Tempest in a Teacup

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  More congregations? One of the strategies they used to inflate the numbers in my city.

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  i looked at the 2017 yearbook figures this morning, and it reminded me of something which happened in my former congregation 2 years ago.

  it was a tiny foreign language congregation with at most 25-30 publishers.

  comes and splits a 30 member congregation into....three.

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  She displayed a literature cart in front of my house: That does it for me!

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  is this something they've asked them to do?

  cart displays in front of their homes?

  my mom is only in her mid 60s so i'm quite sure this is not an issue of mental illness.. the only illness she's suffering from is boredom since she's refused to work for years now.

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  Waking up with unsung songs...

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  ...trying hard not to forget them .

  ...not knowing how to write them down because i don't know musical notes .... ...postponing recording them .

  ...ending up forgetting them.

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  Divergent (this is a must watch)

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  it's a 2014 movie and i'm only watching it now.

  it reminds me strongly of the life of jws and ex-jws..

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  Ooo...Mmm...Ggg premonitory dream. Can't believe it

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  so, the whole weekend i spent it dozing on and off.

  this morning, before waking up, i had a dream.

  i was passing by a building in france (i don't live in europe) and then i recognized a certain building as the one where one of my friends who lives in that country lives.

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  "Sorry, sister; but the CO said he isn't going to visit anyone durind the Special Week."

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  third post about the big disappointments that woke me up.

  i'm writing them in no particular order.

  these episodes made me bitter when they happened.

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  "You don't go to the platform to say nonsense."

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  second in a series of reminiscing disappointments that cut me off this religion one string at a time.... actually, i had a one week break which i spent quite poorly: not sleeping at night, so i could catch up on my favorite shows, eating crappy foods the whole day, booze and hangovers.

  i'm an introvert and really, this for me is an ideal holiday :).

  but...all the above, coupled with having too much free time has brought back some demons who had been sleeping...and snoring.. back to the topic.. in my former congregation, there's one wannabe-elder-no-education-hates-his-job-envies-others-mysogynist-ministerial servant.

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  "I'm feeling down, I'm not faring well; I need help, please help me."

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  today i remembered one of my disillusionment episodes, when i was going from rejection to rejection, and i was discovering the wide gap between spewing beautiful words and actually translating them into actions.. a few years ago, in my darkest hours of depression, it occurred to me to send the following sms to one of my closest friends in the congregation.

  i truly believed in her friendship and thought i could count on her.

  it was one of the very rare moments in which i was ready to put myself completely out there and pour my heart out to someone.

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  I'm looking for the verse that says that shepherds will be like wolves fleecing the fold.

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  i remember reading it in a forum member's post, somewhere last year or so.

  the poster said she (i think it's a she) quoted the scripture to one elder and told him that it applied to him.

  could you please help me with this verse?.

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  Jehovah said he will start the cleaning from his own house

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  this very popular quote came back to my mind today when i was thinking about what jws in the third world country where i live would do if they should hear about the australian abuse story.

  this has been the one explains-it-all, excuses-it-all phrase to respond to nasty things going on in "god's house".. if they should hear about the story, they would just nod, say that phrase and add the sentence that traditionally accompanies it: it is because he is well aware that there are rotten elements in his house, so we shouldn't be surprised...and then they will move on with merrily.

  end of story.

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