Deep-Blue-Sea - we must be about the same age. I just about remember studying the New Heavens and new Earth book when I was just a kid.
eyeslice
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Which book ,studied at the Book Study, you Hated or loved more????
by deep-blue-sea induring my life as jw i have studied many, many books of the wt at the weekly book study.. here you will find some of the books considered during the years with their publishing date:.
1955 new heavens, new hearth.
1961 from lost paradise to..... 1962 let your will be done on earth.
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The appropriateness of "Namaste" to me
by AK - Jeff inhttp://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/namaste.
this wonderful article explores the greeting from many angles.. a quote i enjoyed:.
"at its most general namaste is a social transaction.
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eyeslice
I lived in India for a year or so. I would say Namesta to people at the same time bringing my hands together in a prayer like position.
I never heard anyone in the congregation say it wasn't appropriate - it's a standard form of greeting in India.
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when is the memorial this year? and will you be going?
by highdose ini won't be going if i can help it, but id like a heads up about it, just to be forewarned.
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eyeslice
I go to support my wife. It is the one and only time I ever go to our local Kingdom Hall.
I have even managed to be on holiday for the memorial so at least we get to go to different congregation where I don't know if they are just as hypocritical as the cong I was in.
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did you feel guilty ,when ignoring disfellowshipped ones ?
by looloo ini was having an affair with a pioneer at the time and a girl who was disfellowshipped was in the loo at the hall (she actually had not done aything scriptually wrong (but the elders thought she had ) i tried to smile at her as i felt i was not in a position to judge anyone as guilt was destroying me but she just looked down at the floor , 14 years later we are good friends and both "free".
when you were "in" and ignored disfellowshipped did you ever think "im not in a position to judge anyone " ?.
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eyeslice
As an elder I followed the Society's general guidance but at the same time as an elder you had some leeway to check to see if they wanted to return.
After I stepped down, I made it a point to always speak to disfellowshipped ones, even to the point of taking them out for a few beers. It amazing what you find out.
Disfellowshipping and the subsequent shunning is a way of getting rid of people and then making sure they never get to tell their side of the story.
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WTS was the first on the scene after the Haiti earthquake
by bohm inhey!.
the following story is apparently circulating in several south-american bethel-branches: after the earthquake in haiti, the wts was the first provide help in the form of 18 doctors who was transported in by air.
this clearly show how well the organization work bla bla bla.. im curious if anyone else here has heard this story, or have information about how effective the wts helping work really was..
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eyeslice
The WT don't do humanitarian work. Even if they were first on the scene; (1) they look after their own first and (2) they offer only to convert non Witnesses.
Despite all they may say they do not follow Christ's example.
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CO/DO's in the UK?
by pobthespazz incan anyone compile a list of as many as possible past and present co/do's from the uk?
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eyeslice
Ray Midgley could be very intimidating though I suspect he had a dry sense of humour.
On one visit he had banged on about modern pop music. So at a coffee break Iduring field service, asked him, "well Ray what sort of music do you like then?" He said "oh something like Gilbert and Sullivan". I feigned shock and indignation, "not subversive Victorian satire; didn't you know it was considered very shocking in its day?". He just gave a wry smile.
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Does the organization still police people when it comes to saving seats at conventions?
by Magwitch inthis was a huge source of contention between me and my ex.
my parents were in the same district as us; i always thought it would be nice to sit together especially when i had two daughters in one year.
my ex rufused to sit with my parents if they saved us seats and he would never allow me to save two seats for them.
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eyeslice
I don't care any more.
I don't go to any Kingdom Hall meetings so no problems there.
I go to the Circuit and District Assemblies to support my wife. Finding a seat is a problem when there is just two of you.
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1914 - Soon to be Forgotten
by God_Delusion inso then, we come to the topic of 1914, again.. a lot of us on here have said it, and so i decided to write about it.. http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/2010/01/1914-soon-to-be-forgotten.html.
cheers,.
carlos.
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eyeslice
I am in two minds about it.
The 1914 doctrine is becoming less and less relevant as the years slip by. On the other hand they just don't seem to be able to drop it, it is still mentioned frequently enough in the literature although these are more vague now a days.
I think that it would be extremely difficult to drop it in the near future without it having a big effect on many.
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Preliminary report: 58 JWs died in Haiti
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.jwbrothers.org/play.php?vid=2080.
among jehovahs witnesses, congregation elders work tirelessly to make contact with all members of the congregation to ensure that they are safe or can get to a safe place.
also, the elders check to be sure that each one has lifes necessities, such as clean drinking water, food, clothing, and essential medication.
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eyeslice
I am saddened by this natural disaster. Whether, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians or non-religious, many people have lost their lives.
Where the WTS will fail, as it always does, is once it has seen to the immediate needs of their own, they will be back into 'preaching' mode. They feel that the message is more important than anyone else - remember the World Trade Center - they handed out tracts!
The WTS has no doctors or medics they can offer (they discourage higher education) and they have no infra-structure to handle this sort of situation.
As mentioned before, any donations go to the 'Worldwide Work' - what ever they choose that to be.
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Mill Hill Disfellowshippings
by BorgHater ina few months ago there was a thread about a couple of elders at the mill hill bethel being disfellowshipped because they disagreed with some wt doctrine (i can't recall exactly what it was) and that several other betheliteswere under 'investigation'.
i haven't heard anything since, does anyone know anything more about this?.
borghater xx.
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eyeslice
This incident appears to be a classic illustration of the totally unbending, dogmatic stance taken by the Society and the fact that there is no way that they ever want people to really study the Bible and think for themselves.
There are many if us here, who as elders (aka the Society's enforcers) could not bring ourselves stand up and say that the Society was always right and that we had the absolute truth.
What really gets me is that in a few years time they are likely to produce 'new light' on this subject. What happens to the disfellowshipped ones then?
I remember having a conversation with fellow Witness young men, as we were then, in about 1974 and saying we would be disfellowshipped if we thought that the 1914 generation might well pass away before the end came. How things have changed since then on that topic.