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  Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

  by breakfast of champions in

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  this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.

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  Gorbatchov

  Here in the Netherlands (west of Germany for the US reader), the Branch closed all the non-dutch foreign language congregations.

  2 reasons:

  1. too many dutch JW fled to the foreign field and congregations. It seems an escape route;

  2. branch stated that the foreigner has to learn the language of the country. (this is a flip / flop because the JW had to learn other language first to

  search for the foreigner).

  I think it was to close down the escape route of JW's to the foreign congregations and to level down local meetings at the kingdom hall.

  Maybe the US will get this new "arangement" too. Many here became upset and had to move to another congregation.

  In our congregation, a dutch brother, clothed in Franch style with alpino hat, is singing loud in the French language during the dutch meeting.

  That's the effect...

  G.
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  I am JW.ORG

  by LogCon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  famous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!

  it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

  so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.

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  It realy hurts me to see this false worship.
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  Christmas lights

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  this night i installed christmas lights in the trees in the front garden of our house.. we all like it, the children like it, so this is the first year we have this lightning.

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  hope the elders will like it too ;-).

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  This night I installed Christmas lights in the trees in the front garden of our house.

  We all like it, the children like it, so this is the first year we have this lightning.

  Hope the elders will like it too ;-)

  G.
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  For the weaker moment

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  i think we all have some time a weaker moment and miss the times we were regular witness.. to admit, i have some of these moments a year.. for these moments i have this point "i can't accect being part of.

  a religious organisation that structural apeals child abuse cases".. then i'm finished with the moment.. the path is narrow.. g.. .

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  I think we all have some time a weaker moment and miss the times we were regular witness.

  To admit, I have some of these moments a year.

  For these moments I have this point "I can't accect being part of

  a religious organisation that structural apeals child abuse cases".

  Then I'm finished with the moment.

  The path is narrow.

  G.
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  Jehovah blessed the JW broadcasting studio but not the JW bus passengers

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's not difficult to see the paradox.

  jehovahs blessing for the fast release.

  of the silver sword, the fast building of the jw broadcasting studio.

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  @Zoos right!
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  Jehovah blessed the JW broadcasting studio but not the JW bus passengers

  by Gorbatchov in

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  it's not difficult to see the paradox.

  jehovahs blessing for the fast release.

  of the silver sword, the fast building of the jw broadcasting studio.

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  It's not difficult to see the paradox. Jehovahs blessing for the fast release

  of the Silver sword, the fast building of the JW Broadcasting studio

  and the absence of his blessing for the poor 3th world JW convention

  visitors in Honduras, 17 and maybe more killed in the bus accident.

  Don't give a shit about people saying Jehovah is protecting his people.

  G.
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  Eleven Dead and over 45 Injured!

  by Atlantis in

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  posted on a jw site!.

  eleven jehovahs witnesses dead and over 45 injured in honduras bus accident.

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  Of course awful for these people.

  Jehovah protects his people is an empty oneliner. I hated when they said it.

  G.
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  Find What Your Social Status Was in the Congregation

  by Mary in

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  2. friends

  ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?

  the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:.

  1. at the top of the social order of things within the congregation is of course, the presiding overseer and his family.

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  Gorbatchov

  We (our family) gave ourself a status above the CBO / PO. We were 4th generation witnesses so

  we decided we were the historical based elite in the congregation. On this historical grounds

  my grandfather and father, both elders, protected the rank and file against

  the organizational elders. Our family was against the organization and for the weak

  and poor!

  I faded a year after becoming nr. 8.
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  Embarrassed and Glassy-Eyed stop by

  by wheelwithinwheel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  two brothers doing the territory stopped in at my place.

  i kept them on the step.

  after some hellos and catching up, i said so you folks are on tv now.

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  Gorbatchov

  I sheared you're great toppic with my wife, and she liked it!

  It's so simple if you allowed you're self to see the real truth of this believe.

  G.
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  Embarrassed and Glassy-Eyed stop by

  by wheelwithinwheel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  two brothers doing the territory stopped in at my place.

  i kept them on the step.

  after some hellos and catching up, i said so you folks are on tv now.

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  Gorbatchov

  Great, great, great posting. This is it!

  Instead the path is narrow, the ipad is IOS8.

  Thanx for this posting, I just send it to my wife!

  G..