Instead of getting together, those who are single with no prospects should all go online to do their study. This site is a good place to start. Other sites they might wish to study include Freeminds, Six Screens of the Watchtower, Silentlambs, Evilbible, and any other site that either exposes the Washtowel Slaveholdery as not abiding by the Bible, that the Bible itself lies, or both.
Family Worship Night Rule.....
by sweet pea 52 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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besty
*** w98 6/1 p. 22 Shouldering Responsibility for Family Care ***Occasionally, an invitation to the children (and, indeed, the single parent) to join the elder’s own family study may prove upbuilding and practical.
*** km 11/02 p. 8 par. 5 Show Loving Interest in "Fatherless Boys" ***Likewise today, how beneficial it is when spiritually mature brothers and sisters take a loving interest in the fatherless boys and girls in the congregation! Do you know each one by name? Do you talk with them at Christian meetings and on other occasions? Invite them to join you in the field ministry. Perhaps you could occasionally include them, along with their single or believing parent, in your family study or in arrangements for wholesome recreation.
*** km 6/99 p. 3 par. 2 Can You Give a Helping Hand? ***Occasionally inviting a single-parent family to sit in on your family study would provide a refreshing spiritual lift.
Interesting that Blondie's quotes all feature the word 'occasionally' - it's clear the WTS doesn't want a regular <recurring> event of getting together in homes to discuss the Bible or its own publications. The 1st Century model is irrelevant clearly.
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winstonchurchill
Ocassionally = As often as the elders feel like it
I love it when they come up with these stupid limitations. This is the kind of stuff that gets people upset and start looking the org. under a negative light.
In our cong. a few do the family thing, basically studying next sundays WT. There have been talks of getting together to do it and eat something afterwards.
BTW, has anyone else noticed that in the past few years the WT cites less and less form outside sources, and when they do, they use a generic reference (like: 'a famous biblist...' or 'a renowned encyclopedia'). I think they don't want people to go directly to those sources. They could get ideas. In the past they referred to "McClinton & Strong", "Expositive dictionary by W.E. Vine", and so on. May of us know of such books because of how often they were cited by WT. Then we started investigating and seeing the not-too-convenient-for-WTS stuff.
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sir82
BTW, has anyone else noticed that in the past few years the WT cites less and less form outside sources, and when they do, they use a generic reference (like: 'a famous biblist...' or 'a renowned encyclopedia'). I think they don't want people to go directly to those sources.
Exactly!
They've been burned too many times by stuff like this:
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chickpea
if this is indeed fact that the b0rg
has officially decreed no mingling
at the FWN studies, then i am
heartbroken for one elderly "sister"
widowed not yet 2 years, whose only
child was killed by a drunk driver, on her
way home from a pioneer meeting, some 20
years ago..... and now the b0rg is removing
from her an option to be in the comfort of
"friends" as she studies the "word of god"......really?
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sweet pea
I would bet my house on the likelihood that soon you'll be seeing something in print that backs up what this Stand In CO said from the platform of Hayesbridge Assembly Hall - a reminder of specifically what the new free night is for and what it is NOT for.
Watch this space.......
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loosie
They don't want groups of families to exchange ideas. that would be dangerous to the amount of control that the wt has.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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Quirky1
Well, there goes the party!! Anytime we had group study sessions it was time to break out the beer, wine, margaritas and food!! Just another way for the WT to break up a good thing and be in control of your life... what a freakin' cult.
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Hobo Ken
IMO it is about restriction of free thought and free speech, nothing more.
Let me give you an example. I would hardly ever go to Thurs night meetings as I had resigned from the school and didn't go out in the Service so saw no need for me to even bother going on a thursday as both meetings were a waste of my time.
However the Book study was held in my parents house so I would go along most weeks mainly to see them. The book that was being studied just before I left was the Revelation climax book. Doing this book for what felt like the 10th time was torture(as were the explanations therein) so, to amuse myself, I would give deliberately "apostate" views on certain issues but not overtly so.
The elder that was taking the "study", let's call him brother Green, didn't even know that what I was saying wasn't JW doctrine!!!!
I wonder how many left the study thinking that what they just heard was "the truth"
I always used to get commended on my "knowledge" and great comments.
I wonder if the ability of ones such as myself to get away with that un-checked led aloong with unknown legal factors led ultimately to the downfall of the book study?
H.K.
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passwordprotected
@ Hobo Ken, I think you might be personally responsible for the whole downfall of the BSG. Imagine dropping all those apostate comments. Litterbug.