Posts by berrygerry

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How do JWs pronounce COBE?

by Wild_Thing in

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just wondering.

when i was a witness, we had presiding overseer, and would say p-o for short.

do they spell it out when they say cobe or do they say it with as a word?

Are Beards becoming more acceptable due to decline in membership?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i noticed a young brother with a beard being given more privelages within our hall.

when he first grew his beard, he lost his privelages.

but more and more recently he has been helping out a lot more.. the cobe is old school and a stickler for rules, but with the hall becoming more empty these days, and the need for young brothers, he seems to have relaxed on this particular watchtower/man made rule.

berrygerry

Apparently, beard fractions are okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaATbuYG4RQ

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Fasten Your Seatbelts - The Crazy Has Started (Also, bring the Koolaid)

by berrygerry in

from facebook:just saw my jw mother after not seeing her for more than 2 years.

when i do see her, it is brief, she never asks about my life, doesn't ask about my 4 children her grandchildren, doesn't ask about my grandchildren...her great grandchildren, she doesn't ask about my other 2 brothers that she is also alienated from, she doesn't ask about my brothers family.

she doesn't talk about the jw/org either.

berrygerry

Just to clarify:

Not my Mom (but it may as well be).

There are posts all over the JW boards with December 8 and January 1.

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Fasten Your Seatbelts - The Crazy Has Started (Also, bring the Koolaid)

by berrygerry in

from facebook:just saw my jw mother after not seeing her for more than 2 years.

when i do see her, it is brief, she never asks about my life, doesn't ask about my 4 children her grandchildren, doesn't ask about my grandchildren...her great grandchildren, she doesn't ask about my other 2 brothers that she is also alienated from, she doesn't ask about my brothers family.

she doesn't talk about the jw/org either.

berrygerry

From Facebook:

Just saw my JW mother after not seeing her for more than 2 years. When I do see her, it is brief, she NEVER asks about my life, doesn't ask about my 4 children her grandchildren, doesn't ask about my grandchildren...her great grandchildren, she doesn't ask about my other 2 brothers that she is also alienated from, she doesn't ask about my brothers family. She doesn't talk about the JW/Org either. This visit was different...she seemed to feel the need to tell me that JANUARY 1st EVERTHING will change. She said the Preaching Work will END. I asked "So you won't be going door-to-door anymore?" She said they WILL STILL GO door-to-door but not to Preach or Teach, they will be giving the WARNING!! Armageddon is almost upon us! She also point to her doorway and said "You see that? They (the society) told us to have 3 DAYS of Food and Water ready TO GO!!" I asked, "Then what?" She says, "We will get a call, take our food and water, go to the Kingdom Hall and they will give us directions from there." NOTE: My mother is 77, her husband is 93, naturally I am concerned for their safety but realize she is not open to US her family, I ask "at your advanced ages do you have someone younger set to help you when the TIME comes?" She replies "Yes we do, we are taken care of." She also let me know that my only brother who is still part of the Org. came to say "good-bye" until after Armageddon, he and his wife moved to the JW headquarters in England where they will remain till post-Armageddon. I had hoped that as my mother aged maybe, just maybe she would soften her view of family and reach out in her time of need, looks like she is in deeper with no plans of altering her path. I still wonder if she will change after her 93 year old husband dies, I try to leave a door open, but I ask myself WHY?

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Checking Up On Disfellowshipped Ones

by Boredposter in

if my memory serves me right in the 80's there was an effort to call on those who were disfellowshipped.

elders would seek them out (or we're supposed to) to see if there was anything they could do to help them come back.

it seemed like a good idea at the time to me.

berrygerry

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5649965248413696/no-more-official-visits-disfellowshipped-disassociated-ones

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Naked Jehovah's Witnesses (bizarre story)

by wannaexit in

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this is the most weird story.

if you read half way down you will see the protagonists are jdubs.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-family-kidnapping-naked-nisku-1.4398942.

berrygerry

Maybe attendance was so low at their Kingdom Hall they decided to kidnap a few people and take them to their Hall for a meeting.

A new level of "flirty-fishing."

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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

by lastmanstanding in

christian legal fellowship (clf) seems to have a new member.

the jehovah’s witnesses aka the watchtower.the membership list does not seem to be public, but i am sure that with enough inquiries from the public -that clog the arteries of their email server- we can get at the truth.just like the watchtower affiliation with the un, it seems now the watchtower has affiliated with trinitarians.the clf brings legal action on behalf of the tower.. .

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57503f9022482e2aa29ab3af/t/59d6a60ba8b2b09201dd26bf/1507239436646/clf+-+wall+-+intervener+factum.pdfhttp://www.christianlegalfellowship.org/blog/2017/8/10/clf-applies-to-intervene-at-scc-in-religious-autonomy-caseto be a member with the clf, the watchtower... "must be able and willing to sign the statement of faith...."http://www.christianlegalfellowship.org/new-page/see item 2 of the clf "statement of faith"http://www.christianlegalfellowship.org/statement-of-faith2 "there is one god, eternally existent in three persons: father, son and holy spirit.".

berrygerry

I recognize what both posters are saying.

John Davis is correct, and the OP does have a point in his own way.

For me, the bigger question has not been asked:

"Why is God's neutral organization involving itself in something that is PURELY a political matter.?" It would have been no different for Jesus to have joined in with the Jews protesting against Roman taxation.

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