i am not a newbie, i should be a jeteye or some other cool name.
i have been bounceing messages to this site for while now about four years.
so what gives with this newbie stuff anyone care to tell me, i would love to know even the formate is changed i like the old one it was easer, blaah blaah.
Personally, I have always found the internet lingo annoying, especially calling someone new to a chatroom or messageboard a Newbie. And wow, Pepper, you aren't even new here so how annoying can that be? I would hate to hear the answer. Maybe they should call newer ones something dignified like: New To Board.
~Heather~
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2791943.stm
a job centre employee has taken his employer to a tribunal because he claims that the dress code is sexist - women are not required to adhere to a similar standard.
his union is backing him.. i am inclined to say "oh boo hoo, poor you, your employer has a dress code!
Yes I Did,
I agree about women wearing skirts being more unfair. There were even rules about us wearing panty hose and not wearing denim. I wonder how many brothers would show up at the meetings if they had to squeeze into pantyhose before every meeting. Pantyhose are miserably hot to wear in the summer, too.
And on that line of thought, how many brothers do you think would head out into ice cold weather and snow in skirts? They should try having below zero windchill blowing up across their fannies sometime.
~Heather~
consider the typical character of witness life: "spirituality" as a word is twisted and misapplied into a sterile life of dead.
meeting attendance and peddling magazines - instead of emphasizing active compassion and ethical qualities.
this tendency.
Jeff, sounds like you have seen the same thing many of us have, the brutal emotional care mentally ill JWs receive.
~Heather~
consider the typical character of witness life: "spirituality" as a word is twisted and misapplied into a sterile life of dead.
meeting attendance and peddling magazines - instead of emphasizing active compassion and ethical qualities.
this tendency.
Alan, your experience with the Elder who tried to help people with DID, how wonderful that he tried to help. How sad that he was stopped from doing it. As metatron pointed out there is a lack of spirituality and character building in general in the org. James T. points out that greed and fear are two important causes of the problem.
In the movie Titanic, which was full of artistic license, there were examples of cowardly men who swindled their way onto life boats only to push women and children out of the way to their deaths. Fear and greed again were operating there. Similarly, it is fear and greed that breed an "only my survival matters" mentality in the org.
So much attention is given to presenting a superior moral appearance to the outside world that the GB have forgotten to remember it is also important what the org. looks like to those still inside. As long as it impresses the world who cares if the WT org. alienates it's own members? As long as the GB survives who the hell cares if the rest of JWs do? As long as the WTBTS saves face in the world who cares how many JWs are swindled out of that "lifeboat" and sent to their deaths? After all, isn't the WT org supposed to be the big ARK in which you must be to survive armegeddon?
~Heather~
consider the typical character of witness life: "spirituality" as a word is twisted and misapplied into a sterile life of dead.
meeting attendance and peddling magazines - instead of emphasizing active compassion and ethical qualities.
this tendency.
Alan, it has been my experience that though the witnesses say they don't believe in evolution, they certainly do believe in survival of the fittest. They believe only the strong should survive. If you become weak and need help you become like a millstone around their necks. If you have any problem you become a liability to the congregation. Could this be mostly due to the fact that the Elders don't have the education, training or qualifications to deal with the very real and serious problems people in today's world are experiencing?
A sad and ludicrous example of this twisted logic is the Elder or Elder Body who tries to "help" a mentally ill person by disfellowshiping them.
Can you imagine a psychiatrist telling a mentally ill patient's family and friends to shun him? Oh yes that would go over big with the AMA, malpractice in serious form. Yet Elder Bodies disfellowship mentally ill people all the time. I have seen it countless times. You have incompetent, untrained men "caring" for the most fragile of all people, the mentally ill.
Since the Elders have no training to help the mentally ill or weak they just ignore them or kick them out.
This is just one example of the survival of the fittest mentality that grows and spreads like a terminal cancer within the WT org.
~Heather~
please excuse all the grammar in the first person, i dont care about it right now.
lol!.
i am in a heated battle right now with the current resident manager of the building i live in.. i have been here for 10 years.
Your landlady, she definitely not be jommin'.
Peace be wit choo, mon.
i need someplace to vent, so excuse me but i am very angry at the moment.
as most of you know, my father in law committed suicide last sunday (the 16th).
his death hit nina hard, but i've discovered this week that my sweet little kitten of a wife has the heart of a lion.
I haven't posted here before. I just wanted to say that I am going through my own hell. I have been through much of that at the hands of JWS these last few years. Somehow when the going gets the roughest and I am thinking," How can I make it through anymore??" I remember to keep repeating to myself:
~This too shall pass~
Sometimes those are the only words that awaken me to the fact that so far every bad or sad thing I have been through has gotten easier to deal with in time.
You likely already know what I have just said to be true. If you are like me, though, you forget this at first. I hope that my words help you in some small way.
Love,
Heather
