the author (from australia) makes some great points.. http://www.noelbatten.com/watchtower.pdf.
46 pages long.
some excerpts:.
Did anyone else here experiences of how someone was tired, stressed, busy, etc., but when they came into the hall all of it melted away
That's so true, Momz, every time I accompany my wife to evening meetings it takes less than 15 minutes before I gently noze down and fall into a sound nap. My wife has to thrust her elbow into my thorax when I get too noisy. So relaxing...
i wish i had leolaia's brain.. i wish i had eryn's reasoning skills and sense of humor.. i wish i had purps, sparkplug and seven006's talent and creativity.. i wish i had wasanelderonce's dedication.. .
do you wish you had another poster's wit, compassion, heart, personality, tenacity, sense of humor, looks, way with the ladies, way with words or anything else that you admire?.
fess up - what do they have that you want?.
I wish I'd HEIDI's articulate thought and expression. I don't know if she posts on here but she runs a superb blog VirusHead.net where she most intelligently and benevolently helps XJWs and would-be XJWs, free of resentment and hatred, Bravo. JWD Albertans who may know her, please convey to her my congratulations.
were you "loved"?
well respected?
considered a "loser"?.
Still is : weakening the brothers' faith
psoriasis .
my body/skin resembles this:.
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Ms McDucket,
If your skin really looks like the picture shows, your psoriasis must have evolved over a very long period (about 10 years) because it doesn't appear that bad in a short time. If it did come out fast, I bet it's not psoriasis. In addition, as it is nerve related (often comes out after a psychological trauma) , rash patches appear symetric on your body, not central. Psoriasis isn't sore, it's just a rash unless, after a long period, it evolves into articular rheumatism, in about 5% of cases. I wouldn't advise you to spend your money on meds : vitamin A (harms your liver as Momzcrazy mentioned), or corticoids which are just cosmetic. There is one cure : if you can find an opportunity, go spending a long holiday in an equatorial country (sunny and humid), it will be gone within two months, for a long while, about 2 years (and will be back slowly, or won't come back at all). UV treatment must be handled cautiously because you can't be exposed to the rays, all in all, more than 150 hours, it's used as a last resort. Eating milk fat makes psoriasis go worse.
i've been reading a lot of posts and a lot of you here on the board, are "active" members, attend all meetings and conventions, go out in field service, even help with quick builds.
i don't want this to sound like i am disrespecting anybody, but what makes you lead a double life?
doesn't anybody at the hall notice your lack of interest?
I'm in between. I don't preach nor attend the book study anymore, for reasons I explained to the elders, and told my wife that I will accompany her to the mid week meeting, if she wishes to attend, because I don't want her to feel miserable on her own. For a while I insisted the whole family to attend the WE meeting but the kids don't want to go anymore. To anyone who asks about them I explain that if they are of age to get baptized, they must be in a position to say if they want to attend meetings or not. I don't feel I lead a double life, I just manage a situation and I express my thoughts freely to elders, so far unretaliated, with the feeling that a few of them would like to enjoy the same freedom as the one I enjoy.
i'm amazed at seing how that religion has spawned a new brand of globe-trotters.
with a view to creating new foreign congregations in big cities, the wts is encouraging publishers to leave their original congregations, learn a foreign language (tuitions are set up for that purpose) and go supporting these groups.
some publishers are just too happy to add variety to their lives and engage in the venture, even though they may not know even a single word of the foreign language.
WT,
I'm afraid my thread is not clear enough and is misunderstood. I'm not talking about WTS sending SP abroad but about the creation of "ethnic" congregations (Chinese, Tamil, Thai, Rumanian, Russian, etc) in big european cities. R&F publishers are asked to support these groups and have to learn the language, sometimes from scratch. It's not cost effective for the WTS, not in financial terms but because "able" elements are distracted from congregations. In addition, the whole process is, IMO, inefficient (imagine a frenchman preaching in Paris in the Thai language) and viewed by the publishers as a way to escape the daily routine.
i'm amazed at seing how that religion has spawned a new brand of globe-trotters.
with a view to creating new foreign congregations in big cities, the wts is encouraging publishers to leave their original congregations, learn a foreign language (tuitions are set up for that purpose) and go supporting these groups.
some publishers are just too happy to add variety to their lives and engage in the venture, even though they may not know even a single word of the foreign language.
