Posts by Gorbatchov

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who was the craziest person in your congregation?

by grumblecakes in

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pls share, i love these stories!.

Gorbatchov

I have so many story's about our congregation. So there was one elder who was secretly spying other witness in christmas time. He looked into the window of their houses to see if there was a christmas tree!! He visited our home later (I was a child) and watch the back gate / port of the garden. "Splended" he told us loudley, "here can you escape when Armageddon starts!".

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Do you know of any U.S. JWs who have voted without getting DA'd?

by Open mind in

i recently registered to vote in california and will be going to the polls on election day to experience what many americans do as soon as they turn 18. i could mail in my ballot, but i want to check the whole scene in-person.. .

i posted this info on another forum recently and have been told that i'm as good as da'd if i'm discovered.

i'd like to pose this question here since jwn gets much more traffic.

Gorbatchov

I voted this year for the second time in the Netherlands elections. I'm still JW, but not active in field service. I did it at an busy public place. I told nobody about it.

Still I hoped that some JW noticed my voting, for starting the discussion about the WT published in the 90's about JW allowing to vote.

Gorby

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Witness Speak: the worst of collection

by grumblecakes in

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so we all know the jw vocabulary is a weird one.

what words or phrases bugged you the most?.

a few of mine:.

Gorbatchov

"I have no family. Only my brothers and sisters are my family"

Stepping stones.

Upbuilding experience.

The Society.

The Field.

Yearbook.

Writing commitee.

Oversight.

The brothers.

Organisation book

Paradise on earth.

Earthly hope.

Return visit.

Pioneers helping others arrangment.

Kingdom fund.

East Europe fund.

Convention arrangment.

Entrance free.

Global Investment manager.

And LBNL: New Light!

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What the Domestics part of the "new light" can / will create

by Gorbatchov in

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thinking a lot last days about the new light about the fds, today i got an idea about the following.. - both the 1) annointed and 2) the rank and file witness aka great crowd are now part of the domestics.. so, in practice, it doesn't matter you have a heavenly or and earthly hope for the future.. because, the domestics can have a heavenly or an earthly hope.. what i think is that this part of the new light sets open the gates for jehovahs witnesses with a heavenly hope.. and more in future: how longer the "new systems of things" will stay away, the watchtower can switch to a doctrine with only a heavenly hope, "living for ever in a paradise in heaven".. what do you think about this?!?.

gorby.

Gorbatchov

@james_woods interesting thoughts. What I think about the new light: it doesn't matter if a jw is annoined or a Great Crowd person. Everything is ok. They are from now one both rank-and-file witnesses! That's what Domestics mean in real small town JW kingdom-land: rank and file!

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New Governing Body Member: Hugo Riemer - More WT Revisionist History

by 00DAD in

as part of the wt's recent push to get the r&f "to study and recount the history of the earthly part of jehovahs organization" there is a curious article in the from our archives featurette of the august 15th, 2012 watchtower.

it offers a highly sanitized version of early jw history.

but what is particularly strange is this revisionist history re-categorizing of an early bible student/jw, one hugo riemer.

Gorbatchov

About the picture of the pre-1971 GB: from Knorr to the right they just look like Himmler (Knorr), Hess (Franz) and Speer (Henschel).

When you look at the picture you see that the power is at the right side and the no powers are at the left side...

Gorby

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What the Domestics part of the "new light" can / will create

by Gorbatchov in

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thinking a lot last days about the new light about the fds, today i got an idea about the following.. - both the 1) annointed and 2) the rank and file witness aka great crowd are now part of the domestics.. so, in practice, it doesn't matter you have a heavenly or and earthly hope for the future.. because, the domestics can have a heavenly or an earthly hope.. what i think is that this part of the new light sets open the gates for jehovahs witnesses with a heavenly hope.. and more in future: how longer the "new systems of things" will stay away, the watchtower can switch to a doctrine with only a heavenly hope, "living for ever in a paradise in heaven".. what do you think about this?!?.

gorby.

Gorbatchov

Thinking a lot last days about the new light about the FDS, today I got an idea about the following.

- both the 1) annointed and 2) the rank and file witness aka Great Crowd are now part of the Domestics.

So, in practice, it doesn't matter you have a heavenly or and earthly hope for the future.

Because, the Domestics can have a heavenly or an earthly hope.

What I think is that this part of the new light sets open the gates for jehovahs witnesses with a heavenly hope.

And more in future: how longer the "new systems of things" will stay away, the watchtower can switch to a doctrine with only a heavenly hope, "living for ever in a paradise in heaven".

What do you think about this?!?

Gorby

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Announcement to be done at Service meeting week 42

by Gorbatchov in

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to all body of elders of the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses:.

1) the following announcement has to be read by the coordinator of the body of elders at the week 42 service meeting:.

"samuel herd, geoffrey jackson, m. stephen lett, gerrit losch, anthony morris iii, guy h. pierce, david h. splane and mark sanderson are no longer one of jehovah's witnesses.

Gorbatchov

I wrote my posting for joking, but how more I think about the issue, how more it become a realistic scenario when you and I had prior the annual meeting in october the opinion about the F & D slave. A year ago, we would be ousted from the organisation. The terrible 8 of the GB do have the opinion and got away with it, a coup management style. What a joke!

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Announcement to be done at Service meeting week 42

by Gorbatchov in

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to all body of elders of the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses:.

1) the following announcement has to be read by the coordinator of the body of elders at the week 42 service meeting:.

"samuel herd, geoffrey jackson, m. stephen lett, gerrit losch, anthony morris iii, guy h. pierce, david h. splane and mark sanderson are no longer one of jehovah's witnesses.

Gorbatchov

TO ALL BODY OF ELDERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES:

1) The following announcement has to be read by the coordinator of the body of elders at the week 42 service meeting:

"Samuel Herd, Geoffrey Jackson, M. Stephen Lett, Gerrit Losch, Anthony Morris III, Guy H. Pierce, David H. Splane and Mark Sanderson are no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses."

2) The local needs part of the Service meeting of October 2012 has to be assigned to the coordinator of the body of elders. The topic of conversation has to be the subject "Sins against the Holy Spirit: putting your own interests before the annointed and the Kingdom of heaven".

INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENT ASSOCATION

The new understanding about the GB is like

by Gorbatchov in

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- president gorbatchov banned the communist party of the soviet union in november 1991.. the current governing body of the wts has banned 12.000 of its anointed members.. more like that?!?.

gorby.