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  Good To Be Here

  by snowbird in

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  hello.

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  When I saw your little cabin in the sky . . .

  Love,

  Coco
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  The Teacher

  by compound complex in

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  an unwelcome dawn comes creeping upward, her tendrils straddling the dark mountain so terribly near my once sweet but now quaking refuge called home of the heart.. i peer through panes that give onto a landscape of horror that, to some, appears pristine but to me is a reminder that he has been swallowed up by a wood both black and cruel.. daring to venture forth, i hear his voice .

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  .. he calls out, so faintly, begging i rescue him from a jail that holds him fast against all escape; though myself a liberated man, i cannot free the one i taught the truth.

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  An unwelcome dawn comes creeping upward, her tendrils straddling the dark mountain so terribly near my once sweet but now quaking refuge called home of the heart.

  I peer through panes that give onto a landscape of horror that, to some, appears pristine but to me is a reminder that he has been swallowed up by a wood both black and cruel.

  Daring to venture forth, I hear his voice . . .

  He calls out, so faintly, begging I rescue him from a jail that holds him fast against all escape; though myself a liberated man, I cannot free the one I taught the truth.

  
  
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  GB's Attitude Toward Suffering of "Foreign" Brothers

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  regarding alternative service.

  ray franz received letters from branch committee members that displayed thoughtfulness and breadth of viewpoint that were in sharp contrast to the rigidity and narrowness of several members of the governing body:.

  what was the effect of all this?

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  Likewise, Listener, do I thank you for your excellent observations!

  The RC surely has done its homework. My bewilderment is why one of the "elect" was so lacking in knowledge as to certain aspects of the workings of the organization. Perhaps the simplicity of the Gospel has become lost in the enormous, unwieldy machinery of Committee and Corporation.

  I was hoping for a Trumanesque declaration that the buck stops here, that Christ's "brother" would make it his personal resolve to effect change.

  Who knows, . . . the night is still young. . . .
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  GB's Attitude Toward Suffering of "Foreign" Brothers

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  regarding alternative service.

  ray franz received letters from branch committee members that displayed thoughtfulness and breadth of viewpoint that were in sharp contrast to the rigidity and narrowness of several members of the governing body:.

  what was the effect of all this?

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  I felt this was relevant, given what we were told last night regarding the GB's interest in the concerns expressed by branch overseers relative to the needs and problems in their respective countries.
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  Geoffrey Jackson - Royal Commission Live Hearing Now!

  by LostinJapan in

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  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

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  Ask later about time delay . . . just now talking about man and woman who commit fornication, the girl who did not scream. . . .
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  Geoffrey Jackson Royal Commission update

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hello people.

  the rc will still go ahead with it's live stream on friday 14th august.

  however, it seem that it will be a video link.

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  Time delay? He's reading 1 Cor. 14:33-35 just now, 6 minutes later . . . California, 07:40 PM.
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  Just for the record Vincent Toole and Terrence Obrien you are both lying SOBs

  by joe134cd in

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  i just thought i would mention this on the off chance they might be lurking here.

  the two quotes are.

  (1)vincent toole ="i've never heard of the term 'theocratic warfare'".

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  Spot on, Krejames! I could have written all five of your well-thought-out paragraphs!

  This is meaningful to me because I worked on the publication, AID TO BIBLE UNDERSTANDING. While the quotation below is found, too, in the INSIGHT book, I prefer the former book. Thus it is written, but is it practiced? Just WHO is my brother?

  Regarding "love believes all things," from the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians:

  "Love produces confidence in one's faithful Christian brothers, [italics added] not suspecting them or disbelieving them unless there is absolute proof they are wrong." ATBU, p.1083, para. 1.
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  Vertigo, WTH.

  by James Mixon in

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  who here have suffer from vertigo?

  if so how did you combat it?

  how long.

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  For me, as Mrs. Flipper described.

  Had it 3 weeks ago, and I was on the floor from morning till night. It always happens, for me, upon waking up in the morning. I open my eyes and the room is spinning.

  Doc prescribed Dramamine, which stays on my nightstand. Can be result of a virus, I was told, because others had it at the same time as me.

  I get motion sickness badly, but early meds stop it totally.

  Hope you're better!

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  GB Not Providing Food-Helpers Write Articles

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why does the governing body depend on the helpers to write watchtower articles and the information in other publications?

  why does the governing body not write these articles themselves?

  they depend on the helpers to compose/write this information.

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  • Who Actually Supplies the "Food"?

    There were, of course, articles that did come through from "anointed" brothers in different countries. [footnote #37: In almost all cases the article came because President Knorr had sent an assignment to the person to write it.] These, however, were subject to review, revision and even total rewriting according to the discretion of the Writing Department overseer, Karl Adams. Yet Karl himself was not of the "anointed." He felt no hesitance in turning over an article written by one of the "anointed" to one of the "other sheep" for reworking or rewriting, and frequently did so. No one of his superiors had any objection to his doing so.

    The sole exception to this rule were the writings prepared by the vice president, Fred Franz. As Karl stated to me, Knorr had made clear that the vice president's writings were to be altered only with the vice president's permission.

    In one Governing Body meeting when this subject of preparation of "spiritual food" came up, President Knorr spontaneously acknowledged that the great bulk of the writing was done by those of the "other sheep" class. To any one writing in the Writing Department this was obvious. Though the Writing Department has since been greatly expanded, the situation remains essentially the same. [footnote # 38: The writing staff in recent years numbers 20 or more persons in all, the great majority professing to be of the "other sheep."]

    The reason generally given to explain away this anomaly is that, even though the non-anointed members do the thinking, development and writing of the material, it is always read and approved by persons of the "anointed" before printing. Evidently this somehow adds an anointed touch or quality to the material. [footnote # 39: Compare Haggai 2:11, 12.] The very fact that such reasoning must be resorted to of itself shows the strained nature of the claim made as to the application of the food-supplying aspect of Jesus' parable.

    IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, pages 154, 155.

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  GB Not Providing Food-Helpers Write Articles

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why does the governing body depend on the helpers to write watchtower articles and the information in other publications?

  why does the governing body not write these articles themselves?

  they depend on the helpers to compose/write this information.

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  Ray Franz stated [IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM] that the GB's review of material written by the other sheep gave it the "anointed touch."

  Edited to add: Some 45 years ago, an anointed sister who was friends with Rutherford's secretary, Anton Koerber, related to me that JWs, largely of the remnant at that time, were encouraged to send their thoughts to the Society. She was discouraged that she received no reply, but Br. Koerber told her to be patient. Her thoughts -- perhaps developed independently of what others had surmised -- eventually appeared in the WT two years later. Her concern had been over the correct identity of "Spiritual Israel."

  Her tales of early life in the org were fascinating.

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