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  Pioneering: How the GB shamelessly capitalizes on members' worldly desire for prominence.

  by Island Man in

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  2. beliefs

  the bible likens the preaching work to a sacrifice of praise - praise to god.

  pioneering is also a sacrifice that involves praise.

  it's the sacrifice of a specified number of hours that wins you the praise of men.. when you really analyze the psychology of pioneering it is apparent that the praise of men or prominence before men is at the heart of it.

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  Good point, quelly. Anonymous like donations. Why not?
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  Family Lost- Dealing with the "Inevitable"

  by BLWashington in

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  2. experiences

  so... recently lost my favorite aunt, mother of my favorite cousin- she was a "witness" when she died.

  inactive, but still a witness.

  who lived with my witness mother and stepdad.

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  humbled

  NewYork44M,

  I do think it's like that. You have already had to accept their loss. The grieving has past.

  My clue was from my non-JW husband whose mother YEARS ago moved across the country to be near her only daughter and then dried up as far as her two sons and their families were concerned. She had so completely dried up that when my husband drove to California to help clear out her house (daughter had died), her neighbors were shocked to learn she had sons--she never mentioned them.

  She had money to travel--the sons and families scraped to get by. She had her own world.

  Theirs was a grief passed before she died.
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  Israel ... Jehovah ... The Promised Land ... Genocide

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a topic that i was always uncomfortable with, but, as a good indoctrinated jw got myself to accept the spin.

  of course, now that i am out, when i speak with other "christian" friends, they make the same excuses.

  god's ways are above our ways ... okay, sure ... but really???.

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  "Well-founded, cogent, true, admirable" is one of the several dictionary definitions for the word "good".

  As I was scrolling down the thread i was glad to see ADCMS hold up Perry's insistence on finding a common ground for defining "God".

  But there must be a shared definition of GOOD as well as GOD.

  Do they fit together, Perry?
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

  not so easily in writng.

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  Nancy-drew-pictures.^^^^^^^^ to show and not tell.

  "Kickin' back in the sun in margaritaville--palmtrees and --where's my lime?"

  Good times.

  Rip, we'll write the body-snatchers out of the script and take back your writers' colony!
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  Incomplete quote,, does it make any difference?

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the dec 15 2013 study article page 19 paragraph 10 a professor jonathan klawans is quoted.. i found the original quote here:.

  exodus 12 commands the israelites to repeat this practice every year, performing the sacrifice during the day and then consuming it after the sun has set.

  (according to jewish tradition, the new day begins with the setting of the sun, so the sacrifice is made on the 14th but the beginning of passover and the meal are actually on the 15th, although this sequence of dates is not specified in exodus.

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  Oubliette,

  Your points above are clear-cut assessments. Either option damns the operation of Holy Spirit.

  When I first sensed something of the same I couldn't understand it so well as you have put it here. My feeling of doubt began when I pondered a troubling OT episode that I had researched and wanted their considered opinion of it.

  I knew a faithful old pioneer sister whose son was still on the writing commitee. I brought up my concern to her. She said casually--"Next time ____ calls, I will ask him about it."

  Something didn't set right with me on this. But some weeks later she told me "I talked to _____ yesterday and he said that there was nothing about such-and-such in the literature."

  And then it struck me that the swift-moving chariot was run by these human computer-bots. These questions or points that are submitted to the FaithfulDiscreetSlave are never examined by the Holy Spirit/God's channel. It was very, very troubling to me then.

  This thread fleshes out the inherent flaws of the development of the literature.

  Bad tree, bad fruit.
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

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  Ha ha !! Bruja! you have a children's book!

  English you second language?!!!!???

  I'll tell you something about this morning (add to your story?)

  Goldie has been showing them how to "scratch" for feed and so thoroughly has messed up the feed and water for this past week by throwing wood shavings around that----(wicked me) ---I put her out of the house :(

  the chicks were dispondent. they cried. then were silent. They sat like stones.

  I poured my coffee and felt like the sh*t I truly was.

  Goldie would have none of it and had come up the steps. I heard here clucking at the door! My conscience made me open it. She didn't waste a glance at me and marched in. She forced me to open the lid of the chick house, passed in front of it twice and jumped to the rim and --PLOP! In she went---

  You know the rest! You have it all now!

  (shamme on me, I know)

  If you draw--DO IT!
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

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  Thank you, Bruja. I will look up Paolo Cuelo--

  (You-know-who has a little froth of a tail just emerging.)
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

  not so easily in writng.

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  humbled

  Great fun! I wanted to fix some stuff but Husband came for lunch and I had to punch"submit".

  You are an inspiring bunch!

  Prof. CoCo--thanks for the prompt! It IS a challenge to do what you said.
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  greetings, fellow posters!.

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  She trudged behind the old man over the rough clods of the field. Stout legs and bare feet, hers tough but his were beast-feet. He punched the earth with his planting stick and she dropped the yellow kernels into their dark womb of earth.

  The spring morning had given over its chill to send a patch of heat spread across her sweater and threadbare dress. She was come to the field like a big girl, yet ached to see the older children wind down the dirt road from their staggered row of earthen huts to the ochre-walled school. "Someday,I will too," she thought...

  Distracted thus, she stumbled. Grains of seed corn fell from her pouched apron and she shot a glance to see abuelo's whiskered jaw tighten. She flushed, stooping quickly to pick up the precious grain.

  But he too had marked the children thronging to schoolyard. And as she sought the lost seeds in the broken ground she didn't see him turn and raise his hand over her.

  Rough as a dog's paw the hand hovered and then lit where her gleaming black hair was cleaved by abuela's fine-toothed comb. With the gentleness of the hen on her eggs he felt the heat of the sun on the child's head as she staightened to seek his face.

  His hooded eyes were glossy with moisture. The taciturn face under the perennial shade of his hat could not hide that he felt for her what she did for him.

  She would plant now and she without longing. "Someday" would come soon enough for abuelo and soon enough for her too.
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  My wife and i, cake for our daughters...hm

  by Jon Preston in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so recently it was my daughters b-day and my wonderful wife thought of a great idea....lets get her a cake.

  so some family came to town and we did cake and a few gifts.

  interesting developments as my wife and i have not been to the meetings in abouuuuuut a month....and have been incredibly irregukar in attendance the past six months.

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  humbled

  I learned to do something to keep pressure off my children. (It also might help your wife examine the coercive attitude of the Corp. on children to force them into the WT)

  Because I didn't want to force my children and also my husband would not tolerate strong-arm techniques, I would talk to each teacher to let them know that the child came from a family in which they were pulled by the conflicting forces of the JW religion. I let the teacher know that the child might have some confusion and inconsistencies in behavior during holidays. That it would be kind of them to respect the child's conscience in whatever they were struggling to do.

  Although i was a JDub at the time, I discovered after that that the teachers were very sympathetic to the child not to embarass or humiliate the child (as I know has happened to some children).

  this approach may give rise to your wife thinking about matters pertaining to freedom of choice--an essential to "love free from hypocisy".

  It empowered the children. They retained freedom of mind sufficient to resist complete indoctrination. None of my seven children stayed with the Witnesses.

  Good job! Good LUCK! And enjoy your cake.

  Maeve