At today's WT study about child baptism, someone commented and she pointed to the picture of the little girl playing with her teddy bear. She said, 'She may be looking at her bear and thinking about getting to play with bears in the new system. Her parents notice this, and they decide since it's real to her she may be ready for baptism.'
neat blue dog
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Do you want to play with bears? You are now qualified for baptism!
by neat blue dog inat today's wt study about child baptism, someone commented and she pointed to the picture of the little girl playing with her teddy bear.
she said, 'she may be looking at her bear and thinking about getting to play with bears in the new system.
her parents notice this, and they decide since it's real to her she may be ready for baptism.
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a short story to share
by LostAdam ini have a friend who got df'ed recently and he had a major role on a 5 min broadcasting film.
the film was made before he got df'ed (obviously), so it wont be on air.
as he told me it was to be on july or august program.
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neat blue dog
Is there any more information you can give, like content, etc. of the video?
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a short story to share
by LostAdam ini have a friend who got df'ed recently and he had a major role on a 5 min broadcasting film.
the film was made before he got df'ed (obviously), so it wont be on air.
as he told me it was to be on july or august program.
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neat blue dog
The link is now dead. Anyone get a screenshot?
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Pew Research:"88% of JWs read scripture outside of religious services at least once a week" ...Highest of all religions
by Wild_Thing inhttp://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/07/blacks-more-likely-than-others-in-u-s-to-read-the-bible-regularly-see-it-as-gods-word/.
graph in article:.
i doubt this statistic.
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neat blue dog
Well, I know a lot don't do it, but there are a lot that do take the org's command to "read God's word the holy Bible daily" seriously. I know when I was mentally in for as long as I remember I was told to do this and I did it. Most of my family and friends did to. It's just an old JW custom, they even had those words emblazoned on the side of the Bethel factory building for decades. That being said, the type of "Bible reading" most JWs engage in isn't really Bible reading in its most raw form. It is ALWAYS through the lens of dogma and usually accompanied by JW literature. If a JW actually read the Bible by itself with a clear head and opened mind, they would 'revert' if you will to the basic beliefs of the churches. As a matter of fact, if any JW is known to harbor different beliefs or to have even small, private Bible reading/study groups with other JWs, they could be subject to accusations of apostasy and disfellowshipping.
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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!
by Atlantis in2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
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neat blue dog
Oh ok. So I guess the only personalized part was the parts about saying 'ao sorry for your skin condition'?
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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!
by Atlantis in2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
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neat blue dog
This website often downsizes images beyond legibility. The image he posted was a screenshot of the letter that you offered as a PDF in it's original form from Instagram, (therefore available to anyone and negating my concerns about someone getting in trouble) and on the right half is the post's description. Like Ray Frankz said, he appears to be very proud JW (not sure for how long) but he does have a problem with the beard ban and said in the comments he will keep wearing it anyway. Usually those on the way out are most defensive when their beliefs are threatened or they're facing injustice, so he could be questioning things
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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!
by Atlantis in2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
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neat blue dog
Exactly, it's like asking to be disfellowshipped. Unless it's one of the elders on the body who leaked it, rather than the person who sent it. I guess that's how anybody could get out of being accussed of leaking a letter: claim it could be anyone on the body, or anyone who handled it at HQ.
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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!
by Atlantis in2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
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neat blue dog
Which makes me wonder why the person who leaked it isn't worried about getting caught, seeing as it's a one of a kind reply letter.
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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!
by Atlantis in2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
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neat blue dog
I also wanted to point out for those that didn't notice:
This isn't actually a BOE as in a policy letter, it's a response to a question that an individual wrote in. Also, as usual they dispicably send a reply to both the individual AND his BOE without his permission. This is enough to scare away anyone from asking sincere questions.
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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!
by Atlantis in2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.
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neat blue dog
Interesting the efforts they're going to. Do they actually believe they can control the leak of information? They want a big organization, they want to control people's lives. This is par for the course. Information just can't be controlled like it used to in this day and age. Just go with it. Your truly loyal followers don't know it exists anyway and probably never will.