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  Loyalty to God ( or the Society ) Before The Familiar

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this week's midweek meeting has an item on this theme.

  as usual there is a video to show:-.

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodbibleprinciples/pub-jwbai_201611_1_video.

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  stan livedeath

  exactly whats happened to my family.

  my older son--now 44--was d/f about 11 years ago. his marriage had fallen apart ( not his fault !)--and he met someone else--so decided to end his involvement with the cult. He was d/f.

  his mother --a 3rd gen born in--has shunned him ever since.

  when i found out about it i made contact with him--through a facebook search. we hadnt had any contact for 24 years prior to that.

  now--11 years later--he has just had another child--has a lovely wife--a beautiful home in a delightful location--a great business from home, and many friends.

  he just doesnt have a mother any more.
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  Dumb Elders

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew a few pretty intelligent elders .

  sometimes i would wonder why they remained as elders or even witnesses because they were successful men who made a good living and were highly respected because of their qualities.. that is a rather small group.

  most elders that i know of aren’t the brightest bulbs in the sky.

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  stan livedeath

  i think its a lot more basic. |Most elders are married--whether they are intelligent, successful and wealthy--or not. They all have that one thing in common--being married.

  And wives know they are sitting on a gold mine.
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  ExElder Friend Had To Go To His Former Kingdom Hall and this what he told me!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he was the secretary before he resigned years ago.

  he has a business that kept him involved with the kingdom hall.

  the hall was sold to another church.

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  stan livedeath

  Funky...my father kept a large box full of cong records when the hall got sold and the cong merged with another. I found the box when i cleared his house out.
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  Australian JW murdered outside New Guinea Bethel years ago?

  by wozza in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone remember this ,i just recalled this morning , i knew the family and my daughter was friends with his brother.. i have left years ago and wondered if his murder was resolved and the story behind it as he worked at the bethel there..

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  stan livedeath

  you can sure see the spirit working with that lot.
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  Chelmsford and Mill Hill

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. humour

  whats the latest news on this ?

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  been quiet lately..

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  stan livedeath

  Whats the latest news on this ?

  Been quiet lately.
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  Predictions of The Org in one year.

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i predict that in a year kingdumb halls will be replaced by zoom.

  they will still have assembly halls but will charge a heavy entry fee.

  baptisms will continue to be so low that would not be worth counting.

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  stan livedeath

  so--to review.

  publications --? still going on ?

  door knocking-?

  meetings- ?

  assemblies-?

  merging congs and selling off halls-?

  not much left of it-is there ?
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  ExElder Friend Had To Go To His Former Kingdom Hall and this what he told me!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he was the secretary before he resigned years ago.

  he has a business that kept him involved with the kingdom hall.

  the hall was sold to another church.

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  stan livedeath

  to go off topic for a minute..

  what if a congregation owned its hall outright--never had a mortgage or loan from the watchtower---and the body of elders decided to sell up. are they legally required to hand over the dosh to the watchtower ?
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  Shepherding visit

  by donnye in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i cannot seem to find any information on which elder/s are assigned to do a shepherding visit on a congregation member.

  does one of them have to be the member's field group leader?

  can any elders do a shepherding visit at a member's request?

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  stan livedeath

  reading back over Donnys posts ten years back--it strikes me he is simply not one of the congregation "in " crowd--probably has no real friends either in the congregation--nor in the real world. it will be a sad day for him when he finally gets shoved out the door.
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  Shepherding visit

  by donnye in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i cannot seem to find any information on which elder/s are assigned to do a shepherding visit on a congregation member.

  does one of them have to be the member's field group leader?

  can any elders do a shepherding visit at a member's request?

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  stan livedeath

  @Donnye....have you considered mentioning to your elders that you are a member of this site ?
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  Publisher's Record Cards

  by Faded4good in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay, i haven't been to a meeting in over 17 years and i don't live anywhere near the place i grew up.

  i have had minimal contact with my jw family, essentially just occasional phone conversations.

  i think they could easily guess that i'm inactive but they pretend not to know and they've never shunned me.

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  stan livedeath

  i had to clear my old jw dad's house out when he went into a care home--2013. along with car loads of watchtowers going back 50 years and books--there was a large cardboard box of congregation records--all went to the tip.