Posts by ListlessWitness

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BOE 2015-10-23 Re: Foreign-Language Field

by wifibandit in

pdf via google

ListlessWitness

I had a hideous flashback while reading that. When I was still in, I took my grandson to visit a meeting with a deaf friend of mine and they asked me to interpret for the sign language group in the hall. Grandson was only a toddler. While I signed, he was messing around near me, crawling on the chairs and copying me signing, and a sister I had never met grabbed him and took him out of the hall. My powerlessness to prevent this abuse might have actually been one of the things which opened my eyes to the control this borganisation exerted on me. I just carried on signing and within a minute he was carried back in distraught, crying for me. This was all the more weird because up until that moment he had never really been bothered about being close to me, but he sat on my lap cowering for the rest of the meeting.

I had forgotten about that until reading that letter.

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On respect for the belief of others. Sorry for the long post

by StarTrekAngel in

i am inclined to start this thread in response to some comments made in other threads.

i have been coming around these forum for quite some time now so whatever you find in here is not just related to something someone may have said this week.

it can go months back as well.. i have seen many who claim to respect the belief of others but when it comes down to applying it into practice, things take a whole different tune.

ListlessWitness

Fine line between HSP and victim blaming tho!

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3 words to describe.....

by punkofnice in

..your experience with the watchtower corporation:.

i'll start...... bully boy elders.

ListlessWitness

Criminally insane cult

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On respect for the belief of others. Sorry for the long post

by StarTrekAngel in

i am inclined to start this thread in response to some comments made in other threads.

i have been coming around these forum for quite some time now so whatever you find in here is not just related to something someone may have said this week.

it can go months back as well.. i have seen many who claim to respect the belief of others but when it comes down to applying it into practice, things take a whole different tune.

ListlessWitness

Oh but GT, it CAN hurt to ask. Depending from which side of the bed possible respondents alighted.

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On respect for the belief of others. Sorry for the long post

by StarTrekAngel in

i am inclined to start this thread in response to some comments made in other threads.

i have been coming around these forum for quite some time now so whatever you find in here is not just related to something someone may have said this week.

it can go months back as well.. i have seen many who claim to respect the belief of others but when it comes down to applying it into practice, things take a whole different tune.

ListlessWitness

Blame wine for this post.

Home Truth; Google it and within seconds you have the meaning.

I seem to remember Poster A questioning Poster X's very masculinity because they couldn't be arsed to Google something way more complex than that. But rather Poster X wanted a knowledgeable forum comrade to explain it. Poster A stepped up to present themselves as a knowledgeable forum comrade but felt payment was in order for passing on the info. Yet apparently Poster A an't be arsed to use internet searches to clarify simple expressions, while expecting others to rely on them for complex techy info.

PMS or just a heaving mass of contradictions? Either way I LOVE this bird and want to BE her!

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Hubby has been doing research on the internet!!!!

by atacrossroads in

jw
friends

my husband was recently subjected to an intervention by his parents.

i am apparently a danger to his spirituality.

after i stopped attending meetings and went apostate hubby decided to resign as a ms to spend more time with me.

ListlessWitness

I am so excited for you both, that is wonderfuĺ! Might be tough for you to give him the space to do his own research without chiming in. Also when he does discuss what he finds out, might be hard for you to hold back on pouring out everything you know. But the fact that he wants to do it himself is a bonus. This is amazing, keep us posted please!

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Video: "Iron Sharpens Iron"

by wifibandit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joehewofiba.

is this supposed to placate the ones who have been recently fired?

is this a sign of the aging jw leadership?

ListlessWitness

Where did this video originate from?

Hilarious that the interviewer pre-emptively referred to sharpening the 'spiritual countenance'TM...perhaps knowing that these worn out sadsacks, poor ol' buggers, physical countenance left a helluvalot to be desired. Lol @ Sparrowdown #wasted life!

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Video: "Iron Sharpens Iron"

by wifibandit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joehewofiba.

is this supposed to placate the ones who have been recently fired?

is this a sign of the aging jw leadership?

ListlessWitness

I can't watch anymore, but did anyone else notice how unhappy those 3 dudes look? All the old photos of them were smiley. But now, even when recalling the joyous events leading up to their baptism, and all their assignments, they looked miserable as sin! Not exactly an advert for a lifetime of service is it?

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No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

by wizzstick in

in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

)- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

wow.

ListlessWitness

Actually Simon, YOU have been fixated on how compelling this issue is to observers, YOU started that angle and have hung on to it like a dog with a bone! I was simply trying to make the point that a sustained and meaningful state of shock leading to proactivity is unlikely among anyone who hasn't tangled with JWs because it is a fleeting feeling soon forgotten or displaced by the next source of outrage (be it ISIS or a Jeremy Kyle episode) Momentary shock is as good as it gets and this issue has the potential for that. Only those affected or their loved ones will ultimately give a monkeys and this forum is presumably for those people. Do you comment on every single thread to point out that most people will carry on with their lives regardless of the misery being caused to JWs? This forum's popularity might quickly wane if you used the tack you used on this thread on every subject. Because essentially you are saying "who gives a shit?" and most people are here precisely because others 'get it', understand and care.

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No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

by wizzstick in

in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

)- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

wow.

ListlessWitness

I'm not bein' funny or anythin' like, but Simon, have you not noticed that the type of shocked you describe is pretty much standard these days? Most people presumably yawned and went to bed after the Scientology expose. Doesn't mean we should measure it as insignificant, this is people's lives after all.