in the book take back your life, recovering from cults and abusive relationships, i think it mentioned that many often jump from one cult (or abusive relationship) to another, not being able to see the tell-tale signs with foresight, only hindsight.
therefore, i encourage everyone to take at least a cursory look at this report.
what are your thoughts?.
Well, I sent the door-to-door salesman packing last night. The fool thought he could joust with me. He insisted I give the definition of "indisposed". So I called to my hubby who had answered the door (and was getting sucked in fast), to please get me a blouse so I could decently come to the door....
The salesman apologized and quickly left.
there's a lot of talk right now about how stupid it is to have jws hand out leaflets with urls on them.
"why go to someone's door to tell them they can visit a web site that lets them ask for someone to come to their door?
" well, i'm sorry, but i have to weigh in with a contrary opinion here on how clever the society is.
TV spots are old-school, and don't get the return that they used to.
To really be a unique offering, the Witnesses have to have something special that can't be got anywhere else. They would have to get a lot sharper at locating those vulnerable and discerning people who are uniquely attracted to their message. My estimate in the developed world about 1 in 1,000 people are potential converts. To find these people requires cyber intelligence. That requires targetted advertising where these vulnerable people hang out.
The WTS is still doing random, scattershot approach and when they do get a nibble, they barely seem to know what to do with the fish!
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/permission-mark.html
I think the campaigns and the carts are chiefly to keep the congregation busy, to give them a sense of purpose and duty.
today he kept bumping in to (or rather dodging and weaving from) fellow witnesses.
he's talking about returning but can't figure out a way to do it without enduring a fair amount of humiliation.
i did not panic.
BB, Blondie mentioned in passing that it seemed that hubby is what the congregation used to disparagingly refer to as a "submarine witness"; show up for the memorial but you don't see them otherwise. Hubby quite likes the label, and is immune to it's connotations. When we talked this week I asked if he might be happy being a submarine? He was open to the idea.
Like many fence-sitting Witnesses who briefly visit here, he believes the so-called core doctrines; no spirit body, paradise earth, a coming Armageddon afterwards which Jehovah will straighten all things out.
hi i have to go to one of these soon.
i find it difficult enough to sit through a meeting knowing what i now know.
how to survive a whole three days???!!!
Yup, hubby bluffs his way through the convention highlights from information on this board. He simply tells them he attended in a different city.
hi i have to go to one of these soon.
i find it difficult enough to sit through a meeting knowing what i now know.
how to survive a whole three days???!!!
A treat bag and a blank notebook were my friends. I would write a poem, a business plan, whatever took my fancy. Being diabetic, I had every reason to take my breaks. Very often I would nap through the afternoon. People watching is always fun.
I usually negotiated attending one day out of the three.
P.S. I would cruise the offerings for the day and the one that looked most interesting, "Beware of Satan's...", or an apostate bash, I would take notes on that one talk. But near the end there the whole thing was so boring, it was difficult to stay awake even for that.
some of you might remember my first post on here about my dilemma of whether or not to remain in a relationship with my jw girlfriend after learning ttatt http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/278710/1/im-new-and-need-help#.u-kltpldvyq.
while we were taking a break, well it turned out to be not very much of a break because of our still strong feeling for each other (we eventually went from talking every few weeks to once a week and then to everyday again) and things started to get complicated.
well last night we officially decided that it would be best for the both of us to at least part ways for now and end things.
A wise move, I think. Grieve for what could have been. And then.
my wife, who now thinks i am not competent enough to discuss spiritual matters with the kids, thinks that i could really benefit from discussing matters of the bible with this nasa engineer who attends meetings at her kingdom hall.
apparently, he is quite knowledgeable in the bible and has a good grasp of their doctrines.
at least according to her as i never actually spoken with the man at length but i do know that he is an elder.
Brighter people are better at making excuses for their delusions. It's all about what you are up for.
atheists believe that god should stop the large-scale injustice on earth; if he does'nt, then he does not exist.
jws believe that god will intervene sometime in the last days!.
interestingly, both throw themselves on their own expectation of soemthing god should or will do, yet in fact something god does not have to do.
The confusion for believers, in thinking that Athiests are somehow "opposing God", is a question like, "If an all-loving God exists, why do I see XXX in the world?" The question comes from a desire for evidence, not a primal protest to an unloving God.
today he kept bumping in to (or rather dodging and weaving from) fellow witnesses.
he's talking about returning but can't figure out a way to do it without enduring a fair amount of humiliation.
i did not panic.
What seems to be working best is distraction. I am taking up other activities that gives him the socialization he needs without all the baggage.
"stay alive till '75.
" remember that?
note: this is the year 5774 not 2014. why didn't they tell you that in 5735 (1975 ad?
There's a much more economical way to reduce world population. Raise the standard of living and actively promote family planning. Bangladesh is a model country for this approach.
Besides, a catastrophic loss of population does not increase the prosperity of a country. It leads to decline.
Similarly, wars are very expensive and protracted wars can devastate the economies of all participants...even the winners. Case in point, Britain after WW2.
