Posts by Anders Andersen

The letter states that when two congregations work in the same territory the service overseers must come to a mutually acceptable agreement on how to proceed.

Normally native language congregations don't work in the same territory. Only foreign language congregations work in the same territory as other congregations.

In other words, this letter tells foreign language congregations to see for themselves how they're gonna proceed without foreign language territory maps....

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Never knew missing meetings was such a big deal

by Biblestudent1 in

i do bible study and attend meetings.

”well i was away and i was going to attend in that city”.

i did everything right, i told my bible study conductors in advance and genuinely i wanted to see another hall.

Anders Andersen

Welcome to that precious feeling of control and social pressure. If you may think this may an incident and that specific JW is an exception, you'd be wrong.

JW will formally and informally check on you whatever you do, and pressure you do adhere to Watchtower rules, and be more and more and more involved in their ~~cult~~ religion. This will not stop after joining, it will only become worse.

I did everything right

If you mean you followed Watchtower rules then yes, you already submitted yourself to people as if you are under their authority and you're accountable to them.

Otherwise, getting involved with a high control group is 'doing everything right' if you value your free will, independence, agency and thinking for yourself.

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2019 BOE Elders letter May 13 England - Ireland Data Protection

by Not_Culty in

https://tinyurl.com/y2bzncu9.

Anders Andersen

How many congregations were diligent in chasing up not homes , anyway?

I know my congregation was at times. The best thing about NAH is that when you do them, it's more walking and looking at your paper than knocking doors.

Now only knocking doors will be left. Almost no way to build a 'magazine route' anymore (not that there were any magazines to route). No more slow walking and searching for that next not at home on your list. Just door to door grinding and cult carts. Makes field service even worse than it was.

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2019 BOE Elders letter May 13 England - Ireland Data Protection

by Not_Culty in

https://tinyurl.com/y2bzncu9.

Anders Andersen

Good news! No doubt this instruction is being sent to all branches in Europe as GDPR is applicable in the whole of Europe.

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2019 Convention - Televangelist music

by John_Carter_1912 in

any thoughts?.

didn't jehovah's witnesses use to despise this type of evangelical music?.

https://rutube.ru/video/049589e2a0151a1c1c5d1707214df7c6/?pl_type=user&pl_id=689813.

Anders Andersen

Holy shit this is a bad song and a worse video clip.

The song screams 'wannabe mainstream happy-clappy revival youth'.

The video screams 'CULT!'

Ugh.

At least when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings about Jesus, I got goosebumps. Their emotion almost becomes my emotion.

But this thing is absolutely devoid of genuine emotion. The guy sounds like a pimo who couldn't avoid recording this song and got overproduced too. "Take 262344, make it sound like you mean it bro. BoringVoice!"

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Ladies First

by snugglebunny in

jw
friends

i know a lady who says she feels demeaned if a man walks on the outside or opens a door for her or stands aside to let her pass.

i just think it's good manners.

being a gentleman has nothing to do with equality in my opinion..

Anders Andersen

If a woman challenged me for doing the gentlemanly thing for her ,she would get a mouthful from me as to what sort of person she is.

I can't help but wonder how thin that shiny veneer of gentleman-ness is if it comes of as soon as a (mere?) woman challenges the gentleman.

PS: I'm probably reading more into that sentence than the writer intended, but without knowing him I have to go by what he wrote.

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Pope Makes New Order: ALL Sexual Abuse MUST Be Reported By Priests and Nuns!

by minimus in

jw
friends

let’s see what the watchtower will do now..

Anders Andersen

The Pope has made new church laws that say all abuse must be reported to the Vatican. He does not order reporting to the real authorities as that might bring trouble to Catholics in areas where they may be persecuted.

So, the CC now basically does what JW do already for a long time: report abuse internally, without reporting to the police.

JW apologists are gonna have a field day with this: "the CC finally follow the fine example of JW in handling abuse issues"

Barf.

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Corporal punishment

by Incognigo Montoya in

so i just finished watching the latest cedars video on spanking children.

i like lloyd, and think that overall he does a good job covering issues in his videos.

but i've gotta disagree with him on this issue, to a point.. i don't agree with beating your children, but i do believe in spanking, when appropriate.

Anders Andersen

Spanking doesn't teach anything. Explaining and communicating does.

Spanking pushes the relationship between parent and child towards a fear based obedience. I prefer to actually communicate with my child, and for that she needs to trust me. She also shouldn't be afraid of telling me anything.

Spanking shows a child how violence to set things straight is acceptable. The same thing we tell them not to do to their peers, we'd do to them? How is overpowering a smaller person with physical force okay for punishment? To acutely protect them from harm, yes that makes sense. But after you stopped them from killing themselves, the spanking serves no educational goal.

I prefer to see my child as an autonomous individual, that deserves as much respect as I do. I try to teach empathy to both her and me. Spanking has no place in that.

FWIW this doesn't mean it's easy....but parenting isn't easy anyway.