I'm amazed at seing how that religion has spawned a new brand of globe-trotters. With a view to creating new foreign congregations in big cities, the WTS is encouraging publishers to leave their original congregations, learn a foreign language (tuitions are set up for that purpose) and go supporting these groups. Some publishers are just too happy to add variety to their lives and engage in the venture, even though they may not know even a single word of the foreign language. BTW, I wonder if the WTS has well assessed the depleting effect of such moves on existing congregations. Anyway, a few months later you find these publishers travelling in the foreign country, supposedly to further their learning, at a small cost since they are put up by the local JWs. From there on they can extend their trip to other countries. Among other examples, I've particularly in mind a young JW girl who, in this way, has covered Asia from India to Japan, including China and Korea, and thence down to Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Thailand and what else. I'm not sure the process is very cost effective for the WTS in terms of making disciples but it certainly is enjoyable for these crafty youngsters who have learnt how to take advantage of the worldwide network of congregations.
the memory of this just popped back into my mind.. i was at a 3 day congress, and the ending prayer was said by this really old brother.
he was one of the survivors of wo ii concentration camps were he was put for being a jw.. anyway, the poor man started his prayer with thanking jah, and then he recalled every piece and play of the three day congress.
i bet the man had written his prayer on paper and rehersed it each day adding a new 15 minutes to it ... he even mentioned a part where a witness lady replayed an incident on the street - she gave witness to by-standers - and one of the people she talked to had a stuffed dog.
every second word was Jehovah
When you hear that sort of prayer, you can tell for sure that the speaker tries to sound as if he were in a warm close relationship with Jehovah but, as an actual fact, has little to say.
Edit : Sorry LouBelle for this undiplomatic remark, hope you don't take it badly.
ok its time to recount all your favorite crazy jw urban legends, ill start i remember this one was told to me after i had left the org, there was a newly married couple, they were good little dubs, evil mother in law lived with them, she did not want to convert or study, well time went on they had a baby, and mother in law was into some spiritual stuff, unknown to jw mommy and daddy.
anyway jw mommy wakes up one night to find little baby dub sitting inside the fish tank with most of the water taken out and there was some kind of evil spirit present, mommy dub yells out jemimas name and breaks free with baby dub.
evil mother in law is asked to leave their happy home.
she was walking along with two men on her side.
I heard that story so many times, and even from the platform.
Victor HUGO also mentions Jehovah in Les Châtiments :
Quand, avec ses enfants, vêtu de peaux de bêtes,
échevelé, livide, au milieu des tempêtes,
Caïn se fut enfui de devant Jehovah...
Well, I'm refering to a poem (I saw it once) where supposedly he was praising the witnesses of Jehovah, nothing less...
the memory of this just popped back into my mind.. i was at a 3 day congress, and the ending prayer was said by this really old brother.
he was one of the survivors of wo ii concentration camps were he was put for being a jw.. anyway, the poor man started his prayer with thanking jah, and then he recalled every piece and play of the three day congress.
i bet the man had written his prayer on paper and rehersed it each day adding a new 15 minutes to it ... he even mentioned a part where a witness lady replayed an incident on the street - she gave witness to by-standers - and one of the people she talked to had a stuffed dog.
And the shortest I ever heard : at Twickenham, Ernie BEAVOR (sp?) invited for the concluding prayer, just shouting THANK YOU JEHOVAH, and that was all, the audience burst into applause. That was in the last 70ies, he was quite old and I believe he was never invited again.
