Posts by Doubting Bro

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Is the April 2011 Auxillary Pioneer 30 hours official ???

by RubaDub in

we were not at the meeting last weekend and just wondering if the "30 hour" rule for april 2011 pioneer hours was actually read to the congregations ???.

rub a dub.

Doubting Bro

Yup. I only heard one person talking about it afterwards. I don't think it's going to pull in any new aux pio here.

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2011 NFL Playoffs - Divisional Round

by Iron Head in

last week's results:.

iron head 3 - 1. keyser soze 2 - 2. darth plaugeis 2 - 2. tec 2 - 2. doubting bro 3 - 1. miseryloveseleders 2 - 2. .

nfl divisional playoff games.

Doubting Bro

Ok got to chime in since I'm up by one!

Steelers but not by much

Bears

Packers

Pats

Honestly, I don't see anyone beating the Pats this year and I really hate them. But, Hoody is a genius.

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on friday morning, sometime before noon, my former son-in-law [for lack of better term, for he and my daughter were never married], father and custodial parent of my middle granddaughter, was found dead of an overdose of pain-medication.

perhaps oxycontin, though i am unsure of the specific drug at the moment.. he was enduring pain from an accident with his moped [yes, he was lifetime license removed for drinking] that occurred a year or so back.

his shoulder was injured and he had a surgery scheduled soon.

Doubting Bro

Jeff, condolences to you and your family. What a terrible ordeal for someone so young to have to cope with. Strength to you and your wife as you help her cope.

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DO Rodrigues/ROD-ricks commenting on JWN discussions and apostate having some Troof.

by cattails in

jw
friends

what a flurry of interesting topics on jwn lately!

my oh my.. i haven't posted in the last few days... nor read the forum.. this last week i was back east visiting friends in the troof.. lucky for me it was assembly time, so packing and going to.

natick assembly hall (boston, ma), and caught the sunday.

Doubting Bro

Wonder if he's going to follow his own advice and not mummer about how his removal as a DO was unfair. I don't know the guy and usually don't make negative comments about individuals but really, I know his TYPE and I do feel a twinge of happiness as I read of his recent unemployment. Have fun in the real world Rodrigues.

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Some observations from the KM Elder School I wanted to share with you.

by miseryloveselders in

jw
friends

my school was a couple weeks back, and it was interesting to a degree.

to be honest with you, it reminded me of a police crime scene investigation with yellow tape.

what i mean is, in one respect it was business as usual.

Doubting Bro

WELCOME franklin massey!! Look forward to your contributions!!!

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BOE LTR Dec 9, 2010 (copy/paste) DC listings removed from March 1st WT!!!

by yknot in

christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses'.

same meeting.

meeting.

Doubting Bro

It's a little weird but I think its a trial ballon for having the local BOE print out the KMs from jw.org as opposed to printing and mailing them. They want to see if there are any problems and if the problems are minor (ask the COs to poll the local BOEs and report back) then they'll proceed with moving more things to this format.

Pure speculation because it's not as if 1) people don't know when a convention takes place and 2) those sessions are open to the public.

Also, it's not like they have so much stuff they want to put in that they don't have room!!

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Some observations from the KM Elder School I wanted to share with you.

by miseryloveselders in

jw
friends

my school was a couple weeks back, and it was interesting to a degree.

to be honest with you, it reminded me of a police crime scene investigation with yellow tape.

what i mean is, in one respect it was business as usual.

Doubting Bro

MLE - thanks for your impressions. I've posted before that we currently have a few serving elders with kids in college (one with 2 attending and a 3rd graduated a few years ago). Good for the kids that their parents have allowed them the opportunity and support despite the "counsel" over the past few years. But, now that it's a removable offense - I really wonder what's going to happen. The BOE here is made up of several colleged educated JWs (which is a rarity) and they've appointed over the past few years a couple of kids as MS that were still in college. And not a "supplemental education" situation, a full 4 year degree (obviously I'm US based) with majors in stuff like engineering and business.

It seems like the BOE has no choice but to review the elders in question and likely remove them from the 8 questions I see. While the kids are active, it almost seems to me to be an automatic removal because a few of the questions specifically relate to how the elder views the FDS direction. Well, obviously this guy doesn't agree with it because all of his kids went to college (again, good for them).

I'm hoping they remove him because at the moment, my wife doesn't believe any of this stuff about the WTS forbidding college. She still thinks its each family's choice and that the WTS is just warning of getting caught up in campus life. That has changed and she doesn't want to admit it. If they remove this elder over sending his goody goody kids to college (they live at home, not on campus and are the straightest laced kids you ever want to met), I'm hoping this will help her wake up. It's a longshot but the more they crack down on normal activities, the better chance there is to get folks to wake up.

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An Open letter to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (Elders/ Ex-Elders)

by stuckinamovement in

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friends

if you are an elder or an ex-elder please add a comment.

i hope that the governing body will see this.

it is too bad it has to be on an anonymous forum.

Doubting Bro

Cosign! All of those reasons were part of my tought process in resigning and realizing that the GB doesn't speak for Jehovah.

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NFL Wildcard Games - 2011

by Iron Head in

saturday, january 8, 2011 .

4:30pm est nbc - new orleans @seattle.

8:00pm est nbc - ny jets @indianapolis.

Doubting Bro

All the visiting teams:

Saints

Jets

Ravens

Packers

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To all lurking JW elders

by Mickey mouse in

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friends

come on in, the water's fine.

you may even realise you have close friends and family here.

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Doubting Bro

curiousconfused - Welcome to the board. Look forward to your contributions.

I do understand what you're refering to when you talk about the psudo-association that comes from constantly discussing things JW when you've left. As I'm sure you know, there are those that are JW only to keep up family ties and appearances. Even some that are serving in some appointed capacity that either don't believe at all or have serious doctrinal/organizational issues. So, those folks (I'm including myself as one who attends for family reasons but doesn't think the WTS is Gods chosen organization) will critique the literature here since they're not able to do so with loved ones or others in their congregation. Or at least that's my motivation and I'm assuming others feel the same way.

As for those that have either faded or have da'ed or been df'ed, I think the shunning practice is probably why they can't just let it go. I think there are a large number of exJws that don't come to these boards or don't necessarily focus on the literature. They're done and that's that. But, the pain caused by shunning is so great that some feel the need to help others see the same way they do and leave. Honestly, communities that practice shunning (mormons and scientology are 2 examples) tend to have more vocal ex members as opposed to say Baptists.

Anyway, I think your prospective is valuable and hope that you'll stay.