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  Jehovah provides Javier a part-time job

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  the watchtower—study edition | march 2025. keep walking by faith.

  7 note how javier, a brother in south america, saw the need to walk by faith.

  he says: “i had applied for a prestigious job that would double my salary and provide considerable personal satisfaction.” however, javier had the deep desire to pioneer.

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  The Watchtower—Study Edition | March 2025

  Keep Walking by Faith

  

  7 Note how Javier, a brother in South America, saw the need to walk by faith. He says: “I had applied for a prestigious job that would double my salary and provide considerable personal satisfaction.” However, Javier had the deep desire to pioneer. He continues: “I was recommended for an interview with the national manager. Before the interview, I prayed for help, convinced that Jehovah knew what was best for me. I wanted to progress professionally, but I did not want this job if it would not help me reach my spiritual goals.”

  8 Javier relates: “During the interview, the manager told me that I would regularly have to work overtime. I kindly pointed out that I couldn’t do that because of my ministry.” Yes, Javier rejected the offer. Two weeks later, he started pioneering. And later that year, he found a part-time job. He says: “Jehovah heard my prayers and provided a job that fit my pioneer schedule. I am truly happy to have work that allows me to dedicate more time to serve Jehovah and my brothers.”

  Javier has a big dilemma in his hands. He is recommended for a promotion that would double his salary and give him more satisfaction. He needs the promotion, but the promotion might interfere with his spiritual goals and spiritual health. He rejects the offer because he would miss some ministry work because of the overtime the job requires.

  So, who does Javier turn to for job opportunities? Does he network? Does he look for jobs on Monster or Indeed? Nope! He prays to Jehovah. Javier's prayer probably sounded like this: "Jehovah, I need to get a new job soon! Please open doors for me to get a good job offer soon, with the type of work that lets me fit my pioneer schedule so I can serve you and serve my brothers.''

  With so many job opportunities Jehovah could provide Javier, Javier's job prospects come down to a measly part-time job! The only one benefitting from Javier's job demotion was the Watchtower Society... Free labor!
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  Artificial intelligence answer to: What is the true religion?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the true religion?.

  ''the question of what constitutes the "true" religion is deeply personal and subjective.

  different people and cultures have various beliefs and practices that they hold dear.

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  What is the true religion?

  ''The question of what constitutes the "true" religion is deeply personal and subjective. Different people and cultures have various beliefs and practices that they hold dear. For some, the true religion might be Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, or another faith. Each religion offers its own path to spirituality, ethics, and understanding of the world.

  Ultimately, the "true" religion for an individual is often the one that resonates most deeply with their personal experiences, values, and beliefs. It's important to approach this topic with respect and openness to different perspectives.''

  What a great answer from artificial intelligence! You have to admit that every religion thinks that they are the ''true'' religion. Ask yourself: Were your parents' religious? What region of world were you born? How many different beliefs and practices have you studied or were introduced to? Why aren't you open to different beliefs and practices?

  My mom's brother was introduced to the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1957. My uncle could not read or write. The Witnesses had a Bible study with him and his family. He was convinced that Jehovah's Witnesses had the ''truth.'' My uncle was looked up to by my mom and her sister. They all became Jehovah's Witnesses. That's the only religion our family ever practiced and was open to.

  The Watchtower Societies subjective understanding of the Bible was their only perspective. Attending endless meetings, reading the weekly Watchtower Magazine and preaching the ''so called'' good news was jammed in their brains for over 40 years. Limit their members reading material, limit their friends to fellow worshipers and repeat their beliefs and reading material over and over. Stagnate and just go thru the motions.

  Is there a ''true'' religion? It's subjective and open to different perspectives.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  January 2025 Husbands, Honor Your Wife

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  14 a husband who physically or verbally abuses his wife needs to take additional steps to repair his relationship with jehovah and with his wife.

  what are these steps?

  first, he recognizes that he has a serious problem.

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  STUDY ARTICLE 2

  Husbands, Honor Your Wife

  Studied during the week of March 10-16, 2025.

  

  Dagney12 hours ago

  Is that for real? The excerpt paragraph in the OP?
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  January 2025 Husbands, Honor Your Wife

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  14 a husband who physically or verbally abuses his wife needs to take additional steps to repair his relationship with jehovah and with his wife.

  what are these steps?

  first, he recognizes that he has a serious problem.

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  Touchofgrey

  There was no physical violence against me only physiological manipulation and coercive control and had a effect on my physical health

  Can you expand on what the manipulations were and the coercive control?

  We tend to forget that men are also in abusive marriages and that they need to leave these relationships with help from outside experts.
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  January 2025 Husbands, Honor Your Wife

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  14 a husband who physically or verbally abuses his wife needs to take additional steps to repair his relationship with jehovah and with his wife.

  what are these steps?

  first, he recognizes that he has a serious problem.

