I try not to use belittling terms when talking about a religion I no longer support or practice. The written word can be powerful enough without resorting to such.
eyeslice
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Why do people use so many derogative, belittling terms on here like....
by reniaa inmaybe for the same reason the bible namecalls:.
sinners.
undeserving.
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The growth from within - more focus on youth coming soon
by passwordprotected inwith the wts blatantly 'stealing' the lds practice of family worship (home) evening (see previous thread), i foresee them going even further.
[b]it's going to become about keeping the youth[/b].
think about it, asides from 3rd world countries, there's little growth happening from the door knocking.
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eyeslice
But - they are fighting a losing battle.
I have been to a meeting in years but in the last month my 17 year old son who had been regularly attending with is mother stopped going. The kids aren't daft they can see the crack down of further education and the continued rhetoric of we must do more in the field service.
Other than the prospect of a mate in the truth and the possibility of promotion to MS for young lads, I see no attraction for the truth to young ones.
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If Jesus Has Been Ruling In Heaven Since 1914, What The Hell Is He Doing???
by minimus incan anyone please tell me?
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eyeslice
minimus - perhaps I got it wrong - overseeing the angels who are overseeing the preaching work. You can't get too many overseers!
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If Jesus Has Been Ruling In Heaven Since 1914, What The Hell Is He Doing???
by minimus incan anyone please tell me?
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eyeslice
Overseeing the preaching work of course.
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when did JWs start and stop useing Deutichland uber alles?
by dogon ini can remember singing the song but can any one post a link to when it was incorporated and when it was dropped?
what song was it?.
thanks.
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eyeslice
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with using any tune (within reason) as a hymn.
If I recall correctly, after the re-unification of Germany, they used a different tune to for the national anthem but popular opinion was to revert back to the original. Similarly, the Russian Federation changed the tune to its national anthem after the collapse of the old Soviet Union but have gone back to the original.
There have been a number of 'tunes' dropped by the society over the years because of their worldly origins. The problem is they don't have composers quiet as good as Haydn.
Also, even the Germans don't actually sing Deutichland uber alles (Germany over all) because of its associations with the past. -
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Did You Have Respect For The Elders In Your Hall?
by minimus inone day after a sunday meeting, 2 elders got into it with each other and started screaming at one another in the back of the hall just as service arrangements were being made.
of course, the boe counseled them strongly but the result was that the congregation lost respect for the whole body.
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eyeslice
I used to - I guess I bought into the whole thing about God's spirit lead organisation and respect for his arrangements etc.
Then, I became one myself and saw the jockeying for position and infighting etc.
I once handled a situation totally by the book (The Elders book). But because it was to do with the son of an elder in another congregation who had 'contacts' in Bethel, I (the local Body of Elders really but obviously aimed at me) got a snotty letter back form the Branch. I wrote back again and said that we had to be careful that should not become a case of nepotism but nothing was ever really done to address the situation. -
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more women jds than men
by John Doe innow, i haven't been to meetings since i was about 20, but in my congregation the sexes were pretty much evenly split.
however, i've seen the statement several times that there are "not enough brothers to go around," so i can only assume that my congregation was atypical.
so, if there are more women jws, what is the reason for this?.
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eyeslice
In general, women tend to be more religious than men, so you may find that the situation with JWs is no different to other religions. Go to your local church or Hindu temple and I am sure that you will find more women than men. I am not so sure about Islam but that is a slightly different situation.
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Post your percentage opinion: How many JWs REALLY . . .?
by AuldSoul inour kingdom ministry, april 1992, p. 4, par.
7. keep spiritually strong, stay clean for jehovahs service.
7 the benefits of these meetings are multiplied when they are combined with good habits of personal and family study.
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eyeslice
The reason they don't do it is that what the Watchtower dictates is impossibly hard for the average person to keep up with. The only people who I have ever know who did everything the society demanded were head cases not balanced individuals.
The galling thing is that the Governing Body cannot see how Jesus words to the Pharisees, "you bind up people with heavy loads but don't give a finger to help them" applies to them. Religion should be about supporting people not burdening them. -
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The tipping point
by JeffT infrom wikipedia: "the term tipping point describes a point at which a slow gradual change becomes irreversible and then proceeds with gathering pace.
it is derived from the metaphor of a rigid solid object being tilted to a point where it begins to topple.".
has the watchtower reached such a point?
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eyeslice
I am not sure that the comparison of JWs and Christian Science is too valid though. As far as I am aware the Christian Science was fairly passive in their proselytizing. All I can re-call is Christian Science reading rooms.
Jws are far more proactive in their recruitment. What is more, often their key target areas are the vulnerable. So we see growth in 3rd world nations but little in the West. What little growth there is in the West seems to me to be coming from the "foreign field" rather than the native population. So we see Mexicans targeted in the US, Eastern Europeans, Africans and Chinese targeted in Western Europe.
I could be wrong by my conclusion is that the JWs will continue to see enough growth to perpetuate the "God is speeding it up" story for a few years yet. -
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NASA AGREES WITH THE BIBLE...ACCORDING TO JW EMAIL
by whereami inthis stuff just makes me laugh.
where are they getting this stuff from???
isaiah spoke to the lord, and the lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward!
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eyeslice
Talk about re-cycled rubbish. This is really old - word of mouth has just become internet junk.