Posts by millie210

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Time to Change my Avatar (after nearly 15 years)

by Perry in

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friends

i'm sorry scooter.

millie210

Perry I always read your posts and now I wont know its you!!!

Goodbye Scooter but pretty wife and you look happy!

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This week's resurrection video, will it backfire on the wt?

by prologos in

the resurrection is supposed to be a joyous occasion?, if it ever happened!

--well, this week's showing at the hall was the opposite, it was about death with violins playing in the background.

a recently bereaved member, , full of tears, (like many others) could not contain herself.

millie210

Doubtfully Yours
It was very well done, in good taste.
Is it not a principal part of our faith?! So, why not scenify how it might be?

Lets take your thought above and follow it through....

wouldnt the same thing be accomplished if they focused the video on the resurrection?

The focus is not fully on that however. Time is spent on death.....on using that to build emotion and then ta da! The resurrection!

What people are having an empathetic reaction to is the detailed scripting of the dying that is portrayed in the video.

The fact that the Society feels they have to go to such a detailed and visceral level to present the Resurrection "hope" is what is being questioned.

True sensitivity could include things as simple as showing it at a separate time so grieving ones dont feel obligated to go or miss their meeting.

Or perhaps an announcement the week before?

"The video to be shown next week about the resurrection contains subject matter that might be sensitive to some."

Now wouldnt that be thoughtful?

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A mistake we did ...

by Absolutesbeginners in

hello girls !.

i ve been reading you all many times , and from many years ..... i am sure my english is getting better and better because of you !

i am from france, no sorry , from "small brittany " ...so what ?

millie210

Love your zest for life!

Thanks for writing.

J'aime la vie~

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Child Abuse In This Weeks Meeting Part

by thedepressedsoul in

i was sitting at the meeting this week and the "apply yourself to the field ministry" part started.

it was the first part under, "the initial call".

they read from the "good news" brochure and ask a question on it.

millie210

How old is the Good News brochure?

I am surprised how many JWs have absolutely zero idea the whole child abuse issue even exists.

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This week's resurrection video, will it backfire on the wt?

by prologos in

the resurrection is supposed to be a joyous occasion?, if it ever happened!

--well, this week's showing at the hall was the opposite, it was about death with violins playing in the background.

a recently bereaved member, , full of tears, (like many others) could not contain herself.

millie210

I was at the assembly where they showed that video.

I remember all the tears from people sitting around me and the general sense of heaviness in the air.

I also remember seeing a few people (not a lot but a few!) whos faces looked very "set" and grim. They were not letting the emotional manipulation in. They were steeled against it.

I think looking at the faces and how they receive that sorry video could be a litmus test of who has had just about enough of the Org.

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Coordinator for the elder body

by truth doubter in

i was recently told that circit overseers must give up the position at age 70. is that true and if so, does the coordinator have to give up his position at age 70 also?

millie210

Makes sense (in a self serrving kinda way) I guess.

Thanks OneEyedJoe

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Coordinator for the elder body

by truth doubter in

i was recently told that circit overseers must give up the position at age 70. is that true and if so, does the coordinator have to give up his position at age 70 also?