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  Need help understanding the Overlapping Generation teaching

  by Jules Saturn in

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  so this is a topic that seriously boggles my mind and please correct me if i'm wrong.

  to me, the jw definition of the overlapping generation teaching is that the lives of the anointed from 1914 overlap with the lives of the anointed right now.

  david splane used the example of fred franz and how he finished his "earthly course" in 1992 but while he did, he had a lot of "contemporaries" that outlived him and are currently living today.

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  For those still confused:

  The generation that was the generation is not the generation but was replaced by the new generation that is the generation for the generation that was foretold to be the generation.

  How good it is the be in the spritual paradise and have such new truths revealed by Jehovah's faithful slave. We know this is from god because the FDS told us (they deliver the food at the proper time) and as we know they are anointed because they told us.

  I told this to some new people at the RC this summer and they ran. Did not come back for the rest of the convention. Too bad. They missed all the rest of the spritual food. The RC are a fine time for witnessing.
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  Question for SBF

  by Fisherman in

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  slimboyfat, it appears that wts is going, gone digital.

  can you show your view what is wts next move after they are completely gone from kings county and settled in warwick?

  - this thread is your if you want it..

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  I think that later on you may see a subscription service to the JW.org for all the literature. Some free for the public. Most magazines do this already. So if you want the truth as revealed by Jehovah's appointed faithful and discrete slave you must pay to subscribe.

  Also as mentioned in many post in the past is the fact that the org is getting older. At the last RC in USA, my location, I could not help but notice that in 10 years maybe 30% won't be there and in 20 years 70% gone. I'm sure the WTBTS knows this and has a plan to address the issue. I would just like to know how. It should be simple marketing but the geniuses on the GB with all their marketing knowledge and education just don't get it.

  Not talked about much is the fact that there are organizations within the organization. Minority groups, cultural groups that are currently (that appear to be) assimilated in the org, would easily leave if things changed from a doctrinal stand point or better yet someone with charisma who is high up and from the same cultural. Take away the kingdom halls and this would happen fast.

  I don't see the government going after them (WBTS) but rather a crumbling from within.
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  Protect Your Family??

  by Tech49 in

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  2. bible

  here is an article in the current study copy of the wt.

  tell me your thoughts and i will tell you mine.!

  this is a topic that i am very sensitive about, as i could never see not protecting my family, even if that meant using whatever means at hand to do so!

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  So if we don't have a gun to protect ourselves we should call on someone who has a gun (police) to protect us. The WTBS would do this in a heart beat if trouble happened at Warwick.

  Jesus didn't tell Peter to throw the sword away, but to just put it back into the sheath. Jesus was well aware that Peter had the sword.

  For those thinking of fading this would be a way of getting out of responsibility. Let the elders know you have a gun and bam! you no longer are a elder or MS.
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  Chapter 27 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  so you’re working about forty six hours a week at bethel.

  monday night was the bethel watchtower study, tuesdays and fridays nights were your meeting nights at the kingdom hall.

  that was your free time.

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  Dam Sparky! I wish I knew you were good at pool. I guess the subject never came at the hall, go figure.
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  Chapter 27 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  so you’re working about forty six hours a week at bethel.

  monday night was the bethel watchtower study, tuesdays and fridays nights were your meeting nights at the kingdom hall.

  that was your free time.

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  I really like the Plymouth Deli not far from Bethel. As far as health, thank god I did not have a problem.

  I G-jobbed at the farm and not in Brooklyn. I strung barb wire on a sheep farm, mowed lawns. Even hustled at pool in one of the road houses in the mountains. After all I had a car to support.
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  Chapter 26 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  we wanted sex too.

  so why did he get married?

  so they punishment you for leaving bethel and getting married?

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  One last note: If you left before your time the Society would send a letter to your draft board stating that you were no longer a full time minister! What a way to treat volunteers.

  As far as married brothers, they never had an all night watchmen duty. Their excuse was because of the needs of their wife at night. I'm not kidding. Any exbethelites want to verify this. I found this out at the farm when I had weekend duties at farm 2. The warped thinking and reasoning of the Society still amazes me.
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  Chapter 25 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 25. lola la la la lola.

  i’m not sure where i met steve h but it was love at first sight.

  not physical love, thought looking back i don’t think he would have minded that.

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  I remember that when someone jumped off the Towers. He hit the window sill of my room and this knocked him toward the street sign. I had a bunch of potted plants on the sill.

  Do you remember when Phil Wilcox got his hand in the press and it took off a finger? I think it was press 35. I pulled the rollers out of the color section and saw his finger fall down.

  Do you remember the "Mr. David Convention" at the St. George Hotel? That was my first introduction into the gay community. I was from the back woods of the south.
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  I was on the third floor of the Towers. It looked out the front of the hotel above the entrance. My room mate was Joel Reed. We had our own bath room, each had a walkin closet. Not bad.

  New boy do you remember Norman Dignard and his make ready crew? Ha Ha. What was your impression of Richard Wheelock?
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  I roomed there when I first got to Bethel. It was high on the bid list. Roomed at Towers mostly.
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  Chapter 24 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 24. feed the rounder.

  i was dying everyday on the machines.

  i prayed.

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  Did you room in 58?

  You mean down at Squibb?