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  Will the change to the Watchtower be followed by a change to the meetings?

  by yaddayadda in

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  i expect that a significant change to the meetings is on the horizon, most probably in the form of a shift of the bookstudy from a weeknight to a condensed saturday morning version.

  some congregations already hold bookstudy groups on saturday mornings.

  a universal change to this for the whole organisation make senses as it would help resolve a number of growing problems for the society, specifically, meeting attendance is clearly diminishing at the rate of knots in the western world, many elders are burning out and resigning because they cannot cope with all the pressure heaped up on them that so many meetings in no small measure contributes towards, and magazine 'sales' are apparently down and such a change would work in very well with the upcoming new change to the watchtower magazine in january 2008. .

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  Did You Ever REALLY Love "Jehovah God"?

  by minimus in

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  looking back, honestly, do you think you ever really loved jehovah??

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  NAME`JEHOVAH' FIRST USED BY CATHOLIC!

  by badboy in

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  i believe i read somewhere that jehovah was first used by the catholic!

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  Say You're a Bethelite & Monitoring JWD - How Would You Feel About THESE??

  by Seeker4 in

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  i'm talking about the new posters, like kitten whiskers, who started posting today (hope this works: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/120817/1.ashx).

  and it seems like we're getting a few like this nearly every day.

  people who were raised jws, really worry that they are doing the right thing in leaving, yet who have been made to feel not good enough by the wts, who felt they never measured up, who struggled with it, but came to realize that what they'd been brought up to believe was just not the truth.. the same stories are told over and over again, and they come from sincere, good people - not whiny, fault-finding apostates like the rest of us riffraff around here!

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  Requirement for JWs to report sins of others to the elders--need source

  by cabasilas in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm looking for some pointed references that detail the requirement for jws to report the sins ("disfellowshipping offenses") of fellow members to the elders.

  i have the "a time to speak--when?

  " article from 1987 but was looking for more concise and direct statements in wt literature.

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  Field Service

  by XBEHERE in

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  question for those of you still going out: do you actually still pretend to preach to people?

  pretend interest in the latest mags so they will take them?

  for me its easy since territory is so apathetic anyway i just dont bother overcoming any of their "conversation stoppers" my calls i am slowly, methodically telling them i wont be coming around anymore.

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  When Will I Not Be Considered Disfellowshipped Among the Congregation?

  by kwheeler in

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  here is a little background about myself.

  my mother raised me and my siblings in the jw faith.

  however, my father was not a witness and opposed a lot of the beliefs so you can imagine how our life was.

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  Do active jw's count their time they post here for field service?

  by HockeyMullet in

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  i'm just curious.

  it looks like there's a couple "unbaptised" individuals here.

  i suppose you wouldn't have to detail it in the service reports, although i haven't filled one out for quite a while.

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  They Tell The Elders One Thing And The Others Something Else!

  by minimus in

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  the organization is so deceitful that they will tell the watchtower readers that the elders should deal mercifully with wrongdoers but in private letters or correspondence thru the circuit overseers, they will tell the elders not to allow "leaven" within their midst.

  they say it's better to disfellowship and see whether someone's truly repentant afterwards rather than taking a chance to contaminate the congregation.......another example of their being two-faced is that they will tell the brotherhood not to buy homes, cars, vacations, etc.

  unnecessarily as it could signal materialism, yet the watchtower society spends more money on real estate than we could ever possibly imagine but it's ok for them..........can you think of other things that show that the organization is hypocritical??

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  Working for the State or Government

  by jula71 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the above thread got me thinking.

  one of the main reasons dub's don't get involved with the military is that they do not want to "support" the government to which it serves.

  ok, how about working for the government?

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