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  14 A husband who physically or verbally abuses his wife needs to take additional steps to repair his relationship with Jehovah and with his wife. What are these steps? First, he recognizes that he has a serious problem. Nothing is hidden from Jehovah’s sight. (Ps. 44:21; Eccl. 12:14; Heb. 4:13) Second, he stops abusing his wife and changes his behavior. (Prov. 28:13) Third, he apologizes to his wife and to Jehovah and seeks their forgiveness. (Acts 3:19) He should also beg Jehovah for both the desire to change and the help to control his thoughts, speech, and actions. (Ps. 51:10-12; 2 Cor. 10:5; Phil. 2:13) Fourth, he acts in harmony with his prayers by learning to hate all forms of violence and abusive speech. (Ps. 97:10) Fifth, he seeks immediate help from loving shepherds in the congregation. (Jas. 5:14-16) Sixth, he develops a plan that will help him to avoid all such behavior in the future. A husband who views pornography should follow these same steps. Jehovah will bless his efforts to change his behavior. (Ps. 37:5) But it is not enough for a husband to reject dishonorable conduct. He also needs to learn to show honor to his wife. How can he do that?

  This paragraph is a slap in the face to all married woman who are physically and verbally abused by their psycho husbands. Leave it to the misogynist Watchtower Society to treat physical and verbal abuse as a behavior that make abusive men let off lightly.

  Here are some awful suggestions from the Watchtower Society on how to repair his relationship with Jehovah and his wife:

  1. Recognize he has a problem 2. stop the abuse, change his behavior 3. beg Jehovah to help him change his behavior 4. hate violence and abusive speech 5. call the elders for help 6. develop a plan to stop the behavior

  Here are some real suggestions that were left out of this paragraph from the misogynist Watchtower Society:

  1. Stand up to him 2. evaluate the possibility of leaving 3. reach out to a family member, therapist 4. have a place to go if you need to leave the home 5. call the police and have him leave the home 6. call a lawyer, consider divorce

  My mom (a Jehovah's Witness, dad was not) were married for 60 years. He was verbally abusive their whole married life. He controlled all the decisions in the house and all the money matters. My mom would call the elders to see if they could help her in their marriage. They always advised her to stay in the marriage. She was told that he might change his behavior, start attending meetings and get baptized.

  In the last years of my mom's life, she was physically sick and bedridden. My brother and I paid for her home care, since our dad refused to help her.

  My dad continued his verbal abuse, slapped her a few times and threw household items at her. My brother (that lived with my parents) finally had enough. We got together and had my mom's family Doctor write a police report to have him removed from the house. The police came and took him to a Mental Facility to have him evaluated. He was advised from a Lawyer and the State of Illinois; he couldn't come back to the family home. He moved in with a family member, until his passing.

  
  

  
  
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  Why are the Governing Body Members always in-house New York Bethel members?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  the watchtower—study edition | february 2024.

  ''we are pleased to inform you that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses: brothers gage fleegle and jeffrey winder.

  both brothers are anointed christians who have a long history of loyal service to jehovah.

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  NO. Not always USA Bethelites. Chitty and other Branch appointees were major embarrassments.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5466/greenlees-chitty-some-sources

  Ewart C. Chitty

  Governing Body member Ewart Chitty (born ca. 1898) resigned his position in 1979. He entered the London Bethel in 1921, began to work in "the office", and by 1938 held some sort of official position, as two 1938 Watchtowers have him reporting to J. F. Rutherford on the attendance of Bethel family members at the "family" study. By 1942 Chitty was the secretary of the International Bible Students Association (IBSA; the Society's British equivalent of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.). Somewhere along the line he was appointed as secretary-treasurer of the IBSA, which position he held until his appointment to the Governing Body in November 1974. After his 1979 resignation from the GB, Chitty remained in Brooklyn working in Writing Correspondence, so he was certainly in good standing. A 1981 Awake! article has Chitty making comments about people having lost their love of neighbor and God. Apparently by this time Chitty was drinking heavily, according to close acquaintances. Likely this contributed to his being dismissed from Brooklyn and reassigned to the London Bethel a few years later. There he worked at an assignment of little responsibility, but was appointed an elder in a local congregation. Chitty died about 1993.

  As to Chitty's alleged homosexuality, the information I have is mixed. He certainly made some remarks in his 1963 life story in The Watchtower that leaned in this direction. By then he had roomed with the same man for 30 years and just about gushed when speaking about him. See the email comments below for one Brit's take on this. When in Brooklyn, Chitty seems to have preferred younger men as roommates. The actual charge brought to the GB against Chitty was made by a former roommate and involved some sort of inappropriate conduct. The GB concluded that Chitty had homosexual tendencies, whatever that means, and asked him to resign. Chitty could hardly do anything but comply with the rest of the GB's wishes, since his only alternative would have been to leave Bethel at age 81 and after being there for 58 years. It may well be that the GB didn't view Chitty as guilty of homosexual activity, since he remained a Bethel member in Brooklyn or London, but it may also be that they made a deal: Chitty would remain quiet about where "the dead bodies" were buried as long as the Society cared for him in his old age. Sounds like a good deal to me.
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  Why are the Governing Body Members always in-house New York Bethel members?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  the watchtower—study edition | february 2024.

