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  Elders’ School 2013: Model Judicial Committee Videos and messages from the GB

  by hildebrando in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for the first time, weve accessed to audiovisual material in spanish, regarding the elders schools.

  here is a video of a dramatization of a model judicial committee, in addition to letts introduction (speaking with strange gestures) and comments from anthony morris iii:.

  http://hildeydesa.blogspot.com/2014/02/escuela-de-ancianos-2013-videos-de.html.

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  breakfast of champions

  Really need the English versions of these videos, or an accurate re-translation back to English subtitles. Looks like amazing stuff.
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  The kindness of (worldly) strangers

  by moley in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday i went surfing, when i had finished and got changed i tried to start my car, no joy.

  there were about 12 cars in the car park and the occupants of 8 of the cars all tried to help out at some point as they could see i was having difficulties, one guy even drove to a garage 5 miles away to get me a coffee i didn't even ask for as it was a freezing cold day and a couple of them let me sit in their cars to warm up while i waited for the rac.

  contrast this to a time when i was in and my car wouldn't start (different car lol) in a kh car park and all i got was snarky comments, or advice in passing but no one stopped to help out.. i know who i prefer, has anyone else been helped by the evil worldly's while ignored by the loving jw's.

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  breakfast of champions

  Great story!

  Here's a classic story from about 25 years ago: A car group is out in "the field" with sister Zealous Nutjob when they see another car group full of sisters broken down on the side of the road attempting to change a tire. The "car captain" brother naturally pulls over to give them a hand, at which point sister Nutjob proceeds to have a nervous breakdown because they are now "stealing time from Jehovah" and starts crying uncontrollably. The brother ignored her and changed the flat for the other car group and then brought sister Nutjob back to the hall where she proceeded to "tell on" him to the elders for what he had done.

  They've got some real gems in this organization!
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  HANDLING CHEMOTHERAPY - Advice anyone?

  by hamsterbait in

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  2. friends

  i have just been diagnosed with colorectal cancer (tuesday).. the consultant told me i am to get a scan to see how far it has spread.. i am going to have surgery to remove it, then chemotherapy with a break in the middle.. strange to say i am more terrified of dying under the anesthetic than anything.

  but i have a fear of nausea and vomiting, which chemo caused in all my relatives who have had it.. any advice for coping with this?.

  hb.

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  breakfast of champions

  I am certainly no expert on this, but from having had family deal with cancer and chemotherapy, I wouldn't assume that chemotherapy would neccesarily make you feel nauseous or produce other bad side effects.

  My FIL had chemo for colon cancer and and there were no significant side effects (he did take the anti-nausea drug). My mother has a different form of cancer, and her chemotherapy treatment has worked wonders with no side effects whatsoever.

  Wishing you the best,

  BOC
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  Fallacies Illustrated

  by jgnat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  found today:.

  http://twentytwowords.com/2013/09/17/silly-illustrations-of-logical-fallacies-12-pictures/.

  a long-time favorite:.

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  breakfast of champions

  Will check this out. .. Thanks!
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  What are the feelings/thoughts within 24-48 hours of exposure to an undeniably true (for you) TATT?

  by NeverKnew in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  many of us know where we were during 9/11 or when john kennedy and martin luther king were killed.. it seems that when faced with ttatt, real truth is dismissed as "ol' light" or "an imperfect group of men" but from what i gather, many of you, at some point, were hit with a component of ttatt that shattered all of those cliches that allowed you to brush off the obvious reality that something was very wrong.

  some of you may remember the hours following your earliest exposures to an undeniably true tatt.

  did you zone completely out?

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  Interesting question. . . . Yes, it was kind of a "floating" feeling, unreal, a kind of dissociation.

  When it dawned on me that it was all BS the world almost seemed to literally tilt upside-down. It actually physically felt like "something happened". . . . not scary, just weird.
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  Why Is Alcoholism Deeply Embeded In JW Culture?

  by RottenRiley in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we get plenty of company men passing through our circuit, often filled with misinformation and lugging around a suitcase of guilt, they bring more guilt to the weak while praising the braggart pioneers and slapping the "righteous over much" elders.

  why are the wrong people getting praise in this distorted community?

  i know for a fact many of the elders i served with have issues with alcoholism, when "brother guilt" brought his emotional hurricane through our circuit, i had the chance to eat and help pay for his "seven shots of tequila", both him and his wife were not immune to over-indulgences.

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  Drinking does wonders for cognitive dissonance.
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  Thoughts After Saturday Morning Service

  by lambsbottom in

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  went out with a good friend in service this morning.

  my spouse and kiddos joined us.

  me and my spouse are awake jws, have gotten over the initial shock and disgust with some of the lame wt doctrine, and are determined to let god direct us wherever he may (even to another church - i'm going to a baptist service tommorow).. we have fun doing a little bit of service with the kiddos, letting them watch deer, play with sticks, and write not-at-homes down.

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  Wow SUAVOJR. . . I think you summed it up very consicely:

  "People are simply hoping for their own paradise to arrive"
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  Elder and CO just dropped by....

  by El_Guapo in

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  i haven't been to a meeting in over a year, and as you know as soon as you stop attending meetings/fieldservice the "conditional" love becomes more apperant.

  the coordinating elder starts off by saying how much he loves and misses me, etc.

  i ask him, when was the last time you called or texted me?

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  Oooooohhhhh. . .. . Threw that elder right under the CO bus - excellent move!
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  My Son has had two very big University interviews

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  2. friends

  one for mit last month, and one for princeton tonight.. if i told this to people at my old hall, i am sure the reaction would be the same as if i broke a big, noisy windblast in front of them.. but i have to brag about it to someone, so, i will do it here.. .

  we will not know anything about whether he is going to be accepted for a couple of months yet, but, as they say, this $%^# just got real!.

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  breakfast of champions

  Very cool! Congrats!
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  Reading exJW then JW facebook sites can make you go crazy!

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  2. friends

  it's absolutely amazing what exactly the same event can do to the jw community and the exjw community.. the difference is that the jw community does not think and has the expected response... we think and, of course, have the exact opposite response as the jw's.. take for example the march km with the "will this be the last?

  here are some comments from a jw site:.

  wow it comes like that in the km?

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  breakfast of champions

  "The slave asks WILL THIS BE THE LAST MEMORIAL and answers: we don't know. Well if they don't know why do they ask????? attention those who have discernment..."

  Future apostate here ^^^^^^^