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  CO disfellowshipped, Central Coast, Australia

  by WinstonSmith in

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  2. scandals

  hi guys,.

  i was just looking through www.reddit.com/r/exjw and there is a thread that was posted about four hours ago with the title "so our circuit overseer just got disfellowshipped" and there some basic details in their op.

  the location is given as central coast, australia, which is north of sydney.. there aren't many more details other than "it has sent shockwaves throguh the congregations" and a query on the protocol in situations like this.

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  james_woods

  Does anyone know the official line on this?

  We actually had a circuit overseer disfellowshipped (while he was serving our congregation, in fact).

  He said mid-week during the visit that "he had to go back to his old circuit to handle a committee matter" - so Marion Dunlap had to finish the visit special talks. It turned out that the "committee matter" was himself and a pioneer sister in the old circuit.

  They never announced his subsequent DFing in any of our circuit congregations - don't know what they did in Missouri, where he came from.

  Marion told me later that he had been DFd. I suspect that the new CO did not want the notoriety spread in our circuit.

  So, the recent thread about the CO being disfellowshipped in England turns out to be bogus?
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  CRAPPING DEAD DINOSAUR MEAT....and the religious implications...

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  before man....before the adam/eve saga.......how would you explain the nature of life on earth in terms of sin?

  millions of years passed before man and sin.

  (let that sink in a few seconds.........).

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  james_woods

  Technically, a tapeworm is not really a carnivore - as it just eats the gut contents of the host creature but not the flesh.

  Thus, if a tapeworm existed in the vegan garden of Eden, it would be a righteous tapeworm which only ate partially digested fruits and vegatables.

  Of course, once the forbidden fruit was eaten, any tapeworm downstream would automatically have inherited sin and death.

  There - if have auto-didactically explained tapeworm theology.

  Thank you very much.
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  The stench of Amateur Bible auto-didacts!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anything worth doing is worth doing right.. i'm sure you've heard that old saying.. .

  i live with my cousin debbie and her husband bobby.. let me tell you about bobby!.

  when he puts something together there are parts left over.

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  james_woods

  Are you saying that there are no PROFESSIONAL Bible Auto-Didacts either?
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  CRAPPING DEAD DINOSAUR MEAT....and the religious implications...

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  before man....before the adam/eve saga.......how would you explain the nature of life on earth in terms of sin?

  millions of years passed before man and sin.

  (let that sink in a few seconds.........).

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  james_woods

  Expain how a tapeworm could be either "better" or "worse" than a basic tapeworm.

  This is one of those things that is what it is.
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  CRAPPING DEAD DINOSAUR MEAT....and the religious implications...

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  before man....before the adam/eve saga.......how would you explain the nature of life on earth in terms of sin?

  millions of years passed before man and sin.

  (let that sink in a few seconds.........).

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  james_woods

  Neils Bohr was a great expert on quantum physics, but everyone says that he had no ego whatsoever.

  Maybe God is different than the Quantum.
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  New F&DS Light question

  by ItsMyLife in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question about the implications of the new light regarding the f&ds.

  sorry if it sounds complicated, i'm not good at explaining things.. .

  if the f&ds is now just the few brothers who get together to dispense the food at the proper time, and the f&ds will be appointed over all of christ's belongings, then does that mean they will be appointed above the rest of the 144,000 when they go to heaven?

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  james_woods

  So, the fds USED to be all annointed when the numbers were decreasing but when all these new partakers came on the scene who were labelled as mental patients, two groups had to be formed so that the shepherded flock didnt have to worry about being led by crazy people.

  Is that the gist?

  Yup, that pretty much sums it up. Except that it was the governing body who were worried, not the shepherded flock.
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  New F&DS Light question

  by ItsMyLife in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question about the implications of the new light regarding the f&ds.

  sorry if it sounds complicated, i'm not good at explaining things.. .

  if the f&ds is now just the few brothers who get together to dispense the food at the proper time, and the f&ds will be appointed over all of christ's belongings, then does that mean they will be appointed above the rest of the 144,000 when they go to heaven?

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  james_woods

  Is this circular thinking on my part?

  No, it is quite clear and linear logic. It illustrates that the GB simply did not think this idea through before they published it.

  It is obvious to me that they wanted to set themselves ABOVE the ordinary annointed (because of the increase in partakers, among other reasons) and simply did not think the thing through before they proclaimed themselves to be the F&DS in voilation of previous doctrine.
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  New F&DS Light question

  by ItsMyLife in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question about the implications of the new light regarding the f&ds.

  sorry if it sounds complicated, i'm not good at explaining things.. .

  if the f&ds is now just the few brothers who get together to dispense the food at the proper time, and the f&ds will be appointed over all of christ's belongings, then does that mean they will be appointed above the rest of the 144,000 when they go to heaven?

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  james_woods

  Actually, if you think about it - this teaching makes the Revelation 144,000 (whatever that group really means) completely IRRELEVANT in current JW doctrine.

  At least, that is, as far as church authority goes.

  In reality, they so-called "144,000 remnant" - (the ordinary JW partakers) NEVER had any authority. Nothing would have changed doctrinally if every single one of them had in the past written in to vote against some idea from Rutherford, Knorr, Franz, or the later governing bodies.

  The notion that they somehow influenced Society decision-making was always a cynical lie to make the Watchtower leaders look less dictatorial - as revealed by Ray Franz and others.
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  CRAPPING DEAD DINOSAUR MEAT....and the religious implications...

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  before man....before the adam/eve saga.......how would you explain the nature of life on earth in terms of sin?

  millions of years passed before man and sin.

  (let that sink in a few seconds.........).

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  james_woods

  At best the created world was "good".

  If you can call tapeworms and hagfish "good".
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  New F&DS Light question

  by ItsMyLife in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question about the implications of the new light regarding the f&ds.

  sorry if it sounds complicated, i'm not good at explaining things.. .

  if the f&ds is now just the few brothers who get together to dispense the food at the proper time, and the f&ds will be appointed over all of christ's belongings, then does that mean they will be appointed above the rest of the 144,000 when they go to heaven?

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  james_woods

  It is an excellent point of logic (and welcome to the board, IML).

  What makes it especially interesting is that this new understanding is totally without any biblical basis and actually also bypasses the former literal understanding of the 144,000 number in Revelation.