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  Disfellowshipping, what else can they do in a case like this one? .....

  by HappyGuy in

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  okay, the disfellowshipping doctrine is inhumane, usually.

  but, i remember a "brother" in jacksonville, florida, can't remember his name, i was 17 at the time, i think he was 18. this scumbag claimed to be a jehovah's witness.

  we went to the same school.

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  teel

  Oz, I completely agree with you, and wanted to post the same thoughts (though not in such eloquence ).

  Reading Bible examples of excomunication shows to me that is exactly what the Bible is saying to do too. Every Christian has his own conscience, and I don't need a church to enforce the shunning, the person HappyGuy described would have been shunned by me anyway, religion or not.

  Edited to add: to reach a proper conclusion regarding my choice of shunning someone would need a proper flow of information too, meaning when asked, elders (or priests, or whatever) should tell me openly what was his fault. A generic "X Y is no longer a J W" will not do it.
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  Letter from WT's Haiti Branch Committee re: Society's relief response

  by Dogpatch in

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  just got this in, don't know if it was mentioned here yet, but this illustrates how the watchtower views/responds to emergencies.

  note the dig on university and "higher education" (especially sad for a poor country like haiti with poorly educated masses).. randy.

  it was a terrifying moment for all!

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  teel

  Can anyone explain this to me? What do they mean by 'sideline'? "-Jehovah is a sidelineone!"

  I think it means that Jehovah doesn't really matter, he sits on the sideline, not in the main course of action. In this context it's more important that the children get education than to serve God. Like the two are supposed to be contradictory...
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  Dubs at the Door

  by Farkel in

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  knock, knock.... hh (householder): yes?

  dub1: good morning.

  we are working with a group of your neighbors today sharing some christian good news about the future.

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  teel

  Good reading material here! Hats off to 'Dub2'.

  Yeah.
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  Our 'Mediator'?

  by MidwichCuckoo in

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  2. beliefs

  this has probably been touched on before - but something that's on my mind.

  have i got this correct...?

  jesus said, 'no one comes to the father except through me' - and jws always pray to god through jesus.

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  teel

  This thought occured to me too, I posted it somewhere on the forum. Jesus Christ is the mediator of only 144.000, the rest are only "associated" or whatever they call it (w91 2/15 pg. 18). This association is through the annointed, so technically the Governing Body (the only annointed ones, who are different than the non-anointed) are the mediators between us and Jesus. The role of mediator is also to convey our prayers to God, and represent us before Him. So the proper ending of a JWs prayer would be "in the name of Jesus Christ, through the Governing Body, amen".
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  JWs vs. Christ's Witnesses?

  by metaspy in

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  i was talking to my dad today, and he asked when the jws changed their name.

  i replied "in 1933 or 34, cedar point - they became the jehovah's witnesses" he said "no, when did they change to christ's witnesses?

  " i had no reply.. apparently, he had a jw come to his door (from a car group of 5 doing the neighborhood).

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  teel

  It might have been a JW trying out her power of deception. I remember advice that only say that we are JWs if asked directly, otherwise just say "we're just here to bring you God's message" or something like that. Saying that she's "Christ's Witness" is just a step further in deception. I noticed in your quote she didn't deny she's a JW.

  It would be funny if it was a break off group.

  In my experience break off groups are even worse, they take the worst part of the JWism with them, and leave exactly the good parts behind. There are a couple of groups goups here in Eastern Europe, and they're even more wacko than the average JW.
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  Let's get the emblem partaker up to 12,000 this year

  by semelcred in

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  2. bible

  i am calling all who are willing and able to partake at this years memorial.

  the figure is growing and if reports are to be believed the numbers are made up mostly of experienced and long serving bros and sis!

  the numbers for last year have not been as high as in 1967. with the youngest gb for decades!.

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  teel

  Neither, I was born here, but I'm a minority. It's got to do with the history of this country, going all the way back to WW1 and before that. But enough hijacking of threads
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  Let's get the emblem partaker up to 12,000 this year

  by semelcred in

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  i am calling all who are willing and able to partake at this years memorial.

  the figure is growing and if reports are to be believed the numbers are made up mostly of experienced and long serving bros and sis!

  the numbers for last year have not been as high as in 1967. with the youngest gb for decades!.

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  teel

  No, I'm quite far from there, I live in Romania.
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  Congregation "Bible Study" Comments - Week Commencing 18 January 2010

  by LUKEWARM in

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  *** lv chap.

  15 see good for your hard work ***.

  keeping a balanced attitude toward work.

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  teel

  20. Seek to simplify your life as much as possible.

  I followed their counsel, and checked to see what is complicating my life the most, and eliminated it. Well, it's not my fault that it was the JW cult... I only followed the counsel.
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  Let's get the emblem partaker up to 12,000 this year

  by semelcred in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am calling all who are willing and able to partake at this years memorial.

  the figure is growing and if reports are to be believed the numbers are made up mostly of experienced and long serving bros and sis!

  the numbers for last year have not been as high as in 1967. with the youngest gb for decades!.

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  teel

  I remember a long time ago I saw an episode of Sex and the city (don't ask me why I was watching a feminist show as a male JW, I don't know either ), where Jessica Parker's boyfriend (Mr. Big I think) told Jessica to go get the newspaper from the neighbour's door. He won't do it, because it's stealing, and God will punish him, but Jessica is a non believer anyway, so it's ok to send her, she's going to hell anyway.

  My point is that while my morales tell me it's wrong to mess with other people's rituals no matter how misguided they might be, I eagerly await you going to mess with them and telling us about it I'm bit of a hypocrit I guess.
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  Let's get the emblem partaker up to 12,000 this year

  by semelcred in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am calling all who are willing and able to partake at this years memorial.

  the figure is growing and if reports are to be believed the numbers are made up mostly of experienced and long serving bros and sis!

  the numbers for last year have not been as high as in 1967. with the youngest gb for decades!.

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  teel

  No way, I'm not even going near them. It would be an interresting tale to hear though how they would react were someone from here started to partake.