Just can't beat the warm personal touch made with sincere interest in people's survival....not. These days it seems they just want to tick the boxes without any personal interaction. Years ago when I first 'joined in', we were encouraged to engage in a conversation and encourage others to attend ' a very important annual event ' which they would find interesting..
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Quick and vague Memorial invitations
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthis morning my doorbell rang.
i opened the door thinking it was a package delivery person or local politicians thanking my community for voting in yesterday's election.
there was a middle aged man standing by himself.
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My take upon reading CoC for the 1st time
by nowwhat? inwow!
the gb.
1.0 demanded absolute loyalty back then too.
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Simply stunning book on second read with additional material. Raymond Franz makes some very shocking observations throughout. The way that elders etc submitted personal intimate details of their and other's married lives to the GB for examination and opinions were shocking. This book shatters any illusions of the society being ' chosen' by God... Creek and Paddle come to mind.....
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Russia Uses Nerve Agent to Assassinate Spy
by cofty inwhat started as news of a man and woman being found unconscious on a park bench 12 days ago is escalating into an international incident.. sergei skripal had worked as a double agent for british intelligence mi6 before he was discovered and imprisoned in russia in 2006. he was later flown to england as part of a spy-swap in 2010. on sunday 4th march he was discovered along with his 33 year old daughter yulia close to a shopping centre in salisbury.. since then the story has become increasingly bizarre.
a policeman who was first to attend the scene also became critically ill and remains in hospital.
government scientists at porton down have confirmed that the cause is a russian military-grade nerve agent novichok.
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Don't know what to believe on this. But the undiplomatic language used is appalling. To accuse personally a country's leader without being 100 % certain is risky, and plays into the hands of others. After the Iraq WMD fiasco govts need to be careful of how and what they say. Experts...ha! Ex is a has been...and a spurt is a drip under pressure..
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Funny News From My Old Congragation - Elder Fight!
by pale.emperor ini haven't stopped laughing since i heard this.
a pimo in my last congregation told me that an elder has been removed from his elder position.
apparently he grabbed another elder by the throat, put him up against a wall in the back room and punched him in on the nose... during an elders meeting on thursday evening after the meeting.. the congregation were running round like headless chickens wondering what to do?
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Reminds me of a newly appointed elder who when he was an MS and I was on the literature counter, glared and lunged at the brother next to me because that brother was slow with the magazines. The anger and vitriol in his eyes that night betray his true nature. He should never have been made an elder.. There must be many others within such ranks who have ' issues....
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Brilliant news! Will do much to help others.
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Did You Ever Find The Theolgy of JWs Reasonable?
by minimus inwhen i was a young man growing up in the religion, i would try to defend whatever the understanding of a doctrine was.
i won a lot of arguments based on the idea that i knew better than anyone i was talking to and defended myself admirably.
(lol)....eventually, i realized i was in a cult but for many years i was a believer and i had faith that the gb knew more that i could understand..
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Yes. I thought of it as a jigsaw. each piece fitted well. Then I realised it's a man made jigsaw and whilst it's a nice picture, it's been machined to match the picture on the box..Such a shame.
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Facing my own mortality!
by eyeuse2badub ini’m 71 years old now.
seven decades plus.
but, i put that in perspective owing to the fact that my older brother died in 1992 at the age of only 51. it was a very sobering time for me even though i was only 45 at the time.
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Don't waste life dying. Many have died disillusioned with what the Org presented as a realizable hope..Death is just everlasting peace... without any bills!
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..drowning man needs swimming instructions not a life belt....point taken....gee.
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The Perfect Storm in 2018?
by Wild_Thing ini have been sadly watching as the number of jws in other countries are decreasing (for the most part), while the numbers in the us are strangely increasing.
while i question the organization's self reporting numbers, i think 2018 may be the year for another mass us exodus.
leah remini's show will be focusing on jws in her show on a&e.
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I suspect that having a constantly fluctuating/ inconsistent doctrine basis will contribute to a decline. So many doctrines and teachings have changed to mask the underlying dodgy leadership's fluid interpretation of 'God's Word' over the years. Generation theories and messed up dates etc have weakened the credibility many of us once attributed to the Gov Body. In recent years the scandals and inquiries relating to poorly handled abuse cases etc and now the Oxfam etc abuse issues must surely cast a shadow over all reg'd charities. Recent mags I've read seem flimsy in structure and content. What is the message these days? I haven't a clue!!
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Oxfam sex scandal - Remind you of anyone else?
by Esse quam videri intop of form.
bottom of form.
uk official warns oxfam to hand over all info on sexual misconduct scandal in haiti.
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Charities need comprehensive review. Seems as if they have become the hiding places of dubious characters with hidden agendas. Rather like the JW abuse scandal etc , many other charities lack effective structures in place to protect and expose such individuals. It grates also, to realize that charities and religions enjoy privileged tax status, which means in effect, that all of us are subsidizing them. Why? Why should religions and humanitarian organizations receive financial benefits? Surely their supporters should be fully supporting them. A friend of mine told me recently that he was approached to subscrbe a 'small monthly amount' for charity, and when he explained that he wasn't a tax payer, he was told that they'd still get tax relief etc tax payer or not..How???