Pete Zahut

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  My Mother Died Two Weeks Ago

  by Perry in

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  none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.

  just found out this morning.

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  Pete Zahut

  Sorry for your loss Perry. It's an empty old feeling that comes over you when you lose someone. Be assured that time will ease that emptiness but the one thing that helps in an immediate sense is to be around friends and family who share your grief and you didn't get that opportunity.

  I'm hoping that rather than being a deliberate unkindness this was simply a case of individuals assuming that someone else had told you the bad news and not wanting to interfere or cause an awkward situation themselves, .

  Either way, hang in there and be patient with yourself as you come to grips with this loss. I hope it helped to share this with us here who know what it is, to be left out.

  -Pete
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  First thoughts on "new" meeting...

  by konceptual99 in

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  had a quick look at the workbook and flicked through the sample meeting video.. the increased use of video shows the trend for more centralised dissemination of "best practice" .

  sure there isn't really a "school" any more and the format is a bit different but i think those that called it as the same old crap just in new package got it pretty much right.

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  Pete Zahut

  No matter what new program the Society comes up with, it always involves their having to PRINT something. It's as if they can't help themselves.

  True to form, this program is no different, right down to the repetitive questions with pre-packaged answers that leave no room for a genuine discussion to ensue or any unplanned dialogue to occur whatsoever.
  
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  America Mass Shooting: 10/1/2015

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  since this will be the norm in america, perhaps we should put a date on each of these topics.

  can't really put school mass shooting because too many to choose from.

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  Pete Zahut

  And before anyone asks why I should care about what happens 3000 miles away across the Atlantic, it's because your culture seeps across Europe like rising damp in an old house.

  Wasn't there a mass shooting in a train station in France and another in Australia not too long ago? I have to wonder why it is that why a country full of seemingly intelligent people 3000 miles across the Atlantic are willing to drop their own culture and "absorb" the rising mold of "American Culture" into their old damp houses? To listen to the news, it 's all guns all the time, over here and you couldn't walk down the street without encountering a gun or gunman.
  

  Maybe things will be better when China is the #1 world power and we can blame our own problems on them and their culture.
  
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  Effect on youths of Bethel and construction cuts

  by Tornintwo in

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  i know quite a few youths (late teens to early twenties) who have the goal of full time service, as bethelites or international construction, so they're doing the required slog of pioneering in order to achieve this goal.

  this is a goal which has been excitedly set out for them the last few years or so at assemblies etc.

  now they see the cuts, surely they are going to be discouraged and disillusioned.

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  Pete Zahut

  A lot of the kids I know who went seemed to gravitate toward some sunny climate and sandy beaches and serving where the need is more fun, rather than heading for Alaska to witness to a village on the frozen tundra. They put a few hours in field service each day or ever so many days and head to the beach. Mom and Dad financed them usually and they stayed with other JW's for little or nothing. I imagine it will stay the same even though they are cutting back at H.Q.
  
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  The NEW "Bible Teach" book

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the new "bible teach" book is out!

  thetruthbr has posted links for this and several other of the new publications.

  as an educator, i am very interested in where the society is heading with their alleged "bible education" program.

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  Pete Zahut

  Either the individuals writing this material have diminished reading and comprehensive abilities or they are trying to make sure that the message is simple enough for anyone to read and understand. The trouble is, once you get past that point, there isn't any intellectual stimulation in the form of discussion or reading, to be found among the general population or in the literature of JW's.
  
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  The Org Gets Worse!

  by The Searcher in

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  2. scandals

  how sick and sanctimonious can the scumbags at brooklyn get?.

  in the very last kingdom ministry ever concocted, here is what is being presented to congregations as "spiritual food":.

  week starting december 28.

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  Pete Zahut

  Encourage all to pray for members of our worldwide brotherhood who have been affected by various trials, even mentioning them by name if possible."

  Apparently the more people that pray, the more likely Jehovah will help , especially if you mention them by name. I wonder if it would be helpful to include their middle initial and mailing address. I mean, it would be a shame if he helped a worldly person named Geoffry Jackson instead of the Geoffry Jackson who really needs help right now.
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  Mass disassociation pact...

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
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  any takers?

  we can pick a date and pull the plug?

  lol .

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  Pete Zahut

  I think it's fairly certain that we are being watched. My concern is that by 8/8 or even by next month the word will be out and they will be expecting us (if they're still in business). Much if not all of the impact, will be lost.
  
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  The Borg has given up!!!!

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. scandals

  it's become obvious in the last few days that the borg is done, done giving one dime over to the membership of the organization.

  they know or have been told that it's a waste of time to spend money trying to recruit new members so their cutting all out lays of money in this regard to the bone.

  they will continue to spend money where they can make a prophet, keeping the ones in, not thinking and donating.

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  Pete Zahut

  I was under the impression that the organization would be "bucks up" after the sale of the Brooklyn properties, but it just dawned on me that they may have continued acting as a printing company long past the time when they should have joined the internet/ high tech age. They may have been nearly broke or carrying heavy debt and needed to sell the Brooklyn properties to become solvent but it may have been too little too late. Perhaps they are going for broke these days, figuring that since things are turned upside down anyway, they may as well start over, toss out a whole bunch of their unproductive ways, redundant personnel and some of the no longer relevant doctrines.
  
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  Overlapping generation pushed me to the brink

  by Anator in

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  hello, i haven't posted for a number of years.

  i've been struggling for years of wrestling in my mind regarding the organization.

  i guess the big thing for me to push me over the edge is the generation overlapping thingy.

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  Pete Zahut

  Their literature of old uncovers everything!! I got addicted to finding out everything of old.

  It was drummed into our heads as JW's to look at (and agonize over) the origins of things.

  the rejection of so many of the seemingly harmless modern day customs and beliefs, was based solely on where they originated. We were told that it didn't matter that these things morphed over time and became something completely different in our day. (ie: Throwing rice, Kids Birthday parties, Mother's day etc.)

  All of that strict logic goes out the window once you point out to a JW the origins of their own flawed doctrines. They excuse these by looking at what they eventually became , rather than seeing that their entire existence was based on false premises that were established by their leaders from the past.
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  Mass disassociation pact...

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  any takers?

  we can pick a date and pull the plug?

  lol .

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  Pete Zahut

  Another twist on this would be for Disfellowshipped individuals to reaffirm their disfellowhippment by sending a Thank You card or letter.