“a circuit overseer started out by saying that on this last round of the circuit, the one thing he noticed the most...is that everyone is physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually drained...and that cuts across all barriers and demographics within the truth.
he then said that the one common thread that ran among nearly everyone was this: we feel guilty for feeling bad.
he said because we are told to endure with joy, our minds can cause us to feel enormous guilt over feeling this way...and then, my dear brothers and sisters...he proceeded to blow our collective minds.. he asked us to turn to daniel 8:27….
A Circuit Overseer started out by saying that the one thing he noticed the most...is that everyone is physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually drained.
Then no doubt "encouraged them to DO MORE, GIVE MORE, spend MORE TIME running the JW hamster wheel.
i hope the truth about the covid vaccines becomes public knowledge as it does now in australia.
senator malcom roberts tells it all in his speach.
https://youtu.be/vrlm8ybdhiy.
Could you be more specific?
Trump didn't shut down the economy like the leftist government tools did, and when he did try to curtail international travel he was accused of being a racist xenophobe by the left. Otherwise as far as I know all those you mentioned fall into that group.
Medically it was the un-elected bureaucrats in the WHO, the CDC, HHS, social media, so-called news organizations in the U.S. that mandated what people must to without question or personal choice under penalty of losing jobs, losing their lives due to refused surgeries, and being cancelled and de-platformed if they did not bow to the jab police.
i hope the truth about the covid vaccines becomes public knowledge as it does now in australia.
senator malcom roberts tells it all in his speach.
https://youtu.be/vrlm8ybdhiy.
I notice that I am on a board of former members of a specific cult that preached against „mainstream medicine“ and had exclusive knowledge about world events.
Perhaps. I do note though that those FORMER MEMBERS recognized it when they had been LIED TO. I also note that there are some who seem to have only exchanged one group of religious high control men who mandate you must think as they do with no questions or personal choice allowed for a different group of high control government/medical men who demand that you think as they do with no questions or personal choice allowed.
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an enthusiastic new recruit attends the kingdom hall.
the elders aren't sure about his style of wardrobe.. does something like this ever really happen with new recruits?.
That photo reminds me of an off color joke from decades ago before it would get one cancelled to tell it.
It had to do with two elders who questioned a young man about a suit much like the one in the photo for appealing to, as Tomo III would say it, homosexuals.
He said it was an honest mistake as he had asked his wife to go to Cox's and buy him a seersucker suit for the summer, and his wife went instead to Sears.
I'll see myself out, and don't forget to tip your server.
(P.S. Feel free to remove this if it is too offensive.)
it's an interesting thought.
if you are an ex jw, presumably dfed, and you see a current jw in good standing engaging in behaviour that would concern their elders, would you pass on that information to interested parties?
do accusations from exes and other outsiders carry any weight?
Do accusations from exes and other outsiders carry any weight? Would they even be listened to?
In my personal experience my answer would be no. These days though my feelings about ratting out a JW to their elders f--- 'em! They can do there own dirty work.
it was an opinion of someone that to be a divorced, single sister i. the organization was the lowest social standing you can have.
why are they dispised?
( what if was a scriptural divorce where husband cheated?
@ Lee Marsh
I agree with your comment above. I'm what may be termed an "old" man and have seen enough emotional blackmail and stupid games from both sides of the gender fence to last several lifetimes. Thank you for voicing your thoughts.
it was an opinion of someone that to be a divorced, single sister i. the organization was the lowest social standing you can have.
why are they dispised?
( what if was a scriptural divorce where husband cheated?
I have to wonder what was so wrong in the marriage that she had to go somewhere else.
I have to wonder what was so wrong in the marriage that HE had to go somewhere else? That works BOTH ways. I personally knew a couple in my younger JW days where the oh so spiritual wife would use the silent treatment and ask the witness husband how long he could go without in each and every case where he wished to do something or go somewhere she did not approve of (camping, hunting, fishing etc).
And lumping men into the "they marry only for sex" pigeon hole is IMO an incorrect female excuse for their actions. Men desire closeness and emotional support from their partner pretty much at the same level as a woman.
study watchtower november 2023 p. 16,17 pars.
9,10 - "consider the example of oleg and irina, a married couple who serve as pioneers.
after moving to assist a congregation in another area, they lost their source of income because of the worsening economic conditions in their country......one day when they returned home from the ministry, they learned that a close friend had traveled about 160 kilometers (100 mi) to bring them two bags of groceries.
Consider the example of Oleg and Irina,
Or Oly and Lena. Or Jose and Maria. Or Rastuss and Liza. All names of fake people in jokes, which is what WT "experiences" are.
the whitewashing of tm111 from jw history continues - tending to confirm that he was booted.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghbhv6961a.
i'm pretty sure the cult got him to sign a nice nda - in exchange for a lifetime residency in the house bought by wt..
@ stan livedeath
Well the "sheep" are being artificially inseminated with something.
putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.
it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.
there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.
Does having a good job and letters after your name make you superior?
Reminds me of the story about two guys walking through a downtown business district. They stopped in front of a business with a man's name on the door followed by the letters of his college degrees. B.S. M.S. and Ph.D.
First man asks, "I wonder what all those letters mean?"
Second man replies, "Well, we all know what B.S. is. M.S. means More of the Same, and Ph.D means piled high and deeper!"
Thank you! I'll see myself out, and don't forget to tip your server.
