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  Why this obsession with Standardisation?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  the longer i am out, the the less i understand the logic of this organisation.. i thought that the kingdom hall my wife attends was perfectly fine and adequate, in fact i liked that it sat in grassy grounds, surrounded by trees.

  it probably wasn't in any dire need of re-decorating at this point.

  others, obviously, thought otherwise and so the hall has recently been subjected to a make-over.. the parking lot has been extended in true joni michell they've "paved paradise and put up a parking lot".

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  OSFA.

  One size fits All.

  If it does not fit it is dumped..
  
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  “Middle Class Joe.” Why it pays to be a Politician in USA!

  by I believe in overlapping in

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  alexandria cortez wants a raise from $174,000 to $178,900, as a cost of living increase.

  i thought she was crazy considering all her stupid rants.

  but i wondered how a person like her, a former bartender who was paid the minimum wage or your normal tip salary for the area, was able to command such a salary.

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  Politicians here just had a massive pay rise. Unconfirmed at $11,000 pa.

  But they deny pensioners and the unemployed any increase.
  
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  In Sydney, and ex jw gathering, with an apperance by Angus Stewart!

  by nonjwspouse in

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  2. experiences

  this happened yesterday.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pfyty9bs3i.

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  Thanks all. I needed a hanky.
  
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  "The Former Things Will Not Be Called to Mind” How Can This work!

  by The Bethelite in

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  2. friends

  my previous thread talked about how the jws believe that jah will magically remove all memories of their dead loved ones in the "new system.

  " thus no sorrow.

  ok so god will erase all memories of your dead children from your mind.

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  bobcat. As i said think of people who have survived a war, the holocaust or some calamitous disaster of nature. Yes its in the memory but we dont dwell on it.

  The wt idea of memory erasure is to make individuals robots..once again.

  or are they afraid that in some new order people are not to remember any of the wt f*** ups..
  
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  Debate

  by gabcol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  back in the day, russell and rutherford would hold debates with other religious leaders.

  why has jehovah's witnesses stopped doing that?

  i think it would be very interesting to see how they would hold up on a debate now.

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  • The quality of public speaking by the org has not improved in years.
  • Speakers will use 100 words where 20 would do.
  • they all stand like statues behind the mike having no movement.
  • (at least when I was in) Never used power-point. I asked an elder about the use of PP and he said "Oh we cant use that" like it was banned or some such.
  • Speakers seem to fear using varying voice inflection like highs/lows suitable pauses they all from memory just start--drone on-- and finish.
  • some will scripture the audience to death as others will jehovah the audience to death.
    
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  Long prayers

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did you have one or two brother with way too long prayers in your congregation?

  when i was a child we had a brother who would go on and on after the watchtower study for at least five minutes.

  many elderly sisters just sat down and a lot were complaining after the long desired amen..

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  Longhairgal.

  "had control issues and serious ego problems." spot on isn't that what the entire wts is about?

  Slightly off topic. A a convention the foreign language session (Italian) had finished and they were then up for lunch. So they all spilled over into the other section of the stand all jabbering away like there was no-one else there. The speaker from that session just kept at it and no-one could hear a word out of three what he said.

  It was farcical.
  
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  50 Years since the first moon landing

  by eyeslice2 in

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  in july of 1969, i was 16 years old and was pretty excited by the prospect that the us would shortly land a man on the moon.

  however, i remember, vividly and older brother at the time confidently stating that man would never walk on the moon, quoting psalms 115 - "as for the heavens, they belong to jehovah.

  but the earth he has given to the sons of man.

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  I believe the wts wrote to NASA saying much of the above about J not permitting moon landings. A copy of that letter would be worth seeing especially so since there has been an active space station for years now.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses as medical records employees, and Medical Privacy laws.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this subject has been brought up before.

  the governing body and watchtower have repeatedly encouraged jws to show loyalty to the organization to "keep the congregation clean" by reporting wrongdoing to the elders.. i know directly of two cases.

  two jws working in the records department of our local hospital "outed" 3rd gens 1st husband to the local elders when he and his mistress sought medical treatment together for stds.

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  smiddy3

  I agree fully.

  If any jw outed any patient here they would have their arse stung well and proper. and, the word would be out they would NEVER get any such job again.
  
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  Long prayers

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did you have one or two brother with way too long prayers in your congregation?

  when i was a child we had a brother who would go on and on after the watchtower study for at least five minutes.

  many elderly sisters just sat down and a lot were complaining after the long desired amen..

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  zeb

  They all seemed to do it.

  Final prayers at any convention were an exercise in suffering as the praye-er had his big moment in the sun and proceeded to sum up the entire program as if god needs reminding.

  It ever reminded me of Jesus saying of the Pharisees who would go on and on so as to be noticed by men.
  
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  Beards

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i started growing a beard 2 weeks ago and i am making some nice progress.

  it has been noticed by many in my workplace and they give me great compliments.

  my skin would get all bumpy from the constant shaving and i am so glad to be done with that form of cult control.. last year (i was pimo then) i worked in the video department at the regional convention.

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  zeb

  I grew my beard as I got sick of shaving, the bloody neck, the bits i missed,and also a beard looks manly.

  Manly! good grief we cant have brothers looking ...manly..