I think it is called 'Special Talk' because of the Memorial/Easter Hype and the Borg is hoping to ride the coat tails of religious fervor of the season. The 'Speical Talk' seems to come a week after Easter.
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"Special" has lost its' special meaning
by stillin intoday is the day of the annual "special talk.
" it took me all of two years to realize not to get my hopes up for anything special.. then came the special assembly day.
sad.
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2016-3-18-BOE-Discontinuing Feature Length DVD and Audio CD Production!
by Atlantis in2016-3-18-boe.. re: discontinuing feature-length dvd and audio cd production.
.. http://we.tl/cpevenkiz2.
.. .. petra!.
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PaintedToeNail
Yay! Hubby won't be leaving his media in my son's car anymore!
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Insufferable Presumption
by PaintedToeNail intoday, sunday, my son and i returned from a real estate investor meeting that we attend once a month with other active investors.
we discussed our latest projects, financing needs, advertising and so on.
we meet at 11:00 and don't usually get done before 2:00 pm and today was no different.
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I love it when JWs I meet out in public ask how I am (usually asked in a condescending way). When I say, ''Great!" they always look shocked and disappointed. -
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Insufferable Presumption
by PaintedToeNail intoday, sunday, my son and i returned from a real estate investor meeting that we attend once a month with other active investors.
we discussed our latest projects, financing needs, advertising and so on.
we meet at 11:00 and don't usually get done before 2:00 pm and today was no different.
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PaintedToeNail
Today, Sunday, my son and I returned from a real estate investor meeting that we attend once a month with other active investors. We discussed our latest projects, financing needs, advertising and so on. We meet at 11:00 and don't usually get done before 2:00 pm and today was no different. After, we hit up Lowes' to pick up plumbing supplies and flooring for one of our projects. We arrived home about 30 minutes ago. On my dining room table was a "Return to Jehovah" brochure and an invite to the Memorial.
An elder from my old KH had stopped by and dropped them off. Now, my husband was at the KH today, he almost never misses now that I have left. This elder, who is a really sweet man, decided to stop and offer me a personal invite. What annoys me is that the man THINKS that I SIT AT HOME LONELY AND WAITING FOR MY HUSBAND to come home before I can have a life. Just because I left the JWs doesn't mean I've left life for cripes sake. I am more alive and engaged in life than ever before. The brochure offended me in that it thinks I left because 'I'm guilty of some secret sin' or that I was 'stumbled' by some stupid person, rather than that I made a CALCULATED and CONSIDERED decision, based on knowledge and being sick and tired of the ridiculousness of the JW rat race.
To me, it is insufferably presumptuous for anyone to think that those of us who have left are reduced to a pathetic life of lonely days waiting for the faithful JWs to encourage us to return to a 'satisfying' life of self-sacrifice to the org.
I'm currently running 2 complete renovation projects locally. When my son and I renovate, we do everything-the house gets gutted, redesigned for modern living and put back together. We are busy, happy people who are enjoying life and making new friends with similar interests, not moping around waiting for brochures to welcome us back to the KH. Seesh, the JW's need to get a life!!!
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A question for mothers...
by Bob Loblaw ina human being, your child, was conceived, grew in you, and on one special day you delivered your child into this world.
a truly miraculous thing in and of itself.. when you were a jw, although forbidden to celebrate evil birthdays (sarcasm), did your heart ever ache contrary to watchtower teaching and want to shower your child with love and thankfulness?
i would think that if a religion were to believe in god, then their doctrine should have god somehow responsible for the act of procreation, birth, love, etc.
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Bob, I always wanted to celebrate my kids birthdays, especially when they were babies. Turning one and smashing cake with a little fist, face covered in chocolate-that is only a dream memory for me. I let my fear of man, JWs, prevent me from celebrating my kids first birthdays. But, I always kissed their little heads and told them how happy I was that they were born on that day. Now, my youngest is 8. The past birthday saw a secret celebration, including wrapped presents. She was so very thankful and happy that her special day was celebrated by her mom, sister and brother...only dad was missing...his loss. -
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Intro 2
by hillfy333 inpart 2. my wife and i were at a point where we wanted to move closer to our daughter as she was about to have a child.. so we put our house up for sale, and after a few weeks we had a buyer.
as we previously had purchased a block of land in the town we had planned to live in, we needed to rent for about a year till our new house was built.
during that time only one witness family showed any kindness to us.
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PaintedToeNail
I'm enjoying your story and looking forward to another installment.
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JW Child Abuse Documentary
by cappytan inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulswb2avxvc.
let's set aside our differences for the moment and appreciate this excellent documentary cedars put together that should prove to be an invaluable tool in helping to expose the child abuse issues in the organization.. i was humbled to be able to help with this project on such an important subject, though my part in it was insignificant..
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My meeting yesterday
by stephanie61092 inso i just wanted to jot down some thoughts and feelings about my meeting yesterday.... first, the wt, paragraph 16. i couldn't help but laugh to myself at the blatant hypocrisy.
god’s word admonishes us “to live with soundness of mind ... amid this present system of things.” (titus 2:12) having “soundness of mind,” or being sober-minded, should certainly come into play when the explanation of a diagnostic method or therapy seems strange or mysterious.
can the practitioner or the one promoting it explain satisfactorily how it works?
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stephanie-good points, never thought of the credibility of health cures and credibility of what JW's teach as being comparable, but they definitely are. Thanks for the thoughtful post. -
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1974 Special Meetings
by NeonMadman inas we all know, armageddon was just around the corner in 1974. at the district conventions that year, it was announced that there would be two special meetings during the month of september; one would be for interested people (e.g., bible studies, family members, inactive, etc.
), and the other would be for baptized publishers.
these were to be held in place of the service meetings for the two weeks, iirc.
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I remember the sentiment at the time. I was a 10 year old kid and terrified by what was being said at the meetings and everyones' somberness at how we were all going to be persecuted just like the brothers in Nazi Germany. experiences would be read out of the 1974 yearbook on what the JW's went through, the beatings, starvings, hangings and tortures. It affected me deeply, I'm sure that is where the beginnings of my panic and anxiety attacks had their start, along with the OCD that has been my constant companion.
We moved across the USA to be near my dad's relatives so they could be properly preached to by my family. We endured poverty, isolation from his family (they didn't take kindly to the preaching), loneliness and a definite plunge in our standard of living. This moved has had repurcussions to this day, financial instability of my elderly parents, inadequate housing for the aged-it was what they could afford with their diminished means, no saving for retirement...
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JW husband who shot and paralyzed 7 month-pregnant wife is a convention elder.
by WhatUserName 3 ina few days ago i shared this story with you:.
http://www.manassehazure.com/2016/01/shot-paralysed-pregnant-woman-miraculously-survives-mysterious-bullet-now-battles-life-justice/.
http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2016/january-25th/shot-and-paralysed-pregnant-woman-survives-shooting-police-suspect-her-husband.php.
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PaintedToeNail
Very tragic.