Girl is probably a jw acting like homeless. Last I visited Brooklyn Bethel, lots of homeless sitting on the floor by the loading area. Bethel sister told me to ignore them, same on the street.!!!!
Posts by blondie
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20Watchtower July 2025
by St George of England ini just saw the new wt is up and available.
the cover picture looks to me like the one that should have been used on the august 2024 wt but was pulled at the last minute and released with a different picture many weeks later.
someone on here uploaded a low res version of the picture last year.. of course we all know why the picture was pulled in the first place........ george.
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Watchtower July 2025
by St George of England ini just saw the new wt is up and available.
the cover picture looks to me like the one that should have been used on the august 2024 wt but was pulled at the last minute and released with a different picture many weeks later.
someone on here uploaded a low res version of the picture last year.. of course we all know why the picture was pulled in the first place........ george.
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blondie
Never mind.
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When JW's say they are 'In the truth'...
by Ron.W. inwhere did this phrase 'in the truth' come from?.
it's been around as long as i can remember.
is it from the time they were promoting 'the truth shall make you free' book back in 1943?
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blondie
Maybe the WTS got it from this scripture with their own slant that the WTS is the only true religion: 3 John 4 "No greater joy do I have than this: that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth RNWT
Other quotes:
"[A mature christian] does not advocate or insist on personal opinions or harbor private ideas when it comes to Bible understanding. Rather, he has complete confidence in the truth as it is revealed by Jehovah God through his Son, Jesus Christ, and "the faithful and discreet slave." Watchtower 2001 Aug 1 p.14(Reporting not supporting)
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February 2025 Letters to the Elders Announcements/Reminders
by blondie ini have finally sat down and read this letter.
i won't recreate the letter here, but if someone wants to share the link here, please do.. announcements and reminders.
february 2025. for elders.
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blondie
Thanks, WingCommander.
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February 2025 Letters to the Elders Announcements/Reminders
by blondie ini have finally sat down and read this letter.
i won't recreate the letter here, but if someone wants to share the link here, please do.. announcements and reminders.
february 2025. for elders.
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blondie
I have finally sat down and read this letter. I won't recreate the letter here, but if someone wants to share the link here, please do.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS
FEBRUARY 2025
FOR ELDERS
2. Special Talk: “encourage all elders” to “consider” whether “their circumstances” “to serve as auxiliary pioneers (30 or 50 hours/month) during March or April. “Invite family members (obviously non-jws), Bible (WT books) students, return visits, and “other acquaintances”
Other (close) acquaintances, does that mean non-jw family members, bible students, return visits…(not df’d jws?) “A close, warm friendship cannot be cultivated overnight. After all, friends are much more than acquaintances.”
3. How to Attack An Outline, not what you might think this means: but rather that elders put little effort into developing an interesting, well-thought out talk, not doing this because they have “given the talk so many other times before.” How many elders I knew just tried to wing it, not having read let alone studied the study article, even if the WT study overseer or bible study conductor. The old ministry school was developed in 1943 to teach baptized men how to give good public talks. In 1958 women were allowed to participate in showing how to talk to a non-jw person. MS and other men in the congregation look to the elders to show how a good, effective talk is to be given.
4. Hospitality for Visiting Speakers!!!! There used to be a list back on the “information board” for people to sign up for certain speakers, usually good friends or people they wanted to impress. Is that done any more? We had occasions where the original speaker cancelled out and another elder was sent to give the talk. The ones that signed up suddenly had a unforeseen conflict and cancelled and the chairman supposedly was supposed to take the speaker and family out. Or the case where the COBOE had a grudge against the replacement visiting speaker and coerced the one that had signed up for hospitality to cancel at the last minute. The WTS considers showing hospitality a very serious thing (in print anyway) (the WTS says that Lot and Abraham showed hospitality to strangers, even not of their own belief, and ended up having entertained angels).
5. School for Kingdom Evangelizers (new term to me). “The School for Congregation Elders was inaugurated in 2008. Over the next two years, more than 12,000 elders were taught at Patterson and at Brooklyn Bethel. That school is continuing at various other locations, with trained field instructors. In 2010 the Ministerial Training School was renamed the Bible School for Single Brothers, and a new school was formed, the Bible School for Christian Couples. Starting in the 2015 service year, those two schools were combined, forming the School for Kingdom Evangelizers. Those being instructed could be couples or single brothers or sisters.”
6. WORK SAFELY AT KINGDOM HALLS: I knew an elder that volunteered and was sent to Bethel as a temporary worker and safety procedures were not followed and some had no experience in construction, one such inexperienced brother, dropped a 200 pound steel pipe on that elder’s foot and that elder spent the rest of the 2 weeks in the Bethel hospital being treated by a WT doctor that had experience in fingers! That injured brother was not offered any concern except by one older GB brother who visited him every day. In another case, an elder with construction experience but the WTS did not follow safety protocol, and he felt off a flimsy scaffold and died on the spot. WTS did not offer any help paying for the injuries or the loss of income to the dead brother’s family. Yes, the WTS says PLAN (wow) Do you think the elders are doing it? Haha. But the WTS is CYAing legally, putting it on that congregation’s elders.
