we've missed some meetings due to work and thinking it's bs and also one night my husband got drunk n fessed up n had a shepherding call n now the e is coming to see 'how we're doing'.
help me please i dunno what to do..
Run to the shop for milk and 'accidently' miss them...or open the door with your hair in rollers or with paint everywhere or some sign of disarray to show the inconvenience of their visit!
Else, if you can cope with seeing them, do exactly as Flipper says.
All the best. Will be thinking of you.
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me - me - me!!!.
just lois.
Thrilled puts it mildly. I just love Saturdays now!
Thanks for the reminder.
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unlike god's word, that jws believe to be absolute truth, any one of their directives given at the 2013 district convention could be subject to misinterpretation.. .
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Friday final talk :
4:20 Believe Inspired Truth, Not Inspired Error
It's official!
Error is now inspired!
(Just in case we hadn't noticed...)
i hope you are all well and enjoying your saturday!.
it's really great seeing so many newbies, congratulations to each and everyone of you.
and welcome.. in any case, my question is the one i put in the title :.
Quick update:
Just finished section A which represents almost 1000 members.
I compiled the results so far in a couple tables which you can see here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1InsB5F1fdEZawvNaZ7RuKAf8sNW5gE-vhxV7Uq9rcig/edit?usp=sharing
Off to start section B...
sometimes an ox gets sick and dies.. .
when your ox dies you don't just lose an ox.. nope.. you lose all the money you spent on that ox.. you lose all the feed you ever fed it.. you lose the time spent taking care of it.. this includes any veteranarian bills as well.. you can't eat the meat from a dead sick ox either, so, you lose the meal or the sale of the meat as well!.
what about using that chain of reasoning on the truth (or so-called) of jehovah's witnesses.. .
What about all the money spent on publishing that False teaching? It is wasted.
What about all the time spent mailing it out and inculcating in into 7 million JW's worldwide? It is wasted.
What do they care? They still got us to line their pockets and kept us distracted from learning TTATT.
Job well done in their eyes.
i can't come out until the summertime.
in the mean time, i have to feign interest like i want to stay so i don't end up homeless.. .
i can't sit at the meetings without getting visibily irritated.
If you have to go, just turn up late. Ten minutes before it ends is even better with just enough time to use the bathroom.
You know, had to work late, traffic problems...at least you made the effort to be there...what do the complainers want...that you don't come at all...
Else you can get a migraine at convenient times...
If a tablet is frowned on, just print a bunch of interesting stuff to read, making sure one or two pages are wt library printouts of something on that week which you can flash when people look in your direction
And as Dazed said, choose your seating wisely
I've seen people sit through meetings with earphones in their ears the whole time. If you sit against the wall you could entertain at least one ear this way...
For service, if you have do it, make sure you turn up just after everyone left so you can say you went out and just had to work on your own...we all know how that goes...
You may be doing this already, but if you don't answer your phone when they call and slowly stop answering their text messages (or take at least two or three days to reply, gradually more) they will calm down.
And if you want to keep them off your back - and your wife's, just keep playing the health card. If you bring up anything else as you suggest, they will never leave off hounding your wife. They'll forget about you once you've missed enough meetings because of ill health and stopped answering all their messages.
Writing this made me think of a wonderful line Gojira_101 used when she was being hounded:
This was the only time I got in anyones face. I slamed my fists on my hips and I got right in his face and said "Since when has service become something other than voluntary. Is it still not voluntary? Than the amount of time I get in service shouldn't matter."
( http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/244679/1/Elder-Doofus )
Maybe you could use something like that to turn the tables on them...
i've just been watching a youtube video that reveals the new assembly hall in orangeburg, sc.. two things struck me when watching it.... firstly, everything is attributed to jehovah, right down to deciding the location where the hall is to be built.
"we examined over 300 properties," said one interviewee, "we were reminded that jehovah knew where the site was, we just had to keep looking and show him that we were persistent.
" other workers interviewed throughout the video attribute everything to god, as though it is impossible to build anything without divine direction.. here is the video.... .
That music.
Yes! I had to turn the sound off too!
Actually couldn't watch it all, just skimmed it. I looked at the photos posted in another thread this week and just the pictures made me nauseous.
The one thing I did hear on the video was this:
"The food service department began their day at 4am preparing breakfast for appreciative volunteers and their day did not end until 7 or 8 in the evening when the last dish was cleaned. Between October 2011 and January 2013, this department prepared over 262,500 meals"
(~8m00-8m20)
And this comes from the article on the other thread:
"Shenin and Jonathan Bolton said they moved from California to Charleston just to work on the project. They have lived in a camper for the past nine months while putting in about 200 to 300 hours per month on the project."
For unpaid volunteers, they really don't give a thought to the hours they are putting in.
200 hours is the equivalent of doing 10 hour days while having Saturday and Sunday off.
300 hours is the equivalent of doing 10 hour days having no days off at all.
300 hours is also the equivalent of doing 15 hour days while having Saturday and Sunday off.
The things they can get away with when not officially employing people...
Shame it doesn't count for anything towards their retirement.
for example, the type of job you have, what take place.
in the bedroom, college, blood, marriage mate and etc.. and is it a truly conscious matter with out any repercussion?.
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The whole lot of it is termed "conscience matters" that way we can't come back and sue them for having screwed up our lives.
i hope you are all well and enjoying your saturday!.
it's really great seeing so many newbies, congratulations to each and everyone of you.
and welcome.. in any case, my question is the one i put in the title :.
Clarity and those who pm'ed me,
It seems the link I gave you to see the last survey results didn't work. I redid the document and this link should work.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BdpLabvoYVe0DFIdZLeK63nMPCQ2ThbaCh10dDG-HKw/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry about that.
