Posts by BluesBrother

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Help with 1975 please

by jhine in

i answered a question on quora about jw flip flops .

i mentioned, amongst other things , the 1975 debacle.

how witnesses were told that armageddon was coming in the fall of that year.

BluesBrother

J W’s stick to the letter of the words used ,to claim “We never said 1975”. But that is just semantics

We all knew that ‘75 was the end of the 6000 years. The flock believed that it would bring the system’s end. The WT never said exactly that it would be so, just said everything but . ....

What were the flock supposed to think ? We were sure that if it did not occur by ‘75 , it would be soon after . Any cautionary words about not pinning hopes on the date were understood to mean it could be a few months after .... NOT 46 years and counting!

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Can non JWs be witnesses in a committee meeting?

by mickbobcat in

i am not sure but i know where non jws have been brought in for a witness to a judicial meeting.

what is the official policy on this?

BluesBrother

Yes ! Just checked “ shepherd the Flock “ 2021 again at your reference and that is exactly what it says. Thank you DrearyWeather for clearing that up.

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Can non JWs be witnesses in a committee meeting?

by mickbobcat in

i am not sure but i know where non jws have been brought in for a witness to a judicial meeting.

what is the official policy on this?

BluesBrother

My memory (not infallible)tells me much tbe same, Anonymous. I thoght it was something like , it may used but with caution.

I had a look at a downloaded "Shepherd The Flock" book but could not find a mention of it now..

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Daily Texts

by Iamallcool in

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did you read the daily texts when you were a dub?

did anything from the daily texts wake you up about the truth about the truth?.

BluesBrother

Like Pete (above) I could never keep up the habit.

When taking a discussion on the text with the cong. It was always a struggle to talk about the scripture. The bros. Would rather take points from the WT comment. I am sure they never knew the difference.

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Suggested movies for the new Jehovah's Witness Movie Studio to undertake once built.

by was a new boy in

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title: אחות מתזמן (sister scheduler) .

אחות מתזמן would be based on 1 kings 11:3.. 'he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines' .

אחות מתזמן job is to arrange solomon quality time with his legal babes.

BluesBrother

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou ?

Sister Act ?

Escape From New York ?

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Are you less judgmental after you became ex JW?

by Iamallcool in

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any takers?

.

BluesBrother

Yes.

I have learned a lot from this board.

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Do you think the Door to Door KNOCKING - field service will EVER resume AGAIN?

by pistolpete in

if i was a jw, and covid put and end to the door to door work for two years, and kingdom halls closed, it would get me to re-visit and think about the stupidity of the overlapping generation, and how they extended the deadline for armageddon to 2072.

(1992 franz death +80 more years).

if i was 20 years of age, plus another 80 = 100 years of age for the system to end.

BluesBrother

Door to door is surely planned to start again once Covid is over. It is too important to their movement to not do so. Believe it or not , there are some who really want to get back to it

Trolley work is very visible but only a few per day get to do it, some like my family used to find it was sewn up by the in-crowd and Pioneers. The bulk of the “work” was door to door.

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Is it okay for JW to work for Df’d person?

by Iamallcool in

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any takers?.

BluesBrother

This is definitely a grey area. A lot will depend on the circumstances, how the remaining Witness presents it to his BOE and their attitude toward him.

2 examples. A) The Witness works in a large factory and the d/f one is his foreman. They do not socialise and rarely speak about none work matters. That would probably be o k .

B) witness works for another one , window cleaning together all day. Either one is d/f. They spend all day on the jobs or in the van, take breaks and lunch together. He would probably have to get other employment.

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A truly absurd situation is brewing ...

by LoveUniHateExams in

yes, it's related to the world cup in qatar next year.. a recent un report has detailed some serious abuse of migrant workers by qatari authorities - we're talking some serious issues here:.

- a caste system with migrant workers treated differently on the basis of ethnicity.

- non-payment of wages.

BluesBrother

I don’t usually comment on current affairs topics on here , but you are absolutely right , L.U.HE.

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I showed on of my JW (True Believers) that Kingdom Halls will be opening soon. He had a fit!

by pistolpete in

so i showed one of my older uncles the link on jw.org.. https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/the-governing-body-announces-that-some-in-person-meetings-will-resume-in-select-areas/.

keep in mind that this is one of the relatives that is a true believer and used every excuse you can think of for the cancellation of all kingdom hall meetings.

and he also used every scriptural argument you can make up to justify the end of the door to door ministry.

BluesBrother

Mine were not happy at the prospect!

I reassured them with the thought that , given the terrible infection rates still prevalent in U.K., it will be a long time before it comes our way... ( we all hope. That’s apostate and true believers united)