7. So no more 16 year old MS (but can a baptized male under 18, conduct field service arrangements?) Do the parents or guardians have to approve the appointment of their minor son, or does the body of elders have the final say?
1) What does the WTS mean “always respect parental headship when working with a young ministerial servant?”
2) Another legal CYA “never be alone with a ministerial servant who is younger than 18 years of age. Use discernment (what is the WTS definition of that—legal CYA here) to avoid any conduct that could be misinterpreted by others (who) as morally questionable (any legal definitions of that that conduct might be?)
3) (MS who is younger than 18) should not be given any responsibility that involves overseeing or supervising others. (Does include conducting meetings for field service?)
4) Some…younger than 18…microphone…sound equipment..literature, territory (unbaptized helping?)
(The WTS once again is only making these changes to address many of the legal problems they are having in the courts)
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2025-H*T*A*A*O* Video with Bugs, Elmer and Daffy!
by Atlantis inh*t*a*a*o. staring elmer and daffy!.
now read between the lines.. -------------------------------------.
h*t*a*a*o. how to attack an outline video.
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blondie
I'm sure someone still monitors the talks so that a speaker does not take the audience on a ride with comments quietly disputing the WTS party line.
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Miscarriage myths amongst JW
by Anony Mous inso i am having these discussions about children etc and there are witness ties and family history in these discussions.
i got the feeling having this discussion that they seemed to imply somehow it was ‘the parent’s fault’ for having a miscarriage.
whether it was domestic violence, or the mother did something wrong themselves.
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blondie
In the WT 2009 4/15 p. 12-13: the WTS said this officially, Is there any hope of a resurrection for a baby that dies in its mother’s womb? "Does all of this mean, then, that the Bible teaches that children who perish before birth will be resurrected? We must emphasize that the Bible does not directly answer that question, so there is no basis for humans to be dogmatic on the matter. This subject may give rise to an almost endless variety of questions. Really, though, it seems best to avoid speculation." This is the way the WTS back walks previously dogmatic statements. "Life begins at conception. Jehovah can resurrect individuals of whatever stage of life because “all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27) But the Bible does not directly say whether he will resurrect unborn children who died in the womb.—4/15, pages 12, 13."
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Did you have a written schedule?
by karter inthe wts encouraged us to have one, i alway found it funny when people would desplay it where everyone could see it to show how busy they are in the lords work.. karter..
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blondie
Never saw that, but I kept a private one to keep track of my time in general. Some jws were always doing this to show how righteous they were. I guess they missed these words from Jesus (reporting not supporting) Matthew 6:1-4 " “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
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The King of the North as you Never Heard ity Explained Before
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/w32nome-k20?si=a8bhxh5tjrkomgzq.
rather than seeing the king of the north as the final opponent of god’s people, i propose that daniel 11 points to a completely different figure.
while the watchtower society focuses on the struggle between these two kings, they overlook a third entity mentioned in verse 40, but let’s ready this verse first from the new world translation.
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blondie
Anony Mous, at one time around 2020, some "Christian" religions suggested Trump was the Antichrist.
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The org's failed last days predictions were "well meant."
by BoogerMan inw93 6/1 p. 15 par.
6 be sound in mind - the end is close - "of course, well-meaning, faithful christians in the past have sincerely tried to predict when the end would come.".
more than 140 years of a sincere & well-meaning "it's coming soon" from the org, can be swept under the carpet - nothing to see here!.
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blondie
The WTS counsels its members not to "run ahead" of their god, but then says this (self-aggrandizing for sure):
WT 6/1/1997 p. 14 "In contrast with humans, who have a limited life span, Jehovah never feels pressured by time to reveal his secrets prematurely. This fact should prevent us from becoming impatient when certain Bible questions cannot presently be explained to our satisfaction. Modesty on the part of the faithful and discreet slave class, commissioned to provide the Christian household with food at the proper time, prevents it from presumptuously running ahead and wildly speculating about things that are still unclear. The slave class strives to avoid being dogmatic. It is not too proud to admit that as of now it cannot answer every question, keeping Proverbs 4:18 clearly in mind. But how thrilling to know that Jehovah, in his own due time and in his own way, will continue to reveal his secrets as to his purposes! Never should we become impatient with Jehovah’s arrangement, indiscreetly trying to rush ahead of the Revealer of secrets. How reassuring it is to know that the channel Jehovah is using today does not do so! It is both faithful and discreet." hahaha