Posts by Della Street

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Withdrawing community support in the congs

by purrpurr in

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i've noticed in the past 10 years that the social support that used to be available in the congs, a shoulder to cry on, elders to help with family/marriage issues these seem to have been purposely withdrawn.

counsel is even heard from the platform that the elders are not there to help people with their problems.. so first in the 80s-90s they take away the congregation get to getters and social events and now they seem to be going one step further in taking away the emotional support for people too.. this will take away an aspect that i'm sure was keeping alot of people in the borg, the community support.

if that's not there and its just about meetings and ministry how many will start to get their emotional support elsewhere?.

Della Street

I hear ya, LongHairGal. The social structure in the congregation is as follows:

Elders (married)

Elders (single)

MS (married)

MS (single)

Elders wives

MS wives

Pioneer (couple)

Pioneer (single, male: white, young, straight, able bodied)

Wealthy (couple)

Wealthy (single man)

Men (white, young, straight, able bodied)

Men (hispanic)

Men (black)

Men (old, white, etc)

Pioneer (old, female)

Pioneer (young, female)

People with Disabilities

People who appear gay

Independent Single Women Who Work and Aren't Desperate

Old People

I told my mom, there is no place for someone like me in the congregation, so I am not going to go. She was so confused.... hahahahaha

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Let's talk business ...

by dubstepped in

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i am thinking that this could be an interesting topic.

most of us never had a chance to go to college, many of us were involved in various service industries like cleaning and such, and we have had some limitations placed on us.

so i thought it might be interested to see what has worked for people, what hasn't, what the progression has been, where people went wrong and where they got it right.

Della Street

hitting the wall and going to the hospital looks like not being able to move off the couch and then over dosing on pills. I was in and out of the hospital November - January. I'm still working on getting stable.

If you can, put in some stop gaps before you work yourself to the point that you can't function.

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It's that time, singles..... sign in please

by dancnsteph in

hey there all you singles.

it's that time in the show where we all sign in and tell a little about ourselves.

i guess i will get the ball rolling here.. my name is stephanie.

Della Street

hahahaha

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Let's talk business ...

by dubstepped in

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i am thinking that this could be an interesting topic.

most of us never had a chance to go to college, many of us were involved in various service industries like cleaning and such, and we have had some limitations placed on us.

so i thought it might be interested to see what has worked for people, what hasn't, what the progression has been, where people went wrong and where they got it right.

Della Street

I've had several businesses. The most successful one, I recently closed after 12 years. I coordinated disability accommodations like sign language interpreters, real-time captioning, converting books into braille, etc. As small, women owned businesses go, it was highly successful. It was a lot of work for me to do on my own for so many years and I finally hit burn out this past fall and ended up in the hospital.

I am now going back to school and deciding between architecture and engineering at the age of 46.

I have to say that it has been hard for me to go back to school and decide what to major in - part of my struggle is I am interested in so many things, but the other part is getting over the mindset of "waiting for the end to come". In many ways it is a huge mindfuck because when I look at the future now, it is blank.

Anyone else have that experience?

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Publisher ID: leaked video clip 4 of 4

by Fay Dehr in

"if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― george orwell, 1984 this video is leaked in interest of human dignity; you deserve to know who is keeping personal data and how they plan to expand their nets.

open to your comments... https://youtu.be/zieprhjmolu

[videos 1 to 4 leaked as own posts, with specific comments for each video].

Della Street

wouldn't a database like this make it easier to take the organization down because you have the identities of everyone in the organization? For example, if their persecution scenerio ever came true in the US, wouldn't this just make taking everyone to jail that much easier??

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How to "turn the tables" on still-in witness who pry about our status.

by stuckinarut2 in

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so many of us have had (perhaps well-meaning) jws ask us questions about our inactivity, or lack of attendance at meetings.

they may pry about why..... how is this for a simple, yet straight to the point response?

to a sincere person, it may play on their mind and make them ask more questions.

Della Street

What I have said is:

" there are some things I've observed that bother my conscience and there isn't a place for a single woman with no intention of pioneering who isn't pining for a husband."

exit.

and curtsey or bow....

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Memorial Attendance: The Single Most Impactful TTATT "Witness" to Family and Friends

by AMNESIANO in

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anyone who has awakened to ttatt and conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent individual from a prominent multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.

by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dimissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".

nothing blasts a louder, clearer, and more deliberate message to the jws who personally knew you and those familiar with your jw bona fides that you are not merely "not making the meetings" or "spiritually-weak" but that there is a conscientious reason you have rejected the entire watchtower society life than choosing to forego what they know you know to be their one-and-only holy and sacred event of the year, the lord's evening meal.

Della Street

That's exactly why I do attend. I am fourth generation born-in. My mom is a regular pioneer True Believer. In order to keep my relationship with my family and for them to deem me "safe", I sacrifice this one hour a year and attend the Memorial.

Some people need religion and it is not my place to interfere with their faith.

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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?

by jukief in

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".

Della Street

on some level they do - they just call it adaptation.

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Thoughts of Suicide?

by Simon in

we are not a support forum for people with serious depression or thoughts of suicide.

if you or someone you know are struggling with such issues there are professional support services in most countries with people who are experienced and qualified to help:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_suicide_crisis_lines.

Della Street

As a person who has been suicidal I would agree with Simon.

For the most part, people don't talk about it much before hand, they just do it. Even when I did talk about it, talking was not helpful. I needed medication and treatment.

People who do talk about it tend to be seeking attention. It is distracting and upsetting to others on the board, and while it provides people with attention, it doesn't provide them with what they really need which is probably some professional treatment.

DS

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New light

by poopie in

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june at article now it's ok to say a greeting?.

Della Street

What do you think this is new light about exactly? Doesn't seem new to me.