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  WTF just happened??? An elder I haven't seen in years stopped by to hand me a XXXXXXXX !!!

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so yesterday afternoon, an elder who lives only 3 blocks away drives up to my house as i was about to enter my car.

  as he gets out of his car, i noticed he had a stack of photocopied paper in his hand and he seemed quite nervous.

  i was genuinely happy to see him nonetheless since he is pretty easygoing and very likeable.

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  Lois... excellent idea... I just might do that.... thanks
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  WTF just happened??? An elder I haven't seen in years stopped by to hand me a XXXXXXXX !!!

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so yesterday afternoon, an elder who lives only 3 blocks away drives up to my house as i was about to enter my car.

  as he gets out of his car, i noticed he had a stack of photocopied paper in his hand and he seemed quite nervous.

  i was genuinely happy to see him nonetheless since he is pretty easygoing and very likeable.

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  Thanks everyone...

  While reading your comments it occurred to what "organization's arrangement" is...

  Last year, Elder 2 emailed me to ask if he could stop by for a shepherding call.

  I responded: "No problem. I'd like that very much. Please do come. But please come alone."

  His response to that was something like... 'Sorry.. can't do that. The ARRANGEMENT requires 2 brothers and at least one has to be an elder.' (Caps mine)

  I believe I left this conversation along the lines of 'let me think about it'...

  That being said... I still don't understand what any of this has to do with him accepting a simple 'hello' from me...

  I give up.... moving on...............
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  WTF just happened??? An elder I haven't seen in years stopped by to hand me a XXXXXXXX !!!

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so yesterday afternoon, an elder who lives only 3 blocks away drives up to my house as i was about to enter my car.

  as he gets out of his car, i noticed he had a stack of photocopied paper in his hand and he seemed quite nervous.

  i was genuinely happy to see him nonetheless since he is pretty easygoing and very likeable.

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  So yesterday afternoon, an elder who lives only 3 blocks away drives up to my house as I was about to enter my car. As he gets out of his car, I noticed he had a stack of photocopied paper in his hand and he seemed quite nervous. I was genuinely happy to see him nonetheless since he is pretty easygoing and very likeable. After saying hello, he immediately started to make small talk, mentioning that he had just retired, had put the house up for sale and is expecting to close by next week. As he continued his small talk, he got very fidgety with the papers he had in his hand and my curiousity slowly overcame me.

  I began to wonder whether this was some kind of invitation to another special assembly or some other ad-hoc event, but he kept up the small talk before finally handing me a piece of paper that said: (wait for it) ...... "Garage Sale"... That's right! This elder, whom I haven't seen or communicated with in well over 3 years (and lives only 3 blocks away) drives up to my house to hand me a f**king Garage Sale flyer !!! And get this... the sale was from 10AM to 6PM and he hands me this flyer at 5:30PM (with only 30 minutes remaining). I almost burst out laughing because of how utterly pathetic and bizarre this whole thing was. But, as I mentioned, I was still quite happy to see him nonetheless.

  After he left, I asked myself: WTF just happened???

  But while I was trying to make some sense of it all, it got me to realize that I was apparently NOT in bad standing at my old congo. So I decided to use this experience to engage another elder in the congo who had been ignoring my emails for quite some time. After trying to call this 2nd elder, I sent him this text (in Spanish):

  ME: Hello Elder 2, I just ran into Elder 1 a few minutes ago. He's selling his house and moving in with his kids. I was so happy just to say hello to him and that made me think about you. When can I call you just say hello?

  Elder 2: You can say hello when you are ready to respect the organization's arrangement.

  ME: Organization's arrangement??? What on earth are you talking about? I'm talking about simply saying hello to you because I haven't seen you in so long and I felt a genuine need to reach out. Is this the example of love that Jesus taught? Frankly, I feel quite offended and shocked.

  Elder 2: (no response)

  So I have to ask: WTF just happened? 1st elder hands me a Garage Sale flyer and the 2nd elder elder tells me to respect the organization's arrangement !!! Are they serving up looney juice at the elder's meetings ???
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  HOT OFF THE PRESS: ZO talk in Japan

  by WinstonSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is literally hot off the press as in from about half an hour ago.. we have a friend from nz (who is wavering and knows our situation) and he is on holiday in japan at the moment.

  today there was a zone overseer talk that he went to in nagoya (southern japan) and it has just finished up.

  straight after the song and still in the stadium he emailed us the info below.

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  This is yet another bizarre and pointless campaign aimed at creating the impression that Jehovah is in control of his organization. Marketing 101. But, unlike the well-thought-out marketing campaigns of worldly corporations, this Matthew book campaign will prove to have little or no effect on the japanese people....
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  Trying to establish the demographic trends of congregations. Wanting counters please. Big brother needs you.

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm just curious?

  since i have become aware that witnesses are getting older and that the youth is leaving (well in western lands anyway), i have started doing counts by age group of the people sitting in the hall.

  generally in the hall that i attend i have found that 2/3 are 40 and over while 1/3 is 40 and under.

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  This thread should get very interesting...

  I haven't been to a meeting in about 3 years but my congo breakdown was roughly the following:

  • Children: 5%
  • Teens: 5%
  • 20-40: 15%
  • 41-64: 55%
  • 65+: 20%

  Very telling indeed....
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  The Faithful & Discreet Slave Gets World Wide Notoriety In For The America's BIGGEST Payout In A Child Abuse Case 28,000,000 Leaving Jesus With No Choice Except To Find A Replacement

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i know this has been posted before anyhow i thought this a good title to post it under:.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html.

  woman molested by jehovah's witnesses member at age nine wins $28million in america's biggest religious sex abuse payout .

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  Isn't this under appeal?
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  JW's join the Bogota Colombia book fair trade 2013

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  2. experiences

  link will be below.

  there's an email that's been floating around all over the jdub's emails and it somehow got sent to me.

  i don't know if there's already been a post on this but i thought i should share.

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  Better Daze...

  Looks like it could be this one...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaoZfzQYwao

  ca
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  April 5, 2013 news article about a N. Carolina JW raping a 12-year-old girl at KH

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i just received a link to this article today.

  i searched to see if it had been posted before on jwn but couldn't locate anything.

  barbarahttp://www.robesonian.com/view/full_story/22159944/article-man-charged-with-rape-of-12-year-oldman charged with rape of 12-year-oldby adelina shee.

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  The WT has youth programs at the KH now?
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  Why do JWs get married at a young age?

  by XPeterX in

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  ages like 20-25 or younger.i mean damn,a 21 year old guy in my congo got baptised a couple weeks back and now his in a relationship with a jw gal and their getting married soon.any thoughts?.

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  Because of the masturbation video on jw.org...
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  Bethel Speaker- get rid of Facebook!

  by Kensho in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  special assembly day (sad) bethel speaker ( a very good speaker i might add) in his talk " follow your spirit-directed conscience gave example of and elder and his family.

  he noticed his wife and daughter spending a lot of time morning noon and night on facebook, it almost seemed like that is all they did, so as a spiritual head decided to see what they were constantly looking at, "let me see what you are spending so much time looking at on facebook said the elder".

  the wife explained this is how we keep in contact with the "friends", elder started to look at her page and she was correct, there he found friends in the cong.

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  You don't have to follow the advice that Jehovah provides you through his only spirit-directed channel.

  (Just keep in mind that you'll more than likely be destroyed in Armageddon if you don't.)