Posts by molybdenum

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Too sick or injured but still made it to the meeting!
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i once attended a two day special assembly with my gums bleeding after having 4 widom teeth pulled the day before.

i managed the two days by rinsing out my mouth all day long and placing cotton in my mouth.. one brother had back surgery the week before but attended a two day assembly by laying on a matress in the back of the assembly hall.

why he needed to be there i'll never understand!.
molybdenum

I know of a congregation that uses skype to allow those
too sick to attend to get the meeting in real time.
I hope this idea catches on.
But I can still see this conversation between two Elders using skype.........
( cue music...)
Hey, Bro lowtech didn't skype for the meeting last night
Really, I wonder if he is OK?
Hmm, this is the third time that he hasn't skyped this month
and when he does he never skypecomments.
I think we need to have a skypemitte meeting about this.
Me too, we can't have Brothers skyping just willy nilly
Perhaps we should give him a skypeshepherding call first.
Well, I guess you are right,we need to show love to our Brothers
Maybe good for an assembly demo...
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Too sick or injured but still made it to the meeting!
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i once attended a two day special assembly with my gums bleeding after having 4 widom teeth pulled the day before.

i managed the two days by rinsing out my mouth all day long and placing cotton in my mouth.. one brother had back surgery the week before but attended a two day assembly by laying on a matress in the back of the assembly hall.

why he needed to be there i'll never understand!.
molybdenum

Even if you are dead you have to be at the meeting
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Is the Universe Conscious?
by still thinking in
1. jw
2. friends
does the universe have a collective consciousness?.

at the sub nuclear level of reality...we are all one.

at the core basis of the universe is a single universal field of intelligence.
molybdenum

I think a good question is to ask
"Is the Brother taking the WT study conscious"
Read para 1/ question/ answer( directly from the paragraph)
Read Para 2/ question/ answer ( directly from the paragraph)
Read para 3& 4 / questions / answer ( directly from the paragraph)
continue to end of study article........
How can someone be conscious and do this?
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New Rumor - Watchtower and Awake in one magazine only?
by TJ Curioso in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hi folks!.

someone told me that there is a rumor that soon the watchtower and awake's magazines will be only one (fusion).. anybody knows something concrete about that, or is only rumor instead?.

tj curioso.
molybdenum

In my congrgation the Brother explaining this "nesting" took about 5 mins
putting it in and pulling it out to show us exactly what it means.
I was thinking that the magazines have shrunk in size so when you hold it,
it feels like a pamphlet. So by "nesting" the AW inside the WT it feels thicker
and therefore gives some " weight" to the message.
Maybe they have been eating too many Domino's pizza at Bethel.
"Take one get one free"( But don't forget to ask for a contribution)
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Is the Universe Conscious?
by still thinking in
1. jw
2. friends
does the universe have a collective consciousness?.

at the sub nuclear level of reality...we are all one.

at the core basis of the universe is a single universal field of intelligence.
molybdenum

Isn't this the same as what John Lennon wrote in 1967
I am the walrus
I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!
by goatshapeddemon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
molybdenum

If you say Gerrit Loesch quickly it sound like Get Lost.....
5
Confused
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i read the words of robert king.

he really made me think.

his words were like a water spring.
molybdenum

I read the words of Robert King
He really made me think
His words were like a water spring
I took a long long drink
Then I read Perimino
I knew it was the truth
Ah, here's the way I need to go
I felt like dancing on the roof
Then I came to JWD
The thoughts here were so strong
The leavers , faders felt like me
How could the GB be so wrong?
We are the FD Slave
The generation overlaps
new light over which to rave
rabbits out of magic hats?
Which way to go
I have to think and think
I really do not know
It seems I'm always on the brink
I am lost and in fear
It isn't right
The truth should be clear
like a beacon bright
Should I stay or should I go?
what course is best for me?
it really is so hard to know
I pray on bended knee
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Murmuring at the District Covention
by breakfast of champions in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
okay, i just think its kind of funny, but it's also pretty telling as well.

all of my wife's family are pretty deep into the "truth", but they don't mind speaking up either.. here's some of their (not my) comments:.

saturday was waayyyyy to long.
molybdenum

ShirleyW
"...and I heard that the end was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo close you could smell it."
My mother passed seven years ago, but in her last few years (after hearing all my life about being in the last days) she always said 'we're on the fringe" of the end of things, I often wonder what she would say now in 2013, about 7 or 8 years after being on the "fringe".
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Yeah, must have been one of those long fringe skirts.
It's like ....."Armaggedon is round the corner". It's the longest corner I've ever come across.
Actually it drives me round the bend when I hear that.
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Just wondering...
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for those of you who are "out" forcibly ( disfellowshipped) or voluntarily ( dissasociated) is there anything.

that you actually miss about the witnesses or meetings?.
molybdenum

for those of you who are "out" forcibly ( disfellowshipped) or voluntarily ( dissasociated) is there anything
that you actually miss about the witnesses or meetings?
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Brothers who were held back from being elder for stupid reasons?
by toto555 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you know of any cases where brothers didn't get to be elder for a stupid/bogus reason even though they otherwise qualified?

do you think some/most appointments are politicially motivated?

how much do you think politics plays in the appointment process versus merit?
molybdenum

Quote : Room 215 " If any one were "turned down" from being an Elder,they were done an immense favor.
That is so true....
I was an Elder once and when I look back I can see how full of myself I was.
Huddling in secret Elders meetings, going to Elders school, giving the congregtion needed "counsel".
The adulation after giving a public talk. Great stuff !
But I stepped down, and now I can see how much I was caught up in that "position" thinking.
Now I can avoid those deadly Elders meetings, no school to have to attend where we are told to be loving and caring while at
the same time being indoctrinated with all the rules that they say they don't have.
No " shepherding calls" which were masked as such but really were done to lay down the law to those not
doing what was considered necessary. ( Get your 10 hours in !).
I got human again.