Posts by hoser

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Making friends in the "truth"

by Jordandemm in

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what is it about making friends in the organisation am i the only one who had found it tough?

don't get me wrong there was some good people but unfortunately there was also a lot of egotism, back stabbing, jealousy and gossiping.

i could never really fit in any group, everytime i thought i had found a group it was as if i would be sidelined or ditched.

hoser

The preceding comments are spot on. If you don't act the way the cult wants you to act you are ignored and have no friends in the congregation. It is used by the cult to control the members.

Go in field ministry regularly and people will invite you to their homes and hang around with you Miss a month or two of service and they will ignore you.

A couple of years ago I realized I was wasting my time developing relationships with conditional friends. If I were to be really down on my luck would they be there for me? If I was an alcoholic or addict living on the streets these same "friends" would cross the road to avoid me.

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Hiererchy among elders --so says Kenneth Flodin

by wannaexit in

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there has always been a hierarchy among elders.

now it's been validated by kenneth flodin in this talk about the word "princes".

so not any elder can be a prince in the new order.

hoser

All of the elders are equal, but some elders are more equal than others.

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jw family loves to ask df'd ones for money!

by Ghiagirl in

well it finally happened!

we have been waiting about a year for this, my dfd husbands family asked us for money.

even though his own father hasn't met our 8 month old son.

hoser

Don't his parents have jobs?

It is usually the children asking for money not the parents.

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Where's my invitation to the Memorial? What the hell!

by ToesUp in

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a carload of jw's worked our street today.

obviously they are doing the invites to the memorial.

of course, we didn't answer.. 1 ring, 2 seconds at the door (that's all we get?

hoser

They left one in my mailbox today.

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Canada zone visit March 2016

by Richard_I in

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canada's getting a zone visit in march 2016, but no mention of who's doing the visit.

praying it's anthony morris and we get our own tight pants talk.

hoser

They also made mention of being able to donate by debit or credit at the assembly hall

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Canada zone visit March 2016

by Richard_I in

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friends

canada's getting a zone visit in march 2016, but no mention of who's doing the visit.

praying it's anthony morris and we get our own tight pants talk.

hoser

The doctor was a witness too? Obviously not a born in because that would have involved attending college.

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Fleecing the Flock

by Coded Logic in

at the last assembly i attended in 2005 the cost was $11,000 per day in yuba city (just over two hours away from our circuit).

this always seemed a bit high for a facility that was built on donated land and whose construction loan had been paid off for 20 years.. i just looked up the cost to rent the redding civic center, which is just as nice if not nicer and a whole lot closer for our circuit, and it only costs $2,500 a day plus $250 for consumables (parking included).

if it would save the brother's and sister's $8,250 a day and they could have the assembly locally why wouldn't they do it?.

hoser

There are threads on here about the pricing of circuit assemblies. It has nothing to do with the cost of the facility but it is based on a per publisher charge.

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