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  Are you a proactive decision maker?

  by moshe in

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  Chariklo

  You could try suggesting to him that he sits down with pen and paper and writes down all the options he can think of. Then to write down all the really way out options that seem daft, but write them down anyway.

  Then think hard and imagine having made each option in turn, and what it would be like. Visualise each situation. Write down how each one feels.

  Then eliminate most, right down to a small number of optiuons that seem the best.

  Repeat the process.

  That's a method I evolved many years ago if I was in a dilemma or faced with unpalatable choices...and if they're all truly unpalatable sometimes there's another choice out there that would be better. So creative thinking comes into it.

  Another method, or to use towards the end of the process, is to tell yourself this is really, really urgent, and give a time limit (like 5 minutes) and stick to it.

  PS:

  Another method, totally different, is to think about it very hard, maybe all day, and then decide to sleep on it. I find I often wake up in the morning knowing exactly what to do. Good old subconscious mind! (Or is that the unconscious mind? I never know!)

  Or he could ask Jehovah. Only joking!
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  Coded Phone number for Kingdom Hall attendence.

  by Joshnaz in

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  i just learned the the kingdom halls have a coded phone number for listening in on the sunday meetings.

  for my area the phone number is 623-748-1908. when it asks you for the code dial 623293. you can enter the number of listeners and you are counted in attendance.

  i just wanted to let everyone here know and see what everyone's thought's were..

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  Chariklo

  Can people use a prefix (141 in the UK on BT lines) and still dial in to the call?

  I'm just wondering. It's just an academic question, I don't need to. I could still dial in if I wanted to, but so very much don't!
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  They just said at the WT study that the wife needs to suck it up in a abusive home.

  by life is to short in

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  i was beyond shocked at this i do not know why i am shocked and i am shaking as i type this.

  i decided to tie in by the phone line today, i live on the west coast and they are only on paragraph 3 yet a "brother" who had been an elder for years and who's wife left him years ago he is in his late 50's now just commented about selma and he said 'that later in the study it talks about a study who's husband was abusive physically and verbally, yet when the study complained the sister studying with her reminded her of who was the christian and the study realized that she was in the wrong and so her husband came in the truth.

  ' he said it is such a good example of how we should be.. i truly feel like throwing up.

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  Come get married --to disrespect each other and so only the H can beat the brains out of the W.

  You are absolutely right. You left out, though, the bit where the WT would go on to say " and as the H beats the brains out of the W she will learn to see that she must be much more loving towards the H."

  They might then continue: "Jesus makes this clear when he tells us to love each other, and told Peter to turn the other cheek (Matt 5:39.)"

  That is how the WT sounds as if it is preaching love, while all the while they twist even the words of Jesus Christ. In just those ways they entrap people who start out by thinking that here is a religion that is really following Jesus, and then end up by being so cowed that they don't even realise that they are actually working against all Jesus stood for.

  It's the Big Lie.
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  Got my Privileges Removed today, any advice?

  by mrbunyrabit in

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  sooo i was a ministerial servant (omg a ministerial servant on this site!?

  you apostate!!!

  ) yea yea i just wanted to see what other people think and whatever, coz i had a few questions myself, (butttt its not like i was about to start throwing them with rocks and stuff, they arent that bad).

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  Billy

  Humiliate you into submission.

  I had that. Not even baptised, and I was told "We are testing your submissiveness to us."

  Well...here I am, reporting in to JWN!

  Not very bright, are they?
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  Anyone going to the KH Sunday to comment on the domestic violence paragraph?

  by serenitynow! in

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  they are doing that article about sister selma getting the crap beat out of her to win her husband over to being a jw.

  any suggestions as to the comment i should make?

  i was thinking about bringing up the old awake on domestic violence and ask if there has been new light and that women should stay with their abusers..

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  Chariklo

  An elderly, sick sister rang me this afternoon. She keeps trying to encourage me to go back to the KH. (I've told her I am not going to go back but she thinks I will one day, and because she is frail and easily gets upset, and I'm fond of her, I don't challenge her too much.)

  Anyway, she wanted to tell me about the "lovely Watchtower" from this morning's meeting. There was no hint that she'd even noticed the abuse.

  They just sit there and think how wonderful that the GB tell them just what they need to know. It's all so lovely.
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  New Site JW Outreach

  by Bangalore in

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  here is a new site named jw outreach launched by an xjw from another board.. .

  http://www.witness-outreach.com/.

  bangalore.

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  Chariklo

  Congratulations on what seems to be an encyclopaedic resource!
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  How To Learn A Second Language, Ideas, Thoughts On Which To Learn?

  by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

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  no doubt there are polyglots on jwn, what do you think the best language to learn is?

  spanish, french, german, tagalog or?????.

  what language did you find most diffucult to learn, does anyone speak hindi, farsi, arabic or any asian languages?

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  Chariklo

  Whatever language you choose, immerse yourself in it.

  Buy a dictionary. See if you can find books in it in the library. Find a course to listen to. Watch subtitled flms in the language.

  Get books about the country. Find a local evening class so that you can practise speaking it.

  When I was at school, my Latin teacher was Polish. She had come to the UK during the Second World War, knowing no English at all, but with just an English dictionary, and an English novel. (I don't know which one...for some reason we never asked.)

  Anyway, that's how she learned Eng;ish. She could speak 8 languages!
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  Selma & Steve

  by biometrics in

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  suggest a funny caption for steve.. .

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  Chariklo

  You've got it! That stupid Selma!

  All she had to do was show more love!

  Brilliant posters, guys!
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  I went to the Watchtower Study with the "Selma and Steve" article today, and....

  by cedars in

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  no, i didn't really - but i'm anxious to hear from anyone who did!!.

  what happened after the paragraph was read?

  did anyone try to denounce abusing one's spouse under any circumstances, or were most answers supportive of the "advice" given to selma, i.e.

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  Chariklo

  I think it shows they're all scared about disagreeing with the party line.
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  consider this folks

  by maccauk11 in

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  there is no church any more.

  there is no sin only the works of the flesh.

  jesus put an end to it all at the cross.

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  Chariklo

  True Christians have " no desire to get involved with the worlds affairs or disputes or protests or social injustice"?

  Well, that's not true, is it?

  What did Jesus do when faced with hungry people? He fed them.

  What did he do when faced with people who were blind or ill? Healed them.

  And with people who were ostracised by others, treated as being less acceptable socially? He brought them into his circle. He accepted them.

  At every point, Jesus saw to physical needs before addressing spiritual ones. He didn't neglect spiritual needs, but with him it was first things first.

  Jesus would not have gone to a famine area with a Bible in hand. He just wouldn't. He'd have been there with Medecin Sans Frontieres, or brought food for the starving children. He'd have conforted the poor and weak and found homes for the homeless.

  Broken Promises is right. Especially when writing on the web. You need to allow for everyone, including those whose eyes aren't as strong as they were, and give more breaks then you would when writing for a book. Break it up.