Posts by breakfast of champions

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OMG JW Sea Org

by sherrie11 in

i found this picture and i just can't believe it?

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http://www.jw-archive.org/post/130152768378/jw-booth-at-a-book-fair-in-brazil-photo-shared-by#.

breakfast of champions

I'll take a Sprite and the turkey sandwich.

So will it still be raining when we land in Chicago?

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since the move, it has been so enjoyable to not have jw's breathing down our necks asking why we didn't make the meeting, or having to pretend to be "spiritual" in front of family all the time.. 90% of my week is virtually stress free.

then, my mom calls or texts wanting to talk to her grandkids.

every dang call, she asks about the new congregation, if we went to the meeting, etc.. why can't i tell her to fk off?

breakfast of champions

No, you're not a coward.

Here's an example of what I (with the help of my wife) did to end this kind of nonsense with my toxic mother:

So years back (still an active, believing witness elder), I would get weekly calls from my mother where she'd push my buttons. I'd hang up, feeling angry, guilty, upset -- and this got my wife mad (don't get my wife mad!)

So my wife wisely suggested that next time I get my call, put the speakerphone on and tell mother "I have you on speaker and Mrs BOC is listening."

Well, wouldn't you know, next call comes, and I do exactly what my wife suggested. After telling my mother I had her on speaker, she seemed to forget why she called and asked about the weather or something like that. The exchange ended quickly and without any of the usual nonsense.

I repeated this several weeks in a row, and guess what? Same thing. Eventually, calls from my mother ceased altogether. Now, I get a call from her once in a blue moon, and when she does call, she is on her "best behavior" even without my wife listening in.

Why did this work? Because by putting my mother on speaker with my wife, my mother's "millieu control" was compromised. Controlling, abusive people don't like to appear controlling and abusive, so they do what they do out of sight/earshot or in secret. Taking away control of the "millieu" (in this case a private phone conversation) was enough to quash the controlling behavior, and over time it just ended.

So if you can find some small but specific way of taking the control out of your mother's hands (and you would know how to do this better than me) it may just work.

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What makes WT think they can reassign Bethel volunteers to be Regular Pioneers.

by Zoos in

when the gb cuts loose 1600 volunteers, what makes them think they can continue telling them how they will spend their time?

i've read on many of these threads that the 1600 will be reassigned.

what, are they still under some sort of contract?.

breakfast of champions

In a nearby hall, there's a single ex-bethelite who was "reassigned to the field" in the early 2000s.

Over a decade later, he is broke, still living in someone's basement, and working full time at the local convenience store, sweeping the floor and making coffee.

So no, they can't be "forced" to pioneer. . . .

All this talk of "reassigning bethelites as pioneers" is simply doublespeak for layoffs.

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Latest Leaked BOE letter to Elders Oct. 4th

by Watchtower-Free in

october 4, 2015. to all congregations.

re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.

dear brothers:.

breakfast of champions

Damn! Couldn't the Like/Dislike buttons be a little farther apart?

Sorry OTWO.

[edit] and now my dislike just disappeared. Whatever.

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What was the strangest off-the-cuff remark you ever heard from and elder or higher appointee?

by donny in

i showed up for saturday morning field service and i was partnered with an elder who had transferred to our congregation in the dallas, texas area from michigan.

i told him about a recent embarrassing moment where i had played a "worldly" song during the sunday meeting due to someone replacing the cassette i had placed in the cassette player late friday night that had the correct "kingdom melody.".

out of the blue he said "about 4 years ago i was giving the sunday talk and i kept sporting a boner from time to time which was bizarre since being horny and teaching about jehovah is typically not something one associates with one another.".

breakfast of champions

Just about every word uttered by the GB on JW Broadcasting.

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Just 'phoned London Bethel!

by The Searcher in

i asked if the new britain branch construction had stopped, and i was told that "the governing body instructed us to cease all work on the project.".

"earthquakes" in one place after another!.

breakfast of champions

Good work SEARCHER!

I get the feeling that you managed to slip thru the society's information firewall and got a straight answer.

They won't let that happen again!

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Hemoglobin Infusion??

by Vetro in

i just got the new document about blood fractions from the wt, they will allow you to choose hemoglobin, but apparently not packed red blood cells, but in the medical journal i see nothing about hemoglobin infusions, is this even possible or just more bullshit from the wt?

breakfast of champions

A generation is two overlapping generations. . .. . .

Asking for money is not soliciting funds. . . .

Kingdom Halls aren't churches. . . . ..

A Hemoglobin infusion isn't a blood transfusion . . .

Makes sense.

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Uh, wow. I think I might become vegan.

by marmot in

i am a dyed in the wool carnivore.

i suffer from cheese addiction.

lobsters are mercilessly boiled alive.. but after watching this new documentary called cowspiracy on netflix, all that may change.

breakfast of champions

If you do it right, a vegan diet is pretty damn healthy. . . . I did it myself for health reasons -- not environmental/animal rights -- but then again there are some pretty good arguments for doing it on those grounds alone.

I say give it a try.

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John Lee Hooker - Jehovahs Witness

by apostrate in

a couple of excerpts from an interview with john lee hooker, american blues legend, a few years before he died in 2001. i found this to be somewhat humorous.. have you been married more than once?.

four times.

i aint never gonna get married again.

breakfast of champions

WTF?!?

Bizarre. . . .

Lucky enough to see him in the early '90s though.

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The Last Time I Set Foot in a Kingdom Hall

by Oubliette in

saturday, september 19th, 2015: .

earlier today snugglebunny posted a pic of today's "daily text" which is based on a paragraph from the november 15th, 2013 article.

that magazine contains the now infamous maxim: .

breakfast of champions

Just reflecting on the title. . .

US zone/branch visit, Saturday Nov 8, 2014. . . .. aaaaand I was done.

Have not been back since.