Broken Promises
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Evil triplets: shunning, no contact with worldlies, and conditional love.
by dgp inas a non-jw, i am only beginning to grasp the real force of what i deem to be evil triplets, shunning, no contact with worldlies, and conditional love.
if you leave, you won't have any outside contacts and you will lose your family and friends; but, in the meantime, you are damned certain that you can't be sure they won't be taken away from you at any moment.. i think that the fact that true love and friendship can really develop among witnesses is a triumph of the human spirit.
how sad that anyone needs to bear all this..
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Varying Rules in the Congregation
by cantleave inthe society rarely phrases its man made rule as thou shall or shalt not, but makes "suggestions".
the elders of each congregation will then enforce those "suggestions" to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the demographics of each elder body.
the inconsistancies result in uncertainty and that in itself becomes an additional form of control.. it is possible for someone who has only experienced only one or two congregations to read someone elses experience on a site like this one and may think, that does not happen in the organisation.
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Too Many In The Car
by Broken Promises infor a period of time when i was a jw, i lived with a family of jws.
they had 2 young children under 12. the family were good friends with another jw family who had 3 children under 12. .
so were talking about 5 kids under 12, this will be important later.. .
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WATCHTOWER MAY YOU ROT AND BURN IN HELL
by FireNBandits inwatchtower, you've been livin' hell to me.
you've busted me since nineteen sixty three.
i've seen 'em come and go and i've seen 'em die.
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did any body have calls and studies pinched off them
by RosePetal inover the years my hubby and i would auxilliary pionneer and start studies and develope calls that would take magazines regularly and invite us in.
as hubby wasn't a ministerial servant at the time elders ministerial servants and reg pioneers felt they were more worthy to have the studies and calls and would find a way to take them from us.
one ministerial servant told our study who started attending meetings that he should be taking their study and succeeded in taking it over..
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Work Related: Am I correct for being angry?
by Elsewhere inmy manager expects (never directly ordered me), but expects me to have my work laptop booted up at home every evening after work, all weekend long and every holiday so i can monitor my email and promptly respond to emails.. .
am i wrong for being pissed off about this?.
the company i work for is always talking about their "work life balance" program for employees.
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The reporting of field service time
by lepermessiah inwere any of you really bothered/still bothered by the practice of field service reporting?.
there was an old post on here that got me thinking how the practice got started.. instead of simply being a tool to monitor the progress of the faith, or to see if the work was done "throughout the earth", it appears to me that it was just a tool used to keep the presses rolling and to see how much literature to produce - along with controlling the rank and file.
the average jw gives it no thought, its just another "blessing" from the organization when you hear the monthly reports, etc.. the organization is so statistics-driven that they make jesus out to be a ceo with people who need to meet their sales quotas.i'm sure he really wouldnt care if peter and andrew got 20 hours one month and john got 25. wait, maybe thats why john was "beloved" .
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So.....do you or don't you want them to come after you?
by Quillsky ini've noticed an interesting dichotomy in these discussions.
as a starting point, i understand that we are all different --- there is no "we" here except that we have all been, or been involved with, jw's.
but this is interesting..... some people complain about being "hounded" by elders and shepherding calls and previous "friends" and so on.
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When you were still a Dub,what roles did you enjoy playing in a DC drama, a baddy or a hero?
by african GB Member infor example: which role would you play, judas iscariot or apostle peter?.
enoch or nimrod.
elijah or baal's prophet?.