  ''we are pleased to inform you that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses: brothers gage fleegle and jeffrey winder.

  both brothers are anointed christians who have a long history of loyal service to jehovah.

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  The Watchtower—Study Edition | February 2024

  ''We are pleased to inform you that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Brothers Gage Fleegle and Jeffrey Winder. Both brothers are anointed Christians who have a long history of loyal service to Jehovah. Brother Fleegle began his full-time service in 1989 and Bethel service in 1991. Brother Fleegle has served as a helper to the Service Committee of the Governing Body. Brother Jeffrey Winder began his full-time service in 1986 and Bethel service in 1990. Brother Winder has served as a helper to the Personnel Committee of the Governing Body. We thank our heavenly Father, Jehovah, for raising up such faithful men to share in the work of the Governing Body. We pray that Jehovah will richly bless Brothers Fleegle and Winder and their wives!''

  
  

  
  

  Past Governing Body Members:

  

  The Governing Body Members are nothing but an ''all in-house, all boys club.'' The ''faithful and discreet slave class'' is used as a front to give all the power, dedication and ruling of spiritual matters to the Governing Body. The fake teaching of the ''faithful and discreet slave class'' (who never have any input pertaining to the functions of the Watchtower Society) is the biggest lie perpetrated on all their dedicated members since its founding in the late 1870's.

  The ''all boys club'' New York Bethel members all know each other, work with each other, know who is faithful and loyal to the present Governing Body Members. They are not chosen by the ''holy spirit.'' If the ''holy spirit'' did choose them, there would be candidates from all over the world. There is no way the New York ''all boys club'' would allow that to happen!
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  Why did God stop intervening in human affairs and deliverance of his people?

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  the bible is full of stories of god intervening on behalf of those that had trust and faith in him.

  he rescues his people from various battles, trials and challenges from their enemies.

  the rescued individuals or communities are quick to offer praise and gratitude to god for his mighty acts on their behalf.. the story of the israelites’ exodus from egypt and the parting of the red sea is a prime example of god’s powerful deliverance in the bible.

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  Jehovah still intervenes in human affairs. He's just been more subtle.

  Can you name the interventions? Subtle. .REALLY? You mean non-existent.
  
  
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  Why did God stop intervening in human affairs and deliverance of his people?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
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  the bible is full of stories of god intervening on behalf of those that had trust and faith in him.

  he rescues his people from various battles, trials and challenges from their enemies.

  the rescued individuals or communities are quick to offer praise and gratitude to god for his mighty acts on their behalf.. the story of the israelites’ exodus from egypt and the parting of the red sea is a prime example of god’s powerful deliverance in the bible.

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  The Bible is full of stories of God intervening on behalf of those that had trust and faith in him. He rescues his people from various battles, trials and challenges from their enemies. The rescued individuals or communities are quick to offer praise and gratitude to God for His mighty acts on their behalf.

  The story of the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea is a prime example of God’s powerful deliverance in the Bible.

  In the battle between David and Goliath, God delivers David against insurmountable odds.

  God saves Daniel from the hungry lions.

  The Battle of Jericho, led by Joshua, faced an impenetrable city with towering walls. By marching around the city for seven days and blowing trumpets at God’s command, the walls crumbled before them.

  After all these ( supposedly) stories of God intervening in the Old and New Testament, the interventions mysteriously stop. God doesn't stop World War 1 & 2, doesn't stop 9-11, famine, droughts, animal extinctions, over population, environmental issues and on and on.....

  If God did intervene in human affairs 2000 years ago, why did they stop?

  Maybe the Bible is truly a fabrication of stories that never happened!
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  The Watchtower's Depiction of 'paradise'..

  by Ron.W. in

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  perhaps we could post the pictures the wt have presented in their literature that depict their version of paradise here for comment/discussion:.

  from: spirits of the dead​—can they help you or harm you?

  do they really exist?.

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  Where is OSHA in this depiction of deck building in the NEW SYSTEM?

  I noticed that they are wearing hardhats, but where are the safety straps?

  If they fall, could they suffer a broken leg? If they cut themselves and bleed, would they to be taken to a hospital? Can they suffer a concussion if they fell or got hit in the head with a 2x4? Can they fall to their death? Who would be the emergency room doctors? Where would they go for their training? Would the doctors work 80 hour weeks? Can Doctors get fired for bad medical care and advice?