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  Wt "study" Participation, is it a "True Believer" Indication?-- or not?

  by prologos in

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  in our congregation, the elders rarely comment.

  the majority rarely comment, 2 sisters, vehemently, and often comment.

  since in their case, it can not possibly be" teaching in the congregation", is participation in the wt "study"in general an affirmation of faith?

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  freddo

  Commenting in my corner of hundred acre wood goes thus.

  Kids: Some say nothing or shyly lisp an answer that is whispered in their ears.

  Teenagers: Generally stay shtum except the precocious pioneer at age 15 who answers three times per meeting.

  Non-appointed brothers/ex appointed brothers who are not reaching out and sisters not pioneering and who are not elders' wives: Maybe one answer every couple of weeks.

  As above but ex-elder in an almighty sulk but goes to meetings because Jehovah knows he is right: No answers ever!

  Elders and MS's and brothers who pioneer: One answer per meeting.

  Elder wishing to make a point: Three times per meeting.

  Elder's wives: Two times per meeting

  Pioneer sisters: Two/Three times per meeting.

  Frustrated Single Pioneer sister: As many times as possible!
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  As a JW: major personal blunders

  by Hecce in

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  to make mistakes is human, to make mistakes dictated by faith is also human but foolish.

  i am pretty sure that as jws we all have made decisions that later on we regretted, in some cases they have been minor and in others they had profound effect in our life; major items were like blood and education related.

  i am going to post one decision that was a major disaster for the person involved and if you know of something similar please contribute.. in a spanish speaking country where "machismo" was the norm and it was common for a man to have several mistresses, there was a sister married to a wealthy man and they had four children.

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  freddo

  Not sure there could have been any happy ending in that situation.
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  Special talk outline or highlights?

  by stephanie61092 in

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  2. friends

  i apologize if this has already been covered but i've actually had a really busy, fun weekend with friends and family and i haven't been online.

  that being said, i missed the special talk yesterday.

  does anyone have the outline or highlights of the talk?

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  freddo

  @sir82

  "Round our way" (UK) it was April 3rd ... as in second weekend after the memorial.
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  Ronnie Corbett.

  by karter in

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  and it's good nite from him.. one of the greatest comedians of my lifetime,he never used foul language he and ronnie barker were just truly funny.. i always enjoyed he two ronnie's.. rip.. karter.

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  freddo

  Yes - gentle clever sometimes saucy British humour of the best kind.
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  JW TV - Britain Branch Report

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
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  although it is titled as "britain branch report" it's not much of a report.

  it only goes for just over 6 minutes and half of it is some 'wild talk' about romeo and juliette, i say wild talk because it has nothing to do with the british branch and if there was any point to it, it's lost on me.. anyway, about the only thing said that is of any importance was this (at the 2.20 mark) -.

  "the governing body, very kindly, have given us permission to continue construction once we have reviewed the scope of the building so we hope to be underway very soon".

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  freddo

  I'm not sure if the "build, build, build - we're going places" of this time last year followed by everything coming to a screeching halt was pure incompetence or a crafty master plan.

  It certainly got donations to the fore and "justified" begging for kingdom hall project savings funds. And they can still fund a tiny Chelmsford for 100 instead of 1000 people by the money made from selling the London properties and moving printing to Selters.

  Then the surplus from that and the KH's gets sent to New York to keep it away from UK investigations.

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  If it is a crafty master plan then they've done it on the backs of gullible and trusting bethelites and followers ... if it's incompetence followed by opportunism then the result is the same but with less bad motive.

  Ignore me; just musing.
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  A mistake we did ...

  by Absolutesbeginners in

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  hello girls !.

  i ve been reading you all many times , and from many years ..... i am sure my english is getting better and better because of you !

  i am from france, no sorry , from "small brittany " ...so what ?

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  freddo

  Salud. Mat an traoù.

  Is your mother's husband a witness? The guy 22 years younger than her? Are you officially DF'd or DA'd?

  Welcome to the forum.
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  1958 Convention Program. 8 days from 9am till 9pm. Anyone attend?

  by StopTheTears in

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  how in the world did they justify this torture?

  imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.

  for 8 days.

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  freddo

  I wasn't born then but went to the 1969 Wembley, London 8 day International aged 8. The sessions were a blur of boredom but the food tents and double towers of the old Wembley stadium remain imprinted on my mind. I remember my first experience of London Underground trains which was cool.
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  Further CO Leaks

  by wifibandit in

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  believe inspired truth, not inspired error (s-341a-16-e).

  instructions for the circuit overseer’s meeting with the pioneers and field missionaries in conjunction with the circuit assembly (s-312-tk16-e no.

  circuit overseer meets with pioneers and field missionaries program for september 2015 through february 2016 (s-335-16-e).

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  freddo

  Is there any chance we'll get to see the outlines for March - August 2016? As in the source is still able to get his hands on this sort of thing from now on?
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  300 books and magazines placed outside The Shard

  by pleaseresearch in

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  2. bible

  hi all.. so i got a txt today from a very proud mum claiming that, the jw cart produced 300 book and magazine placements.

  mostly from foreign speakers.. the shard is the tallest building in the uk.

  this is where the cart was placed.. not a bad day they had really.

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  freddo

  @Slidin

  I was present at the midweek meeting with the Amsterdam video and I thought that they said several Bible Studies were started. Not sure now.

  But I thought: What is "several"? Why use the word at all? I would use "several" if say I handed out between about 4 and 8 tracts but didn't make a note of the number. Any more and I would have guessed at about 10 or a dozen.

  So I believe they said "several" because the number was pitifully low for a four day event with two million visitors (if I heard that correctly). Let's give them the benefit of the lie and imagine they had eight start a study from these dozens of carts.

  What sort of study would it be? A doorstep study of which half (4) would fizzle in two visits and maybe one would last more than a month?

  It is truly pathetic.
  
  
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  Child Abuse In This Weeks Meeting Part

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  2. bible

  i was sitting at the meeting this week and the "apply yourself to the field ministry" part started.

  it was the first part under, "the initial call".

  they read from the "good news" brochure and ask a question on it.

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  freddo

  @thedepressedsoul

  Nice catch!

  Topic 13 p.26 of the Good News brochure - printed in 2012 and used daily by keen JW's everywhere in their "ministry."