Posts by Divergent

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Magazine Demo

by OzGirl in

two sisters did a magazine demo recently.

one used her tablet to show a scripture to the other one.

the second one said: "that looks easier than trying to find it in a book.".

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In other words, the Bible is confusing, complicated, & difficult to use!

I always dreaded flipping through the Bible, trying to remember where on earth God said what & where the heck were all the other scriptures which supported the scripture I wanted to use. If I was God & wanted to write a book which can benefit people, I would make it as user-friendly & easy to use as possible, with clear & specific guidelines which could not be misinterpreted. It would be clear, coherant, consistent, conclusive, certain & most importantly - convincing, instead of the ambiguous jumbled mess it is right now!

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What if you were God?

by LAWHFol in

"what if you were god.

", is a popular question.. a similar question, that is not so popular, is "what if you and i are god?

".

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If I was God, I would debate Cofty

I might even lose... lol

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OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE AND MINISTRY MEETING ASSIGNMENT SLIP

by xjwsrock in

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I've graduated from the TMS. Rejected my last assignment & simply stopped attending. Glad that I don't have to do this shit anymore!

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WT Mtg "read scriptures" are only to be read by a 1 brother???

by Olivia Wilde in

we had co visit recently & it appears that the co told the elders of the congregation that the scriptures indicated on the wt to be "read" on the watchtower study are only to be read by 1 brother in the entire study.... the elder conducting the watchtower announced that at the wt mtg... i was like what???

only men?....

has anyone else had this occur in their congregation?

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Exactly... anyway for my cong, they do assign some sisters to read the scriptures too, BUT... there is a bias in the way they do it, such as scriptures being assigned mainly to elder's wives & other "spiritually strong" sisters who comment often. I was thinking - these ones ALREADY comment very often & are assigned further to read?? It gets sickening to hear these ones at the meeting over & over again. And since they are encouraged to read with feeling, they tend to put on an unnatural tone of voice when doing so. So irritating!

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

jw
friends

i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

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So far nobody else from Southeast Asia.. will be a challenge to go for meetups, I guess.

Me!

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WT Mtg "read scriptures" are only to be read by a 1 brother???

by Olivia Wilde in

we had co visit recently & it appears that the co told the elders of the congregation that the scriptures indicated on the wt to be "read" on the watchtower study are only to be read by 1 brother in the entire study.... the elder conducting the watchtower announced that at the wt mtg... i was like what???

only men?....

has anyone else had this occur in their congregation?

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If this is the case, then my congregation is definitely not doing things right. They went from having the magazine reader read the scriptures to opening it up for anyone to put up their hands & be called on to read... to the current practice - which is for bro's & sis's to be assigned by the magazine consuctor before the meeting to read the scriptures. I though that was stupid & that the previous practice of giving everyone in the audience a chance to read was the best

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KENNETH DELGADO vs. LAS LOMAS SPANISH CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, SAN DIEGO, CA Court Docs

by LAWHFol in

http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/d066606.pdf.

if anyone is interested in recent lawsuits concerning org..

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Zalkin comes to kick the WT's ass again!

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Introduction

by shattered_origins in

i joined the forum yesterday and made 2 angry posts which received encouraging replies.

i spent a good chunk of time today browsing various posts, and i can't get enough!

i'm doing things backwards now and taking a moment to introduce myself.

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Now I don't feel so guilty for missing so many meeting, and my fading intensifies.

You shouldn't feel guilty at all. Happy fading! Btw, I'm also fading too =)

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November WT God's View Of War

by JW_Rogue in

did anybody else read this article and just think wth?.

sometimes god approves of war.. sometimes god doesn't approve of war.. when the israelites fought battles and won it was because god blessed them.. when they lost it was because god had not blessed them.. sometimes god fights for oppressed ones.. sometimes they must wait and have faith.. it is so clear that the bible contradicts itself on this issue and that the nation of israel had a totally different view of god than the early christians.

it is also clear that the nation of israel was highly superstitious and would attribute every battle's outcome to the whims of a higher power.

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If God is love, then he wouldn't have commanded his people to fight. It's as simple as that

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CO visit must be coming up

by BeautifulMind in

the cobe of the cong we attended called me and left a vm, and also emailed both me and my husband.

this all happened yesterday.

he said he was checking in to see how our family was doing, which is a joke.

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I have also received messages from an elder, I guess he's the one assigned to "check up" on me. Part of me would like to post them up here, but the other part says better not (just in case)