Posts by miseryloveselders

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Crap my District Overseer says

by easyreader1970 in

here are some things that came from the mouth of the district overseer over the course of the two days.

1. the recession isn't going to end.

things are screwed because the demons are controlling the world.

miseryloveselders

Can't believe they said sports are controlled by demons.

After watching Vince Young get DDTd yesterday by three linebackers it does sorta make you wonder.

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Crap my District Overseer says

by easyreader1970 in

here are some things that came from the mouth of the district overseer over the course of the two days.

1. the recession isn't going to end.

things are screwed because the demons are controlling the world.

miseryloveselders

I've been waiting for post 2 day Assembly verdicts. And it begins. So JWs are a little too much into those EMO Vampire flicks and their hometown sport teams. I'm looking forward to the Assembly now.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 09-19-10 WT Study (HARVEST)

by blondie in

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ours is the privilege to.

plenty to do in this harvest work?1 cor.. 15:58.. .

did russell expect there still to be harvesting today?.

I really hate the way they describe everyone's emotions. There are days I cringe at going to meetings because some days I just don't have the patience to hear people's sobb stories. The same with my phone ringing and I can see who it is on the caller id. There's people I avoid working with in field service because they mentally and emotionally exhaust me by the time I'm done hearing them whine and complain for an hour or two. I'd venture to say there's plenty of JWs who are very unhappy. Myself being one of them. So to see a WT article telling me otherwise really irritates me. These articles with ficticious examples of happy people really adds insult to injury to a huge percentage of JWs who are miserable. There'

Another aspect that irritates me is the pressure these articles apply in an attempt to get people to pioneer. I don't know what's happening in other countries but here in the States, its rare to see anybody convert. Its the biggest waste of time being in field service. The apathy is extremely discouraging. When I'm out in field service and run into "conversation stoppers", I don't even try any more. Why bother. At the same time when I view publisher record cards, the one thing I find ironic is that the publisher averaging 9 hours a month is having the same rate of success as the pioneers. At that point I have to ask what purpose does spending 70 hours a month in the field accomplish if your results equal that of someone putting in 9 hours a month?

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"weak" witnesses

by bigmac in

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when i was an active jw, 40 -odd years ago in the uk, in the 2 congs i went to, we had a fair number of brothers privately called "weak".

this was implied if a bro ( or sis )didn't attend most meetings, answer up, do field service, talks etc.. they weren't reprooved for this ( as far as i know ) but "marked" so to speak'.

is this still the case?

miseryloveselders

Weak is synonymous with inactive. There are many who are irregular, (missed reporting a month of field service every so often) who are just as "weak" as those who are inactive (no field service reported for 6 months straight) and are thus just as undesireable to the hardcore jws. These irregular witness are the majority and are the most fun among those still trapped. The inactive are often free and on their way to a successful fade.

I never really thought about how sad it is that ones are viewed in this fashion until reading this. They really are viewed as undesireable. They really are. Its as if they have a disease and are somewhat untouchable. All because they're not the most outgoing. Its really sad.

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I'm being cyberstalked

by gubberningbody in

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since about valentines day ive been visiting a particular message forum thats much like any other internet babble-board except that the women are a little creepier.

theres this one chick who, i noticed right away, is kind of clever with the one-liners and such, and when i first noticed how many of her posts were replies to my own, i chalked this up to her being just one of those innocently gregarious types who responds to pretty much everyone in topic.. .

in the six or seven months since, however, ive noticed that this isnt really true.

miseryloveselders

LOL Well done.

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The Issue is Not that God WANTS Us to Suffer...

by AGuest in

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dear ones.

rather, it is our adversary who says we will do anything... anything... to avoid it.

a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. even curse god to his face.

miseryloveselders

Shelby, one last thought with respect to your going on and on about your XX genetic makeup....

Jesus was a man. A perfect man. Therefore he must have followed the perfect man rule "Bro's before ho's". Hence, all prophets and apostles were men.

I can't believe you just typed that....sheesh man........ I never botherd reading this thread, but like a couple other ones, once I saw it hit double digit pages, I got intrigued. Now I'm going to have to go through each and every page and see what caused and led up to God not wanting us to suffer turning into the gender wars.

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IF GOV.BODY WERE INCHARGE OF LEADERSHIP FOR WHOLE WORLD, WHAT WOULD LIFE BE LIKE?

by clarity in

any body care to add their own ideas?

imagine if god gave the gb the authority to rule the whole earth and everyone in it, right now, the same way they govern jw's, what the heck would that be like?.

after the temporary euphoria wore off (should last a good two minutes or so), the gb (or whatever they're calling themselves now) would have much to do.