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  Top 10 Memorial Excuses

  by rebel8 in

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  good excuses.

  pinkeye.

  (highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.

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  It was not the memorial, but I had a friend use a great one. Quote, "My window in my truck was broken, I could not roll it up, it was raining and water got in my ear on my ride home. Now I have an ear ache! there is no way that I can go to the meeting!"
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  What did Jesus approve in 1919 ?

  by AlphaOmega in

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  as an offshoot from this thread (can threads sprout shoots ?)....

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/136253/1.ashx.

  ... i was wondering if anyone has any quotes / scans of .

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  great thread
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  When Jesus inspected his temple in 1918/1919

  by ninja in

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  what are some beliefs witnesses had that would disqualify them from being the faithful and discreet slave?....i will start with a couple..they believed god lived on alcyone and promoted spiritism by encouraging the friends to read "angels and women"...there must be loads more

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  Thanks for the reference Gary
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  motivations for creating the "Jonadabs"

  by drew sagan in

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  i know that shortly after rutherford dismissed the idea that the new covenant was only for the jews (as taught by russell) he eventually began to formulate his new doctrines of how he felt it did apply to people.

  but i'm a little lost as to why exactly he chose to create this doctrine.. what were some of the deeper motiviations rutherford had in creating this doctrine?

  i flipped through pentons book but he really doesn't get into it.

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  LISTEN TO THE ELDERS TRY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON THEIR TEACHINGS

  by Hobo Ken in

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  this blog has audio from conversations with the top elders in this countryduring " shepherding " visits and judicial.. first visit is in 4 parts.. part 1 here.. http://media.libsyn.com/media/tartanpodcast/doro_1.mp3.

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  Is that passwordprotected talking at the begining?
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  Is it true? The WTS will not disfellowship anymore?

  by heyfea in

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  i'm sorry if i missed a discussion regarding this subject.. .

  my mother-in-law is a jw (not a fanatic).

  she goes to the meetings every now and then; she occasionally goes out preaching.

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  This is really far fetched. I will not believe it until I see it in print.
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  Question for our scholars...

  by tenyearsafter in

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  i was asked an interesting question by a jw relative and was not exactly sure how to answer it...thought i would throw it out to the scholars on the board:.

  what was the expectation of an afterlife for faithful ones living before jesus was sacrificed?...did they believe they would have an afterlife on earth or in heaven?.

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  New anointed rejected by the WT-society

  by Kosonen in

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  new anointed rejected by the wt-society.

  i listened through the lates download wt, june 15, 2009. www.jw.org there is an article: the faithful steward and its governing body.. this article makes it clear that new anointed will not be consulted in preparing spiritual food.

  other sheep are also told in other words not to listen to the opinion of new anointed in the congregations.. .

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  White Dove,

  That the anointing stopped in 1935 is "old light". The "new light" is that there is no time table on how long after 1914 there can be newly anointed ones.
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  New anointed rejected by the WT-society

  by Kosonen in

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  new anointed rejected by the wt-society.

  i listened through the lates download wt, june 15, 2009. www.jw.org there is an article: the faithful steward and its governing body.. this article makes it clear that new anointed will not be consulted in preparing spiritual food.

  other sheep are also told in other words not to listen to the opinion of new anointed in the congregations.. .

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  Prime example of 'running ahead of Jehovah' aka bucking the GB....The GB palces themselves above God's or anyone elses authority, including other anointed.

  This will not turn out well for you.
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  Running ahead of Jehovah

  by donny in

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  as i was exiting the society back in 1992, the elders were frantically trying to reason with me and kept saying that i was trying to run ahead of jehovah or running ahead of the organization?

  just what does that entail?.

  or they would tell me to "wait on jehovah" and eventually some of my beliefs/issues will be in line with the truth.

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  By this doctrine they place themselves above God and the bible.

  First example is something is true in the bible but not endorsed by the FDS:

  If a JW finds something to be true in the bible, without a doubt in their mind, they can only believe it if it's endorsed by the FDS. Similarly, if the JW finds something the FDS teaches to not be in the bible then they are not allowed to reject the teaching. Here is a great example of this: My dad was the PO for most of my teen years and at one time he was the only elder in a cong of around one hundred. Well, one day we were talking about the disfellowshipment arrangement and why the people have to wait so long before they are reinstated. I thought that if a person was repentant that they would be reinstated immediately, so I posed a hypothetically question to my dad. If someone were repentant after one month or less of being disfellowshipped wouldn't they be reinstated? He said no!! and then said that he did not agree!!!!!! I about fell out. He proceeded to tell me that there were mandatory time limits placed on disfellowshipped ones and they could not return before they had reached those time limits. Then he explained that this was not a biblical teaching and could prove it! Nonetheless he had to enforce the FDS teachings over what he knew to be true in the bible. Both my dad was placing the authority of the FDS over the bible, simply because he would be seen as "running ahead".

  Second example is something that is taught by the FDS but it is not found in the bible:

  There is one slightly different way that a person can disagree with the society and still be running ahead. Say, that a JW in the Golden Age period found that the reasoning for not allowing vaccinations was not found in the bible. This JW would have to wait on the FDS to change their minds before they could receive vaccines; they in no way would be able to claim that they don’t want to follow something that is not in the bible.