BELIEVE What The Elders Say...
by Tuesday init's three parts, not super-long.
i really can't believe the stuff the elders said in this case.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhgdqgtth98.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy4s1ohs9r4.
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Nostromo
Pure insanity - like its been like 30 years now.
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The Dublin "apostasy" after Ray Franz incident - searching for the audio testimony of John May
by Nostromo ingoogle is not my friend anymore, it seems, i cant find a thing.. i was searching for the audio file where john may, the elder from dublin, tells his story when he traveled to brooklyn to find out the truth about the ray franz incident.
i do not mean the talk of his that you can find on 4jehovah.org or 4witness.org, this was a different audio testimony where he just basically tells what happened to him and to his irish elder friend merriman when they wanted to discuss the rf issue with the gb.
i had this file once but cant find it anymore.
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Nostromo
you have a pm from me too...