Posts by Simon Morley

tresdecu: I will try - it is harder now, but it is amazing how many of the elders on the BOE are quick to "share" stuff they should not. There are a couple who are very indifferent right now and are reaching much the same conclusions as me - I can tap them. However, I cut a close tack to the wind and not reveal my most inner feelings. With the years as an elder - I learned "doublespeak" the universal language that all elders understand.

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the biggest JW facebook group just vanished

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Blondie: Call from COBE in another cong. that started blethering on before I could tell him I was no longer serving. Then he continues to tell me stuff anyway..... Its localized, but involves several states/provinces.

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the biggest JW facebook group just vanished

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I heard that there is a major purge going on BOE's/CO's/DO's all over dealing investigatively with 100's and many JC's underway. Sure glad I am not an elder anymore - I have no time for this s**t. Plus after almost a year from stepping aside i have just nageged in the last few months to enjoy a good night's sleep!

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Yesterday's WT

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the whole wt yesterday, which was supposed to be about love, actually centered on how we should react to 'persecutors'.

it was horrible to hear the audience comments...calling 'worldly people' everything from 'they are unkind and mean' to them being 'hateful and unneighborly'.

i sat there and thought about how this 'us vs. them' mentality is the very thing that is contributing to the divisive and separatist world we live in.

Simon Morley

Yes, I will make sure that next weeks is given its due. Maybe wake up RoboWT Conductor? Still, it will be an excuse to cloud over the real issues that the majority R&F JW's (90% ?) are just a**holes that expect others to turn the other cheek (because thats the christian thing to do) when they treat ones with a sneering disdain. Should be fun!

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Yesterday's WT

by WalkTall in

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the whole wt yesterday, which was supposed to be about love, actually centered on how we should react to 'persecutors'.

it was horrible to hear the audience comments...calling 'worldly people' everything from 'they are unkind and mean' to them being 'hateful and unneighborly'.

i sat there and thought about how this 'us vs. them' mentality is the very thing that is contributing to the divisive and separatist world we live in.

Simon Morley

I choose to focus on Par 8 where it spoke of Peaceableness & Restraint. If you are going to be a peacemaker in the cong. then it behooves one to be a person of restrian - especially with ones tongue. Partial Distinctions and Hypocrisy abound amongst the R&F - nothing close to what I have found amongst my "aquaintences" out in the "world". I tell you that the meansprittedness of many makes it dam hard to be peaceable with them.

I am also shocked how many don't study anymore. Even with my doubts I can still get a good comment in that can be taken both ways without raising the enybrows of the BOE. Default comments to how good we are, local expreinces that are heavily embelished along the lines of a call in the territory giving a great donation because I turned the other cheek when she told me to "f**k off. Add to that a sister who went on about how she stands up to her unbelieving husband, how he has s**tty things to say about witnesses - LOL - she screwed with him, got DF'd, reinstated and now she comes off all self righteous!

Honestly, the defult RoboWT Conductor is no better. Watches the clock to wish he was home rather than keep the thing moving along. He just does not seem to get the study - it was not all about being peaceable with so called householders, but from the tone of the comments you would think it was anything but. I could have answered that "a householder picked their nose an flicked it at me but i was able to duck due to the HS and the wind caught it and blew it right back at him, making him feel fearful and asking for an immediate study and apologizing profusely" and I would have got "Good Comment, "Thank you for sharing that with us", "good application of the study material" - gag.

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Methodological Narcissism

by White Dove in

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methodological narcissism:.

"fanatical adherance to a preferred method at the expense of substance; view that there is one and only one way of serving god doing research, that is, by employing the one, best method.

" (hagan, f. e., 2010).

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Ditto WhiteDove: 2009: 1 newly baptized publisher = 5,100hrs. At an average of about 20hrs per month that still equals about 20 years!!. Given, the fact that most of the baptized are "born ins" that is a dissmal way of seeking converts. No wonder the R&F are fighting apathy, dissultionment and an eagerness to hit coffee shops and Saturday mornings.

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Putting some wick in Wikipedia

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i just want to posit to all why many on jwn don't take advantage of the wikipedia to establish counter arguments?

today many researching the net will first gravitate to wikipedia because it simply provides a reasonable unbiased viewpoint and when it is in contention, moderators will simply encourage more evidence to be submitted to support arguments.

as i support and add to many wikipedia sites - as long as there is evidenced based quotations (which is encouraged by wikipedia moderators) there are no questions.

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I figured that would be a reason - everyone on JWN is extremely passionate.