faking of hours in field service or dragging service time out by making coffee stops or driving for hours "between" household contacts are never frowned upon, let alone mentioned, in the publications.
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yet, in each congregation of jehovah's witnesses, to one degree or another, faking hours, padding time out with coffee stops and long journeys between opportunities to "witness" are endemic practices..
My favorite is the pioneer sister who moved from Alaska to our congregation with her husband and children (20+ years ago). She counted all her time during the trip. She justified it by placing magazines at every gas station that they stopped at.
She occasionally joined us in field service, but she kept her time going by studying with her children when they got home from school. I'm sure she had some other tricks as we didn't see her that often in service.
there's a new letter coming up next week to be read instructing the publishers to begin reporting the number of tracts placed in the ministry, including copies of kingdom news 38, annual invitations, district handbills and other tracts.
lol.
see, the borg is allegue about numbers, and why on earth do they tell you to start counting placement in the middle of a campaing, like the one they are doing now witk kingdom news 38 and not before it started??.
Somehow I think this has been done before--back in the 70's. I remember managing to get into an apartment building that my aunt lived in (it was unaccessible otherwise), and I stuffed tracts under doors before I left. It seems like we reported the tracts on our field service slips under "booklets."
i`m an optimist and i would say zilch .
i would bet you a million dollars ( if i had a million dollars ) that if you did a survey in the street that you live , asking the householders what is the life saving message jehovahs witnesses bring to your door on a regular basis , they would not have a clue.. and they have been preaching this message for over 100 years .
how inefective can they be .. the probable answers you would get are : they dont take blood transfusions.
I saw a documentary on television about religions that preach Armageddon. They mentioned several (can't remember the names), but I know that Jehovah's Witnesses were not even once mentioned. At least in recent years, I remember the Society telling us that we should put our emphasis on the new world and not on Armageddon when we're at the doors.
articles such at "100 years of kingdom rule" in which jehovah has 'in a sense' begun ruling as king, and jesus in a sense was made king.
even though the kingdom hasn't actually come.
it's not clear if the 1,000 year reign has began or not, if so only 900 years left of jesus rule?
Aposta-Z - will you tell me the page number in Volume 3 of Studies of the Scriptures. I have that book but it's a 1908 edition.
this (overlapping) generation will by no means pass away.
" - matthew 24:34. and (new) scrolls were opened.
" - rev.
I completely forgot the most important ones:
"But if ever that (hypothetical) evil slave should say in his heart..." - Matthew 24:48
"Who really is the (hypothetical) faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics (in 1919)....He will appoint him over all his belongings (at the start of the Great Tribulation)" - Matthew 24:45,47.
this (overlapping) generation will by no means pass away.
" - matthew 24:34. and (new) scrolls were opened.
" - rev.
“This (overlapping) generation will by no means pass away." - Matthew 24:34
“And (new) scrolls were opened." - Rev. 20:12
“For the holy spirit and we (the governing body in Jerusalem and later the Watchtower) have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from….blood (except fractions)” Acts 15:28,29.
“Not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together (at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses)" – Hebrews 10:25
I can’t find any scriptures where they can insert “organization” or “channel of communication.”
to all who are still active...& those who are not...... is everyone ready for wt for sunday....1914....is everyone ready to see the friends faces, that will pretend all is well.
but their minds will be racing.
i started the article...talk about confusing...but maybe on purpose only a few in the hall will be able to break it down.
Pg 8, Par 19: "Finally, we examined why Jesus’ arrival to appoint the faithful slave over all his belongings did not occur in 1919 but will take place during the great tribulation." Pg 23, Par 12: "In 1919, a time of spiritual revival, Jesus selected capable anointed brothers from among them to be the faithful and discreet slave and appointed them over his domestics." Pronomo - I found the first quote on page 16, par 19, but couldn't find the second quote. Was it in an earlier article?
for three weekends this summer, a friend and i protested outside district assemblies being held in the tucson convention center.
our approach was very low key and completely non-confrontational: we just held our posters and smiled.
this was our experience at the first two assemblies (for the third assembly, see the next paragraph).
The last DC I went to (about 2006), I saw some people with placards with words something like, "Jesus is the way, the truth and the life." I heard some witnesses comment that they were from the Devil.
I've often wondered what the reaction would be if a placard said, "Religion is a snare and a racket." That would probably be from the Devil too.
when i was about 15 i was made to go on the service with a super dub pioneer sister (you know the type, ugly with no dress sense and a wimp of a husband) and as it was the school holidays it was an all dayer (suit and tie in blazing hot sunshine) and she wanted to go back to her place for lunch, she made me sit in the garden while she ate inside as we could'nt be alone together because we might commit immorality (i would have rather cut it off).
has anyone else come across such stupid thinking within the borg.. p.s.
on the plus i side i got sunstroke in the afternoon, passed out cold.
No different than the Mormons. Clyde and I had two Mormon elders stop by. We were chatting on our front porch, and one asked if he could use the bathroom. I opened the door to take him inside and show him the way, but he said it was inappropriate. Clyde had to take him in.
OMG - I was probably 3 times his age.
this subject is coming up this month in the tms.
i just thought i would start a post for newbies or lurkers.
if you have any scans of the awake inside cover that would be awesome.
It says in the Bible that no one knows the hour or the day " !!!! She looked a little shame faced when I asked if they had only just found this in the Bible , cus I thought that it had been there all along !
I remember prior to 1975 when Clye and I asked about the scripture about not knowing the hour or the day, the response was, "But it doesn't say we don't know the year."
