Topics Started by molybdenum

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Would you be able to survive a three day Assembly?
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the last assembly i attended was over 10 years ago.

the monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in.

i survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal.
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Who Was The Biggest Jackass Circuit Overseer You Ever Met?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
there was on older white-haired circuit overseer in houston around 1989 or 1990. last name started with a w i think.... not sure though.

even the most brain-dead robotic elders told me he was offensive.

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Geoffrey Jackson- soliciting?
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i listened to geoffrey jackson’s latest talk “assisting our brothers materially “.

jackson presented some arguments, one of which was….jesus did not stop the widow from putting money in the contribution box in the temple.

basically saying regardless of your financial situation you have to donate.
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Magadan
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it seems that g. jackson got confused during his presentation relating to jesus and his going to magadan.

( check out lloyd evans "magadangate") but the jw community seems very hesitant and quiet on this apparent "faux pas".

has anyone had any feedback from jw's that you know on this or are they just sweeping it under the carpet as being nothing of particular note?.
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Zoom meetings
by molybdenum in
1. social
2. humour
being pimo i attend the meetings regularly over zoom.

( i have to as my wife is a dyed -in - the wool, and stick-in-the mud pioneer witness.

i have no possibility of leaving as it would create havoc in my life and at 68 years of age i just don't want the hassle of having to cope with the ramifications of disassociating myself.
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Anyone notice how when some of us older ones were in the cult.......
by mickbobcat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?

i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.

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A film about Jonah
by Sergey Antonov in
1. jw
2. friends
who has any thoughts about the new film about the prophet jonah?

how could they divide the entire period into days, if the bible does not say so?

the king ordered them to fast 20 days before the destruction ???!
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No meetings memorial week
by Saltheart Foamfollower in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the august monthly announcements letter, among other things, says that if a memorial is midweek, there is to be no midweek meeting and if at a weekend, then no weekend meeting.

previously it was only no other meeting on the same day.

is this because so many congregations now share halls that scheduling it has become almost impossible?.
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Why are they announcing 2019 conventions so early?
by Richard_I in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just told there will be international conventions in canada in 2019. .

so i looked at jw.org and i see that there's a whole bunch of conventions now listed on the site for 2019.. isn't this odd?

normally we were told the location of conventions during the first week of january.. did they realize there was less in attendance in the 2018 conventions, and want to give ppl more time to make travel arrangements??
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Rocky
by molybdenum in
1. social
2. entertainment
welcome "rocky".

the new face on jw broadcasting.

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