So that's what's got my mother going. She was at her International convention last week, which she gushed was a lovely, encouraging week. She snapped, if I have any faith AT ALL I would know that we'll see him (my deceased father) again! She came back pretty wound up.
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Resurrection talk at convention
by innerpeace ini didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.
and apparently a video was shown too on it.
we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.
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80 Year old COBE Layoff Conspiracy
by XBEHERE inwho else thinks something is afoot with this?
is the gb deciding to go back to pre-1971 times with perhaps the cobe as the man in charge and the rest just ministerial servants.
so for this reason they want younger men in those postitions?
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Virgochik
I remember only five or six years ago when I tried to buy my mother a laptop and get her online so we could email photos and stay in touch, my dad gave me a stern look and the hairy eye. Man, what a dirty look he gave me for mentioning how I booked vacations online and encouraging mother to learn to surf the web. If I'd chirped I was smoking and hosting swingers parties, I wouldn't have got a filthier glare. Now, they push tablets and JW.org and mother doesn't even remember how frowned opon this used to be. It's just amazing.
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LIVE from Ford Field international DO
by darth frosty injust wanted to show the activity in downtown detroit from the convention.
trafic is on jam!.
lots of people .
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Paco, thanx for your observations. Maybe you could post some more over the weekend? And that's a really cute dog!
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Why the Clean out of top Management
by Poztate init has been commented here that "soon" the do's will be history.
the co level will be "retired" at age 70 and the latest development was that the cobe can not serve after age 80. it would seem that there is a "cull" of top management.
in secular companys that would signal a radical change of directions ???.
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Virgochik
At my company, (Postal Service), they want to shed us older long time employees because we're disgusted and jaded with all the changes, and we're simply not buying it. So we need to go, to make room for younger ones who are relatively enthused and haven't heard it all before. Could it be similar?
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Taking care of aging parents
by skeeter1 ini hear that a recent talk was about taking care of one's aging parents.
i agree.
generally, kids should take care of aging parents.
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Virgochik
Isn't it ironic that we weren't supposed to go to college, but now we're supposed to be able to help our aging parents financially? I was giving my elderly widowed mother money but recently stopped when I learned she was putting it in the contribution box instead of buying food. I'm really losing patience with that.
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my story slowly
by venting ini remember studying the truth book.
the blood issue never sat well with me.
in fact it's my biggest complant.
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Virgochik
My grandmother died because she refused a blood transfusion. I barely remember her because I was only five. Now my mother carries her new blood card showing she might consider fractions. She never questions why her mother had to die. It makes me so angry. She should be angry too but oddly enough, she doesn't get it.
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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Virgochik
Juan, I think you're very brave to share with us and I really appreciate it and enjoy your posts. Sigue adelante!
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I Heard A Longtime Elder, Recently Deleted, Announced To Congregation That He Was Publicly Disassociating Himself!
by minimus ini heard that it happened a couple of days ago.
he's in his 60's, was a prominent bethelite from a long line of bible student/jw family.. another one bites the dust..
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Blondie, thanks for posting Little Toe's talk. I read the whole thing. It was awesome. They're so blasphemous, inserting themselves into Jesus' role, when they're just a manmade organization like Little Toe pointed out.
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The most watchtarded WT study yet....?!?!?
by DATA-DOG inif you went to the meeting yesterday, did you notice how utterly watchtarded it was??
it seemed to me that everyone in my kh has accepted the fact that they will die.
that's all they kept saying, even the wt conducting eldumb said, " we have to teach the next generation because we won't be here forever.." wth?!???
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I remember the 1975 fanfare well. I graduated from high school in 1977. Several of my peers were taken out of school by their parents. To this day, I'm surprised my father didn't do that to me. I got to graduate, have had a career, and am about to retire from my career. When I attempt to talk about retiring to my mother, she does not want to discuss it. Some thing's rotten in Denmark and she can't deal with it, as an elderly woman. She wasn't supposed to get old, and I wasn't supposed to reach retirement age in "this old system of things."
She'll be back at the meeting Sunday to lap up more BS. I love her anyway, but I just don't get it.
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What Watchtower Belief/View Never Sat Right With You?
by minimus inbut their views on blood are just plain weird!
meat has blood in it even if it's bled.
still eating meat means consuming blood.
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Virgochik
Blood. My grandmother died when I was 5 years old for refusing a blood transfusion, so I only have a couple of memories of her. Now they've changed the blood policy, so why did my gran have to die? Worse still, my family doesn't even catch the discrepancy. Wouldn't you think it'd sink in? She died for no damn reason! Yet they still smile and go to meetings, Ass-emblies etc. Sad. I could've had my grandma and got to know her.