Posts by lancelink

I also keep an eye on several older ladies who live in our neighborhood. I shovel their drives in the snow, trim their trees and bushes in the summer,

and cook dinner for them several times in the winter when the weather is bad.

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Elder rules regarding young children

by lancelink in

this afternoon i was talking to one of my sons (25 yrs old) and he was telling me stories about how he felt as a young jw.

some of the stories were pretty sad.. it got me thinking ,, the elders were real "micromanagers" when it came to young kids at the meetings.. we were not allowed to bring books outside of the wt, no alphabet, picture, or counting type books .. also food was a big no-no.

when my kids were toddlers, we would bring cheerios, small stuff like that.. the wizards would bellow from the stage, "you should not feed your kids, take care of that before the meetings.. after that time, i still brought food with, we just made several trips down to the basement during the meetings.. out in service on a 95 degree day no shade, kids and parents were advised to keep your tie on.

lancelink

This afternoon I was talking to one of my sons (25 yrs old) and he was telling me stories about how he felt as a young jw.

Some of the stories were pretty sad.

It got me thinking ,, the elders were real "micromanagers" when it came to young kids at the meetings.

We were not allowed to bring books outside of the wt, no alphabet, picture, or counting type books .

Also food was a big no-no. when my kids were toddlers, we would bring cheerios, small stuff like that.

The wizards would bellow from the stage, "you should not feed your kids, take care of that BEFORE the meetings.

After that time, I still brought food with, we just made several trips down to the basement during the meetings.

Out in service on a 95 degree day no shade, kids and parents were advised to KEEP YOUR TIE ON. One elder actually had the nerve to tell me

not to take a break ( hot humid morning with two infant boys) because we needed to get a complete morning out in the field.

The truth was that he was pioneering that month. We ignored him and took a break, and he and his wife sat out in the car enveloped in a self rightous cloud of BO. man that was a hot day.

Any other stories about child control in this religion ?

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Feel the Love?

by AK - Jeff in

we must hate in the truest sense, which is to regard with extreme and active aversion, to consider as loathsome, odious, filthy, to detest.

surely any haters of god are not fit to live on his beautiful earth.

- the watchtower, october 1st, 1952, pp.

lancelink

58 years old,,, this is now OLD light.

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2012(The Movie): If the world would end that way, would it be logistically possible for WBTS to have ALL JW's in a spaceship like that?

by african GB Member in

just want to hear what other people think,.

by the way our cong.

had a "needs" talk warning people not to watch this movie.. i have to say however that after watching it, i almost went to elders to confess my 'apostate sins,' in order to survive that big day..

lancelink

I didn't see it,, have no need to watch Hollywood hype like that.

And if you had a desire to talk to the elders afterwards,,,,, THAT is dangerous

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>> you WILL be assimilated

by chickpea in

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lancelink

I like the one with pink lips

wasn't that one "seven of nine " ?

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Jehovah's Witnesses and Amway

by paul from cleveland in

jw
friends

maybe you're all familiar with this subject already but i just came across it tonight.

it's an article about whether or not amway is a cult.

the similarities between jehovah's witnesses and amway are incredible.. http://www.cocs.com/jhoagland/amcult.html.

lancelink

wow

when I was a kid my Dad was really into amway. and its funny all the simularities.

My parents were RC, then amway was injected into our family,, several years go by and all of a sudden BAM,,, we are now jw's.

What a messed up system this was.

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The dirty little secret of Watchtower PREACHING WORK you may not know

by Terry in

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friends

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lancelink

I have several friends who are mormons, and they baptize 2-3 people every other week around here.

They use pretty much the same method of two people dorr to door, but they are supported by a vast

pool of media information which no doubt helps them.

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2010 DC" Remain in Gods Love"...Most Unloving Yet??

by JWFreak in

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friends

the talk outlines for the summers conventions are only being printed over the next 2 weeks or so.. the finished outlines were ready in the middle of december 2009, however sources that i trust tell me that at least 5 of the talks were returned for last minute rewriting which is highly unusual.

this has held up the printing until now, a delay of over a month.

this is a fact!!.

lancelink

Thanks for posting .

I appreciate your efforts in doing this

By the way jw freak,,,, what country are you from, (i can't identify the flag) !

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Encouraging Service Talk

by Nephilim in

i remember a talk that was delivered at an assembly a while back that was repeated many times in my old hall and i remember it had a line in it that had one of those effects on people like they would go into a silent trance.

if you were allowed to "oooh!

" or "awe!

lancelink

shyness is a very real block to enjoying service. Unless I had some extroverted person with me I always hated it.

It was easier to allow my partner to talk , I'm quite the shy one in real lfe.