I don't discuss religion that much with my parents anymore. However, I have raised the issue of the lack of further education for most of my siblings because of the doctrines of the Watchtower and the supposed nearness of the end. Fortunately, most have done well in life and even my only JW brother is a licensed teacher. I have raised the fact that Firstson declined the opportunity to become a medical doctor on the basis that the end was only weeks or months away. He could retire in just a few years now. My parent can't counter my criticism and I have dropped the subject now. At least my JW parents don't criticize their non-JW grandchildren, (including my son) who are at university now. 3rd
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Sharing Your new light with your Parents
by pratt1 inevery so often i get to share some of my thooughts about the borg and my new found beliefs with my mom , who is a die hard pioneer for over 20 years.. we actually have had decent conversations about doctrines and interpertations of the scriptures, and she has admitted that at times the borg may have misapplied certain scriptures over the years.. her excuse is that imperfect men sometimes make mistakes and jehovah makes allowances for this.. but what really gets her upset is when i bring up certain aspects of my childhood, that because of her belief in the borg, she made some unwise decisions for not only me be her family.. me getting baptized at 13, her not being fully supportive of higher education, cutting off family members, pushing me into an early marriage when i was clearly not ready, teaching me that all "worldly people', including my father woiuld die at armageddon, these are just a few examples that when we discuss them, she becomes extremely angry and then accuses me of making her out to be a bad mother.. i got me thinking, do you think that many dubs refuse to acknowledge the problems with their religion because it would mean that they made some really bad decsions in their and their families lives.. are they afraid to accept the responsiblity for this because of the guilt they would suffer?.
what are your thoughts?
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Working in IT
by Chameleon inhello.
if you work in it, what exactly do you do, and did you go to school for it?
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I trained and worked in Engineering fields for several years after college. I wrote an RPG program when I was 18 (circa 1978) and dabbled in BASIC and C at home. Part of one of my jobs was programming process controllers. 15 years ago I retrained as a programmer and went on to work in software development and ERP implementation for a Software company. This was all AS400/iSeries and RPG IV and ILE stuff. I am now back working for a manufacturing company managing software development in the Supply Chain area. I still code but now work mainly in PL/SQL. 3rd
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Our 20 Employee Company is going ERP
by Nosferatu inman, this is going to suck.
i really don't see why a company of less than 50 employees needs a big fvvving system to handle the way everything flows.
i could fix it all by eliminating one employee who buggers everything up within the company.. i know the wts uses an erp system, but they have more than 20 people working for them.. what are your experiences with erp?.
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ERP Systems are notoriously difficult to implement without huge costs, typically run over budget and time. I have worked in software development and been on implementations that were quite disasterous.
That said, we (I was one of the tech leads) recently implemented a sytem in 11 months that covered all of ERP, CRM and Service Management and totally replaced our previous system. It was done on time and under budget. My company is about 1200 employees and we employed 50 full and part time employees on the implementation. We support the system in 3 manufacturing centers and 7 countries with a team of 10 developers and 4 business analysts. We manufacture and ship international, run paperless warehouses, interface with carriers, do electronic banking. We use electronic trade, automatically prepare customs documents, drop ship anywhere in the world and take orders up to 7:00 PM at night and still guarantee same day shippimg. We could not run the business without extremely sophisticated ERP.
Whatever you do, talk and go visit other companies who have implemented the same software as you are considering. Ask them what went well and what went wrong. Find out what they'd do differently today. Any software vendor will give you a list of reference accounts and most companies will be willing share their experiences.
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Take the Quiz - Which Star Trek Character Are You?
by Alleymom inmy family's been having a lot of fun with this!
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http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/startrek.
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Mr. Scott 85% Geordi LaForge 80% Spock 65% Will Riker 65% Chekov 60% Deanna Troi 60% Beverly Crusher 55% Data 46% James T. Kirk (Captain) 45% Uhura 45% Jean-Luc Picard 45% Worf 45% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 40% Mr. Sulu 30% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 30% I guess it was the thick accent and scotch drinking that swung it for me.
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kn37 - 50 bible studies
by Zico inat the service meeting tonight the service overseer announced that the british bethel had received 50 requests for bible studies since the campaign.
this surprised me, though i suppose it's not really a huge amount, i wouldn't have expected that many.
also, our cong has run out of tracts, and we're only half way through the campaign, with lots of territory still to cover.
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49 were requests from ex-JWs who want a visit so that they can play with the unsuspecting dub. The other one was from some crazy guy.
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Have you ever had an encounter with a UFO?
by free2beme inwhen i was about 16 years old, a group of us friends would go hiking a lot on the weekend.
we would rough it to some degree, just a sleeping back and sleeping under the stars.
one night, while hiking into a lake in northern california, we all were sleeping in a clearing just out of legal distance from a small mountain lake we liked to fish in.
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No, not me, but my brother has...and it happened in England not the USA. A UK "UFO Expert" related an incident on a Discovery channel program that sounded just like my brother's account (he was interviewed by some "expert'). My brother's wife also saw a ghost in the same house he witnessed the UFO from.
Me? I'm just a sceptic.
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Happiness is.................
by purplesofa inbeing a pioneer.
i kid you not..........this was on one of those chrome frame things that go around a liscense plate on a car i saw today.
it was a cute lightblue vw beetle bug.
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...a cigar called Hamlet.
Not that I'd know but the older Brits will get it!
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Did you get the new tract?
by kid-A injust wanted to run an informal poll to see how "effective" or hopelessly "ineffective" the borg tract assimilation drive has been.. i for one, have not received the tract, and i live in densely populated development.
did anybody get it left in their doors/mailboxes?.
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Is it over yet? Has religion ended?
Nope, not yet and it's nearly November. Oops, maybe they missed us. We only had a half dozen 'trick-or-treaters' too and that was before 6:30 pm, before I got home. Maybe our end of the cul-de-sac with just 9 houses isn't worth bothering with. Sadly, JW-eternal life is more to do with where you are born and where you choose to live.
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I'm being hunted by an elder - would this work?
by serendipity inthis week elder z shows up at my house twice, unexpectedly.
the first time i didn't see him, but my daughter did and didn't answer the door.
the next time i decided not to answer the door since i didn't feel like talking to him.
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Did this elder turn up alone? If he did and you are a "sister" he is breaking the rules or at least the Society's guidelines. If he did, you have justification in not opening the door to him. Tell him if he calls again you'll complain about his conduct to the CO. Put him on the spot and on the defense.
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I never did it, did you?
by Outaservice in.
in the past whenever you went on vacation (holiday) did you try and find a kingdom hall to attend and also try and put in some service time?.
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We only visited KHs a couple of times on vacation. Once in Italy, didn't understand anything and the Watchtower study was a month behind ours. We met other English speaking JDubs and found a couple of degress of separation.
We were totally ignored in Penzance, Cornwall as just more tourist JWs.
On one vacation, Mrs Thirdson and I visited an Anglican Church on Vancouver Island where the congregation in attendance was about 14. The visitors (2) were formally invited to stay for coffee and snacks. Quite nice actually.
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