Posts by Scully

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Any HR Executive on board ? (How do you manage to not to celebrate employee

by zatang in

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BotchtowerSociety writes:

new poster with a question who has not behaved offensively in any way.

Really? Someone comes here - a place where former JWs discuss how their experiences as JWs, their experiences with WTS policy, including the forbidding of birthday observances on the grounds that it gives undue attention (i.e., "worship") to the person celebrating rather than to god - and basically intends to impose that mindset on others who do not share his religious beliefs in a workplace environment.

Celebrating the holidays of the kuffar is haram.

Frankly I'm surprised that more people are not offended at his assumption that we're willing to aid and abet his personal intolerances. We've kindly offered him some alternative suggestions, myself included. BTW, the reference to kuffar is directly from the link that jgnat posted on page 1 of this thread. I'm not refering to non-Muslims in a way that the Q'ran hasn't called us already.

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Any HR Executive on board ? (How do you manage to not to celebrate employee

by zatang in

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The managers where I work recently started bringing a cake to work once a month in honour of everyone's celebrations. It didn't matter whether it was a personal celebration (birthday, wedding, new baby, new house, etc.) or a professional one (achieving an accreditation or certification, or presenting at a conference) the cake was to celebrate everything.

You have to remember that the goal with these "celebrations" is that you are trying to build and maintain a positive morale among your staff. If you take away something that they are accustomed to doing, how does it benefit morale? Will it make your job of morale building easier or not?

Understand that your beliefs regarding not observing the kuffar birthdays if it is the company's directive could put you in legal jeopardy for discriminating against persons on the basis of religion.

If you are serious about your beliefs to the point that you cannot stomach the thought of offending Allah by celebrating with the kuffar, you really would be better off seeking employment with a Muslim-only company.

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Any HR Executive on board ? (How do you manage to not to celebrate employee

by zatang in

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Muslims don't celebrate birthdays.

I guess it depends on the Muslim... perhaps they aren't supposed to, but I know quite a few who do... even birthdays of us filthy kuffar.

JWs don't celebrate birthdays either... but we all know JWs who go out for dinner on their birthdays, you can call it whatever you want, but they are observing the birthday after a fashion. Hell, I used to know an Elder's™ wife who would lip-sync (lips would move, but no sound) the whole happy birthday song to you if she found out it was your birthday.

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Strollers at DC

by InquiryMan in

if i understand it correctly, strollers are not allowed at us conventions.. in sweden, a letter was written to the congregation, introducing this new rule.

however, quite a few families wrote letters to the society,.

asking if they wanted families with children to attend the assemblies or not... it was stated that they would not go unless strollers were allowed.. the society pulled back, allowing strollers in designated areas.. in norway, they didn t even bother to introduce the rule in the first place... .

Scully

When they announced that strollers wouldn't be allowed at the DC, I pointed out that they were discriminating against families with children - we had attended the very same venue a number of times for other events and the venue permitted strollers for them. There were no restrictions on the use of wheelchairs for the disabled, and with the book bags, diaper bags, lunch coolers that people were expected to carry, there was no way in hell I was going to carry a baby and a toddler too.

What they were in actuality attempting to control were the parents who preferred to walk around the building with their child in the stroller during the boring-ass sessions, rather than sit with a miserable kid in the auditorium.

They eventually relented and allowed strollers on the ground level. I was so pissed off that I spent most of the DC in the mother's room with the kids, because it had air conditioning, and the rest of the arena were not allowed to have it. It must have been on the same a/c switch as all the offices used by the CO/DO and convention overseers and the money changers assholes counting the take from the Contribution Boxes™.

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Is it more accurate to call it a cult or to call it a high control group?

by Hillary in

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If you call a group a "cult", people get their hackles up and go on the offensive, even if you're right about them being in a cult.

If you tone the language down and call it a "high control group", people may still get offended, but not in a knee-jerk reaction kind of way.

It's the same kind of thing when JWs call us Apostates™, when we would rather be regarded as "fully informed about Jehovah's Witnesses".

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Any HR Executive on board ? (How do you manage to not to celebrate employee

by zatang in

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If you have a secretary, you could delegate that responsibility to them. That way you are in compliance with the directive without being directly involved.

Your other alternative would be to work for a Muslim company that only hires other Muslims, so you wouldn't have to worry about mingling with non-Muslims, since that is what Islam objects to - because it's okay for you to celebrate the birthdays of Muslims, right?

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Prozac Use Among JWs, Bethelites, Circuit Overseers and District Overseers, What Gerritt Loesch Said

by Scott77 in

any bethelite whom served the past 5/6 years remembers gerritt loesch's morning worship when he mentioned over 40% of those in special full-time service (bethel, missionary, co, do) were on antidepressants, such as prozac.

serious phenomena affecting many, but throw the tight reins, multiplies it.

mc rubbermallet.

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Happiest People On Earth™.... yeah, right.

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Best diet for a Diabetic.

by Quarterback in

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dr just told me that i inherited this health problem.

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has anyone had any success in winning over this desease?.

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Thanks, jgnat! I will be doing the same thing in a couple of weeks, so I get where you're coming from! Fortunately, I can go in to the clinic at work for 6 a.m. and be the first one in line and get home before everyone else wakes up!

I buy the egg white cartons at Costco. Normally they are about $3 a carton at the local grocery store, but I can get 3 cartons for $4.99 at Costco. They are pasteurized so they last quite a while, but I'll sometimes portion them out in zip-lock bags and freeze them. I just have to remember to put one in the fridge overnight so it's thawed by the morning.

I'm actually craving an omelet with broccoli and spicy cheese right now.... bbl.

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Best diet for a Diabetic.

by Quarterback in

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dr just told me that i inherited this health problem.

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has anyone had any success in winning over this desease?.

Scully

Start thinking of food as your #1 drug. Food choices helped get you to where you are, and they can help you get to where you want to be too.

When I follow the GI (Glycemic Index) closely, my blood sugars are quite good.

Portion control is huge too.

I try to limit the starchy foods like bread, breakfast cereal, rice and pasta, and rather focus more on lean proteins, vegetables and fruit. If I do have cereal (oatmeal) for breakfast, I add a tablespoon or so of chopped almonds to balance it out with some protein so that my blood sugar doesn't spike.

I try to add veggies to every meal, even breakfast. I buy egg whites in the carton and make a spinach & mushroom omelet, sprinkled with a bit of grated cheese or feta. Wrap it in a warmed small whole wheat tortilla - it's so yummy!

Salads for lunch, with a splash of lemon juice instead of dressing, and again with some protein (cheese, chopped hard boiled egg, leftover chicken).

There are times when I splurge, but I pay for it in several ways (high sugars, headaches, diarrhea), so I'm learning all the time too.

If you can find one locally, a lot of community centres offer diabetic education classes for people who are either newly diagnosed or haven't been able to control their diabetes with diet and/or exercise. They're great programs and really help you understand the disease.

One thing I really need to work on is exercise. I hate it so much. I've never been good at sports and got a lot of ridicule growing up because of it. I used to try to exercise at home, until the day that Mr Scully walked in on me "Sweatin' to the Oldies" in front of the TV and laughed his ass off at me. That was the end of that.

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Jehovah's Witnesses never claimed to be Prophets

by anonread in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtvycqmsey&feature=colike.

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Scully

Then why bother following them?