Posts by Rivergang

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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

by LongHairGal in

jw
friends

this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

(i don’t go on jw dot org).

it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

Rivergang

LHG,

From the author David Ignatius:

”Often, the biggest decisions we make in life aren’t really decisions at all. They are the product of habit and momentum - things that have been going on for long enough that that have built up their own speed and force, and have become difficult to stop or deflect.

So you let them happen.

A lot of marriages are like that, and career choices and decisions about where to go to college, or whether to have children, or where to live. We call them decisions, but they really aren’t.They come to us pre-made, the sum of so many previous events and determinations that they have have a weight which feels like a layer of time”.

In short, we are not as free to make our own choices as some may have us believe!

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They are running out of people to do their stuff.

by liam in

this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

so it’s the current new light!.

what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

Rivergang

Journeyman,

Not a truer word spoken!

Whatever disaster now follows is entirely of their own making, and their own stupid fault.

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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

by LongHairGal in

jw
friends

this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

(i don’t go on jw dot org).

it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

Rivergang

Elder Berry

What you are describing is just a continuation of the old theme “Promise them a Pie in the Sky, so they will be content for now to have crap”.

The problem with that idea is a thing called the internet, which makes it harder and harder to keep up that “Pie in the Sky” charade. (Particularly when it becomes obvious to all who make even a cursory search that the JWs have been waving around almost forever that same carrot on a stick).

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My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.

by ExCircuitOverseer in

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friends

here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.

my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.

i had actually become a circuit overseer!

Rivergang

Ex Circuit Overseer,

Out of curiosity, was your experience one of the “Road to Damascus” type - or was it more accumulative, over a longer period of time?

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They are running out of people to do their stuff.

by liam in

this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

so it’s the current new light!.

what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

Rivergang

Didn't they do the same after the fallback of 1975? Appoint elders early when old timers realised the gig was up?

There were instances of that when the "elder arrangement" was first implemented. Amongst the first group of elders to ever be appointed in our district (which happened during September-October 1972), there was one who was only 19, and at least one other who had attained the mature age of 21!

As far as I can recall, though, these were "one-off" situations. By the mid to late 1970s, they made a particular point of only appointing those who were in their late-20s or older. (And used to look down their noses at the LDS "Elders", most of whom were barely in their twenties).

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They are running out of people to do their stuff.

by liam in

this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

so it’s the current new light!.

what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

Rivergang

Elders only in their early 20s - The very same thing they used to criticise the LDS for.

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Maddison, WI Shool Shooting - 3 Dead

by Sea Breeze in

like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.

the police chief points out that: .

“yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.

Rivergang

freedom of the press is not something these Countries enjoy.

Not according to the organisation, Journalists without Frontiers (an organisation much concerned with censorship of the media). Their experience has been quite different.

https://rsf.org/en/2024-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-under-political-pressure

Anyone who thinks that Britain is on a par with China when it comes to freedom of the press really ought to think again! Bloody Hell - the USA ranks lower on the World Press Freedom Index than does the UK.

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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

by LongHairGal in

jw
friends

this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

(i don’t go on jw dot org).

it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

Rivergang

Beth Sarim

Absolutely!

According to Raymond Franz in Crisis of Conscience, the then President of the WTS even admitted that.

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Pidgin English

by markweatherill in

https://www.jw.org/hwc.

i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.

they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..

Rivergang

Bribie,

You have a PM

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Pidgin English

by markweatherill in

https://www.jw.org/hwc.

i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.

they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..

Rivergang

If English is your first language, the Papua New Guinea "Tok Pisin" language is not too difficult to pick up.

For example, a roadside sign at one of PNG Power's hydroelectric power stations reads:

LUKAUTIM GUT: ("Look-outim Good" i.e. Pay Attention)

Draiv isi ("Drive easy" - used in this context, "easy" means to drive both slowly and carefully)

Rot bilong man-wokabaut ("Rot" = Road, and "man-wokabaut" i.e. man-walkabout = pedestrian)

What the last sentence is saying is that, within the plant, pedestrians have right of way.

(It must be said, though, that Pidgin is not "baby-talk or similar; it is a language in its own right, and grammatical errors are quite possible - just like in any other language)