Not to make light of the situation - I helped my wife take care of her mother until she died at 94 (the mother, not my wife). Her mother was post-stroke and couldn't speak and was partially paralized on her left side. Near the end, my wife finally gave in and put her mother in assisted care, but took her back out in a week. Granted, it was not a $6000/month facility. I honestly thought my wife was going to die from the stress before her mother died.
So, my question is: what did people do before there were independent living facilities for seniors?
well, in an effort to completely rebel against all things 'watchtower', i decided that since i gave all my years since leaving school to the borg, and listened to their admonition to avoid 'higher education' i have just started... right from bottom.... today i took a 2 hour maths test to see if i would be eligible to go on a course to re-take my gcse maths exam (this is the qualification you study for here in england in the last 2 years of compulsory schooling from ages 14-16).
back in may 1988 i did no revision, and didn't study hence a complete flop of all exams.... and seeing that 'education' wasn't on the agenda back then, and has always been warned against, (unless it was perhaps trade oriented) it was wiped from my mind... yep a jw mind-wipe occurred here, i've decided to go back to school, just for the challenge of it, f**k the org, i might have wasted decades swallowing their philosophy, but i don't have to let that past control me now... the test was 'really' hard going... and i don't think i passed, but can still get on a more basic course to start me off if i don't get on the main course.... the tutors were so warm and enthusiastic about me taking up the study at aged 43, it was so nice to hear someone get excited that i'm going to study (never in 29 years with the borg) .
i've also learned something else; jw's talk about the 'highest education' that the watchtower supposedly teaches... bullshit, that 'call and response' crap that you do in watchtower study and other meetings, that parroting, has got to be the lowest form of education there is, you don't use your brain, you don't have to analyse or think or deduce or calculate, or use savvy... it's just call and response, and nothing more, pure repetition, answer what's in the paragraph.
Glad to hear about everyone taking advatage of available educational opportunities. If I was back in the states, I would be going to local CC for basic chemistry classes. Right now I am doing MIT on-line courses (free but helps to buy the text book).
Thankfully, when I was getting recruited, nobody discouraged me from completing my degree program and for the last 30 year I have been employed in software development in telecommunications industry.
Still, it could have been much more. I never went back for advanced degrees or got in involved with 'worldly' networking events. No after work basketball games with the boss or bonding experiences with the team outside of work. My loss.
i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.
Ok. I happen to be in Poland and haven't been to a meeting or out in service for over a year. My wife is still free to have her friends over and on occasion a few do come, but so far I have only gotten the 'we miss you' message and as I mentioned in another thread, she did give me a copy of the 'return' tract. She didn't ask if I had read it.
If I get any invites for a discussion about why I'm inactive, I'll let you know. I suspect they will probably just ask my wife. And she will probably just say that I have gone insane (rants about GB/607/global flood/pedophiles/etc).
When the elders start to get suspicious about this, she can just say it was probably due to all the prayers of her faithful brothers and sisters back at the congregation. What are they going to say? Good work, and remind her to keep quiet about it...
i would think the only christian organization on this planet would be more than willingly send another gb member to australia in order to answer rcs questions, taking the place of jackson who is taking care of his ill farther.
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if someone should show compassion to jackson those are his gb pals.
its not easy being an introvert in an extrovert worldespecially when youre a kid.
it is even more difficult if none of the adults in the kids life recognize that the child is an introvert.
this doesnt happen only when the childs parents are extroverts, but also with introverted parents who have never understood their own introverted nature.. .
Many thanks for this thread reappearing. Need to read it all from the start again. Many years ago I had an elder tell me that I had to be an extrovert to be a succesfull JW. My first thought: so you can't be a JW and be an introvert?
Simply amazing to watch. The restraint shown by the judge and lawyer is breath-taking. I'm sure they would like to pummel these idiots with a sledge-hammer, but they choose words instead. The intellectual chasm is wide. It is painful at times to watch, and I say it would be good medicine for the uneducated elders, but some lessons fall on deaf ears.
Do you think Ron or the others will bother to review their performance? Maybe they could get some pointers from the Theocratice Ministry School overseer. I am guessing that if they couldn't bother to review any of the available evidence before they showed up, they probably won't watch the video of their appearance. If they did, and they were normal people, they would have to kill themselves. But we know they are not normal people. They probably thought they won the debate.
I can't wait until some of the branch people get their turn. Let's see how long their smugness lasts with Mr. Stewart.
