so the "model" presentation for this months latest awake mag is this (as found in the latest kingdom ministry):.
social networks have made it possible for people to have more so-called friends than ever before.
what would you say is the most important quality of a true friend?
Did you ever go to an assembly 'cause your
bestest friend would be there.....& when you
found her she was sitting with someone else
& wouldn't give you the time of day!!!
Ha ha you really have to laugh at the
"friends structure" with jw's, it really is one
big gossip pit! Each member is fodder, at risk
of being the news of the day!
great bit of history for those still researching.. .
http://www.catholic-forum.com/members/popestleo/armageddoninc.html.
clarity.
Great bit of history for those still researching.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/members/popestleo/armageddoninc.html
clarity
towards the end of last year, the witnesses in scotland had their own assembly hall opened in the town of livingston, near edinburgh the capital.. this was achieved no doubt by blood, sweat, and tears by many over a very long period - as well as by donations of witnesses from all over scotland and its islands, not forgetting the levy per publisher imposed on all the congregations in the guise of "donations"!.
was the org grateful for the sacrifices which were made to bring a great "shout of praise" to whoever?
nope!
Witnesses, you are being scammed.....
also check out Mike & Kim's other video's
showing the 3 page Letters to the Elders!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oMa8Qf0VSE
clarity
"Last Convention I went to was in 2000. The heat kept me away."
FactFinder ....the thing that keeps me away,
is the Bull Shit!
ok in the effort of full disclosure, i have had a couple of drinks and recently experienced a circuit assembly and a bad experience with a co.. i don't know where to effing begin.
first of all the circuit assembly was a joke.
half the assembly was about pioneering and selling your soul to be a no-pay salesman for the borg.
"the kingdom has been ruling for a hundred years
already."
Oh wow...I thought we were supposed to be burying
bodies for the first hundred years! All that the WT
has buried is the old literature! No bodies yet!
LOL
clarity
i am inactive for about 10 years now..
Whole hearted serving for 18 years, then a 32 yr time
of sink & swim ...'half awake' which almost killed me off,
then 4 yrs ago the straw that finally woke me right up,
the complete failure of "this generation will not pass away".
Went to an assembly ...... didn't even make it to the first
song ....... ran out & never went back!
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Lovely to see all these names from our past, welcome Tyler77,
BadCompany your comment is a classic! " I know how my
family is going to treat me months before they know how
they are supposed to treat me"
clarity
new study out of the university of bc:.
http://news.ubc.ca/2014/05/29/better-to-be-bullied-than-ignored-in-the-workplace-study/.
we tend to underestimate the damage that social ostracism does.
Nice catch Ignat... wt knows exactly what
they do by shunning, they have it down to
a science!
There is an article in a watchtower or awake
stating that 'isolation' is the most cruel form of
punishment there is ...so they know very well!
The writer probably had a smirk on his face at
the time!
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For some reason I can not find this statement,
have searched a # of times.......anybody else
remember reading that???????
clarity
all hell has broken loose at my house!
the wife is pissed [ i did not turn in the "voluntary tithe" slip .
if she doesn't go, then she cannot do x event tomorrow.
Have a read thru SOSO's thread ...quite a trip!
Hope you can get it all sorted. You are the MAN.
Therefore you are ..... special in jw land.
Assert your authority Data ...you might even turn
her on!!!!!!!!!!!! She will be putty in your hands!!! :-)
clarity
just saying , my 2 cents worth .
if they have an agenda it will be revealed in a short time , let them play it out .. however , some genuine first posters can be put off by somebody jumping the gun and attacking them .. please give the first posters time to get to know this site.. smiddy.
I agree also... maybe they are trying to be funny
but........jerking someone around is idiotic!
People come here for a good reason, we don't
need to judge the reason!
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I'm thinking too, of any poster being treated
with disrespect. If you have read John Cedars
story, he mentioned that his greatest discouragements
came from own exjw community.(or words to that effect)
Not sure of that exact link...but if you are interested
this is an excellent utube. Close to the end Cedars talks
about those who were nasty as jw's, can still be nasty
as ex jw's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFBAax__Q3k
Thank you for putting this up smiddy .
clarity
were you surprised when you went in service for the first time (this question is prob for those who were not born-in) --.
when i first had the "privilege" of going in field service as an unbaptized publisher, i remember feeling so surprised at everybody's apparent slowness.
all the talks at the kh emphasized how we were in the last days, doing a life saving, critical, never to be repeated, work, etc., yet you get in the car group and ignore people walking right by or coming toward the car, and then slowly walk from house to house.
Oh yeah all that piddling around was soooo frustrating!
I just started going out on my own... I like to just get
things done! Big disappointment really.
