The sign says SDCCU Stadium. There are eucalyptus and palm trees there. Is this San Diego?
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Elders intimating protesters at Jehovah's Witness conventions
by RULES & REGULATIONS inbe courageous - jehovah's witness convention 2018. .
here is a video that caligirl7525 posted where she is protesting with a small sign at the .
''be courageous 2018 convention.
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Do You See JWs Going From House to House Anymore?
by minimus ini used to see them in my neighborhood or while driving.
there is a hispanic congregation nearby.
i used to see witnesses out all the time, some even doing the slow pioneer shuffle.
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Yesterday late morning, I saw at least 6-7 out going D-2-D in a suburb close to a city. I was driving too fast to count beyond that. Earlier this month I passed two KHs in another city, about 10 miles apart, with plenty of cars in the respective parking lots/car parks mid-morning, so I suppose they had groups out in the field ministry.
That said, I had not seen them out for some months, in fact, since late last summer, when I spoke for a while with 5 of them going D-2-D in yet another large city. I had some fun, asking about their KH. I was told that it was going on the market and that their cong, one of the oldest in the city, had been reassigned to a KH miles away, way out in the suburbs. I asked what the organization was going to do with the money from the hall's sale and was told it was going overseas to help Witnesses in a poor land build a KH. I toyed with the idea of pressing the matter but decided not to.
Beside the "cart witnessing" and people just not converting much, do you think that the rising average age of them is decreasing the D-2-D work? Assemblies and KHs are so full of old people now. Surely that means fewer and fewer hours in the D-2-D ministry than those same diehards used to put in when they were younger.
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Mormon apostate gives testimony in church
by barry inhttps://youtu.be/092o_pyo7sg it seems the mormons are fairly civil with their apostates.
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barry, thx for the post. I couldn't get the vid to play on the link here but did a search on Youtube and watched it that way.
The vid itself was enlightening on multiple fronts—just seeing what the inside of Mormon church looks like was educational. Pews and traditional organ music (unlike JWs); kids sitting with their families (like JWs) instead of herded off to Sunday schools; men in shirts and ties, some with jackets, also like JWs. While they are more civil to "apostates" than JWs are, SBF, isn't the result among the faithful the same when it comes to the official dealing with dissent? Sure, they are allowed in and called "brother," treated with more respect, not excommunicated, etc., and maybe a more "substantial" answer is offered by the church regarding specific criticisms, but when you say, "Even if they can’t defend the points themselves, they are satisfied that the church has provided an answer to criticisms," isn't that pretty much the same as R&F Witnesses? Please note that I am not talking about the means here, but just the result among the faithful.
A final striking difference I noted was how apologetic the speaker was afterward to the local church officials, doubtless at least partly due to how civilly he was treated.
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The GB and Legal Department Are Watching This One!
by careful innew developments with the american boy scouts must have the wts leadership worried:.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/looming-wave-of-sex-abuse-cases-poses-financial-threat-to-boy-scouts.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/24/boy-scouts-face-hundreds-new-sexual-abuse-claims/3547991002/.
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New developments with the American Boy Scouts must have the WTS leadership worried:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boy-scouts-perversion-files-list-7800-suspected-pedophiles-attorney
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/nyregion/boy-scouts-sex-abuse.html
A secret in-house list of pedophiles. Being kicked out for coming forward and reporting abuse. Bankruptcy from lawsuits. Rampant coverups due to fear of negative publicity. Sound familiar?
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Sea Breeze, after reading this, I'm grateful for your positive outlook and the resulting post!
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New Branch Office in Argentina in Luxury Area of Buenos Aires
by Viva la Vida inthey are using a construction company to build the new branch office in one of the most expensive areas of buenos aires .
http://www.criba.com.ar/en/works/116-asociacion-de-los-testigos-de-jehova.
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Thanks for the post.
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New Blood policy for JW medical professionals?
by FreeAgent inhey folks, .
it’s been a long time since i’ve posted, good to see the forum well attended & spicy as ever.
this just in from a close & trusted source, names & local places redacted for obvious reasons:.
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Thanks, blondie, for the refs from the 1964 WT mag. My knowledge of the practice came from very experienced elders, the KM school, and/or some bros I knew in the medical fields (I forget now which), but I figured it was buried in some old WT lit somewhere. I appreciate your digging it up.
I cannot help but wonder whether another factor MAY be at work here, but it is so intellectual and educated, in other words, so un-WT-like that I have my doubts. In the apostolic council at Acts 15, where early Christian leaders decided what commandments from the Heb Bible were to be binding on Gentile converts, the things they chose can all be found in Genesis, before the covenant at Sinai under Moses (as was circumcision, the issue that brought the council together). At least that's what biblical scholarship says. Rabbinic Judaism had come up with the concept of Noahide/Noachide Laws (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah#Christianity), and that's what was behind the decisions the early Christian leadership made in Acts.
The premise behind this concept is in direct opposition to the spirit of Deut. 14:21 (that is, it's okay for Gentiles to eat blood/unbled meat [Deut] vs. it is not [Noachide Laws], and that's what was at work in Acts 15). Non-evangelical scholars can handle the concept of the Bible being contradictory in places. Since the GB cannot, that's why I'm wondering whether they are now opting for the the Noachide Laws over Freddie Franz's old interpretation/application of Deut. 14:21. They have been changing a lot of his old interpretations and applications of scripture. They've jettisoned the whole type-anti-type thing that he was so big on. They've really changed his NWT. So perhaps this is yet another one. I suppose they may just say that the Deut passage was part of the Law that passed away with Christianity, so it's no longer applicable. Go figure...
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Congregation memorial stats
by nowwhat? in2 congregations met together attendance 355 which is close to exact number of combined publishers.
only saw a couple of new faces.
so it looks like once again the invitation work was a complete failure and relatives of jw's couldn't be talked into coming anymore!.
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"an American Indian sat in the front row and polished off the entire glass of wine before passing it on. Funniest part was watching goblet passer trying desperately to get it away from him."
FedUpJW, that WAS funny! Too bad there isn't a video of that one.
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VIDEO - Memorial toast stuns Jehovahs Witnesses congregation!
by John_Carter_1912 ini applaud this great and holy man!
do you?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fstqepi9iu.
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What I personally feel about this guy's tactics is not as important as the fact that to any regular Witness, this is a shocking thing to have happen at a Memorial celebration. It's the most sacred thing they do.You could see how angry the elders were with the guy.
The GB will have already heard about this one and will be busy figuring out how to stop such further occurrences. If they try too much security at the Memorial, it will turn off newbies (if there are any!) and inactive ones they are trying to activate. They will have to do something, however.