Posts by sparrowdown

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THIS IS JUST CLASSIC

by Sabin in

2016 years text.. hebrews 13:1, let your brotherly love continue.. wtf!

your thought please.

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sparrowdown

Is it possible the GB just aint feelin the love as much as they used to, or maybe they figure they 'll need it in 2016.

The "brotherly love" is actually GB-love from the brothers.

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Deaf Aotearoa flooded with complaints about Jehovah's Witness church

by OrphanCrow in

deaf aotearoa flooded with complaints about jehovah's witness churchkashka tunstalllast updated 15:22, october 6 2015deaf aotearoa has asked the jehovah's witness church to respond to claims of a deaf information database.new zealand's deaf community is fed up with unsolicited house calls, claiming the jehovah's witness church is targeting deaf households.deaf aotearoa has received multiple complaints from around the country and says church members visited certain homes because they were aware a deaf person lived there.

the organisation released a statement on monday, saying it was looking into the possibility the church holds a database listing the details of members of the deaf community.jehovah witness spokesman rod spinks said there was no such database and deaf people were not being targeted.the deaf aotearoa statement was posted on the group's facebook page, and received a flood of comments from frustrated people.one woman said a group of jehovah's witnesses had come to her house and asked "for the deaf person who lives here.

" she said they refused to explain how they had her details and didn't visit her neighbours.another said church members had turned up at her work and asked for her by name.hamilton man royce flynn said he had been visited six times over the last nine months, despite repeatedly saying he was uninterested in the house calls.he said the church members were always able to sign and also brought deaf people along, which lead him to believe he was being singled out.flynn said contacted local police, who told him it was a privacy issue and referred him on to the office of the privacy commissioner.he said he had been been in contact with local labour member of parliament sue moroney.deaf aotearoa acting chief executive jill dean said complaints about the church were a recurring issue.

sparrowdown

Exactly londo, the individual publishers make records of anyone who they deem needs to be called back on including the deaf, and householders who speak a language other than their own. They pass these slips on and the elders arrange for someone to follow up.

I remember calling on a person whose mother sent a letter to the cong requesting someone call even though the person wasn't the slightest bit interested.

They may not have an official database technically speaking, but they certainly have records and info on individuals.

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Mass disassociation pact...

by freemindfade in

any takers?

we can pick a date and pull the plug?

lol .

sparrowdown

Come on naysayers, nothing ventured nothing gained.

There are far more reasons to do this than there are reasons not to.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE AND MINISTRY MEETING

by pixel in

1. the life and ministry meeting will proceed as outlined in the life and ministry meeting workbookand according to the instructions that follow.. 3. treasures from gods word:.

the theme and an outline of two or three main points are provided in thelife and ministry meeting workbook.

this should be assigned to a qualified elder.. 6. concluding comments: 3 minutes or less.

sparrowdown

FMCLAM!

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Theocratic Ministry School . . . is still there AND longer?

by warehouse in

so i made a timeline based on the leaked letter, it is as follows:.

edit: updated chart with color, because the html version was crap.

so i know i might be crazy, but is the theocratic school still there, just called apply yourself to field ministry?

sparrowdown

If it looks like a school and sounds like a school....then it must be a ........Our (so-called) Christian Life and Ministry Meeting - nope, no "School" in that title.

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Oooohhhhh the Irony

by konceptual99 in

jw
friends

just skimmed the new october broadcast.

http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=mp4&output=html&pub=jwb&issue=201510.

check out losch talking about good works and sacred service.

sparrowdown

Yes, ironic they show a brother doing laundry.....considering the amount of "dirty laundry" they are concealing.

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

sparrowdown

Is this a stock photo the WT have used or is it bethelites playing dress-ups in a real church?

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Just dropped the bomb

by Powermetal4ever in

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friends

after a long struggle with myself, i did send a sms to my mother this morning, telling her i didn't want to go to the meeting, and that i no longer believe in the organisation, don't really believe in god any more either but i put that out.

i wrote about three things that i thought are obvious, the overlapping generation that doesn't make sense, the flood an the animals in australia- how they came there.

and jw tv that makes them look as any other religion.

sparrowdown

Waking up is never as frightening if there is someone you love and care about who has done it first, so your strength may be the catalyst for her to start questioning her own beliefs one day.

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