Use their own strategy. Pad your time, it doesn't mean anything anyway and it will get them off your back. Eventually make them call you for your time in six months and just dont be available. I assume you are missing meetings like a good little preapostate. Just say you are doing more informal witnessing due to a busy schedule, they will back off, then gradually let it go down an hour a month or so and then skip a month in three months. Just let it flow. This will get them off your back so you become lousy association and people leave you alone, they sure as hell wont try to help you. Otherwise tell them to shove it if you like. Man I hate that feeling of having these self appointed saviors on your ass.
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Any Suggestions on what to say if elders ask why you stopped going in FS?
by BU2B ini was curious what might be some good things to say if i am questioned by the elduurs about my decline in fs.
anything too honest may get me a jc (although that would be for the best in the end..) the co visit is this week so they may be getting more agressive than usual.
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Mark Sanderson is NOT an overlapper..
by DATA-DOG ini had the opportunity to speak with 5 elders at once recently.
they were all gibbering about jw stuff, so i asked , who was the first fds?!?!
it must have been rutherford, right??
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Wasanelder Once
If they were to partake before the second wednesday in the moth of May when Freddy Franz died they might count, but not the third wednesday because we all know the Jubilee cycle would be off by a year in that case. Duh?
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What TV Show(s) Do You Just Love?
by minimus ini regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?
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Wasanelder Once
I am in the US but I have discovered some Canadian TV shows online. Artic Air is really good and set in the magnificent northern territories. Then there is SEED. I love it. A comedy. IMDB it. Walking Dead of course and assorted others.
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Your Experience with Resigning as an Elder
by committeechairman ini'm considering resigning as an elder.
i'm not planning to fade or stop as one of jehovah's witnesses, just stop serving as an elder.. i have responsibility in the congregation and in circuit, district, rbc, etc.
and i'm completely exhausted.
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Wasanelder Once
I was doing everything, I mean EVERYTHING, District Parts, sub CO, TMS School, Pioneer School you name it. But I was diabetic and was very ill, no joke. I pushed and pushed but almost did myself in. When I removed myself they fought it, mainly because they were lazy and didn't want to have to take up the slack. In our cong you did it till you died with your boots on. Not me. So when I did I actually had a publisher ask me if he could still talk to me? I almost said, "don't bother." Needless to say they were angry and not so understanding. Definitely self centered. The relief saved my life, I could concentrate on my health. I had pioneered for 9 years up to that point so it was a shock to everyone. A relief to me though. They never did treat me the same. It helped me to make the decision to get out of that emotionally abusive religion at last. Yeah! I don't look back.
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Congregation votes to rent house for Couple's School Grads? What's with that? Heard of this before?
by Wasanelder Once ina couple of grads from the "couple's school" are now serving in the local congregation after finishing.
they will be here a year.
i asked what work he does.
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A couple of grads from the "Couple's school" are now serving in the local congregation after finishing. They will be here a year. I asked what work he does. I was told he is a special pioneer. So that's a meager amount from HQ right? So where will they live I asked. "The congregation is paying rent on a house for them for the year, we voted on it!"
Ok so what's the difference between that and a parsonage? ITs payed clergy no matter how you slice it. Is this more WT hypocrisy? I pioneered for over 9 years and the jerks could hardly cough up gas money. Is this like when they all vote to pay for the CO's expenses after his visit? We all know how voluntary that is.
Have you heard of this before? It always pisses me off when they say they have no paid clergy. What a load. Give us your thoughts and experiences with this sort of BS.
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Beatles out takes
by glenster inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuj1xwa8kdk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fylmk_ulz8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ukupthftbq.
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Wasanelder Once
I'm a diehard Beatles fan here, thanks for the links. Great fun. Man makes me feel so many feelings from throughout the years.
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Jesus Christ rule since 1914 , what has he accomplished .
by smiddy inhow has jesus christ been ruling since 1914. well, here is a breif list to shut your apostate mouths forever .. 1., he raised up c.t russell as the first president of the ibsa , ok ,he hadnt returned just then , but he was going to, soon.
apparently w.h.
connelly was actually the first president before russell , maybe he didnt quite measure up.
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He was nice enough to give us Hogies and Shasta colas, for a time. Hail the Theocracy Ever Increasing!
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Norman v Watchtower Bible And Tract Society Of Canada
by Bangalore innorman v watchtower bible and tract society of canada.. .
https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cpns/norman+v+watchtower+bible+and+tract+society+of+canada.
bangalore.
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Wasanelder Once
So basically the donations stand and the family is ass out. These two must have really been buying a ticket to Paradise. We'll they have Thier reward don't they? So sad.
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My Update
by nolongerconfused inhello friends..... i have posted off and on for maybe a year and half?...
just to update you guys on where i am.
writing this makes me feel better.. i was baptized when i was 9 years old along with the rest of my immediate family.
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Wasanelder Once
You have been hit by a double whammy. First your reason has been restored where the WT is concerned and you have seen it for what it is. Second your feelings are damaged by the break up with your wife and you may want to examine whether your feelings aren't clouding your reasoning? It seems she took a big jump when you divorced by "fornicating". Unconditional forgiveness is often undeserved and the result of self doubt. I'm sure you love her, but is it in both your interests to try and reclaim something your religion and heart may have fabricated? I can't say that's the case but the bond of loving someone is not so easly broken. Does she really love you? You said yourself she wants you to "return to the JW's then maybe get back together". She knows you WONT do that ever so could it be her way of insuring that you bear the guilt of this split? As others have said, clear your head and try to let that one go. Ultimately you know what the reality is, if you dont deny it you will succeed. Good luck.
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Literature Cost
by Kool Jo inhello folks:.
just curious....back when they institutued the voluntary donation arrangement for the literature rather than specifying a cost....was the reason related to avoid paying taxes....i heared this somewhere, but checking to see if there's real proof or some letter from the borg.. thanks.
kool jo.
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Wasanelder Once
Gotta admit that one really angered me, this "friend of the court" BS. It seemed rather expedient. You or I would have been sanctioned if we pulled that crap!