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  WT Study on Education - How did it go?

  by Inquisitor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i didn't attend the meeting today and i haven't spoken to any fellow witnesses about the study yet.

  anyone care to share how their meeting went?

  any interesting comments made for or against the wts policy on higher education?

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I usually take my father to the meetings, but I made an excuse not to go today.

  I took the advice back in the 1960 not to go to college. I had taken college preparatory courses in high school and averaged between an A and B all the way, could easily have qualified, but decided that I should not go to the local University because of the usual witness reasonings. I was only 17, so thought that it would be a good idea to attend a local business school that had a two-year degree and I would study accounting. I picked up an application to enroll.

  Boom! One of the elders (then called servants) was at our door, and convinced me that I should not go. What never occurred to me at the time was that he himself was college educated. So I secured a job as a secretary at the local University, making low wages, but it gave me more time for Kingdom interests. Later I spent two years pioneering--what a waste! This advice has hurt me immensely, but I won't go into detail.

  All I can say is that the material in that Watchtower sucks. Maybe this will be the breaking point for a few people, but I can only imagine the anguish this is putting our young people through--maybe not so much now, but in the years to come as they struggle to make ends meet.
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  i called bethel RE: voting...

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  2. beliefs

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  still not a conscience matter... although for the countries that demand that everyone register and actually walk in the booth to cast a vote, a witness may, if his conscience allows, register and go into the booth and add a new box labelled "jesus christ", then checkmark that box and vote for him... hahaha cool eh?!!!.

  bethel

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I remember a discussion back in about 1956 about witness going to a voting booth, and marking in Jesus Christ as their selection. Never heard anything more about it until about four years ago when the CO read a quote from a 1950 WT that made that statement. Then he applied it to the situation today if a witness was required to vote. I was very upset by this because I remembered the brothers in Cameroon and other countries during the decades that followed the 1950's who refused to go to the polls and, as a result, were beaten and raped. I wondered why it was OK, not OK, and now OK again. The CO was applying to "other" countries that require a citizen to vote. Then he said, if you employer requires it, you should consult with the elders.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-23-05 WT Study (Walk/Faith)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "we are walking by faith, not by sight.

  "we are walking by faith, not by sight.

  ' walking by faith means that we keep.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  A sister (elder's wife) at the study yesterday said, "We should not question the FDS about such things as that the UN will be the instrument God uses to bring down false religion by asking, How do we know that? Talk about blind obedience!
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-23-05 WT Study (Walk/Faith)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "we are walking by faith, not by sight.

  "we are walking by faith, not by sight.

  ' walking by faith means that we keep.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I'm going to have to sit through today's study. Got to take a relative to the meeting.
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  CoC Review - "Power Corrupts, Ultimate Power Corrupts Ultimately"

  by Nellie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just finished reading crisis of conscience.

  i don't know if it was a record or anything, but i just received it the other day and i'm finished!

  my criticisms - surely brother franz knows who spearheaded the attacks he so eloquently discusses in his book, both the witchhunt against him personally and those he witnessed during the years.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I thought the reason they made an exception was because they wanted to stay on good terms with the Mexican government because for many years they couldn't own real estate if they were a religious organization. The WT was expecting that the situation would change, and it did. Any comments?
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  Worldly person returns JWs lost Bible!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.pntonline.com/engine.pl?station=portales&template=storyfull.html&id=6146

  news.

  man returns lost bible to rightful owner.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  Something is wrong here! Don't you know that only Jehovah's Witnesses would go to such lengths to do something like this? They are the only honest people on earth!

  If a witness had done something like this, there would have been a write-up in the magazines to prove that they are the only true Christians.

  Buckley seems like a wonderful person.
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  You had BETTER pioneer when you get out of high school

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we weren't at the circuit assembly this weekend but a friend told us the circuit overseer made this very strong comment.

  didn't even say anything about learning a trade.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  Interestingly enough, although it hasn't always been true, I hear complaints around here that there aren't enough marriageable sisters. Actually, a lot of the young girls are leaving the "truth."
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  Service Meeting for Week Starting October 3, 2005

  by TheListener in

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  2. bible

  song 54.

  5 min: local announcements.. 20 min: "help others to become 'obedient from the heart.

  '" * as time permits, invite audience to comment on the cited scriptures.. 20 min: making jehovah's heart rejoice.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  There must have been at least five meetings since they had the 20-minute part of helping the sick and the elderly. You'd think by now they would have some sort of arrangement to follow through on this. Guess they've forgotten all about it. Besides, the preaching work takes precedence.
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  Herbert Armstrong/WWCOG ??

  by Junction-Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  tonight while at a restaurant discussing jw topics my mom told me that herbert armstrong was on the wt society board of directors years ago and that he ended up leaving over doctrinal issues, and was subsequently branded an apostate by the wt society, and after this he founded the worldwide church of god.

  can anybody else verify this?

  it does seem believable since a majority of the wwcog doctrines mirror those of the wt society.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I actually wrote a letter to Herbert Armstrong Senior in the early 1960's asking him if he had ever been one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and he mailed me a letter back stating that he never had been, although he did get the Watchtower magazine because he wanted to know what they believed. If I looked hard enough, I might be able to find the letter.
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  You had BETTER pioneer when you get out of high school

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we weren't at the circuit assembly this weekend but a friend told us the circuit overseer made this very strong comment.

  didn't even say anything about learning a trade.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  We weren't at the circuit assembly this weekend but a friend told us the circuit overseer made this very strong comment. Didn't even say anything about learning a trade.