YOU CAN PREACH-EVEN WITH DEMENTIA (page 2)

Farkel

: SOOOO.....NEVER SAY THAT YOU CAN'T PREACH.EVEN THE SEVERELY DEMENTED CAN STUDY WITH YOU.

Several years before he died, my dear JW father had advanced dementia. His younger brother is a devout Mormon and was goading my dad about his religion. My dad was mumbling a lot and it was clear he was not capable of following the conversation. I thought my uncle was being a little cruel to him, actually.

Then my uncle said to my dad, "Well, since you think your religion is so great, tell us why it is so great."

My dad's eyes lit up and he said in a strong and crystal clear voice, "This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness, and then the end will come!"

It took my uncle by shock, given my dad's condition, and he said, "Hey! That was pretty good!"

Way to go Dad! You ROCKED!!

I miss him so.....

Farkel

Edited by - Farkel on 5 July 2002 14:53:17

Dutchie

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minimus

You know, I was looking at some old posts and saw my very first one. I realized that I didn't ask a question. WOW! ........What was interesting about that experience was that the Society will make us preach, even when we are not qualified. All JW's are REQUIRED to preach. Whether you are sad, depressed, suicidal or even demented, the lesson to be learned is just preach. Even if you are a child molester, go preach. Even if you can't find a person to preach to, just preach, even to a dog! Remember that experience? You can't move? You're paralyzed? Look at the experience of the PIONEER that had to use a pencil to type with his mouth. If he could preach, so can you. So just preach!

Big Tex

Actually Minimus I'm glad you stopped using all caps. I remember when all yours posts where like that! Make it hard to read. But then we've all gotten a little clearer picture of what we want to say. I know it took me several months to before I really found my “voice”.

blackout

LOL Minimus, when I red caps I always read them in a yelling voice, so your post was rather funny as it was like you were yelling at an old deaf person with dimentia. Anyway Im pretty tired now and probably saying dumb things. But Im determined to use up all my posts for the first time ever1!!!!

RAYZORBLADE

So........that's what it was that I had.

Figures!?

All this time I thought it was attributed to my eating off of too many aluminum pie plates.

Francois

Please allow me to check in with the research on visual recognition of printed materials.

Apparently, word recognition is abetted by those portions of a word that extend above the line of the body of the letter. Thus b,d,f,h,k,l, and t are essential for enhanced rapid word recognition. Those letters which have parts extended below the line of the body of the letter are of secondary importance, but still tend to abet rapid word recognition.

In using all caps, of course, there are no parts that extend either above or below the line, thus all letters have equal weight in the recognition process.

For easy, quick, and efficient reading caps and lower case can't be beat it seems.

And noooooo, I don't remember where I read that so I can't site any research. But it makes sense that certain cues can make reading easier or more difficult. And these subject cues regarding letter height and depth make perfect sense to me. In all caps, all letters are equal so no cues are available.

Makes sense to me.

francois

minimus

I STILL LIKE ALL CAPS BUT I KNOW IT AIN'T RIGHT SO I DON'T DO IT ANYMORE. I AM TRYING TO BE POLITE NOW. I DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER. NOW I DO.

acsot

I DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER. NOW I DO.

Maybe it's because you had just finished field service for the morning and were still suffering the after-effects of the left-over dementia which seems to be an inevitable and non-escapable (is that a word?) part of the great preaching work.

YOU CAN PREACH-EVEN WITH DEMENTIA

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