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  The ideal JW Sister is...

  by highdose in

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  please fill in the blanks.... from my experiance i would say: " silent, depressed, out all hours in the minstry and only gives birth to males ( potencial ms's elders etc).

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  Cadellin

  Sweet, quiet, agrees with everything, wears ankle-length, swirly, full skirts, long hair, just a trace of make up, describes "scriptural submission" as being honorable, auxiliary pioneers because her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/fibromyalgia/depression/eating disorder/allergies/Epstein-Barre Syndrome prevents her from regularing but she's a regular pio in spirit.

  She's eighteen, lives at home (after that recent drama, she'd NEVER move out on her own until she's married) and actually has some artistic/academic/creative/scientific ability but shunned higher education and now works two mornings/week answering the phone/shredding paper/cleaning toilets/clearing tables/stuffing envelopes for an elder's accounting/cleaning/detailing/HVAC/construction/used car sales business, but its okay because her parents support her. She's learning Spanish/Russian/Punjabi/Chinese/Eritrean so she can serve where the need is greater with the foreign language group that meets in another KH that's only 5/8/10/15 miles away.

  She'll shortly be married to another 18 year old...or a 40 year old.
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  What percentage of males to females in the congos?

  by 1914BS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard that there is way more females in most congregations.

  it seems the males are doing 12 hour a day window washing jobs and have no more energy left to attend a mind control session.

  has anyone else noticed that trend?

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  I'd say the 60 to 40 ration is about right. From what I've heard, other countries like Japan, Russia and Latin America have much higher rations of females to males. So my question to my elder husband was: If no one come unless Jah draws him/her, why isn't he drawing more males? Oh, and another point of evidence about the great gender discrepancy is the recent KM article about how to witness to males specifically.
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  David H. Splane will visit Spain

  by JHK in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  according circuit overseer, brother splane will visit spain branch, in ajalvir (madrid).

  the objective is to sell the factory and the 450 apartment complex, how much money?

  more than 1.000.000.000 euros!

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  Cadellin

  Brilliant, all of you. Just brilliant. I can't touch it. (sighs, looks down, shaking head).
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  "Bearing Thorough Witness"--page 98, par. 13; Compare p. 103, par. 9, 10, 12

  by sd-7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i find the same old same old in the newest publications.

  here's a little sampling, from my now-favorite work of bible-based fantasy, "bearing thorough witness" about [the governing body].

  note page 98, paragraph 13:.

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  Cadellin

  BeDuhn, BeDuhn, BeDuhn, BeDuhn...That's all, folks!
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  "Bearing Thorough Witness"--page 98, par. 13; Compare p. 103, par. 9, 10, 12

  by sd-7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i find the same old same old in the newest publications.

  here's a little sampling, from my now-favorite work of bible-based fantasy, "bearing thorough witness" about [the governing body].

  note page 98, paragraph 13:.

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  Cadellin

  Uh-oh, do I have his name wrong?
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  "Bearing Thorough Witness"--page 98, par. 13; Compare p. 103, par. 9, 10, 12

  by sd-7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i find the same old same old in the newest publications.

  here's a little sampling, from my now-favorite work of bible-based fantasy, "bearing thorough witness" about [the governing body].

  note page 98, paragraph 13:.

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  Though I haven't read his book, it's my understanding that, far from being an exhaustive examination of the NWT, DeBuhn has rather focussed on comparing just a few scriptures across several translations. And it may well be that the NWT does a good job of translating those handful of occurrences (I don't know), which would have no reflection on inadequacies beyond the rather narrow scope of DeBuhn's work. I'll be interested to hear what you find, sd-7.
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  According to bookstudy, it's ok to beat wife.....occassionally

  by JWinprotest in

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  2. friends

  i apologize if this has been mentioned, but i don't have the time to come on here as often.

  yesterday's bookstudy on divorce got my shorts in a bit of a knot.

  apparently, according to the god's love book, a wife could consider legal separation from her husband if she is physically abused, but (get this) only in the case of extreme physical abuse, and if the wife's life is in danger.

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  Sickening, isn't it?
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  How Much of an Impact is Being Made by Young JW' s Leaving the Cult ?

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have read threads where statistics show that 2 out of every 3 people raised as jehovah's witnesses eventually leave once they get in their 20's to 30's and out on their own.

  my children and my nieces and nephews are between the ages of 21 to 35 .

  out of those 8 people - 4 of them have completely stopped attending meetings .

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  I was baptised in 1996 and my younger son at 8 in 1997

  What the snarf is going through ANY elder's head baptizing an 8 year old boy???? After all this time, it amazes me. No infant baptism. Yeah, right.

  Anyway, it seems like my situation is just the opposite from all the other posts. My husband's sibs and kids and my sister's kids all super strong, no flinching or blinking. Still, there's super-strong socio-familial pressure and I wouldn't be surprised to see something crack in the next few years.

  Who knows...I feel like I'm the only one in my whole family who can see this religion for what it is. Oh, wait--I AM the only one!
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  New Understanding of "This Generation"

  by snowbird in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  am i dreaming this, or is the wt teaching "the generation that will not pass away" to be those who knew some of the anointed of 1914?.

  are they crazy?

  (not a rhetorical question).. sylvia.

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  But if they leave it like this wouldn't that make it last forever seeing as how they say newly annointed are replacing the ones that screwed up? Now THAT could go on forever.

  Now you're getting the idea!!!!
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  Dissolved Congregation

  by dudeson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i heard recently that 1 of the 4 congregations in our relatively small area has been "dissolved" and relocating many of them to the hall i used to attend.

  it must be due to the low numbers these days.

  our average sunday meeting attendance when i left was around 75.. does this seem to be a growing trend recently?.

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  According to the Annual Meeting there were two new peaks in the USA during the last service year, so why are congregations being merged?

  The peaks might have been in foreign language or in some "aspect" of the ministry like bible studies counted. I think a lot of these cong dissolutions are in English, where things have been stagnating for a l o n g time.