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  For those who are still in... What do you do about field service?

  by Wait For It in

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  for those of you who are still in because of family circumstances, what do you do about field service?

  do you still go regularly, sporadically or not at all?.

  if you do still go, how do you manage?

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  freddo

  Our cong's territory is quite small. About 8 miles by 4 is the extent of it and so the cong always meets together except on a Saturday where the 5 groups meet in their corner of the territory. Except the 2nd Saturday of the month where we all meet together at the KH.

  When I was an elder and awake I always counted (mostly fake) between 8 and 11 hours - maybe 12 - 14 in memorial season.

  For years after that I reported 6/7hrs (probably 2 or 3 really) so that I could be a mic handler and read at the CBS study (instead of being bored at the meetings).

  Now I've been taken off of reading but am allowed to run a microphone. No one has had the decency to tell me I'm not on the reading list anymore but it's probably because my reported hours dropped to 3 to 4hrs. Now I report 2 or 3 hours and am still allowed to run a "microphone".

  I "show my face" twice a month. Once on the 2nd Saturday and one other Saturday with "my" group. If I'm given some not homes to do I cross off about half of them without doing them and do the rest. I never hand the NH slip back to the conductor and if reminded I say I'll do some on the way home from the meeting Sunday - which I never do.

  Next stage is reporting 1 to 2 hrs and only showing up on the congregation Saturday.
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  Can't get a trolley cart? Use your car instead.

  by cleanideas in

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  freddo

  @cleanideas

  "going rouge"?

  I'd certainly be red-faced and embarrassed going in "the ministry" like that!
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  Why are some that post here JW apologists?

  by ctrwtf in

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  my rant tonight is against the quasi religious apologists that post on this board.

  those who at once rail against the jw's then later talk about how "orderly" and "neat" the witnesses are at their conventions.

  those who site the benefits of bloodless surgery to some who have the luxury and time to actually make an educated choice, while ignoring the tens of thousands who've died because they happen to be in an accident or succumb to a disease for which there is no other treatment.. i understand the power of cognitive dissonance.

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  freddo

  Good post, dubstepped. Very good post.
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  Re: Quarterly Organizational Accomplishments Video Series

  by pixel in

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  dear brothers:.

  we are pleased to inform you that a new series of short videos will be produced to emphasize the acceleration of the worldwide work of jehovah’s witnesses.

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  freddo

  At 3.30 the young man says he was in a refugee camp and then an orphanage. I wonder if Watchtower contributed any money or man power to either of those?
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  Broadcasting June 2016

  by wifibandit in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywcwscxpf4.

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  freddo

  Hermann Munster - LOLOLOLOLOL!
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  13 year anniversary

  by gerry in

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  today marks 13 years since my wife and i have stepped inside a kingdom hall.

  after 29 years full on being a jw and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug.

  yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly i said to my wife “that’s it i am not going back”.

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  freddo

  Please post more often gerry!
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  Which Public Talks did you enjoy giving/hearing? And which ones did you dislike giving or hearing?

  by humblepotato in

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  i was just going through some of my talk outlines and i've decided to git rid of quite a few of them.

  i'm still serving, but as time goes on... there are many subjects i will not teach anymore.. i got rid of the outlines dealing with blood, the field ministry, and ones talking about 607 and 1914. i can barely stand hearing them let alone give them.

  in fact, talk 41 "stand still and see the salvation of jehovah" is one i got rid of because its whole point was about having blind obedience toward the gb and the elders during the great tribulation, and that we need to start practicing obedience now if we want to survive.

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  The good thing about when they reduced the talks from 45 to 30 mins was that at first the speaker could delete what he wanted. It was supposed to be in proportion so if a section in the original was say 12 minutes you wee supposed to do it in 8 minutes.

  But on one or two outlines I was able to virtually delete whole sections if I thought they were too whacky.
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  Today's WT. Jephthah's Daughter - Virgin Slave or Crispy Critter?

  by Slidin Fast in

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  i whiled away the time today in the wt researching the above question on line.

  it seems to me that there is more evidence to say that the account simply depicts the poor nameless child/woman as being toast.

  the idea of her going into "tabernacle service" is completely fabricated and has no basis in scripture.

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  freddo

  As awful as the whole account is I think Judges 11 v 39 and 40 do give the feeling that this wasn't a literal sacrifice. Also 11 v 35.

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  I only used the NWT for this - a quick look at other versions shows 11 v 35 very differently!
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  Is shunning unscriptual?

  by MrTheocratic in

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  international version 1 cor 5:11. but now i am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler.

  do not even eat with such people.. if shunning is wrong.

  .how does one explain this scripture?.

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  freddo

  @Mr T ...

  What "dontfitin" said answers your question about missing something far better than I could.

  @dontfitin

  That point about 1 Cor 5 v 11 being cross referenced with 2 Thess 3 v 6,13-15 is excellent. The Kingdom Interlinear confirms what you are saying.
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  "Happy" bethel music dance video....and what bethel is REALLY like!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  i think the "happy" dance bethel video is the best thing to come out of bethel in 100 years.

  sure many were told off for this.

  i cant believe so many were convinced to go alittle "worldly.

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  freddo

  I wonder how "happy" they are now with all the cut backs and being sent to the field?