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When will the "final message" be delivered to the world before the end? >>
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. friends
it is my understanding, and i have always been told, that near the "end", during the great tribulation, the "final message," of jehovah would be delivered before all of the nations of the world, as one final chance of redemption.

and no, i'm not talking about the standard door-to-door preaching work, but a one-time only - final message of the coming destruction that was of to come right before the end, and it would cause the governments to hate the witnesses even more and cause even greater persecution, etc.

i was told this message would be the one final chance for any "inactive" or non-believers to ask forgiveness of jehovah and have mercy on them.
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1975
by general in
1. jw
2. friends
do any you ever remember the elders admonishing you to change certain behaviors, attitudes, and actions that could be considered a consience matter if it was stumbling another brother or sister...they always quoted a scripture "he that stumbles the faith of another will perish in gehena" (i think it goes like that...) correct me if i am wrong.. so i have been reading crisis of conscience and i am at the part about the 1975 debacle...my question is if " jehovah is directing the faithful and discreet slave (eka governing body, wts, etc) why would he direct them into making a colossal blunder on when exactly armeggedon was coming, thereby stumbling the faith of those in god and driving them away from him?

" in essence, its almost as if jehovah allowed them to drive the flock away, which according to the wts he is so "desperate to protect" hence the need for disfellowshipping and such.

yes, it can be argued it was the act "of imperfect men" but don't you think jehovah would have given them a flash of "new light" to correct the fallacy in their reasoning before the disastorous ramfications that occurred in 1975?
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Statistics you will not find in the annual report
by architect in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
why don't the wtbs tell us the number disfellowshiped/disassociated instead of saying "thousands"?.

why don't they tell us how much money was made in the annual report?.

don't they owe all this to the membership?
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Placed 6 magazines this morning
by stillajwexelder in
1. jw
2. experiences
just thought i would let you all know, that as part of my ongoing theocratic warfare strategy i placed 6 magazines this morning.

i will be recording about 20 on my time slip though
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My sister the robot
by beautifulisfree in
1. jw
2. friends
yep- my favorite sister when i was growing up is still one of them.

even though all of her family has found out the truth.

we all have tried our best to help her see it's not the truth...but,she brushes everything off and says oh well.
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Elder Conversation: Why Reform Won't Happen
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
i had a nice conversation with an elder recently and it illustrates why reform of the organization is nearly impossible.

this elder.

is very aware of how bad things are becoming in congregations and he worries about his retirement.
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'PROPER' dress code for kids at the KH
by jambon1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
speaking to a sister while i was in, she mentioned to me some trouble she was having trying to get her young daughter into a skirt for the meetings.

to cut a long story short, the girl just did`nt like skirts.

simple as that.
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WATCHTOWER CASHES IN ON BILLIONS!!!!
by anewme in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
is it true what i heard?

the watchtower society plans to sell its brooklyn real estate and move to hit walkhill patterson headquarters in 2010?

i read it on another thread here!
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Circuit Ass last weekend
by XBEHERE in
1. jw
2. friends
theme was based on the scripture to "clothe yourselves with the new personality" .

program had 2 symposiums and various other talks.

i didnt take notes... stopped doing that a while ago but i did manage to listen to some of the program.