Posts by Neo

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New OM Book replacement & Upcoming Elder School

by doinmypart in

jw
friends

the organized to accomplish our ministry (om book) will be replaced on sunday march 20, 2005 with a book titled organized to do jehovah's will.

this is confidential, so be sure to tell your relatives and friends that are still in!

will there be any updates to the org's procedures, or just a re-hash of old policies?

Neo

Thanks, Doinmypart!

The Organized to Accomplish Our Ministry (OM book) will be replaced on Sunday March 20, 2005 with a book titled Organized to Do Jehovah's Will.

You're credible and I believe the above is true. Being so, this is likely the most important piece of news in Dub Land in recent times. Hardly anything "official" from the WT will be as relevant as this new book in 2005.

When they release a new "Organized" book, it's because there will be procedure changes. But let us not raise our expectations too high. Probably there won't be major "adjustments." Remember: the governing-nobodies are the Masters of Anticlimax.

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 12-26-04 WT Study (Abbreviated)

by blondie in

jehovah?s judgment will come against the wicked.

"get ready to meet your god.

prepare to meet your god as he comes in judgment, you people of israel!

Neo

Thanks once again, Blondie!!

Neo

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Todays (Dec 26th 2004) WT Study

by stillajwexelder in

really boring - hardly anyone commented - conductor had to really drag out answers from the same people - all on the book of amos - some paragraphs i really struggled with - my wife did not answer up and she is the loyal dubbie - i did though!!!!!!!!!!!!

!

Neo

Same ol', same ol'!!

"Amos" is just an excuse for the Watchtower to say the same things over and over! Even Governing Body members find nauseating to sit through a study like that one!

Watchtower Study: the epitome of Boredom!

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"Door to Door Work.... Well-Thought Out Process...."

by Country Girl in

glenwood springs post independent.

by ivy vogel .

december 17, 2004 .

Neo

Hi Country Girl!

"Well-Thought Out Process"? Hahahahahahahaha!!!

This topic is already being discussed at:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/82016/1.ashx

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 12-19-04 WT Study (Abbreviated)

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 12-19-04 wt study (november 15, 2004 issue)

review comments

will be in black and parentheses ().

Neo

Something that caught my attention:

Today, the nations of the world, including those of Christendom, reflect the corrupt condition of ancient Israel. While some people prosper, many are ruined financially and damaged emotionally by the immoral practices of dishonest leaders of big business, politics, and false religion.

Thanks for the opportune information, Watchtower! Most JWD members can attest the veracity of the above words.

Neo

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 12-19-04 WT Study (Abbreviated)

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the 12-19-04 wt study (november 15, 2004 issue)

review comments

will be in black and parentheses ().

Neo

In the last few years, the WT has had three-part symposiums on one of the Minor Prophets in each District Convention, and the talks are published in WT mag in the following year. The "study" on the Prophets are merely an excuse for the Watchtower to advance their propaganda and scare tactics. Ask any Witness right after these studies what's the main idea in, say, the Bible book of Amos, and barely anyone of them will be able to sum it up in a straightforward manner.

Neo

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JW Says:--JWs Are "Not Required" To Go Door To Door!

by Voyager in

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20041217/valleynews/112170011 .

overcast 29. .

Neo

Spot the contradiction:

"The reason we go door-to-door is because Jesus went door-to-door and he told us to do it," said Cathy Lou Pogainis, a church member at the Kingdom Hall in Glenwood.

and

Jehovah's Witnesses are not required to participate in door-to-door work but those who do learn how to talk to people about God's hope, Pogainis said.

Neo

PS: BTW, what are the Scriptures that say:

1. That Jesus went door-to-door?

2. That Jesus told people to go door-to-door?

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Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

by slimboyfat in

i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

Neo

bttt

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World War 1 and 1914

by Schizm in

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how did it just so happen that a world war took place in the very year that russell had attached so much importance to?

i realize that he expected 1914 to see the end of the world's governments, and of course that didn't happen, but it still seems to be quite remarkable that this war happened that very year ... a war that would later be construed to be the fulfillment of jesus' prediction in matthew 24:7.. the explanation given on the e-watchman site is that satan deliberately caused the war to happen so as to mislead jehovah's witnesses into thinking they had actually seen the fulfillment of bible prophecy, in order to make them think that jesus had returned invisably.. any ideas?.

Neo

The eschatological predictions in the 19/20th centuries need a proper historic contextualization.

Apocalypticism tends to rise in times of social/economic/political upheaval. In late nineteenth century, it was not hard to see that a great war would come up sooner or later; it wasn't a hard prediction to make, specially in view of the arms race in Europe. The great war was just a matter of time.

Even some political analysts themselves at the time tried to predict the year for the war outbreak. It's not difficult to understand, then, (1) that a great number of fiction novels were written in those years speculating about when and how the war would come and (2) that many religious people tried to pinpoint an year for the war/end-of-the-world in an outburst of date-setting prophetic speculation. There were so many date-setters in those years that eventually someone would get it right.

Ironically, Russel himself knew there would be a war coming up (he just needed to read the newspapers) and specifically stated that the future war had nothing to do with the end of the Gentile Times in 1914!

Neo

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World War 1 and 1914

by Schizm in

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how did it just so happen that a world war took place in the very year that russell had attached so much importance to?

i realize that he expected 1914 to see the end of the world's governments, and of course that didn't happen, but it still seems to be quite remarkable that this war happened that very year ... a war that would later be construed to be the fulfillment of jesus' prediction in matthew 24:7.. the explanation given on the e-watchman site is that satan deliberately caused the war to happen so as to mislead jehovah's witnesses into thinking they had actually seen the fulfillment of bible prophecy, in order to make them think that jesus had returned invisably.. any ideas?.

Neo

There were so many apocalyptic date-setting groups in America in late nineteen and early twentieth centuries that eventually one of them would have their predictions "quasi-fulfilled" in some year.

Neo