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What are you up to this summer?
by Xanthippe in
1. jw
2. friends
i really enjoy hearing about other people's lives.

feeling a little lonely this evening so please tell me if you have plans for the summer months.

i may go to some outdoor theatre with my daughter who's home from uni; with a picnic and a bottle of wine.
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The mrs. and I will be taking a trip across the pond to visit Europe. London, France and Spain. My first time, so looking forward to seeing all the sights. Hopefully I'll come across some English speaking jw with their carts and I can give them a good "witness"
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Is it necessary to prepare for the Watchtower or book study?
by BashfulAshG in
1. watchtower
2. bible
all of my years in the truth, i never understood why we had to study before each meeting.

the contents are self-explanatory with the answers to the printed question within the first or the last sentence of the paragraph.

then, commenting never made sense, especially comments and experiences that don't answer the printed question.
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No
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Change to dress and grooming rules for JWs in USA soon?
by RayPublisher in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my guy with the lurk account on jwtalk (where all the kool-aid drinking jws go to talk about how wonderful 'the twoof' is) sent me some more interesting threads, here's one:.

spoiler: starting new the new service year september.

"there will be new directives from the branch through the circuit overseer on dress and grooming that will disqualify one to be a congregation publisher.
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I can see maybe adopting more rules on acceptable dress while out in field service. What I can't see is them saying...brothers if we see you wearing skinny jeans while at the mall, you'll be removed as a publisher! That's not going to happen. What I see this as being is more of a crack down on what people wear in service and to the meetings. Search some of the jw related hashtags on Twitter or Instagram and you'll see tons of kids posting meeting or service selfies, maybe HQ is seeing to much "questionable" dress and grooming in these selfies. I'm never surprised when I hear corporate is making a new rule about something or other.
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Where are the Young Elders?
by James Jack in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was appointed as an elder when i turned 30, 25 years ago.

which was the norm back then.. now, i very rarely here of a young man becoming an elder.

in our town we have 2 english congregations.
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We have one elder in his late 30's..the rest are 55+ within the last few years though they've been appointing every guy over 25 who gets 10+ "visible" hours in service, regular meeting attendance and comments to be a ms. I think 3 or 4 have been appointed in the last year, it's pretty easy to see which ones are gunning to be an elder now...kinda scary to think of guys I grew up with running the show in 10 years. Yikes!
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Convention Tomorrow...
by freemindfade in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
kill me.... it's hard to put into words just how badly i do no want to sit through this 3 days of bull $hit.

i will appreciate any and all words of condolence, humorous, serious, or otherwise.
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I woke up this morning and decided...nah I'll go tomorrow or Sunday..or maybe not at all.
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JWs on Facebook, Pinterest, etc.
by enigma1863 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
have you noticed how much jw crap there is online now.

there must be 20 jw.org facebook pages.

100s of jws have a pinterest page.
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I only have one social media account, and that's Twitter. If you want to see some crazy jw stuff go on there and starting searching some of the jw related hashtags they use. The one thing I've been using it for is finding out who the guys are at bethel, that are behind and running the jw dot org website. They are all into tech/web design related things and a lot of them are on Twitter. The one thing I Can really take from their Twitter feeds is, when they leave Brooklyn, these guys are going to be hating life. Most of their posts are about how cool life in the city is. Very very rarely do you get anything God related in their tweets.
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BOE May 27, 2015 Re: Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall Construction Worldwide
by wifibandit in
1. watchtower
2. bible
thanks stayedaliveafter75 !.

http://imgur.com/a/ccnus.

pdf download from google or mega..
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Gayle- according to a bethelite they started in Florida and New Jersey this month.
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BOE May 27, 2015 Re: Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall Construction Worldwide
by wifibandit in
1. watchtower
2. bible
thanks stayedaliveafter75 !.

http://imgur.com/a/ccnus.

pdf download from google or mega..
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Very nice! May broadcast asking for money, can you give more???...now send a letter to elders suggesting maybe the congregation can review what they're sending into HQ, maybe possibly now that the r&f have been softened up by lett, they might be guilted into giving more. Nice strategy.
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Convention Tomorrow...
by freemindfade in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
kill me.... it's hard to put into words just how badly i do no want to sit through this 3 days of bull $hit.

i will appreciate any and all words of condolence, humorous, serious, or otherwise.
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Mine starts tomorrow as well...memorial coliseum Portland Oregon. Anybody else going to be there?
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Convention Invites are Idiotic
by cookiemaster in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, like every year, there's a campaign going on about giving people convention invites and urging them to attend the convention.

what an utterly moronic waste of time.

we live 500+ kilometers away from the convention hall.
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It is busywork. one thought about them I have though is, how many more years will it be before congs. print them out themselves? I could never see corporate HQ letting each publisher print them at home, the quality would vary to much. If the congregations would asked/strongly suggested/required to buy a printer set it up in the hall and print from there, that I could see. It's just 1 sheet of paper, you now have shifted costs to the congregations. The next step would be to have more 1 single sheet of paper campaigns, perhaps dropping the awake to online only, print out one page saying what's in the awake, directing them to the website. I'm just spitballing money saving ideas here, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't do some of this within 5 years