Posts by Solzhenitsyn

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Judge Rules on Blood Issue

by moreconfusedthanever in

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/judge-rules-against-pregnant-teen-who-wanted-to-refuse-blood-at-birth-20180831-p5012k.html.

this article has come up in my newsfeed on facebook today.

it was posted by a non witness midwife who is up in arms about the girl not being able to choose her own course of treatment in pregnancy.

Solzhenitsyn

Lastmanstanding, yes, lay it out for me.

Thanks, S

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(How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

by Solzhenitsyn in

as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

Solzhenitsyn

TTDTT: Sorry, my comments may be best understood by those PIMO who are seeing the day to day operations up close. I can understand why from the outside you would say what you did.

Its a different perspective piecing together bits and pieces of leaked info from the internet vs. being PIMO and living every Warwick utterance up close and personal. + Its hard trying to be more clear when clarity is something I have to avoid in this forum. And there you go.

Best, S

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Judge Rules on Blood Issue

by moreconfusedthanever in

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/judge-rules-against-pregnant-teen-who-wanted-to-refuse-blood-at-birth-20180831-p5012k.html.

this article has come up in my newsfeed on facebook today.

it was posted by a non witness midwife who is up in arms about the girl not being able to choose her own course of treatment in pregnancy.

Solzhenitsyn

Scully: thank you for the essay excerpt however I don't agree 100%.

My wife could care less about social impact or social rejection or cong discipline. She truly from her heart views deeply ingrained (Watchtower and straight Biblical) beliefs as firm convictions. In her heart and mind what the WT says and what the Bible says are one and the same and when spoken/written might as well be a booming voice coming from a burning bush or floating down like a dove.

Sucks but whats a PIMO to do that truly loves the woman? If I came down with a debilitating physical condition she'd change my catheter, diaper, feeding tube, whatever.

She has the same debilitating mental/emotional/spiritual condition that I recovered from! I have to maintain this mindset or I'll either go mad or burn the village down , or BOTH!

Best!

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Judge Rules on Blood Issue

by moreconfusedthanever in

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/judge-rules-against-pregnant-teen-who-wanted-to-refuse-blood-at-birth-20180831-p5012k.html.

this article has come up in my newsfeed on facebook today.

it was posted by a non witness midwife who is up in arms about the girl not being able to choose her own course of treatment in pregnancy.

Solzhenitsyn

joe134cd: Had another conversation with my wife and her response was: "Why are you creating a hypothetical scenario that the odds of happening are as good as one of the kids getting struck by lightning? I would be devastated if they died on Monday from refusal of blood. I would be devastated if it was forced on them and found out they had AIDS on a Wednesday. I would be devastated on a resurrection Saturday when again I was reminded why you aren't there with me after going against Jehovah having allowed the transfusion and violating His law. Commit adultery, be a drunk, be a thief, take blood...a sin, is a sin, is a sin"

And there you go as we all shake our heads. The light at the end of the tunnel for me is that I felt exactly the same way as she did for decades! Now I do not. No single person changed my mind for me. I just woke up and pray she does the same.

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(How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

by Solzhenitsyn in

as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

Solzhenitsyn

Sorry.

PRC = Publisher Record Cards

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Financially Are You Doing Better Than a Year Ago?

by minimus in

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this isn’t a usa question.

is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.

Solzhenitsyn

Once I became PIMO:

>Have a healthy 401k and retirement account

>Money in the bank for the first time ever

>Paid off mortgage

None of the above would have happened as the man i was for 30 years.

Jesus yoke finally is "kindly".

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(How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

by Solzhenitsyn in

as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

Solzhenitsyn

As a "deep PIMO" I can say that there is a confirmed re-branding. The coordinators committee formed a focus group from Service and Teaching committees. The results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with GB approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.

Pick an organizational level and see the shift. Sure there are the little blips of GB spouting off with some charts and doctrine mumbo jumbo or CO's yacking about Porn at the Elders/MS meetings. But from the top Warwick brass down to the CO's, Elders schools, and even the Pioneer School I assisted the CO in conducting 2 weeks ago, the shift is clear.

For instance, think a couple years back...no more Type and Anti-Type:

"Humans cannot know which Bible accounts are shadows of things to come and which are not. The clearest course is this: Where the Scriptures teach that an individual, an event, or an object is typical of something else, we accept it as such. Otherwise, we ought to be reluctant to assign an antitypical application to a certain person or account if there is no specific Scriptural basis for doing so."

Fast forward. At the end of an entire week of pioneer school If I were to tell you the main theme and take away it was: "Be a friend and just have a conversation about what is important to them. No literature required just bible or tablet in hand. Feel what they feel. Be a friend" I know i know, be a friend and suck them into our cult, but nevertheless nowhere in a week of class was that caveat mentioned.

During the visit of the CO a few weeks back in our cong he specifically stated when considering the Elder/MS appointments: "At the branch's direction we're not going to even look at the PRC's of these men. I want to hear about what your relationship with them as spiritual men is like in your own words as if they were sitting right beside you now. Forget the numbers."

Happy family branding is everywhere and the days of focus on prophecy, gaggles of numbers, stacks of books, comparison of PRC cock sizes, ect...is fading away in so many ways.

At the end of the day, its still a dangerous cult. Period.

But how does this shift affect the way we get our families out? The way we ourselves don't question the mental (and physical for many) liberation we have gone through?

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Do KHs lock their doors when meeting starts now?

by NikL in

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my still in wife informed me this morning that she must be on time to the meeting as they are locking the door when it starts now.. i said that's crazy.

she said it's because of the times we are living in.. we live in a rural area and crime isn't terrible though it's worse than it used to be.. i told her if that's the way it is then why bother leaving the house at all?.

she said they are just trying to be safe.. is this a thing now?

Solzhenitsyn

There are no armed appointed JW's at meetings or assemblies sanctioned by the WT.

Whether to lock doors during meetings, have an alarm system, video monitoring, peppermint scented urinal cakes in the bathroom urinals, ect... Its all up to the individual operating committees within each KH.

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Superb must watch video

by berrygerry in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xft_aeqw2ga.

Solzhenitsyn

Been abused and on both sides of JC abuse handling.

Well done video.

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Judge Rules on Blood Issue

by moreconfusedthanever in

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/judge-rules-against-pregnant-teen-who-wanted-to-refuse-blood-at-birth-20180831-p5012k.html.

this article has come up in my newsfeed on facebook today.

it was posted by a non witness midwife who is up in arms about the girl not being able to choose her own course of treatment in pregnancy.

Solzhenitsyn

The posting above got me to thinking yesterday so this morning over coffee (and missing Sat morning service where we do usually do 4 RV's and Dunkin Doughnuts) I brought up the subject.

My wife said that she would let our minor children die vs. approving a blood transfusion.

I said, "If we were to go to the meeting tomorrow and in the WT new light came out that blood transfusions were now a personal decision, would you still let our children die?"

Answer = "No. I'd allow the transfusion with a clear conscience."

Am I missing something here? If this isn't the epitome of mind control what the hell is?