Wild_Thing

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  2011 "Let God's Kingdom Come!" District Convention Program

  by witnessofjesus in

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  9:30 song no.

  10:50 song no.

  12:10 song no.

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  Wild_Thing

  I swear these programs are recycled! The message is so tired ... "My Kingdom is bigger than your Kingdom!" Yawn!
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  Has the org changed their position on associating with non-JW family?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  it would take too long to explain how this conversation came about, but my jw sister recently told me that the organization now teaches that you can (she even suggested that you "should") have a relationship with family members who are not jw.

  she didn't specify whether they meant family who were never jws to begin with, or what, but in the context of the conversation we were talking about family members raised as jws but then left (not disfellowshipped or formally disassociated ... just left).. she said they even had a talk about it at the convention this summer, and had an experience of someone who reconnected with family after 10 years.

  she said they said you should have a relationship with them, even if they never become witnesses.

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  Wild_Thing

  It would take too long to explain how this conversation came about, but my JW sister recently told me that the organization now teaches that you can (she even suggested that you "should") have a relationship with family members who are not JW. She didn't specify whether they meant family who were never JWs to begin with, or what, but in the context of the conversation we were talking about family members raised as JWs but then left (not disfellowshipped or formally disassociated ... just left).

  She said they even had a talk about it at the convention this summer, and had an experience of someone who reconnected with family after 10 years. She said they said you should have a relationship with them, even if they never become witnesses.

  To be honest, this totally blew me out of the water. I was baptized when I was ten, and quietly left as a an adult, and my relationship with her and my JW family has been quite compliated over the years, but has been quite good for the past 2 or 3 years. I just always thought they finally came their senses about violating that unspoken rule of shunning non-JW family.

  Does anybody have any insight on this? Did anyone here anything about this happening at conventions in your area?
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  Toyota accelerator goes wild, kills 4 JW's in field service

  by Brocephus in

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  i don't know if any one posted this.

  but the four killed were in field service on a sat morning.

  there was no way they were driving this fast on a dead end road in a residential neighbrohood.

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  Wild_Thing

  I knew the man that died, Monty Hardy, from when I was a JW in Texas. He was a nice man. I think he went to Grapevine or Bedford congregation ... can't remember which. So sad he died while in service to the 'borg'.
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  Does anyone find it too painful to read the WTS publications?

  by dissed in

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  been out 13 years and even for research purposes, i find it way too painful to read this wt stuff.. and why?.

  all the painful memories it brings back.

  don't misread me, it has nothing to do with a guilty conscience.. it has to do with the real pain, the anger of being ripped off and lied too by the wts, the anger of seing how they have protected child molesters, sacrificed its followers by refusing blood transfusions, the treacherous way we and others were treated by the 'unloving brothers'.

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  Does anyone find it too painful to read the WTS publications?

  Yes ... it makes me quite nauseous actually.
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  suicide and explosion at Kingdom Hall on Sat. July 27

  by kool aid man06 in

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  a bizarre explosion at a church east of kansas city killed one man on saturday afternoon.

  atf agents said the explosion at the jehovah's witness' kingdom hall on foggy bottom drive was intentionally set, and that the person who died appears to have committed suicide.

  witnesses described large amounts of smoke pouring out of the building, which they said was just recently completed.

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  Wild_Thing

  The name was released today. I heard he shot himself in the bathroom. He torched the place and then ran to the bathroom to kill himself. Odd and tragic. He did go by Ed, so I assume his middle name is Edward. http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/727229.html

  Man killed at site of Bates City fire identified

  By BRIAN BURNES

  The Kansas City Star

  Authorities today disclosed the identity of the man who died in a Saturday explosion and fire at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall near Bates City.

  Authorities said Ralph E. Phillips, 53, of Buckner died of what they believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officials have concluded that accelerant had been poured throughout the hall and then ignited.
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  Sisters with Kleenex on their head

  by LearningMore in

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  so, i keep hearing reference to this.

  was this just taking place in really small congregations?

  i mean, i know the philosophy behind it; my mom would put a hat on to pray in front on my "unbelieving" dad.

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  Wild_Thing

  In the congregation I grew up in, Kleenex were only used as a last result when Dairy Queen napkins were not available! Then one year, the visiting circuit overseer put a stop to the practice and the ladies went out and bought a nice silk scarf to keep at the back of hall.

  And I remember hearing Bethel being called "Mother" too. In fact there was a circuit overseer that even called it the mother ship. This was back in the early 80s.
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  Governing Body on Higher Education Gerrit Lösch Talk

  by Magick in

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  "if you are currently going to college, why don't you currently meditate in prayer on the possibility of dropping out and doing something better?".

  "what decisions will you make?

  will you refuse or not?

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  Wild_Thing

  Watching that made me sick and very angry! I cannot BELIEVE he likened going to college to someone putting a gun to their head and trying to kill themselves.

  He told the "experience" of a man with obsessive compulsive disorder who attempted suicide by shooting himself. He survived and was cured of the OCD because of the part of his brain that the bullet pierced. He asked, "but would you recommend other people shoot theirselves in the head? Other people go to college and also survive, but would you recommend other people go to the college?"

  How ignorant!! What is wrong with those people? Fifteen years ago they lightened the restrictions enough to where I was able to go to college, and now it seems like it is getting worse than it ever was when I was a kid. Good grief! My poor neices and nephews! Their only prospect for a career is cleaning houses and washing windows!
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  ARMAGGEDDON 2008!

  by badboy in

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  someone is predicting 2008 as end of the world.. what do you think?.

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  Wild_Thing

  ARMAGGEDDON 2008!

  It sounds like a rock concert or something!
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  Do Witness Teenagers take the Organization's Rules Seriously?

  by flipper in

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  mrs. flipper was curious about this , because i have two daughters still in the org.

  my son 22 is like me and faded from the org.

  so give us your opinion .

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  Wild_Thing

  JW teenagers are hypocrites in training.
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  Confidentiality and the elders.

  by LtCmd.Lore in

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  while talking to a jw elder: if you specifically state that you are speaking to him as and elder, and that you want the conversation to be classified.

  is he legally required to keep it secret, like a church confessional or doctor/patient type thing?.

  lore.

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  Wild_Thing

  There is no such thing as elder confidentiality.