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  What happened to the 2020 Annual Meeting? Was it suspended?

  by Misterme in

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  anyone know?

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  BluesBrother

  I guess the public AGM before a live audience could not happen due to Covid
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  Wife in cult mode. What was the topic this past weekend 10-18-20

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  as always i preferece this post with a: i despise this cult!!!!

  so glad the boys dispise it as well.. so, as stated...she is in a cult mode and i am trying to figure out what the trigger was.

  the watchtower rag or .

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  BluesBrother

  There is no way of knowing what the local talk was . But yes, the WT study on the resurrresurrection painted speculative glowing pictures of how the dead may return, their characters being the same, how they would look the same, etc all based on a few words in John 5 : 28 &29.

  After my mother died , I really bought in to tnis belief. I wanted to hug my mother again and have her in good health. When I woke up and realised that it was all human speculation, I was really disappointed.
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  I almost died ...allow me to explain

  by Terry in

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  in 1923 i almost died.. allow me to explain .... .

  i wouldn't exist for another 24 years ...but.

  for a few seconds, on top a building, my grandfather, jack hybarger, stood with tears running down his cheeks and a small caliber pistol in his right hand.

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  BluesBrother

  Wow! I don't know what to say.

  It is true that our existence is tne result of a whole series of improbable coincidences, what if my father had gone somewhere else tne night he met my mother? Etc....

  Sometimes we forget the long term unintended consequences of our actions and choices . You make your grandfather's seem warm and human . It is a good job he never pulled the trigger ....
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  Anyone seen this? Seems to be a startup JW site for leaning languages

  by Funky in

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  scanning thru the usual jw sites, i saw a link to this site:.

  https://www.talk2practice.com/.

  looks like a standard language-tutoring site, right?.

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  BluesBrother

  The Watchtower has had its own language learning app for some time ...fine if you want tp present the good news in Japanese
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  Disfellowhipped for not wearing facemask?

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup - person has done nothing wrong.

  but they have called a judicial and from what i can tell refusing to wear a facemask is bothering them more than the person not turning up.. so is this new light?

  if you have been called to a judical please remember to stay safe and wear your personal protective equimpment.

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  BluesBrother

  so we now learn that this person "questioned" doctrines and practises and declined to attend a J C unless he could be mask free. That is different, we all know where openly disputing beliefs can get you. ....and he said he would not be attending .

  Who are the Elders to dictate to a person to attend a judicial committee and also to dictate they wear a mask ?

  Actually I can agree with them. Who is this person to insist on his preferences if it could endanger another's health ?
  
  
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  Disfellowhipped for not wearing facemask?

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup - person has done nothing wrong.

  but they have called a judicial and from what i can tell refusing to wear a facemask is bothering them more than the person not turning up.. so is this new light?

  if you have been called to a judical please remember to stay safe and wear your personal protective equimpment.

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  Come off it! We know this could not happen.
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  How do you personally deal with your still in family JWS ?

  by Finkelstein in

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  2. beliefs

  for myself i just try to avoid them intentionally maybe see them once every couple of years on average.

  they used to be easy going but over the last 10 years or so they got more cult like and distant and i'm really not bothered by that, maybe a bit.

  they stick to their own or other members like they are their family so, its makes it unattractive for myself to connect and reach out to them anymore.

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  BluesBrother

  There is only my wife and she has been terrfic in these strange times. Without ministry or KH meetings we have drawn closer since her congregation leave her well alone .
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  The Society and 1975.

  by Lost in the fog in

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  stumbled upon this article - not that the wt society ever highlighted the date of 1975, but that was brothers running ahead... .

  w68 8/15 pp.

  494-501. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1968602#h=1:0 .

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  BluesBrother

  Like many others I was there. There were several articles highlighting the importance of the then future year 1975. The first time I saw it was in a chart in a study book printed in the late sixties . The momentum grew as years went by.

  We knew that The Society had not actually said that Armageddon would be on or before September 1975 but they sure hinted it strong enough . That was good enough for most of the dubs at the time. I mean, what were. We supposed to think?

  One typical view as voiced by an elder I remember. He said “ I am certain that Jehovah would not allow the Society to be so wrong over this important matter “

  How wrong we were!
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  2020-New-October-Elders-Manual-Addendum-and-S-147-Announcements! (as of 2020-10-02)

  by Atlantis in

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  new--2020-october--shepherd the flock of god--elder manual.

  new--2020-october--addendum to elder manual.

  2020--october-s-147-e--announcements and reminders.

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  BluesBrother

  Thanks for the Shepherding Flock book ,Atlantis &Petra. What would we do without you ?
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  Thank Jehovah for the food box's

  by Fadeaway1962 in

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  2. scandals

  https://thecounter.org/churches-usda-covid-19-food-boxes-boundaries-church-and-state/.

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  BluesBrother

  It would be funny if they were officially reprimanded for this. I have had a job to grasp this matter in previous comments because when the U k gave food boxes to vulnerable people they came direct, even if the delivery people were volunteering. There was no named charity involved. I understand a bit better now.

  NB . It is a bit much to dress it up as a gift from Jehovah when it is provided by the government. You would think even the older dubs would see through that one