Posts by Gorbatchov

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Who is attending the 2016 Annual Meeting this Saturday?

by Londo111 in

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i'm curious if we will have eyewitness reporters at the stanley theater like we do every year....

Dutch assembly hall dedicated today...

by Anders Andersen in

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anyone visited swifterbant or the video stream at the local kh?.

any high- or lowlights?.

asked my inwife if the new hall is nice (i know it's not).

Gorbatchov

Hi Anders,

I attended the semi live streaming at the local kingdom hall. Not the dedication at Saturday but the Sunday session. Also with David Splane.

I have to say, he did a nice job. Not the "theology" man from Broadcasting. He was quit, humble and made uplifting comments.

It was a long time ago Gorby went home from a Kingdom Hall with some biblical points to think about.

And that's not bad at all, for a christian, isn't it?

They told the minimalistic design of the new hall will be the new standard worldwide.

G.

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JW remark about blood transfusion

by Gorbatchov in

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recent i had a conversation with an old jw friend.

he told me his mother rejected a blood transfusion in a critical fase, and survived it, and of course it's good to hear that she makes it good now.. what me triggered, was a remark he made about what the elder of the hospital committee told him.. this elder praised the mother of my old friend because of rejecting the transfusion.

the elder told them that most jehovah's witness in the netherlands take a blood transfusion when their life is at stake.

Gorbatchov

Recent I had a conversation with an old JW friend. He told me his mother rejected a blood transfusion in a critical fase, and survived it, and of course it's good to hear that she makes it good now.

What me triggered, was a remark he made about what the elder of the hospital committee told him.

This elder praised the mother of my old friend because of rejecting the transfusion. The elder told them that most Jehovah's Witness in the Netherlands take a blood transfusion when their life is at stake. And that here rejection is with that in mind a good and rare example.

So, my observation is that although the doctrine is still there, most witnesses in more "individual" cultures like here in Holland choose to make their own decision.

G.

27

My sources say Jr brown has died

by poopie in

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end of era.

Gorbatchov

I always wondered that the PR department had less influence and was less in "the air" then the 1995 - 2000 years. Jarracs?

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The 1914 doctrine: How long it will last?

by opusdei1972 in

one hundred years have passed and the society still supports this lie, which of course, is the basis of their other lies, like that of the unfaithful and not discreet slave appointed in 1919. however, i wonder, what will happen after 50 years, when the overlapped generation will pass?.

and if you want, what will happen with this religion in 2100?, could it survive with the same lie??

?.

Gorbatchov

Who cares??

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WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

i was really puzzled when i opened this edition of the wt magazine at the above “study”.

what on earth has this picture at the top of page 13 got to do with christian watchfulness?

i wasn’t making a connection at all.

Gorbatchov

Whaha great isn't it.

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See the new Dutch assembly hall

by Anders Andersen in

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...it looks like a generic, easy to sell barn hall.. https://youtu.be/eqwrfhbbqwy.

nothing like the old hall it's built next to.. the small room in the video is the indoctrination education center.. the building is completed one year ahead of schedule.

my guess: it's either much simpler than they originally planned, and/or they had more volunteers because nothing else is being built.. video is dutch, but nothing interesting is said anyway..

Gorbatchov

All conventions will be held there. This year the last conventions in Holland took place in external locations.

It's a keep the money in the corporation strategy.

Many big corporations have this strategy, preventing the cash flow going to external stakeholders like convention property owners.

The money stays inside now.

G.

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Any word on the annual meeting?

by careful in

have all the leaks at ny bethel been discovered, or are there still some who are revealing the inner secrets beforehand?

i haven't seen anything here about the annual meeting just a month away now.

anyone have any real info on it?.

Gorbatchov

It will be the best AM ever.

It is not to be missed.

A new song will be released.

The program shall be transfered by live streaming.

Br. Splane will give some doctrine explenation again.

So, nothing new under the sun.

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Mouthy has Passed Away

by Simon in

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update on mouthy (grace gough)this is graces granddaughter.

i wanted to send an update that today my beautiful grandmother passed away - surrounded by friends and family.

- may 22 1927 - sept 2nd 2016. mouthys_granddaughter.

Gorbatchov

I'm sorry to hear. Mouthy thank you so much. Love.

Gorby

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Do you recognize?

by Gorbatchov in

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gorby has had a personal paradigm shift lately.. from one point to an other i "feel" and "think" different about the jw subject.. - no more interest in doctrine.

- no more interest in things that happen 100 years ago into an religion.. - no more taking statements too serious.

it doesn't matter me at all what a generation doctrine change is all about, it doesn't matter me at all that brother elder said "blablabla boe!".

Gorbatchov

Thanks for the comments,

What I failed to mention, is that this paradigm shift works on two sides this time.

Reading the toppics here, i feel that I don't care about old and new scandals and untruths anymore.

Attending the Kingdom Hall, i feel that it's all Spanish to me.

Having lost the attachment to the toppics, I feel i'm having more focus on people. JW and non JW. Human interest.

And that's why I wrote that i'm surrounded by good people now.

Hope you get what I mean due to the language gap between Dutch and English.

Gorby