I see what you are driving at John. Not being raised as a Witness, I am sure that this is confusing for you. Titles are anathema to Jehovah's Witnesses but by the same token they love their positions and ranking. In the Baptist tradition it would be good manners to introduce you as Deacon John. However, in the Jehovah's Witness tradition you would be Brother John, one of our ministerial servants. Go figure. It's just more of the Jehovah's Witness schizophrenic, 'new language', 'pure language' doublethink. But you are 100% correct in thinking that those 'higher up on the theocratic food chain' try to keep their subordinates in their place. Ask any ex-Bethelite here and they can attest to the 'unwritten' hierarchy rules in Jehovah's loving theocratic arrangement.
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Capitalizing names
by john.prestor injust a random thought here but does anyone else notice than when the name "elder" or "circuit overseer" appears in the organization's magazines and books they're always lower case even though they're proper nouns and should be elder and circuit overseer... but branch committee member, governing body helper, governing body member, they get to be capitalized.
another subtle indication of how the governing body and other high-ranking elites see themselves, i think.
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Capitalizing names
by john.prestor injust a random thought here but does anyone else notice than when the name "elder" or "circuit overseer" appears in the organization's magazines and books they're always lower case even though they're proper nouns and should be elder and circuit overseer... but branch committee member, governing body helper, governing body member, they get to be capitalized.
another subtle indication of how the governing body and other high-ranking elites see themselves, i think.
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The term "elder" or "circuit overseer" are common nouns and do not refer to a particular person or entity and are therefore not to be capitalized when used in a sentence. The term "Governing Body" ( which I believe the average Witness assumes is a shortened form of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses) is a proper noun which refers to a specific named group or entity and therefore should be capitalized when used in a sentence. As a side note, I have continually made the grammatical error of capitalizing both elder and circuit overseer in my postings.
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New JW phrase: bouquet of truth
by ohnightdivine ini heard it from someone who attended the latest wt study, and quickly posted it with - you guessed it - a picture of a lovely flower bouquet.
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"how big is your bouquet of truth?".
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"Bouquet of Truth", my ass. It's more like a bouquet of lies, falsehoods, prevarications, misstatements, 'theocratic tact', and out and out deceit.
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Now Even Nuns Are Acused of Sexual Abuse
by sparky1 in.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-describe-alleged-abuse-by-nuns-the-secret-not-yet-told/.
how deep in society does all of this behavior go?.
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Apparently, this has been known about for awhile but is overshadowed by the sheer magnitude of the 'pedophile priests' problem. I guess more awareness of this issue is now being taken up by the media. It's about time that this 'dirty little secret' receives more attention.
http://www.snapnetwork.org/female_victims/complaints_abuse_by_nuns.htm
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Now Even Nuns Are Acused of Sexual Abuse
by sparky1 in.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-describe-alleged-abuse-by-nuns-the-secret-not-yet-told/.
how deep in society does all of this behavior go?.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-describe-alleged-abuse-by-nuns-the-secret-not-yet-told/
How deep in society does all of this behavior go?
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2nd Update/Scary Experience
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inglad to say just got the news that the man who was arrested on suspicion about the dead bodies has been convicted of those two murders.
his accomplice is on the run, search going on for him.
there are talks about raising more awareness in the country park area now.. this news helps us to breath a little easy now.. thank you all for your support.. peace..
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You may be right, john and fulano. The first AWAKE! magazine for 2019 has an article entitled: The Stories of Ricardo and Andres. In the article, Andres is quoted as saying : "Then one day the police came to my home. They arrested me, and I was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted murder."
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Unbelievable
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara injust received this on a very excited note from someone who is pimi.this is how some people start their year 2019.. very happy to say that the year 2019 marks for us 100 years out of darkness from babylon the great!.
additionally, it marks the 105th year of christ's rule in heaven (1914 a.d.), 2,021st year since jesus was born on earth (2 b.c.e.
), 4,391st year since the deluge (2370 b.c.e.
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Food at the 'proper time' again and again and again......
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Cambridge professor just went full retard ...
by LoveUniHateExams inever heard of david runciman?.
he's a professor of politics at the university of cambridge, no less.. he's also a complete retard, for want of a better word.
according to prof. runciman, six year old children should get the vote, so as to counteract britain's aging population.
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Reading the article makes me wonder if the good professor has children of his own or has spent any amount of time with children. His idea is absolute rubbish and highly impractical. For those who claim that his statement is just hyperbole, let me quote him from the article: "I would lower the voting age to six, not 16. And I'm serious about that." (bolding mine)
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The Society even admitted they had a problem with their pedophile leaders.
by new boy inoh, yes, the society even admitted they had a problem with their leaders.
a january 1, 1986 watch tower article (p. 13) stated: “shocking as it is, some who have been prominent in jehovah’s organization have succumbed to homosexuality and child molesting.” .
in the watchtower article, they didn’t disclose the rest.
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The name of the study article was: Days Like "the Days of Noah". You are correct that this statement was found on page 13 and it was contained in paragraph 12.
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Library now cleared out
by UnshackleTheChains inwell, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.
during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.
i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.
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The Governing Body's 'Ministry of Truth' is hard at work.
And of course, throwing the old publications in the rubbish is far more subtle than an outright 'book burning'!