My JW Mother Asked if I Could Get Her the Yearly Information on the TMS

by OnTheWayOut 16 Replies latest jw friends

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    While I was active, I would find someone on the web that would post/share their complete reference information on the Theocratic Ministry School and I would print it for my mother. It would include all the WT materials excerpted from their books for each week's school. Many people did it. It would be about 100 pages or so and could be carried in a nice small notebook, then you wouldn't have to dig out the books every week.

    Mom really appreciated it. Even after I was active, I did it for her. I figured less time in the WT Library or in their books was better for her. Last year, she shared it with others who copied it from what I provided for her.

    So she asked again for the 2010 information. She knows I don't go to any of the meetings. I told her, "It's not available this year." She asked why not? I told her that the yearly schedule wasn't going to be posted in the Kingdom Ministry. She still didn't get it. Finally, I got it through to her that there was not going to be an insert at all. "Well, how are we going to know what to study?"

    My mother is really a smart person, but she's been a JW-creature-of-habit. I suppose this is good because it means she hasn't paid attention to her Kingdom Ministry. I told her, "Each week's lesson is in the KM. You have to read it each week to see what you will study." Her answer was "Oh, I hadn't noticed." Granted, she is still using the info. I provided a year ago. I just thought it strange that such a heavy reader who gives the appearance that she thoroughly studied for each meeting didn't notice this. And a totally inactive fader had to tell her.

  • Open mind
    Open mind

    Nice of you to provide food at the proper time OTWO!

    (Wish I had OUTLAW's Mutley to insert right here.)

    om

  • cognac
    cognac

    hmmm, I had no idea about this myself... I have to now check it out to see what your talking about. I wonder why they are doing it that way? Is there a thread on this?

  • jamiebowers
    jamiebowers
    hmmm, I had no idea about this myself... I have to now check it out to see what your talking about. I wonder why they are doing it that way? Is there a thread on this?

    That's because you're "spiritually weak", LOL!

  • cognac
    cognac

    lol, Jaime. I try!

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    Iloowy posted it, but I would make her go without.

    http://www.extj.com/foro/showthread.php?p=203374

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    If it wasn't available, how did iloowy get it? Hmmm.....

    If it's legit, Mom would want to know where I got it, since I told her it wasn't available to the members as an entire schedule for next year.

  • cattails
    cattails
    If it wasn't available, how did iloowy get it? Hmmm.....

    At the ExTJ forum he says:

    Esto (ss10-E) no aparecera ya en el KM... Solo por descarga desde JW.org se puede obtener .

    Which means that he's got access to download it from JW.org

    I checked the JW.org website but can't find a link. There are others at

    ExTJ forum that have accessed parts of JW.org which are only for Service Committee members

    and Literature Servants. There's even screen captures of account pages at ExTJ.com/forum

    with contributions etc. You can use Google Translator to get the gist of the pages in Spanish.

    But the TMS schedule that Iloowy posted is the English one so you should be able to give it

    to your Mom and tell her it was accessed by a JW from the Watchtower's own Download

    website at JW.org nothing apostate there right?

    There's also an offer to Yknot to send it as a PDF even:

    http://www.extj.com/foro/showthread.php?postid=203514#post203514

  • yknot
    yknot

    I am emailing him now.......

    I miss Iloowy.....

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Well, iloowey provides a schedule and they say the schedule is not available for the whole year to the members. I don't need to provide it to Mom then. Iloowey's schedule is just the schedule, not the actual entire reference materials, and the school is pretty skimpy on material now. Mom can easily look that stuff up if so desired. She might be lazy enough from my providing it every year that she doesn't look it up.

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