PaintedToeNail

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  Is there anyone in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg-Pocono, or Allentown-Bethlehem area on here?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  2. friends

  if so, does anyone want to do a meet up?

  pm me if you do.

  would like to meet some people who are living through this experience too.. .

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  If so, does anyone want to do a meet up? PM me if you do. Would like to meet some people who are living through this experience too.
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  Bizarre comment about jw.org at SAD

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.

  "and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.

  in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.

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  Sounds like some kind of search engine optimization. Someone else had a recent post about everyone typing in JWfacts daily to change the optimization, might be a good idea. I only did it one time...
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  My First Special Pioneer Assignment

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my first special pioneer assignment.- part 1.. in australia, western civilization is a thin strip of land, that hugs the coast.

  all the major cities are on the coast.

  i grew up on the east coast of australia where the great dividing range, as its called, runs parallel to the coast, and limits the extension of cities like sydney and brisbane.

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  full-Excellent! Love it and waiting for more!
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  Really bizarre part on the meeting last night

  by stillin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the service meeting there was a part covering a couple of pages from the tms guidebook chapter on warmth and feeling.

  rather than coaching the r&f on how to make a school talk sound warm, it focused on the people that jws meet in their ministry.

  basically, the part could have been labelled "how to fake warmth and feeling.

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  I once met someone who was a deal broker with an energy company he said "once you can fake sincerity, you've got it made"...\
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  SOME are MORE EQUAL than OTHERS

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  george orwell's animal farm reminds me a lot of the wt organization.

  often we find jwn members quoting from 1984, and so appropriately too.. but animal farm has the pigs being "more equal" than other animals in the farm.

  what started as a "congregation of brothers" if it ever really was that in the russellite beginings has become a hierarchy controlled by an oligarchy where some, as the governing body, are more "equal", and thus more powerful and can do no wrong by the less powerful and loyal subjects.. .

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  Interesting, I often think of Orwell when the WTBTS is talked about.
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  I feel sorry for just about everyone else.. even the elder's wife

  by ohnightdivine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been busy with with being busy after knowing ttatt.

  after this sunday's meeting i was invited over by one congregation elder's wife to an afternoon coffee.

  we're not very close because of the age gap but we've "known" each other for so many years now, being in the same congregation.. she is like the anchor of the group.

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  I have a dear friend in this position. Her family line will die out with her and her siblings...they all followed the party line. She expressed the same feelings as the wife of the elder. She pioneered her whole adult life, and hated it, but did it because it was expected. She and her husband see themselves aging alone and it depresses them.
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  Does this count as Nazi collaboration?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a jw friend of mine visited the site of auschwitz-berkenau and bought a book on jws in auschwitz which documents which jws were in the camp, which ones died, and what they did while they were there.

  known as honest and industrious workers, a lot of them, especially women, were employed as domestic help in the homes of the ss commanders.

  this is well documented.

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  Being domestic help and watching children did not contribute to the war effort. I agree with Syme, there is no reason not to feel true human compassion for the incredibly unfortunate people who were enslaved, starved, tortured, gassed and incinerated...
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  Saving a Life With A Blood Transfusion True Story

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  good news for once saw this on aawa sitesaving my life with a blood transfusion.

  third, i knew they would bring the elders with them.. i finally called home and told my parents what was going on.

  i told my parents to tell the elders they could do whatever they felt they needed to do but i was not going to meet with them.

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  Bump
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  Entire Body of ELDERS make NEWS with GB. more news on FB

  by Jack Miller in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.mcalesternews.com/policecourts/x409169231/da-jehovah-witness-church-concealed-molestation-crimes.

  if you have a facebook account you can read more details that wt has published about one of these elders involved in this illegal cover up.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/xjwrg3/permalink/10151981880490835/.

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  I usually post the links to these stories on Facebook, recently I was asked why I would post such a link....it shows that JW's in good standing do in fact read them....they don't like them, but they are reading them.
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  Pioneer Encouragement - "You can sit in the back room"

  by 4thgen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last night one of the pioneers stopped by on her way home from the pioneer meeting.

  she has always been very kind and i believe she is acted out of concern, however her visit was unsettling.

  she mentioned that all the pioneers were counseled to invite everyone they know inactive or those who has had life has got them down to come to (a special?

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  The pressure is mounting for the pioneers and elders to increase their performance numbers. The WTBTS must realize how depressing it must be for those in 'the full-time service' to almost never have 'productive' bible studies, so now a 'new field' is opened to them, where they can get that 'feel good' emotion of helping someone return to the fold. It will make them think they actually are accomplishing something. It is imperative that the WTBTS numbers improve on their yearly stats.

  Love the charity work reference! That must really have put her in confusion...'how can they be performing charity work and be happy. You can only be happy if your charity work is preaching...must be a lie that they are happy...where is my Paxil?'