DesirousOfChange

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  If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!

  by mikronboy in

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  DesirousOfChange

  Sadly I do remember that. Guess it ages me.

  Interesting when looking at the "average" numbers as they are much the same today, but I suspect that they were more "REAL" back then.
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  Is WT Using ATTENDANTS At The Conventions To Be: "TOY COPS"

  by HiddlesWife in

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  i have heard from a few ppimis and several pimos that the attendants who are stationedly-assigned to the front entrances of the borgvenues (cahs and other arenas) have been checking to see if any persons (members and non-member visitors) have badges.

  on the other hand, if these persons don't have one, this is what i was told that these dubs do this: corral around the non-badge-wearing individual and interrogate he/she/them plus questioning them, "why are you here?!".

  also, even if that person or persons have an invitation plus showed it to these dubs, these toy cops still do that procedure.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Being an "attendant" at least gave you "reason" to walk the halls vs having to sit for hours drinking the KoolAid.
  
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  Reddit post about elder asking congregation for money to fix his car!

  by LongHairGal in

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  yes, there’s a post on reddit.

  it says that after a zoom meeting a request was made to baptized publishers to give $20 apiece to fix this elder’s car.. while this sounds highly irregular to me and not necessarily approved by the religion, i am not at all surprised at the nerve.

  this, unfortunately, seems to be the direction that things are going there!

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  I wonder what they are going to do when more older Witnesses pass away and there are yet fewer responsible people to even ask money from?

  What I hear from family still (mostly) in is that young people are contributing and doing so beyond reason, ie, a minimum wage food service working who kicks in $100/month and thinks she should give more.
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  How about having a special undercover mode so PIMOs can browse the site with greater security?

  by Island Man in

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  when you visit the site it says jehovahs-witness big and bold.

  a pimo might be browsing the site and a jw might come up behind him unexpectedly and notice he's visiting a site about jws other than jw.org, which can lead to the pimo reported for viewing apostate information.. to help remedy this risk, i was thinking about the possibility of having a button that activates an undercover mode where the title of the site is not prominently displayed so it's not easily apparent to an accidental eavesdropper that it's an apostate website.

  also, the color-scheme and graphics can be different so that it doesn't look like the regular site.

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  Those at risk need to learn to clear their history, or use the incognito option on their browser.
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Cofty, some people simply cannot humble themselves to admit they've been beat.
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  a pet peeve of mine

  by enoughisenough in

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  putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.

  it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.

  there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.

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  A college degree isn't everything,

  Our newest SCOTUS justice is highly educated but cannot define a "woman".

  I don't think anyone intends to disparage the blue collar worker when they refer to such as lacking qualification to be an elder or whatever the subject at hand. Rather, it is to stress that they are not qualified for all the positions that WT places them in. Counselor. Therapist. Etc.
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  My defense speech before the judicial committee

  by Disfellowshipped-Brother in

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  dear brothers!.

  we have gathered here because, according to your claims, i have apostatized, and as elders, it is your duty to maintain the purity of the flock.

  it seems now that someone has contaminated it, apparently.

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  DesirousOfChange

  There is no way i could/would wade through that post ~ Smiddy

  Me either.

  I know of no BOE that would go through it either.
  
  
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  Anniversaries and DF family

  by road to nowhere in

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  my pim?

  daughter us having an anniversary get to gether.. some family is never in, son df.

  tsome he invitees are well entrenched dubs so son will either be left out or there will be " committee," matters if he shows.. i downplay events, or plain lie about them to son.

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  DesirousOfChange

  In a similar situation, we invited all the family (some JWs; some DF) and let them decide on their own. I did do the courtesy call to JWs to advise them a DF individual would be in attendance. They can make their own decision.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

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  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  DesirousOfChange

  I wonder if anyone ever get senile dementia and they keep them locked away until the[y] die?

  I believe that was the case with Grant Suiter.
  
  
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  I have actually pondered over that more than once. The "red pill/blue pill" dilemma. I used to be able to think that all the injustices in the world would eventually be corrected by Sky Daddy. That's a nice thought! Now I have had to face the fact that it will never happen. There will always be injustices and "bad" peopled that take advantage of "good" people.

  I have also pondered it when attending the Memorial Service of an older, faithful JW -- they "believed" right to the end (their end). A wonderful couple. He was a CO for decades. Went to prison for refusing to join the Army in WW2. The last "grandfatherly" CO that we had. Now they are all "Company Men". More an auditor than a minister. He died not realizing "the prize" but was certain he would receive it after his resurrection. They had a good life serving others, gaining the love and respect of 1000's of JW's. Would it have been better for him to have taken the "red pill"? I cannot honestly say that I think that would have been better for him/them.