Of course, there is much more to give than just money, the main point is that once we widen our scope of interest outside the WTS, we can find plenty of opportunities to help without the ulterior motive of orientating our good deeds toward "making disciples" . Our new attitude is therefore more unselfish and, in the end, more gratifying.
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Now you have left, are you donating more money to charities ?
by aligot ripounsous ini'm still a nominal jw, get literature at the hall, use the premises (power, heating etc.
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however, i find the wts's constant calling for money, especially at this time of the year, rather irritating and as far as i'm concerned, it is utterly counter-productive since i think that i will donate less this year than in previous years.
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Now you have left, are you donating more money to charities ?
by aligot ripounsous ini'm still a nominal jw, get literature at the hall, use the premises (power, heating etc.
) so that i feel that i have to bring a financial contribution to the organization.
however, i find the wts's constant calling for money, especially at this time of the year, rather irritating and as far as i'm concerned, it is utterly counter-productive since i think that i will donate less this year than in previous years.
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aligot ripounsous
I'm still a nominal JW, get literature at the hall, use the premises (power, heating etc.) so that I feel that I have to bring a financial contribution to the organization. However, I find the WTS's constant calling for money, especially at this time of the year, rather irritating and as far as I'm concerned, it is utterly counter-productive since I think that I will donate less this year than in previous years. So, I envisage to balance this reduction with an increase of donations to charities : french doctors, salvation army, handicap international, well there is a plentifull of responding candidates to my heart widening. Do you also feel that you have to make up for your financial disinvolvement from the WTS ?
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Watchtower website
by cooler inmy dad was looking and the official watchtower website and he said it has such a truthfull and genine look about it and how i should'nt read the forums because people's opinions on there are misguided and they dont know what their talking about.
has anyone said anything similar to you?
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BTW, welcome to the board, Cooler
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Watchtower website
by cooler inmy dad was looking and the official watchtower website and he said it has such a truthfull and genine look about it and how i should'nt read the forums because people's opinions on there are misguided and they dont know what their talking about.
has anyone said anything similar to you?
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aligot ripounsous
When people don't want to see reality, they just don't see it. I had an example this evening. We were back from the meeting where my wife had given reply to a n° 3 assignment and we gave a lift back home to a young sister. Because of the nuisance that stikes in public transports are causing at the moment, she said that we are longing for the new order. I then slipped in the conversation that the definition of the last generation would be changed next february and I added that within the last 13 years the WTS will have had 3 different definitions of this last generation, the latest one being totally different from the 2 previous ones. What do you think this young sister's reply was ? Jehovah's organization is refining its position...
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I Just Have to Share This
by snowbird inmy estranged hubby and i have a brilliant 18-year old daughter who has been working since the age of 16. she received a full academic scholarship plus numerous monetary awards for her high school achievements.
needless to say, she's built up a nice little nest egg.. estranged hubby has always been an exceptional father.
for instance, when baby girl needed an abacus in 3rd grade, he made one for her.
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aligot ripounsous
I believe that most of what we do as parents for our kids is owed to them but still, it's a warm feeling when we are gratified with their giving us some - I wouldn't say Back- wholeheartedly,
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+++ VIGIL - TUESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER +++
by Sad emo inplease join in sending your prayers, good thoughts, reiki, healing vibes, lighting a candle or just taking a moment to think of all those named and unnamed who are fighting cancer or in any other need.
also their loved ones and caregivers.. - has been fighting mantle cell lymphoma for three years.
he received an allogeneic cell transplant and his latest blood and bone marrow results have shown no trace of cancer!!
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warmest thoughts and best recovery wishes to you all, whose trials I'm just discovering now for some of you.
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Fairport Convention
by LennyinBluemont inanybody else into this truly wonderful british folk-rock group?
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Oh yes, i've got a couple of 30 years old LP vinyls of this group, I wonder if they have been reissued on CD. Quite nice gang, that was about the time another folk group, the Bothy Band, was performing.
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The Silver is MINE! The Gold is MINE!
by Open mind init's mine, mine, mine!!
mine i tell you!
(that would be jehovah, in case you're interested.).
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I was accompanying my wife that evening and the elder who gave the talk also emphasized the tremendous cost of translation in the EU parliament (which indeed is appalling BTW), along with interpreting. I'm sure WTS translators and interpreters wouldn't mind earning what the the EU folks earn but they'd better give up the idea. We have interpreters and an instant translation appliance in our congr. which comprises an asian group. Quite nice foks, always smiling, one never really knows what they really think. Cliché but real. Anyway, I was feeling embarassed for the speaker's sake who had to give such a shameful pleading, including donations in last will, all the more so that he quoted RUSSELL's word in his introduction.
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But WHY don't they disfellowship bloodtakers ?
by aligot ripounsous inany jw knows that one of the very bad things that a christian must not do is accepting a blood transfusion.
respect for the sanctity of blood ranks highest, in jw theology, on the scale of christian standards, along with not being a murderer, an adulterer, a robber, etc.
in fact, it is the identifying feature of jws for the onlooker.
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5go, Another topic for another day, in connection with paedophilia : Courts deal with crimes, the JC with unrepented sin, and they don't have to overlap
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But WHY don't they disfellowship bloodtakers ?
by aligot ripounsous inany jw knows that one of the very bad things that a christian must not do is accepting a blood transfusion.
respect for the sanctity of blood ranks highest, in jw theology, on the scale of christian standards, along with not being a murderer, an adulterer, a robber, etc.
in fact, it is the identifying feature of jws for the onlooker.
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Before this thread is buried into the depths of JWD archives : thanks to you all for your comments, they sure have done their bit as eye openers. Now, the honest JW is left pondering over this 2P rule : for me the principles, for them the policy.