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  My brother-in-law just graduated PSS

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was scrolling down facebook and i saw that my brother-in-law was getting lots of likes and congrats (including sadly from my wife) for graduating pss.

  initially i thought peter pan (he is incredibly immature for a 23 year old) had gone against character and completed some sort of educational or vocational course until i found that pss stood for pioneer service school.

  i was tempted to comment how sad this was but instead commented that "no matter how much you do they will always make you feel like it is not enough".

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  Have carts been abandoned in favour of old fashioned door-to-door witnessing?

  by Frazzled UBM in

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  2. beliefs

  i just noticed recently that the carts have gone from outside the local station and i have noticed witnesses on the streets going door to door again.

  anyone else observed this?

  have the r&f decided carts don't work?

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  Anyone picked up that muslim fanatic convicted in UK for planning another attack on a soldier was brought up JW?

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i didn't find this particularly surprising given jw indoctrination is all about how evil the non-believers are (and how deserving they are to be destroyed during the big a) and how the wbts is absolutely right and everyone else is absolutely wrong - so it is not a big jump to islamic fanaticism.

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  Interview with an “Unbelieving Mate (UBM)”: Frazzled

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in honour of jgnat i have completed her template:.

  is your wife still an active witness?

  no thankfuly - she has only been to the memorail, a convention and the kh once this year and has done none of that for at least 6 months.

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  Morning Witness - Sowing the Seeds

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i walked past a couple of young witnesses on the way to dropping my son off this morning and they were still there at the station when i came back to catch the train.

  seeing them made me feel sad and think about all the stories of regret here on jwn so i figured what the hell i'll tell them.

  so i approached them and asked how old they were.

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  CO Visits

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  more questions from an uninformed ubm: do co visits all happen at the same time each year?

  is now co visit season?

  what does this mean in terms of harrassing inactive memebers to come to meetings?

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  Troll Accusations

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have noticed that some of us are a bit too eager to label new posters as trolls.

  while it is clear that there are some posters who just like to stir up trouble or are out and out apologists there are others who are witnesses starting to have genuine doubts and so ask questions but then when they see the responses the cognitive dissonance kicks in and they push back and argue with what they are being told.

  this can lead to very negative reactions from jwn members and accusations that the person is a troll.

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  Took my JW missus to the musical 'The Book of Mormon'

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  she was initially reluctant and found it confronting at first (particularly the strong bad language) but then she lightened up and started laughing.

  i didn't try to draw any analogies but hopefully she saw some.

  i must say it is very good at showing you how screwy the mormon beliefs are but actually when you think about some fo the incredible things in the bible - the notion of a third part based in the us is not so ludicrous.

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  What usually happens after the memorial?

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do members of the congregation usually have a meal together after the memorial?

  does the fact that my wife has decided not to travel across town to her filipino congregation and is going to the local one instead and wants to be picked up when it finishes at 8 pm mean that she hasn't been invited to a meal with her filipino congregation and that she is being socially excluded by them?

  i think this is good news but i don't want her to get caught up with the local congregatin because i don't want them coming around to pressure her to attend when she is irregular.

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  Is the WBTS a parasite on worldly society?

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i ran into a couple of elderly lady witnesses on the street and asked them the usual questions about how much they knew about the history of the organisation.

  anyway after being dismissed with the usual contempt i asked them whether they were working and the answer was "no we are on the pension and live in council housing".

  so it got me to thinking that across the developed world there must be very large numbers of witnesses or ex-witnesses in exactly the same situation - basically living off the evil worldly state or more precisely the taxes of evil worldly people.

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