http://www.mediafire.com/watch/cvas6fcrc9zca94/shepherding_instructional_suicidal_widow.avi.
i just watched beginning of the recently leaked video produced by the wtbts allegedly instructing elders how to treat jws contemplating suicide.
i am so apalled i cannot even begin to describe it!.
Just like to point out that the first part of the video was what you are NOT supposed to do (go alone into back room with sister, touch sister's hand, tell them suicide is murder etc).
Part 2 is supposed to be the RIGHT way to handle to situation (2 elders present, no touching the sister) In the end, they even get the "right" way so wrong it's hard to tell what the hell is going on.
[edit: yeah, part two ( the How-To section) will leave you utterly disgusted. I guarantee it.]
not sure if this has been posted but the jwsurvey site received the videos in english from someone.. this crap is pathetic to watch.
how to counsel someone who is suicidal... really.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/doubts-over-organizational-solidarity-as-disturbing-video-on-handling-suicide-is-leaked.
Watched the Sister Suicide video with my wife this morning. She almost fell over when the elder told her to supress her negative thoughts/emotions just like you supress an immoral thought.
I reminded my wife this is part of the "education" program the society provides it's members that is soooooo superior than college education. She wanted to barf.
Yeah, "integrity keeper". . .WTF?!?!
Unbelievable.
not sure if this has been posted but the jwsurvey site received the videos in english from someone.. this crap is pathetic to watch.
how to counsel someone who is suicidal... really.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/doubts-over-organizational-solidarity-as-disturbing-video-on-handling-suicide-is-leaked.
Will check this out later. ..
10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
This is excellent COFTY. I will likely refer back to it at some time in the future. Thanks!
here's 22 questions asked by creationists of evolutionists, on the night of the nye/ham debate: we've got alot of people who can help these creationists out, right here on jwn, so it seems the neighborly thing to do, right?.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/messages-from-creationists-to-people-who-believe-in-evolutio.
i'll take the easy one..... #22: if we come from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?".
You are asking about before the big bang. Its a question for cosmology or theoretical physics. We are not going to solve it here. - COFTY
Shit.
And all this time I thought we were going to solve it here.
Damn.
it's been about 5 weeks, since my sister sent me the email telling me she no longer wants to communicate with me (at this time).. i was never a jw, so i am not going to agree to those crazy terms.
i explained to her that she can do what she wants, but i will continue to be kind, and that i forgive her cruel treatment toward me.. i have given her some space, and i feel like i am ready to send her another note.
instead of bringing up any hard feelings of today, i was going to share some memories that i have of our early, pre-jw days.
Awesome letter! I am with ABIBLESTUDENT, though - remove the 'see things from my perspective' sentence. Otherwise, perfect.
the wts?.
we request of you not to be quickly shaken from your reason.2 thess.
(1 tim.
This is possibly one of the most paranoia-inducing Watchtowers ever.
Thanks for the summary, BLONDIE.
woody allen wrote a very compelling article in the op-ed of the new york times.. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html?ref=opinion&_r=0.
have you ever been accused of something you did not do?
if that happens, what do you do?.
I was always a big Woody Allen fan. In fact, when I turned 21, my father brought me to Michael's Pub to watch him play with his band.
Here's how I see it: What I know is that Allen began a relationship with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter. This act, while evidently 'legal', was morally reprehensible. This alone is all that is neccesary to identify Allen as (at the very least) a narcissistic asshole.
On the other hand, Farrow comes off as a whack-job as well. What bothered me especially was the suggestion that Frank Sinatra was the 'real' father of her son, Whatever-the-Hell-His-Name-Is.*
Folks, we're in the age of DNA testing. EITHER HE'S F-ING FRANK SINATRA'S SON OR HE ISN'T! Why the suggestion and yet no proof? This, to me, identifies Farrow as ANOTHER narcissistic asshole.
So, I feel for the poor kids, especially Dylan.
I don't know. I think at best, she had two of the most narcissistic, shitty parents on the planet.
I honestly don't believe either one.
*Ronan
the february 2014 public wt has a cover series of articles dealing with world war i, and by inference 1914. the articles describe wwi as 'causing the world to be changed' and as "a turning point in history.".
setting the wt's defective 1914 chronology aside for a minute, how do these statements about wwi coincide with the view of the nt?.
certainly wwi was a big war.
BOBCAT - I think you might be putting a little too much emphasis on Christ ;-)
What I found interesting about the article (and my wife did too) wasn't what it said, but what was omitted.
Here we have a magazine dedicated to this 'turning point in history' and yet, the articles never mention the date the war started.
Hmmmm...... Wonder why......
http://www.lvb.com/article/20140204/lvb01/140209972/serfass-to-build-$65m-assisted-living-facility.
who is going to get to stay here?
the gb, co's?
Hmmmmmm. . .. Building multimillion dollar facilities for the aged. . . .. a nice idea.. . . .
But I thought the end was coming so SOOOOOOOOOOON!
