Competition: who has the worst illness, suffers the most from illness, is the biggest martyr to their illness to make it to the meetings...
Julia Orwell
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COMPETITION IN THE CONGREGATION!
by ADJUSTMENTS inthere always seemed to be a level of unspoken competition within the congregation.
wether it be between elders, ms, pioneers, etc... who's kids are doing more, who gets more hours out, who comments the most or the best, who gives the best parts, whos kids are the best, who has the better car, who has the better house, who has the better job and so on... it's not openly discussed but you can discern it through conversations, sometimes you can hear undertones of jealousy or meddling in others business, this always bothered me!
if this is gods organization whats with all the jealousy and competiton, i would see other religions or organizatons with less of these issues and question it!.
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How bad is the nepotism really with the appointments of elders?
by toto555 ini've seen brothers related or who are friends of elders who get appointed after only 6-12 months as an m.s.
while they were other brothers slaving away for years.
elders also who promote their sons and basically say to other young brothers "to heck with everyone else".
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Julia Orwell
I think inside JWs or outside JWs, in any organisation that has ever existed, there has and always will be nepotism. It is part of the human condition for many people. We always want to look after our own. It can be seen in corporations, sports, churches, politics, business, the local fruit shop, schools, armies- anywhere humans gather and organise.
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Doc says it looks like my cancer is gone! How goes the health of y' all?
by humbled ini am pleased to announce that i get to retain my bottom intact for the foreseeable future.. .
milestone check-up just done.
i had a stage 3, 4t anal canal cancer for which i underwent chemo and radiation this past spring.
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Julia Orwell
YAY!!!!! You beat cancer!!! Well done!!!!!!
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IS there anything one moment or experience that still haunts you?
by confusedandalone inlast night me and the wife were talking about things that happened to each of us while in the borg that we wished we could have reacted differently... i mean really put someone in thier place for the foolish thing they said or the deplorable action that enacted upon you.
my wife literally almost came to tears relating something that i was not aware... i wanted to end up going back to the hall for a monthy or so just too handle it.. .
do you have anything you would like to share to help us remove our own thoughts from our minds lol.
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Julia Orwell
I was always blunt, but knowing what I know now, there are certain people I would tell are self-righteous pharisaic twats rather than just 'turning the other cheek.' Most JWs I knew were pretty decent though. There were a couple I actually did get shirty with, and knowing what I know now, I would have gone from shirty to giving a right ticking off.
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What are you doing on Christmas day?
by Jen1 inany one out there doing field service?
i have not gone out on that day in years.
and have no intention of ever doing that again.
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Julia Orwell
Probably the same as always: staying home and vegging out.
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Please don't take the mick....but I got disfellowshipped for kneeing an elder in the nads
by outinthemeadows inan elder in my congregation got on my nerves because he kept putting his arm around me and i'd asked him to stop.
a few weeks later he did the same thing again so i used my knee against his micro-penis.
a judicial committee was formed even though i was being sexually harrassed by this octapus of an elder.
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Julia Orwell
Whoa that's heavy. Talk about abuse of power. What do your family think? Do they shun you?
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The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.
by THE GLADIATOR injanuary 2014 watchtower study article.
let your kingdom comebut when?.
this generation will not pass away.
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Julia Orwell
They're just gonna keep twisting and changing that scripture to suit as time goes on. People do gradually wake up, and things like this get thinking JWs going, "WTF?" The sillier ones will be like, "OMG, the second lot of anointed are getting old now, the end must be sooooo close!" Just like when the 1914 group started dying off they were like, "OMG the number of anointed is smaller and smaller each year, OMG the end must be sooooooo close!"
Or if another change happens, "OMG, nu lite, the end must be soooo close!"
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The packages will arrive today... What do you think will happen?
by Faithful Witness ini have decided that ignoring my niece and nephew during the holidays, is the most unloving thing i could possibly do.
they stopped celebrating christmas and birthdays, after my sister began studying with jw's about 6-7 years ago.
we did not celebrate either, until 3 years ago, when my son was 2 and my daughter was 4, and we'd figured out that the jw's are wrong about this decision.
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Julia Orwell
Yeah they'll tell the kids satan's trying to buy them with gifts or something, but I'm surprised your sister hasn't asked you to not send gifts. If you want to avoid offending them and show that you respect their beliefs, (even though they have no respect for anyone else's) just send them stuff a few weeks earlier. But JW parents coat their kids in cotton wool to protect them from 'the world' so who knows to what extremes they'll go. Shame you can't visit the kids and take them to an amusement park for a day. That would mean so much to them.
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Revelation, It's Grand Climax at Hand
by Cold Steel init's a rather large red book.. if i wanted to purchase one from a pioneer, how much would it cost?.
i'm reading a borrowed copy now.. thanks!.
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Julia Orwell
Heck had I known you wanted one, I would have kept mine and sent it to you. You should be able to get one free, but they don't give them out to non-Jws that much. Just say you're really really interested in the book of Revelation and you've already studied with JWs in another town or something next time JWs come around. Still, I think it will be hard to actually get one. You could rock up at a KH in your suit and that and say you're visiting from interstate and need a Rev book for some reason, ie masquerade as a JW at the hall before the meeting starts and go up to the literature counter.
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Do you frown upon tattoos?
by confusedandalone ini am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.
i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.
today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.
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Julia Orwell
They're so mainstream where I live that most people under about 30 and heaps over 30 have them. I certainly don't frown upon them. I wonder though, if what they thought was cool at 18 will still be cool to them at 40, but laser tattoo removal is a growing industry around here too. We also have a lot of Maoris, Samoans and other Pacific Islanders here, and they have tattoos for cultural reasons. They look very beautiful.
As for employment, where I currently work no tats are allowed to be visible, but blue-collar industries (and blue collar workers are the majority of tat wearers, along with Islanders) don't care if you have sleeve tats and that. A lot of women get tats on their thighs and backs, which can be easily covered up with work clothes.
We have a saying here which goes, "Think before you ink," and I think it's appropriate as you are making a lifelong commitment by putting something permanently on your skin. Some people get their kids' names and that tattoed on them, which is never something you would want burned off though. Some tattoos are just stupid, and like I said, what's cool to you at 18 or 20 might not be so cool when you're 40 or 50...