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  School for Congregation Elders

  by C.O.B.E.Beef in

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  i attended the school late last year, and it was an emotional and mental rollercoaster for me.

  i was already divided in my heart to say the least.

  one of the instructors stayed in my home for the week, and my family genuinely enjoyed his company.

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  freddo

  Hi COBE you have a pm.

  And do the elders leave you alone now?
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  Speaker and Interpreter Ratings

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  september 27, 2016 to all bodies of elders re: recommending convention speakers and interpreters.

  september 28, 2016 to all bodies of elders having bethel brothers in their congregation re: convention speaker ratings for bethel brothers.

  s-315-e 9/16 speaker and interpreter ratings.

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  freddo

  @ ZAPPA-ESQUE

  I think you are talking of a different (higher level) rating system. The one from wifi is the one that each congregation sends to the CO.

  It used to be the CBE/School Overseer/Auxiliary Counselor who would go for tea and biscuits at one of their houses and pontificate about who to recommend from their own BoE to the CO for D.C. parts. (Now CBE, CLAM overseer and Aux Counselor)

  Of course the biggest windbag is often the CBE and so he would love to recommend himself but they have to do a little dance where as they consider each other the other one goes out of the room.

  I remember being on two of these as Auxiliary Counselor - I just love the fact that your children - even if they are adults and have left home - will have an impact upon your qualifying to be allowed to present an item at the D.C. (Now R.C.).

  A story from my time ...

  We had a circuit "heavyweight" move in to help our ailing congregation for a year and he came in as Ministry School Overseer and I was also in on this process as Aux Counselor. The CBE felt threatened because this brother was not only very competent, he was a good speaker.

  When the TMS overseer/heavyweight left the room the CBE wanted to mark him as B/C but I said I thought he was a top speaker and wanted to go A/B so we settled on "B" 's across the board.

  Now when the CBE went out the room the "heavyweight" said to me "what do you think of (CBE's) speaking ability?" I grinned and said "he thinks higher of himself than I do but last years form gave him "A"s"

  The heavyweight shot up in my estimation when he said "he does like to hear himself on the street corner, doesn't he?" So we gave him "B's" across the board too.

  He came back in the room and said he had "A"'s last year why the change? We told him that neither the heavy weight or I were on last years panel and that he would have to accept what we said.

  He was off with us for months after that.
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  Contrast in styles - JW cart zombies vs. street preacher

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  i work in a mid-sized us city somewhere east of the mississippi.

  right in the exact center of the downtown area, at the intersection of the 2 primary streets, there is an interesting contrast of proselytizing styles.. on one corner of the intersection, a young guy has a handful of tracts from some "xyz ministry" or some such.

  he belts out in a booming voice, every 3 or 4 minutes or so, "i have good news!

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  freddo

  That is profound undercover.

  "The JWs, OTOH are reaping exactly what they sow... apathy."
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  What's The First "Worldly" Thing You Did When You Exited The Cult?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when you finally and officially exited the cult, whether it be by disfellowshipping, disassociating or fading - what was the first things you did that are considered "worldly"?.

  for me, it was like crash landing on another planet that looked like earth but was completely different to the earth i knew.

  i wanted to learn everything that i thought i already knew.. first things i did:.

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  freddo

  I haven't exited or even faded (I have mentally of course) but I suppose buying Crisis of Conscience and having it on my bookshelf is pretty much up there.
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  Campaign to invite people to meetings

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just found out last night that our congo is starting a campaign to invite interested people to meetings.

  the instructions for the campaign clear out that "interested" people are not just those whom we visit often or have bible studies with.

  it includes and random stranger we may talk to and who may show a hint of interest on the religion.

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  freddo

  THAT many??? ... one per year!

  I doubt we had one per decade!
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  October 2016 Campaign

  by rosesinbloom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hello.

  does anyone know what the campaign in october is going to be about?.

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  freddo

  Bump!

  And to add ...

  Here is just one of the WT titles and brief description for October. (For all those extra attendees!)

  Study article for October 24th - 30th

  "Do Not Let Your Hands Drop Down"

  Based on Old Testament rubbish about Moses lifting a stick and how as long as he did so Jehovah would help him fight those pesky Amalekites. Don't drop that stick folks or Jehovah will let you fail!

  That'll get 'em coming back for more.
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  Announcement from SPAIN: On Monday, the 26th online in the a.m. in the online edition of www.elperiodico.es...

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  announcement from spain:.

  on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.

  please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.

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  So the Watchtower are insisting on a retraction of allegations?

  Great! Having that printed will make even more people smell a rat!
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  ls homosexuality really normal?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  l know animals do it but their animals.they dont live by a moral code.the thought of 2 men going for it is not normal.what are your thoughts?.

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  freddo

  Normal? As in usual, typical, common? No.
  

  Bit like pink coloured cars - there are a minority about and they catch the eye.
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  What would be the perfect song to introduce a JW comedy sketch?

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have no idea.... .

  any ideas will help.... .

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  freddo

  Something from Laurel and Hardy? (The whistling/tooting tune - can't describe it ... )

  Found it! "Dance of the Cuckoos" - someone can put up a link I'm sure.
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  Performance Impact due to Google Indexing

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a heads up in case the site seems slow - you're requests are competing with googlebot because it's being indexed and it's really going at it ... a minute ago there were 40+ instances fired up there were so many requests coming it.

  i guess the data doesn't have far to travel so it can hit things hard.

  i did have a throttle in place but took it off because i wanted to speed things up a bit ... well, it worked!.

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  freddo

  In the Queen's English please. So that a 5 year old can understand.