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  Leaked Elder's Video: How to deal with a suicidal sister

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this video will be played at one of the clam meetings in march 2016.. the content is kind of old news because it is a recut version of a previous video produced for the elder's school.

  however, it's still significant because it shows that the organization still has dissenting brothers in positions of leadership.. my thanks to the leaker.

  feel free to claim credit here.

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  Muddy Waters

  I couldn't believe this video when it first came out -- is there a link to the original elder's version? It has a few more parts but this version keeps most of the stupidity and dangerousness of uneducated men posing as mental health counsellors.

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  I think in the elder's version, there were two examples given on how to help this sister -- 1) WHAT NOT TO DO, and 2) the "correct" version of how to help this sister. (And to think, this is the "correct" version!!!)

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  In the "What NOT To Do" part of the elder's video, they had a brother all by himself talking to Mary, at the Kingdom Hall. He even *touched* her by putting his hand reassuringly on her arm, and then, asked Mary to go into the little room off the main auditorium so they could talk (or maybe he touched her arm while they were alone in the little room together). Anyhow, THAT was the very very wrong & incorrect thing to do -- being **alone** with this grieving sister -- in a room off the main auditorium of the hall, even though it was right after the meeting, with people still talking & visiting each other in the kingdom hall.

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  Also, in the original elder's version, there are some very hard and cold looks that Mary gives to "Brother Brown", I will call him. The older, smarmy smiling brother I will call "Brother Grey".

  You see a bit of this vibe between Mary and Brother Brown when he says he is going to give her "an assignment" - memorize two insipid bible verses. Did anybody else catch this bad vibe? It's like the sister herself cannot believe the terrible advice she is being given.

  I feel a really bad vibe between her and Brother Brown. She just looks at him really coldly and with a lot of disgust or anger. When she looks at Brother Grey, you can see she is trying hard to act her part to be upset, but Brother Brown gets a lot of cold, hard looks.

  I remember noticing this in the original elder's version of this. Does anybody have a link to that video?
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  I have too much crap!! How to declutter/dehoard.....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.

  and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.

  and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.

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  Wow, thank you for your replies and advice and non-judgement! :)

  I will look up that book as soon as I can, Orphan Crow, thank you.

  Something must be done, and Blondie, the 4-box method sounds very practical and helpful, and just might work. I like the thought that clutter is a decision not made.

  I am not quite at hoarder stage, but I do have a tendency to buy more than one thing -- for example, if I am learning about something, anything, (yoga, dog training, photography, etc.) I end up buying a million different books on the subject.

  Great Teacher, I would love to hear more of your advice and suggestions. Your situation with mom in law sounds very frustrating indeed.

  Esse, I like your idea too and we have started to do some of that too! :)
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  Elders face the Lion of Self-Abuse

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  Esse, would you mind also posting paragraph 10 from that WT article referenced in the photo?

  Paragraph 9, thank you. It reads so badly, such florid, purple prose! Just look at the adjectives and adverbs: "... hinder... vicious, famished... no compassion, no remorse, no pity... devour... lurking... succumb... tragic... immoral, greedy..."

  And the climactic, alliterated statement: "... the roaring lion, revelling in his conquest."

  Geez.

  Such nice images for children in the audience.

  Stupid Watchtower.

  We should make an adverb/adjective game, using WT paragraphs. The most vicious, violent, angry words in a single paragraph wins.

  I now wonder at the challenge to find the most loving, kind, soothing and comforting adjectives/adverbs in a single paragraph...?
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  Finally posting and I'm FRUSTRATED!!!

  by stephanie61092 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  okay, i'm about to engage in a major word vomit.

  just giving you fair warning as your time may be better spent somewhere else.. so, i'm sitting on my lunch break, bawling my eyes out, and writing on this forum to people i don't know yet probably have a great deal in common with but at the same time, used to scare the daylights out of me.

  for years, i would come across this forum and 'lurk' awhile if you will, or see things on youtube.

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  Stephanie....? How are you??

  I only saw this post in a sidebar link, missed it the first time. I see no feedback or responses from you..... Are you okay???

  Everything everyone said to you is also what I want to say to you. This is hard shit. But you do have many good things going for you -- though I know it can be difficult to focus on the good, on the strengths, on the potentials and opportunities....

  Maybe try looking at it this way: A lot of people move away from family and friends when they come from other countries.... they have to cope with lonliness and meeting new friends, and perhaps they have no money and can't speak with their families for long intervals...

