He may be a hypocrite (lots of elders are) but he's not a bad writer. Maybe a little recognition for his talents would make him less dependent on acclaim from men. Or the same sort of "worldly" recognition could wake him up when he sees how petty and critical some of the "friends" can be when they notice somebody rising (even just a little) above the level of anonymous sheep. Hypocrite or not in the past, he has the same chance any of us have (or had) for escape. I hope he makes it.
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Elder writes a weekly newspaper article
by man in black inhello, lately in our local newspaper i've noticed a weekly column that is written by a current elder.
when i left 6 years ago he was the po.
and for some added background info , if he saw someone who was df'ed or "spiritually weak" he would go out of his way, and do his best to avoid them.
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Memorial Hell
by thecrushed intoday has been one of the most aganizing days since i woke up.
my family has been pressuring me to show up at the memorial for the past week.
it became very intense today with my dad texting me constantly to get me to confirm and when i didn't answer he would call my wife and then she would constantly nag me to answer my dad and so on and so forth.
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VOLO2
You know if you don't really believe all their propoganda and it's all just meaningless posturing anyway, why not just bite the bullet and go? I remember a friend (an atheist) who always used to talk about either going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve or Sunrise Services on Easter (I forget which one) and she thought it was wonderful. She didn't believe any of it but her dressing up and going made her husband happy and she enjoyed the majestic music and the ceremony was nice (sort of like going to the opera, but free) and if God doesn't even exist, he's not going to punish you for hypocrisy. Long story short don't work yourself up over nothing.
Yes some people are sadly deluded and hopefully they'll wake up someday but there's nothing you can do to speed that up, so don't worry about that part. As long as YOU know it's all just a game, why get worked up over it? Just do whatever makes it easy for the people you care about to treat you the way you want to be treated. Meaning if you're in a Catholic church, cross yourself and partake. In a Kingdom Hall, DON'T cross and DON'T parttake. Easy. Like St Paul says, "Be all things to all people."
Doing that probably won't get you into heaven, but then it won't send you to the other place either.