Posts by neat blue dog

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Satan in Heaven

by pleaseresearch in

this has always baffled me.

that is why was satan and his demons allowed to be in heaven for so long after they split from god?.

if we did that then we are out of the congregation, members are shunned and also kicked out of families homes.

Satan in Heaven

by pleaseresearch in

this has always baffled me.

that is why was satan and his demons allowed to be in heaven for so long after they split from god?.

if we did that then we are out of the congregation, members are shunned and also kicked out of families homes.

neat blue dog

Judicial cases can often take a week or longer to resolve, and on e day is a thousand years with God, so Satan was officially announced as disfellowshipped within the week. How's that? 😉

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Best Bethel stories

by optimisticskeptic in

i temped at bethel 3 times for varying lengths of time and found working there to not always be the rosy picture some would paint.

not a surprise really, but i think one of the things that surprised me the most was how a lot of the permanent bethelites (especially older ones) were so impersonal to temps.

they acted like you weren't worth investing their time in since you weren't permanent.

neat blue dog

I've got some crazy stories but they'd identify me, which I'm not ready for. 🤐Who knows, maybe years from now.

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Can JW's celebrate Hannukah?

by Splash in

what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.

neat blue dog

scratchme1010:

The best way to find out information about what JWs do and don't do is by asking JWs directly and/or by going to their official website.
Just sayin'

😂

I'm guessing this is satire.

I'm hoping this is satire.

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Can JW's celebrate Hannukah?

by Splash in

what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.

This is a good question to make a JW think . . . Because Paul was talking SPECIFICALLY about Jewish festivals when he said that it's up to each individual Christian conscience to decide weather to observe them or not.

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For a good laugh, check this out on jw. org

by dropoffyourkeylee in

go to jw.org and watch some of the caleb and sophia videos in solomon islands pidgin language.

hilarious!.

neat blue dog

I've always loved reading that language for laughs (not making fun of people who speak it, I just think it's cute). I've still got a few WT/A! magazines in SIP

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Revisiting the two witness rule, new light.

by Crazyguy in

it’s already been disgusted how mathew 18: verses 18 on showing that there’s not a cut and dry way to enforce a rule or law in another thread i started.

but let’s look at verse 16 the verse they like to quote.

the verse isn’t talking about having two witnesses to a crime or a wrong doing , it’s saying if you have a problem with a brother and he’s not willing to listen to your side off the issue to take some witnesses with you that agree with you to help establish that your point of view is in fact correct.

neat blue dog

Exactly! It was incredibly stupid of them to make that recent morning worship video about the two witness rule, because up until that point most R&F JWs didn't even know about it in this context. They could've changed it and been a little easier. But now just like the blood doctrine, the more time that passes the more casualties add up, and the greater the probability of liability.

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Deceptive comments or lies that you have heard from platform or brothers & sisters?

by Farmer Jim1 in

jw
friends

ok, so what are the most deceptive comments that you have heard from your experience in congregations?.

my top three are;.

1) service overseer during the ’ how did we do?’ annual talk, twisted the figures to such an extent that it looked like the congregations ministry was in tip-top shape.

neat blue dog

The two separate instances of ministerial servants being removed right after the CO's visit because their service hours were below quota, but both of them saving face by telling everyone that they 'decided' to step down for personal reasons.

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