this thread is dedicated to the judgemental fat and not so jolly elders and elderettes (non judgemental loving brethren, please disregard!)..
in my county, some of our appointed brothers and sisters are suffering from obesity, eating disorders and heavy drinkings.
what is the best way to approach brothers in charge, who are morbidly overweight, don't care about their physical appearance?
Many are incredibly unhappy and their drug of choice is food.
Not everyone with an eating disorder is skinny so I don't always think it's gluttony, since self-medicating your unhappiness and anxiety with food by binging (but not purging) is an eating disorder.
What we should be wondering is why “the happiest people on earth” feel the need to numb themselves with food, alcohol, drugs, etc.?
i remember in the 70's and 80's the big jw career was pin striping...in addition to the regular careers like janitorial and window washing.
now i hear the big career is meter reading in the pacific northwest.
what are some of the other jw careers that are hot in the 2012 and the "end is closer than ever?
They do anything that does not require too much time, specialization, expertise, attention, detail or ethic.
i was considered "exemplary" but i defintely liked my drinking with my other fellow examples.. porn was never a terrible thing to me.
i looked.. throwing in a few extra hours and placements worked pretty well for me too..
Drinking, watching porn, masturbating, cussing, obscene jesting, watching rated R movies, listening to "unapproved" music, have non-witless friends, went to the prom, was a high school band nerd and went to every pep-band function even if it wasn't required, wear whatever clothing I want whenever I want, talk to DF ones, be nice to DA and DF ones, social networking, friending anyone I damn well please, choose school/work/recreation over meat-ings, lying on service slips and pre-arranging a car group of friends that won’t rat you out, going to the SM and then bailing to go do something fun when everyone thought you were out in service (this idea can also work if you say you have a study to go on, alone).
There's much more but this is all I can think of right now.
Tisk tisk don't be so quick to judge, maybe she has a lifelong dream of a mother daughter circus freak act.
a 5 min.
talk will be given from the kingdom ministry about "donating" more to the world wide preaching work.
remember the woman who gave 2 coins of little value?
Ugh, if God really is all-powerful and JW really is his chosen org. then why in the hell do they need more money? That is unless they really are a for profit publishing corporation hiding under a religious non-profit status.
Parts like this always made me want to donate less; in fact they're so effective in helping me see the profitable donation station money train that I quit "giving" altogether. (It's not like I donated much before, I'm a born-in in my thirties and I don't think I've contributed more than $500 in my entire life, and that's still too much!)
the lying, the faking and pretending, the hiding, the endless mind-numbing meetings, service, preaching, assemblies, everything!.
most of the time i can handle it quite well.
but not today.
Sorry for your frustration, I'm in the same "stuck-in" boat right now and yes it's almost unbearable.
I deal with my anger by secretly undermining the witlesses; things like letting people know about putting up no trespassing signs and other small stuff that I can't get in trouble for but makes field circus and preaching much harder to do.
and there, seated on a golden throne was jehovah, not frightening at all, very impressive but benign looking, with a pleasant smile, he said "would you like to ask me anything?".
it flashed through my mind that i would ask him the question about allowing evil, but i thought i might not get too long to question so i said : .
"are you the supreme being ?".
Damn, cause I got a jar I just can't open and I was gonna have you ask him to bless me with super powers to budge the lid.
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what attracts new ones into the jw fold these days, the message, the friends, someone to listen to their problems, a personal relationship with god?
what?.
Their message means dick!
If you set out to find vulnerable people to manipulate, even if your message preaches genocide, you're going to have at least some success.
Remember there's a sucker born every minute.
neither did i..
Did you here about the child molester and/or sex offender in your cong? No? Well then the elders are doing their job.
hey dogpatch, or anyone, who worked at headquarters, are their positions in this organization, that are exempted from preaching in the field ministry?.
did all governing body members obey jesus christ commision at (matthew 28:19,20), are some trying to abdicate this command, reasoning "they are too busy", their position is too lofty, to preach?.
matthew 28:16-20. new living translation (nlt).
Only the dead are exempt.
ALL witnesses are supposed to do some form of preaching/service/sacrifice of the lips.
and
All non-witlesses and apostates are still suppose to join/come back and preach; so even thought they don't believe in nor support wash-towel slavery, that's no excuse, they're still going to be held accountable by jayhoover for not passing out the kool-aid.
