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  Would You Care If You Were Disfellowshipped?

  by minimus in

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  just curious.

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  keyser soze

  Not at all. It would probably be a relief. I wouldn't have to come up with excuses to avoid family get-togethers. I've strongly considered sending a letter DAing myself, but that's more effort than I care to put into it. I'm never bothered by elders anymore, and even my mom rarely calls me anymore.
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  Women elders, what difference would they make?

  by Freedom77 in

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  okay, let's do a big what-if: suppose the gb for its own unfathomable reasons suddenly got new light (tm) and decided to start appointing women elders and ministerial servants.

  they would, of course, refer to the examples of junia (apostle), and priscilla and phoebe (deaconesses in wordlyspeak) in the greek scriptures; never mind what mental somersaults it would take to get them there.

  stranger things have happened in wt history.. that being the case, would having women in positions of real authority make any significant difference in the congos or in the borg as a whole, and why or why not?.

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  keyser soze

  Not much difference. As with male elders, how long they last in the role would depend on how willing they were to tow the company line.
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  Would JWs Really Drink The Kool Aid?

  by minimus in

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  if push came to shove and it was a showdown for loyalty to the organization or not following whatever decrees coming heir way, what percentage would remain loyal to the organization?

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  keyser soze

  Only the grape stuff. The cherry could easily get mixed up with blood.
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  Beards......the CO allowed this one!

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.

  (not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.

  what do you make of that?.

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  keyser soze

  A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

  You just described half the elder's wives in my old circuit
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  They continue to drop like flies

  by suavojr in

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  yes, the jws continue to bleed their young ones, so far in my local kh 3 were dfd, one girl just turned 18 this month and packed her bags and said goodbye to the cult and her cultish parents, another young 18 year old man decided to have a non-jw girlfriend and decided to stop attending and is no longer a witness.

  they continue to leave and wt leaders dont give a damn.

  they dont do anything to help kids be successful and live a healthy life.. .

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  keyser soze

  Well they DO give a damn. Thats why we see the youth-aimed videos and such being ramped up. They're trying to lock them in early as possible

  If they don't give a damn, they should. Young JWs are ultimately the future of the organization. The handful of people they convert each year in the ministry aren't enough to sustain the religion long-term. They need the next generation of born-ins.
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  I don't call this progress...

  by MidwichCuckoo in

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  ...where communication/information has progressed vastly, the jw r&f have, in well over 100 years, progressed from sandwich boards to..errr..modernised sandwich boards as their up-to-date means of communicating.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.

  comments are open at bottom of page folks!.

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  keyser soze

  No one's ever accused the WT of being progressive.
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  Did anyone ever rent a home or apartment from a "brother"?

  by keyser soze in

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  2. experiences

  what was the experience like?

  i lived with my brother and then sister-in-law in an apartment building owned by a brother and his wife.. besides the fact that they would constantly enter the place while we were out, without any kind of advance notification, they would procrastinate whenever there was maintenance work that needed to be done.

  sometimes it would take months before they would get to it.

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  Did you ever ask them?

  Didn't need to. Just like we didn't need to ask the pioneer wife if she used either of the other two units for her mid-morning service break while the residents were at work. We already knew the answer.
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  Did anyone ever rent a home or apartment from a "brother"?

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
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  what was the experience like?

  i lived with my brother and then sister-in-law in an apartment building owned by a brother and his wife.. besides the fact that they would constantly enter the place while we were out, without any kind of advance notification, they would procrastinate whenever there was maintenance work that needed to be done.

  sometimes it would take months before they would get to it.

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  What was the experience like? I have to say it was rather eye-opening for me. I lived with my brother and then sister-in-law in an apartment building owned by a brother and his wife.

  Besides the fact that they would constantly enter the place while we were out, without any kind of advance notification, they would procrastinate whenever there was maintenance work that needed to be done. Sometimes it would take months before they would get to it. Their excuse was always that the work that needed to be done would interfere with meetings or service. Apparently this was supposed to make living in substandard conditions acceptable to us. I wonder if they used that excuse with the non-JWs that were renting out the other two units.
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  Evolution: A Satanic Theory

  by cofty in

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  there is an excellent new article at jehovah's trumpet.... friends, the following article is not about masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, or homosexuality so it may not be appropriate for children.

  please use godly wisdom when deciding if your child is mature enough to consider this material.

  we are going to have a frank discussion about the theory of evolution.... .

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  keyser soze

  Awesome. The only thing funnier is the comments from people who didn't realize it was satire.
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  If you were God, how would you rule?

  by What is Truth? in

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  2. beliefs

  welcome, to anyone up for a thought experiment and some fun with your inner god complex.

  i was inspired with this question while at 7/6/14 watchtower study.

  the question is.. if you were to be made god how would interact with your creations?

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  keyser soze

  Every Friday would be "Bermuda shorts and flip-flops day" in heaven.