BB:
Yeah I remember him. Remember you too.
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend and a great guy.
:(
Thanks for passing it along.
~Meagan
i'm not sure if there is anyone here anymore that remembers stealth, but if there is i just wanted to pass on the news that he passed away from a heart attack almost 2 years ago now.. i just found out myself today.
he had moved overseas and we lost contact.
he was in an area that he didn't always have reliable internet connections, so it wasn't uncommon for me to not hear from him for long stretches.
BB:
Yeah I remember him. Remember you too.
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend and a great guy.
:(
Thanks for passing it along.
~Meagan
if someone has done this before , i apologise but this was new to me.....struck me as strange that nowadays, the answers to life's problems are found on the internet .
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It takes discussion out of the picture and makes it about just getting people to the website where there is more control.
I remember the last tract minsitry I was involved in, it was the idea of just get the tract in their hands.
I agree that they're trying to get away from the Watchtower heading. It turns people off right away.
Definitely hired pr reps. Someone's getting it through to them that the Watchtower has gotten a bad rep, so they need to rebrand.
im discussing things online with people and i keep forgetting that they havent' always had the gb and that there was a time that it was just a president or whatever.
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when did that change?
how the hell is this new teaching any different than the RCC view of the Pope???
So you have 6 more people. Big whoop.
Same concept.
10 Who, then, is the faithful and discreet slave? In keeping with Jesus’ pattern of feeding many through the hands of a few, that slave is made up of a small group of anointed brothers who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food during Christ’s presence. Throughout the last days, the anointed brothers who make up the faithful slave have served together at headquarters. In recent decades, that slave has been closely identified with the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Note, however, that the word “slave” in Jesus’ illustration is singular, indicating that this is a composite slave. The decisions of the Governing Body are thus made collectively.
im discussing things online with people and i keep forgetting that they havent' always had the gb and that there was a time that it was just a president or whatever.
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when did that change?
I'm just blown away.
How bleeping convenient.
Thanks for that.
Going to look it up.
im discussing things online with people and i keep forgetting that they havent' always had the gb and that there was a time that it was just a president or whatever.
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when did that change?
Is the fact that the GB was set up in 1976 , just after Armageddon did not arrive in Autumn 1975 a coincidence ?
Not thinking it was.
Thanks for bringing that up.
im discussing things online with people and i keep forgetting that they havent' always had the gb and that there was a time that it was just a president or whatever.
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when did that change?
Now the GB has been identified as the "Faithful and Discreet Slave," replacing the Anointed Remnant on earth who used to be considered the FDS.
Whoa, wait.
Huh???
when rutherford assumed the presidency of the watchtower society he instituted series of sweeping changes to the teachings and practices of the bible students.
some of these changes were at complete odds with what had been taught previously.
a key example was the elevation of the watchtower society as "god's visible organization on earth".
This is what cracks me up, the GB could literally start teaching the Trinity in some weird fashion and the people would eat it up.
New Light
im discussing things online with people and i keep forgetting that they havent' always had the gb and that there was a time that it was just a president or whatever.
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when did that change?
Thank You!!!
That's what I was wondering.
im discussing things online with people and i keep forgetting that they havent' always had the gb and that there was a time that it was just a president or whatever.
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when did that change?
Im discussing things online with people and I keep forgetting that they havent' always had the GB and that there was a time that it was just a President or whatever.
When did that change?
just wanted to show the activity in downtown detroit from the convention.
trafic is on jam!.
lots of people .
At the same time, the group has the highest rate of people leaving, according to Pew. Only 37% of those raised in their faith identify with it as adults.