in my psychology studies we've been examining the use of "labels" and how they influence peoples behaviour.
i sometimes wonder if the gb or their helpers know exactly what they're doing when it comes to psychological manipulation.. it's been observed that by labeling someone or something it changes your entire perception of that person or thing.
it colours it entirely, quite unfairly in some cases.
DesirousOfChange - I don't really agree with what you say though it sounds reasonable.
It would presuppose that all the GB for decades knows that the religion is BS, and they are running a global scam.
I think they are all true believers and are victims of victims, and are following a pretty well-established pattern set by many religions.
in my psychology studies we've been examining the use of "labels" and how they influence peoples behaviour.
i sometimes wonder if the gb or their helpers know exactly what they're doing when it comes to psychological manipulation.. it's been observed that by labeling someone or something it changes your entire perception of that person or thing.
it colours it entirely, quite unfairly in some cases.
sir82 - I think your right about the GB - it is the conclusion I came to.
My favorite "apostate" talk said this "they work in satan's kitchen making ecoli burgers" meaning deadly burgers.
A great example of a Hack of a speaker who thinks he is clever and witty.
p.s. if you properly cook an ecoli burger - it is perfectly safe to eat.
But who cares about accuracy.
in this midweek meeting the local needs was a booooring speech about the new brochure on donations.
the wt must think the jws are dying to know how to give their money.. well, it's not new this is disgusting but this time, after i ve been slightly hinting people here and there for a year about the 'abnormal request of money' and remind them that 'the faithful slave wasn't like that until some time ago', this time i saw their faces.
they did get bothered with that talk.
There is no such brochure on the website - is it something that is coming?
Are you sure thats what it was about? Seems strange?
i searched up jw rules, and things that can get them into trouble with the congregation.
if i remember correctly there is 100 rules.
i already assume these rules are taught regularly or "preached" and stating why they are against god therefore followers obey, or try to obey.
FWI - Basically the only reason for getting DFed is suposed to be NON REPENTANCE, or actions that display NON REPENTANCE.
4 people were hurt by the dog ... 2 were jws.
the older woman was severely hurt.
i hope the old woman survives.
Simon - I have seen what those dogs CAN do to a person.
It is horrible!!! I agree with you 100%.
my father died a couple of months ago.
he'd been ill for some time and had many health scares and heart troubles over the years but always managed to keep on going.
then one time he didn't.. i'm glad i got to know him again and spend some more time with him after so many years missed because of the wts but those years will always be lost forever.
4 people were hurt by the dog ... 2 were jws.
the older woman was severely hurt.
i hope the old woman survives.
I think its my 2nd amendment right to keep vicious dangerous unpredictable dogs to protect me from liberals, my government who wants to come and take my dogs away, people who look different than me, people who think differently than me too.
A bad dog can be stopped by a good dog! Ever watch Lassie?
We need MORE vicious dogs not less. That will make those bad dogs think twice about biting the ankle of an unwanted JW!
Let me tell you, imagine if that JWs had her own dogs going the other way! It would have been a beautiful thing, right, everyone is saying it.
oh dear, i recently made a comment about an elder being dogmatic.
and one of his best buddies sent me a wt article to help me realign my mind or something.
this is where reality separates from fantasy and fiction.
Pretty good summation punkofnice.
Though there still are some nice loving brothers out there, but they are more rare than ever.
2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
Atlantis An Elder and I received a BOE 3 days ago and the BOE was dated from 2017. A full year ago and we already have the BOE in collection.
So I know they added extra security to the Elders only website. They now show logins so someone can see if someone logged in at a time that they didn't with their account, but I have a good PIMO friend who is still an elder and he has NOT seen OLD letters or what you are seeing as of yet. Also NO letters are coming in the mail for elders, they are all coming through https://apps.jw.org/
I will ask again him about this the next time talk to him.
2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
Several Elders who are sending us letters are worried of (tracking codes) in the BOEs and are printing them out and then scanning them. This can make the ink quality weak at times. They believe by doing this a code would be deactivated.
WOW - No I wasn't aware of that. I have a friend who is an Athiest elder and he has not heard about this practice.
Also if someone just does a screenshot of a PDF there is no tracking code anymore if there is such a thing embeded.
