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Question for elder/ex-elders
by TweetieBird inwhy do elders, in judicial committee meetings when dealing with immorality, have to ask so many personal questions, i.e.
how many times, was oral sex involved, anal sex, how many times, etc.
is it really necessary or are the elders just getting off asking about someone else's sex life?
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Mitochondrial DNA
by xelder inrecent research involving mitochondrial dna traces human genetics through the mother.
human migration can be traced and time periods estimated.
a human family tree is developed.
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Planned Giving Department
by xelder inits amazing how i was too blind to see through things for so long.
a friend of mine worked high up in accounting at bethel and said that the donation arrangement had really hurt cash flow.
in 1996, just a few years after the donation arrangement for literature started, and the generation change, the co discreetly asked a few of us to a meeting with the planned giving department brothers who were visiting in our area.
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District Convention's - Control Freaks
by xelder insince for many years i served at many levels of convention administration for 5000-6000 attendance (small conventions), i think back and shake my head at the control freak policies.
do any of you remember?
when i used to attend 8 day conventions, (3 sessions a day 9:00-12:00 1:30-4:30 6:00-9:00) departments were huge to organize.
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Letter being read tonight?
by mjarka911 inso my active jw wife is feeling under the weather tonight and told me she won't be attending the meeting, but she was on the fence becase they announced an important letter was being read tonight.
anyone heard anything?
maybe it's just a local thing, but i like to try and see what's coming around the corner.. .
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Guess what I found in an old file cabinet in the Garage
by xelder ina bunch of blank congregation checks from when i filled in as the account servant many years ago.
and, i can copy the po's signature pretty well - lol .
if it wasn't illegal i would make out $1.00 checks to the salvation army, catholic church, homeless shelter (then they would be giving to charity - oh my) .
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Recent Example of Molestation Policy
by xelder inin the 80's a very righteous elder in our congregation was caught molesting his 2 stepdaughters.
he was df'd.
within 5 years he was 60 miles down the road serving as an elder in another congregation.
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Do Most Pioneers really Get there time quota?
by xelder indo most pioneers really get there time quota?
over many years, i've known only a handful who were conscientious and actually seemed to work hard and efficiently.. i have long thought that counting time was really stupid.
all on us would kill time inefficiently, but for many years as i served on the service committee, we would review the pioneers activity twice a year.
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Jesus' Role as Mediator
by sd-7 ini just had a thought--never a good sign, right, ladies?--about jesus' role as mediator, as defined by the watchtower society.
i personally experienced a particularly interesting moment with my mother back when i first started to lose faith in the borg.
(i'm actually going to use that term, borg, now because "organization" makes me cringe every time i hear it, even when it's used at work.