His statement is classic doublethink.
Everyone is a hero in their own mind.
Dogmatic people are unlikely to think of themselves as such--otherwise they would change their behavior.
so i was scrolling through the latest morning worship videos and found our good friend tony m. explaining why the gb is not dogmatic.
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you can find hirs reasoning at around the 3:30 mark here..
His statement is classic doublethink.
Everyone is a hero in their own mind.
Dogmatic people are unlikely to think of themselves as such--otherwise they would change their behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip0wuwjbdmi.
"from 1955 till present, popular music has declined to the point where it is now consistently "stupid" and homogenous.
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i have a question with regard to fading.
the wife and i have plans to move to another hall and continue our fade from the organization.
we are already missing quite a few meetings and we are not reporting time.
I believe it's most optimal to move to a congregation where nobody knows you, outside the territory where you live, one preferably too busy to note your absence. That's what I did.
Have your records arrived there? Once they do, take your exit!
he seemed like a decent fellow.
i miss his talks.
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http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5763357495787520/dan-sydlik
There was a discussion about him about a month back...
oh how wonderful those experiences at assemblies and "schools" are - not.
at times it seemed as if these "experiences" were scripted.
the speaker gets criteria in the outline regarding what the experience or interview has to be about.
This is something I only learned after I woke up.
The "experience" I had at the circuit assembly was tweaked by the CO only in terminology. He didn't like me using the word "guys" and thought it might be offensive to older people.
seems as though the number of baptisms even for the young ones is down from what people report here.
at my former hall the young ones are all in totally sheltered even while going to school.
expressing thier desires to pioneer etc.
Internet is killing recruitment from "field service"--and likely has some impact on children of JWs. Of course, these youngsters might be instilled by fear of "apostate" websites while young.
I only wish I'd this much access to information growing up in the 80's. All I had was what was in my parent's "theocratic library" or what was on their bookshelf. Of course, when I became an "unbaptized publisher", I was only 8. I don't remember making that decision or really understanding JW beliefs, like 1914, the Generation, the Faithful Slave. I doubt I could've understood or explained these things.
we have the circuit overseer’s visit this week, and my folks are having him and his wife over for lunch today.
of course, i’m making it a point of hightailing it out of there to have my lunch elsewhere.
when my mom asks me “why don’t you stay and meet him,” i just say, “well, he’s just a man like everybody else.” she says, “well, of course.
"Just a man". Also "appointed by Holy Spirit" and a "star" in the right hand of Jesus.
Classic doublethink.
just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.
the task being transferred to the japan branch.
while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.
If the Australian branch is closed before ARC is ready to revisit them, I wonder how the redress would be done. Who would pay?
is it a fact that all kh construction earth wide has stopped?
the following link is to a pdf file found on the penn law legal scholarship repository website.. " the penn law legal scholarship repository is the institutional repository of the university of pennsylvania law school.
its purpose is to collect and preserve the scholarly output of penn law.
http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/.