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  JW Broadcasting - simply a platform for narcissists?

  by eyeslice in

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  2. friends

  one thing i notice from sitting through a number of broadcasts is just how much these guys love their titles.

  it's always brother such-and-such, member of the gb, helper to the teaching committee, etc.

  it's never simply brother such-and-such, a local elder with such-and-such congregation.. it seems to me the witnesses are pretty quick to pick up on catholics who call their priests father, which at the end of the day is in much the same vein simply a title.. i suspect these titles point to a huge amount of narcissism of the part of those who revel in such titles, certainly it doesn't seem to fall in line with christ's advocation that the greatest amongst you should be be the least.

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  You can tell if a CEO is a narcissist by the size of his photo on the company’s annual report.
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  Seems to be a census on vaccine status

  by Indoubtbigtime in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the upcoming km school for all elders and servants is going to be in person only with no provision for video conferencing.. only fully vaccinated may attend.

  meaning if you missed your last booster you are no longer fully vaccinated.. every coordinator of body of elders has to ask every single ms and elder if they have kept up with all their boosters and are fully vaccinated or they can’t attend.. this seems to be a census the gb want to know how many are keeping up with booster shots.

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  Thankful to not be an elder or ministerial servant
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  2022-12-19--Vaccination Requirement!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2022-12-19--vaccination requirement.. .

  click image to enlarge.. .

  https://postimg.cc/xxvbcwdv .

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  I wonder if they’ll eventually extend this requirement to the rank and file.
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  The use of "Stumbled" as a Control Technique.

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought about this when i read the expression in another thread, "someone was stumbled", they would never tell you who the person was, and simply used it to control you, or it got worse, some times it was "you might stumble someone" .. who were these stumbling loons of which they spoke ?

  not only was it a control mechanism, it encouraged you to not be your real self, ever.. i liked the response of one of my jw relatives to this, where they expected him to change the person he was, he said "these people accusing me are not perfect are they ?

  no, well then, they cannot expect perfection from me".

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  When the elders tell you that you’ve stumbled someone and won’t tell you who it’s probably made up bullshit. They’re not above lying to get you to fall in line
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  What New Projects are Financed by the Governing Body ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are these projects going to be a noose around their neck that they won`t be able to fullfill their obligations ?.

  and complete these projects ?.

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  Governing body fund nothing. Donations from your back breaking labour and your dead relatives do the funding.
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  Book of life in pencil

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  where is the scripture about using pencil?.

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  Pencils were invented about 500 years ago. Sorry watchtower, your god probably never even heard about a pencil.

  Also the word pencil is related to the word penis, sorry again watchtower, this narrative just doesn’t hold much water.
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  You can [not] trust the Brothers, wt study this week

  by waton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the lucid lurkers:  # 37. the article's examples really show, that among the 'name people' only 50 % of rank and file, and none of the leaders can be trusted all the time.

  but, shut up and put up.. eli and hannah, eli's sons committed gross sins, raping/ seducing woman visitors to the temple, for years, yet naive worshippers are to trust their brothers, even with their children ?

  inaction by wt approved?

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  I’ve seen a few con artist jws in my time. Selling extremely speculative business schemes that usually end in some brothers losing everything.

  I’m like LHG and Mrs Hoser is slowly catching on. We don’t owe anyone anything. We’ve worked hard for our money and made many sacrifices to have financial security. These needy ones have done very little to progress financially. My wife told one sister that she needs to manage her money better.
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  Which of you readers are being shunned by their relatives / friends ?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a simple " me" if you dont want to say more--or a short explanation about who is shunning you and how long has this been going on.. i'll set the ball rolling: my daughter--her husband and children; my younger son --no contact from them for 40 years...because i left their religion.. (edit--i just noticed the typo in the header--if should be of ).

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  I’m soft shunned. We were well liked in the congregation until about 12 years ago when there was an incident with one of our children. We attended on zoom with no camera during the plandemic and it seemed to get worse.

  We’ve been going to the meetings since they re started and the congregation acts very cold to us. I find the concept of ostracism interesting as it is also practised in other social groups other than Jws.

  Knowing what I know about the subject and the fact we have good social connections outside of the Borg I have the ability to make jws feel very uncomfortable
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  Ron DeSantis: "We do not require assistance. The people of Florida will rebuild on our own"

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as if.no, of course he's already asking for federal aid.

  it's the republican way.

  florida needs the rest of the country to pitch in taxpayer dollars because it's different when it happens to me.

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  The rural/urban divide is evident in Canada as well. It is an interesting phenomenon. Rural vote conservative and urban vote liberal/NDP.

  Geography dictates culture and politics. A Canadian from Saskatchewan has more in common with an American from Nebraska than a fellow Canadian from Toronto or Vancouver.

  Conservatives do like their handouts though. Conservative businessmen like to point to welfare cheats that are on social assistance as being the problem but they are the first with their hand out when there is a disaster that affects their business.
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  Are Russian sanctions backfiring and US citizens paying the price?

  by Fisherman in

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  2. current

  so many sanctions against russia but it appears that the us is affected more than russia by those sanctions..

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  Germany gets what they deserve although it is always the poor that pay the highest price for others incompetent decisions. Hopefully a cold winter will wake people up to the stupid policies of their leaders and vote some competent leaders in. Wind and solar are not reliable energy sources. Don’t deal with a sole supplier when it comes to your energy supply. On the other side of the world we have Justine who won’t sell our allies in Europe a gallon of oil at the top of the market even if we had the infrastructure in place to do so.