Thanks V, got your email re. inviting me to join. I'm already on Twitter (since 2006) so I'll see you on there.
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Watchtower Comments is TWITTERING
by V inwww.twitter.com/wtcomments.
get the latest and find out about the videos before we release them.
so much coming i'll have to tell you in advance!.
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Do You Suspect WT is STILL Affliated with UN Millenium Development Goals?
by cameo-d ini do.. .
there are many wheels within wheels....committees, divisions, split offs of ngo's (ingo's, etc etc, ad nauseum) and there are many spokes as well.. the thousand points of light refer to the evangelical illuminaries.. my intuition tells me wt is disguised and well hidden somewhere among the spokes.. .
what does your gut feeling say?.
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Of course they are. They have always been completely and utterly self-serving.
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WT study from several weeks ago
by wha happened? ini apologize in advance if this has already been posted.
i jw friend of mine made referance to a study article a few weeks back that spoke on acceptable sexual practices of jw's.
what article was it and is there a link to a pdf?.
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possible-san, while your resource is, I'm sure, helpful, it is all in Japanese...
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Latest WT Study Article Scans & Latest KM Scans
by passwordprotected indoes anyone have the latest study wt scans and km scans, please?.
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Blondie's weekly reviews, or comments, are still posted every week. I'm looking for scans of the articles.
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JW clergy confirmation
by cameo-d inis there a standard rite of declaration or anything that could be considered a ritual confirmation giving jws the title/duty of clergy?.
also, at memorial is there a standard prayer or invocation that is recited every year?.
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Re. confirmation - the closest is the 2nd of the two baptismal Qs.
Re. the memorial prayer - no, they pray to open the meeting, pray over the bread and wine (separately) and pray at the end. But there's no formal prayer that's followed.
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A question for you guys who edited your own "Revelation Climax (AntiClimax) Books
by Alpaca ini left in 1997 so i didn't enjoy the privilege of editing my personal copy of the book.. there was a thread on here a few years ago about it but i was left with the impression that it was just a few marginal notes.. now, on another thread there are comments about cutting and pasting stuff into the book.. just how extensive were the edits?.
i cannot believe the borg (sorry, yes i can) would direct such a bizarre exercise for publishers.
how many of you said wtf?.
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They of course eventually re-printed the book, including the changes. This must have come from the 'outcry' about having to do all the amendments oneself. I remember hearing of very zealous brothers spending whole evenings cutting out the changes and pasting them in and then later refusing to get a new, updated book; they would proudly sit with their old, hard-bound book, paste-ins there for all to see.
Another reason, surely, for the re-print (and remember, they originally weren't going to re-print the book, hence the KM pull-out), was that having to systematically work through this book adding and amending would have put it right in front of the R&F how much the old Revelation book was WRONG.
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Jehovahs Witnesses - Mainstreaming, Like It Or Not
by metatron init used to be that pioneers supported themselves with free literature and magazines and put in 100+ hours a month.
then 90, then 70.. a publisher had to put in at least an hour a month to be counted.
now 15 minutes.. they used to hand out a written review and collect it and grade it!
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@leavingWT - I agree, reading the Bible is dangerous for a JW. When we started reading the Bible - without the WTS filter - we left the Org in within a couple of months.
I'm sure that's why the WTS goes to great lengths to have something to say about virtually every verse of the Bible; that means that a JW doesn't have to engage their brain and think for themselves. We were told by two elders that if the WTS doesn't have a comment to make on the CD Rom about a verse in the Bible, Jehovah doesn't view that verse as being relevant.
While an elder, I was asked by a young MS about a verse in the Bible he was struggling to understand. I asked him if he'd prayed for understanding from God from the Holy Spirit. At this a sister who'd been eavesdropping piped up that he should also 'go to the faithful and discreet slave'.
JWs are told that the main spiritual meal of the week isn't the 3 or 4 assigned chapters of the Bible, but the Watchtower study.
Not long before I left the Org, I mentioned to another elder that I was encouraged to read in a WT article the Org encouraging the flock to do in-depth study of God's Word with an open and receptive mind (one of the few times you'll see that being recommended in the WT, btw). His reply was, "we do that when we study the Watchtower". This just illustrates that JWs don't actually need the Bible; they need the WTS telling them what the Bible says. In our old congregation it was very popular to sit with a print-out of all of the cited verses in that week's WT study. Bibles were closed and in book bags/on the floor.
Why do you think the WTS have ceased printing the "Would You Like to Know More About the Bible?" tract (a tract I loved using in the ministry)? They've replaced it with "Would You Like to Know the Truth?". A JW's role in the ministry isn't to discuss the Bible with people but rather to peddle the 'unique beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses'. And it doesn't take long to discover that those unique beliefs aren't actually in the Bible...
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Jehovahs Witnesses - Mainstreaming, Like It Or Not
by metatron init used to be that pioneers supported themselves with free literature and magazines and put in 100+ hours a month.
then 90, then 70.. a publisher had to put in at least an hour a month to be counted.
now 15 minutes.. they used to hand out a written review and collect it and grade it!
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OT observation;
few JWs know what a concordance is anymore or that there's no nee to reprint the Kingdom Interlinear version of the Greek Scriptuires
Most JWs I know aren't students of the Bible. 1) they have no time, 2) they have no inclination.
The PO of the local congregation proudly told me that he once read the whole of the book of Ephesians. Why study the Bible when you can pop a CD into your computer and have all the answers at a few clicks/keystrokes?
Why study the Bible when you've been politely told that the Bible wasn't actually written for you, but rather for the 144,000?
And when does a JW have time to study, anyway? Sure, there are less meetings, but they've still got virtually the same grind of material to study, very little of which is the Bible.
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Jehovahs Witnesses - Mainstreaming, Like It Or Not
by metatron init used to be that pioneers supported themselves with free literature and magazines and put in 100+ hours a month.
then 90, then 70.. a publisher had to put in at least an hour a month to be counted.
now 15 minutes.. they used to hand out a written review and collect it and grade it!
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While I agree that they've made changes, many changes in fact, I don't see any of these pointing at a mainstreaming process, but more at a money-saving process.
If we're talking about the mainstreaming that the Worldwide Church of God went through, then the WTS would have to start opening up the new covenant, for example, be a bit less prissy/hostile towards the Trinity etc.
As we get closer to 2014, I think we can see them being less mainstream and more controlling.
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Latest WT Study Article Scans & Latest KM Scans
by passwordprotected indoes anyone have the latest study wt scans and km scans, please?.
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Does anyone have the latest study WT scans and KM scans, please?