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  How is Ray Franz lately & does he predict any significant 'new light' ahea?

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  just wondering.

  i heard he was very ill. .

  what does he expect next for the organisation doctrinally?

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  Pioneers who never do witnessing in the weekends (when people are home)

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  were there many in your congregation?

  there used to be heaps in my old ones..

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  The JW's will never completely axe the door-to-door work and justifiably so

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  the jw's will never completely stop the door-to-door work but they will eventually make it only optional.

  in "in search of christian freedom", ray franz makes the excellent point that how we translate the greek kat' oikon that the watchtower society translates as 'house to house' depends entirely on the context, and there are other scriptures with the same greek work that are translated 'according to homes' or 'in homes', etc.

  however, the greek preposition kata does have a 'distributive' sense and, unfortunately, ray franz did not adequately address this in his research.

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  The WTS will go more mainstream re 1914 in the decade after 2014

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  with the deaths of theodore jaracz and john barr imminent and likely to coincide with the fast approaching 100 year 'anniversary' of jesus "invisible presence" as king since 1914, there will be some broad-sweeping changes to the society's 1914 creed.

  in the last decade or so we seen a fairly consistent trend of the society being prepared to fiddle with and drop certain date-based interpretations.

  this has been the result of the march of time simply painting them into a corner and revealing more of these old esoteric date-based prophecies to be false or in need of major adjustment.

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  Are we hyper-sensitised to JW changes? Do we exaggerate their importance?

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  sometimes i think we lose all perspective at times on here.

  that we are just as prone to over-magnifying any meaning behind relatively minor changes like this in the organisation in the same way jw's are prone to over exaggerate every bit of bad news in the world to mean armageddon is near.. when you sit down in the cold light of day, this change to the bookstudy arrangement for example, is it really that much a big deal?

  i strongly doubt it really, despite initial reactions (including my own).

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  Shouldn't the Watchtower study be renamed the "congregation bible study"?

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  why rename the "congregation book study" the "congregation bible study" (a broad, generic term that could be applied to all meetings really) when surely it would have been more appropriate to rename the "watchtower study" that?.

  after all, the watchtower study is touted as a "bible study" by the whole congregation, right?

  jw's consider the watchtower study as the main weekly study of the bible that they do as a congregation, right?

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  Reporting preaching time is another obvious 'burden' that could be removed

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  the basic scriptural argument by the wts is that since the apostles 'reported' their experiences, it is correct to expect jw's to 'report' their preaching activity on a monthly form.

  (there are other reasons given for reporting time ,eg, the claim that reporting time helps the elders gauge someones spiritual 'strength', etc.

  since the scriptural record is that only experiences were reported back by the early christians, the society therefore only has justification for jw's to report their 'experiences' to each other, not to formerly report their actual time preaching.

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  Prediction: the new looong weeknite meeting will be trimmed

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  the new version weeknite meeting combining the cbs, the tms and sm will be 1.45 hours long!.

  that's just wayyy too long.

  with the tendency for many talks to creep over time, it will be more like 2 hours of boring, prosaic, dry, dull, drivel on your bums on those cold, winter nights.

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  Book study reminiscing - what was your memorable bookstudy experience.

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  i must admit to feeling a bit nostalgic, sentimental now about the loss of the good old home book study arrangement.

  there are many rather pleasant memories coming to the mind of various homes i attended for the book study.

  i can still remember vividly most of them.. it had a warm, convivial, family feel about it.

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  I predicted a big change to the book study arrangement just over a year ago

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  here's the thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/129345/1.ashx.

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