Hats off to you, Blondie! That you can trawl through that smelly vomit inducing swill each weak with the fortitude you do amazes me. Great stuff.
Julia Orwell
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 05-05-2013 WT Study (STUMBLING)
by blondie instumbling block.
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I am what I am
by joe134cd ini was just thinking today.
i heard the term been frazed as a "neutral witness".
i think that's what best describes me.
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Julia Orwell
Gosh yes, there are beautiful people in there. People often convert too out of sincerity, out of a genuine desire to please Jehovah and live the way Jesus taught us. That's why I joined. Those beautiful people are great company and yet they're held in a web of lies, manipulation and propaganda. It's so sad.
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New Explanation On United Nations Membership From Circuit Overseer.
by ÁrbolesdeArabia ini had the chance to speak with a circuit overseer, he was not my circuit overseer and it was my chance to get the offical party line why the watchtower joined the united nations.. .
"are you a jehovah witness he asked me?
(theocratical warfare allows lies according to the gb!
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Julia Orwell
Totally. At least he didn't deny it and when you cited documentation, pigeonhole it it as an apostate forgery. But that's only because you pretended to be a member of the public...
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Julia Orwell
Hey Oz, I like that you got literary. I really enjoyed reading your little treatise on demographic changes. Urbanisation is a fact of the world since the industrial revolution, and it's continuing and will continue. The trend to urban movement happens in Witness rural congregations too: I live on the Gold Coast and we get young JWs and young families in from all over the place. Then the kids grow up with the temptations of the city lifestyle and out they go.
If you look at the trends in developed countries, the rate of JW growth is stagnating, and so many speak of an actual decline in JW numbers in the decades to come. I look forward to when the JWs becomes an historical curiosity with a few hanger-ons like the Worldwide Church of God.
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What used to worry you the most about the great trib and Armageddon?
by Julia Orwell ini worried most about losing my dear family, but i also had silly worries like, what would happen to my pets?
say i didn't have a chance to let the cats out, they would starve inside my house.
and what if people were so starving because of the big gt famine and stole my chickens!
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Julia Orwell
I knew a sister who said we should never talk about what we are scared of, because Satan will hear you and use that thing to torture you (eg in 1984. Winston is faced with his greatest fear, rats) in the great tribulation when all the JWs are rounded up.
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Day One After Armgeddon written by a JW awaiting the Big A w/eager expectation - Warning: LOOOONG!!!
by Eve Deceived inonce we found out we were all witnesses, we all hugged.
now we just had to see if our kingdom hall was still standing.
when we came to the hall we had such a huge shock.. there were so many people there.
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Julia Orwell
This is written as a recount and cannot be called a story. It's a different genre.
The underpinning assumptions are pretty dark: whoo hoo, loot the dead!
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Julia Orwell
Yes. They are the ultimate spin doctors. Numbers go up: Jehovah is blessing us, the end must be close! Numbers go down: love is cooling off, the end must be close! Heads they win, tails everyone else loses.
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if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either
by biometrics infor even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
(2 thess.
how many witlesses actually take this scripture to heart and apply it in their lives.
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Julia Orwell
It's sad isn't it. People who get depressed and stressed because their bodies crap out on them after years of hard labour...and it comes back to the old thi.g about discouraging education. I do remember the wt at one stage in the last decade encouraging kids to get a vocational skill like business admin or hair dressing, but too bad if you hate those things. I know from experience with work that if you punch beneath your weight ie potential, you'll get depressed from the boredom!
My hubby is now in a situation where he's busted his back, mid 40s, no post school education, no alternative skill to the unskilled heavy work he's always done, can't get the dole because e does get a little work in a shop so although severely under employed, not unemployed. If he were still an active Jw he could contrive to go on the dole somehow, have me do the main work (I get paid a lot because I'm a professional but can't do a lot of hours because of my own crapped-out body), pioneer and thank Jehovah for providing!
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if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either
by biometrics infor even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
(2 thess.
how many witlesses actually take this scripture to heart and apply it in their lives.
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Julia Orwell
In all the congregations I've been in, pioneers usually support themselves. It's really frowned upon in my area to pioneer on the dole. The only one I know is on disability, and I think if she can pioneer on disability, she could work a simple office job.
Australia's pensions and doles are a pittance as it is, wouldn't even pay my weekly rent. To go on the dole and pioneer would b difficult in most circumstances as it's hard to get, there are lots of things you have to do ie jobseekers classes and activities, appointments, and logging a certain number of jobs applied for. An honest Christian couldn't pioneer and dodgy up the paperwork because honest Christians wouldn't lie. Another difficulty is waiting times and the fact you have to have separation letters from your last two employers. Then there's a 176 question book you must complete. It's less hassle to just get a job.
I do know old age pensioners who pioneer on their govt pension, and I don't mind that because they worked and paid their taxes. As for the other pioneers, they're usually youngsters still living with mum n dad, housewives and window washers. People who don't leech off Centrelink. I didn't think they'd accept your application if you were.
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Julia Orwell
Sydney! That's surprising. Maybe they're all here on the Gold Coast. A lot of families move here. We also get a lot of Melbourneites 'serving where the need is great' cuz few young ones are being promoted to elders.