  They are "alien residents" -- (you never completely let go of the JW crap, but you can turn it around and even laugh at it some days!) -- and just like those foreigners, you too have become "an alien resident" (or a person of the nations.... ugh...)

  Anyway! Whatever the context, if you are the alien resident in a "new country"/ in this "world" -- the big bold bright incredible world, filled with opportunities & adventures and unknowns -- You HAVE A DEGREE!! Praise the gods, alleluia, thank the ether: YOU HAVE A DEGREE!!!

  This wonderful amazing thing means that you have many doors of opportunity open for you!

  I know nothing can replace or take the place of family, but in making good choices now and making best use of any and all opportunities, you can slowly build a life and good friends and colleagues.... And maybe one day, there will come a time when the blinders peel away from your family and they will come looking for you... And you will have made yourself, and them, proud.
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  I have too much crap!! How to declutter/dehoard.....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.

  and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.

  and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.

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  Muddy Waters

  Some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean. And other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg. How did this come to be?

  And now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc. Well, retirement years are facing us and we need to downsize and figure out how the hell we're going to live and survive, etc. No plans for the future (other than the "real life to come" - the stupid f**king paradise!!!). So, because we were idiots, we now have to face things we never thought we would face.

  So this really sucks.

  It doesn't help that I stuffed our home full of mostly useless crap. Gah! How does one purge their stuff?

  It was easy to get rid of JW crap and clothes.... but gosh, is very difficult to get rid of other stuff and things. Ack!
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  If all the world were JWs....

  by Tornintwo in

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  in my former indoctrinated state, i used to yearn for a time when all the world would be jws.

  but hang on minute, let's just think about what the world would be like if everyone was a jw,.

  first of all, no higher education, so no medical advances, no scientific research, no modern day medicine, infectious disease rife, no doctors, no engineers, so no modern day comforts.

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  omg, Outlaw. That video is even worse in slow motion.... And omg... a world like that would be hell. A hell of the Stepford people.... To think I too, once longed for such a "paradise".

  And if they did manage to have a worldwide Internet, it would be strictly controlled or only accessible by top "management".
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  Jehovah's Witnesses 'ordered destruction' of notes which could have been used during child sexual abuse inquiry

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-ordered-destruction-notes-10848053.

  jehovah's witnesses 'ordered destruction' of notes which could have been used during child sexual abuse inquiry.

  06:21, 7 feb 2016. by huw silk.

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  Muddy Waters

  .... marking, thank you.
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  What Are Your "Senior Moments" Like?

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

  dear friends:.

  i imagine by now we old timers have adjusted to the fact that we are getting older and, one day, will make our exit.

  are your "senior moments" ever a cause for worry to you?

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  omg, I am glad I am not the only on who does these things -- I am becoming so forgetful sometimes, and my energy depletes so quickly. Having the little grandkiddies over for even a couple hours leaves me so exhausted. Love them like crazy and marvel at their non-stop energy and enthusiastic embracing of life. They are like little human machines, all wound up and I feel like I am winding down....

  Lately, one of my fears is: if, for some reason I become demented, I regress back to my JW brain!! That thought scares the heck outta me!
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  If all the world were JWs....

  by Tornintwo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my former indoctrinated state, i used to yearn for a time when all the world would be jws.

  but hang on minute, let's just think about what the world would be like if everyone was a jw,.

  first of all, no higher education, so no medical advances, no scientific research, no modern day medicine, infectious disease rife, no doctors, no engineers, so no modern day comforts.

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  There would be no great "worldly" literature, music, or art.

  All education would be "theocratic", as defined by the WT society.

  There would be no allowing of any personalizing of our work or accomplishments -- it would all be kept anonymous. And any results of our work and accomplishments must all be focused toward Jehovah and his kingdom. The JW world would behave and look like a giant altar to an incredibly egotistical God....

  Any dissenters would be promptly executed.

  To the making of many books there would be no end....
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  Garlic, bread, and vampires....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  .... being a little facetious today.... :).

  the february 2016 broadcast has got me thinking.

  crosses are bad, they make jehovah sad, they are terrible, evil, frightening things to most jws.

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  Muddy Waters

  Haha, too funny, Orphan Crow & Vidiot!

  I have fallen in love with this analogy, lol, so was hoping to get more responses to this thread (which is to me, an incredibly insightful, apt and amazing comparison, lol) especially after the ridiculous Feb 2016 broadcast and their seeming bias against garlic.

  ;)