Oh I vaguely remember a meeting part where an elder strongly discouraged using tablets at the meeting because some people can't afford to buy them and it was showing off. I can't remember exactly when that was, but obviously in the period in between tablets becoming popular and Watchtower sanctioning/promoting their use at the meetings. Maybe around 2010 or so? I wish I had a recodring of that for posterity.
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Personal opinions spouted from the platform?
by purrpurr inhave you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?
perhaps off brand or crazy ones?
some that i've heard is:.
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Personal opinions spouted from the platform?
by purrpurr inhave you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?
perhaps off brand or crazy ones?
some that i've heard is:.
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slimboyfat
Bizarrely a recent CO had something against local JWs meeting up in the supermarket for a snack after the Sunday meeting, I don't know what exactly, but he was quite agitated and sarcastic about it.
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Internet Search Engines And Some Of The First Things I Typed
by Brokeback Watchtower init was back in mid nineties 93,94 or 95 before it became what it is today.
anyway they had a bunch of search engines and the first thing i typed in it was jehovah witness, then jesus christ, next came lsd, magic mushrooms, nude pictures.
i think in that relative order.. i remember reading a different story about jws in germany during the nazi era, not anything like the 74 yearbook's depiction.
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slimboyfat
Among my first Internet searches in 1999, using AltaVista, were "Doug Harris" and "Reachout Trust", followed by many years of arguing with him about JWs on his Reachout forum. I can't argue with him any more, since he died a few years ago, too young. After that I think I read most of what there was on the Internet about JWs: everything on freeminds, Watchtower Observer, H2O, here, Greg Stafford, Jehovah's Witnesses United, Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses (anyone remember that?), Channel C, dozens of yahoo groups, later Watchtower Information Service, Johannes Wrobel's website, JW Studies by Ken Raines, and much more. That was when pretty much everything on the Internet was text based. Does anyone actually read websites any more, instead of watching videos or short forum messages?
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An elder with only one testicle
by stillin ini happen to be one of very few people who know of this condition that the man has.
he had an accident several years ago with some power equipment.
leviticus 21:20 commands that no man present the bread at the temple with damaged testicles... so?.
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slimboyfat
Don't give them ideas. I can so imagine the GB turning this into a rule. And all the ridiculousness that would ensue.
I know an elder who lost one to testicular cancer too.
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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund
by Sour Grapes ina letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.
it was sold a couple of years ago.
we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.
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slimboyfat
It is this in a nutshell...whilst they are now being very careful with their money and "grabbing"what they can they are in no way going bust financially in our lifetimes.
How do you know that?
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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund
by Sour Grapes ina letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.
it was sold a couple of years ago.
we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.
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slimboyfat
Back in 2015 Samuel Herd said that most construction projects around the world were being delayed, reduced in size, or halted. with the exceptions being Warwick and Chelmsford. So it's not surprising that Assembly Halls are being cancelled. Presumably this is happening all over the world. It's the same programme of KH consolidation that is being applied to Assembly Halls. So we can expect these same measures to be upsetting and aggravating JWs in locations all over the world, and lower future donations as a result. These are desperate measures for desperate times.
What I'd like to know is if local elders continued promoting donations for this Assembly Hall even after the announcement in 2015, believing the cutbacks didn't apply to their own project. That would only aggravate the situation further,
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Are the J.W's reaching a "Tipping point"?
by karter ini haven't been to a meeting in 15 years but my mother and sister are hard as j.w's.
the brothers they are appointing elders are at best suspect like one guy from my old hall made elder,big time drug used before becoming a j.w his talks are all over the place and would have struggled to make m,s years ago but with at least 60 to 70 % of young ones leaving the pool to pick from is at best reduced.. 2 other recent elders both young and zero life experience both on benefits one not well at all falls asleep all the time.. the decent,kind elders mostly older and are decent people with alot of life experience are burning out fast as there are so few of them left like 3 per congro of 100 publishers.. then you have the rich elders who wouldn't ever think of inviting some poor older or mis-fit person out to the expensive placers they go to as they couldn't afford to go so they are above the r&f and the r&f get pissed off with them.
then we have the ones who have "put the kingdom 1st" who are now old worn out and barely getting by from welfare cheque to welfare cheque that are saying "the system should have been over many years ago" it's still here and they are struggling everyday.. then there are the pioneers who have a low payed reduced hour job that seem to think anyone who has anything is totally materialistic and looks down on anyone getting a new car buying a house ect.. along with the child abuse issues,the generation change,access to information the the g.b don't want anyone to know ,not to mention the issues around blood.. is there a tipping point coming????
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slimboyfat
Ha! I'm so "incited" by reading my old posts.
I think decline is carrying on apace.
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Engaged Couples Living Together
by ILewis inmy question is this.
is it wrong for a jehovah's witness to allow an unmarried couple to live together under their roof?
same room, same bed, they are allowing full on cohabitation.
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slimboyfat
It seems entirely plausible to me that someone vaguely in touch with JWs, searches JWs, finds this site, and posts a question. It happens fairly often.
And many people have moral views like the poster.
So I’m not sure what aspect of the whole thing is supposed to be unlikely.
It just seems a basic inability to believe that others can conceive the world differently, which pervades this forum.
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Has Justin Trudeau Finally Eaten Too Many Tide Pods?
by freemindfade incurious what the canadian take is on all this .
i also understand he compared islamic state terrorists to greek, vietnamese & italian migrants?
that one i haven't confirmed yet but sounds wacky if true.
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slimboyfat
Apparently, viewed in context of the woman's earlier remarks, this was a joke that Trudeau made. Only when taken out of context does it sound like a stupid liberal remark of the kind conservatives enjoy caricaturing.
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Wives With Unbelieving Mates
by minimus ini knew many witness wives with unbelieving mates who pretty much led a double life.
“my husband says i have to go the workplace christmas party.” or my mate tells me i have to make a thanksgiving dinnner.
or “ my mate insists i do things in the bedroom that i know the watchtower has talked against.
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slimboyfat
Yes it's a curious feature of JW rules that they have not outright banned JWs from marrying non-JWs. For some other sects this is considered a DFing offence. (the Christadelphians for example, I believe) Especially since research seems to show that religiously divided marriages are very poor at passing on religion. It would seem to be in their own interests for JWs to make Paul's injunction to "marry only in the Lord" a DFing issue.
One way to make sense of the historically liberal attitude of Watchtower on this matter is that JW (women in particular) marrying outside the faith has been a steady source of new members as JW wives often brought their husbands into the religion.
But that approach may now have backfired as husbands are more likely to convince their wives and children out of JWs than the opposite these days. Another example of a feature of JW religion, which was once an asset, or contributed to JW growth, turning around and becoming a major liability.