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  This weeks #2 & #3 talk on homosexuality

  by granada35 in

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  after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.

  since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.

  to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.

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  admttedly i dont like coming on here because I find the reasoning on here quite incredible. I personally work with people who are gay. I am a jw. I simply follow the biblical approach to things in line with scripture.....Gods own word. I personally dont judge such ones. Thats jesus role when he returns. I thought the meeting this week about this subject was balanced and in line with scripture. I dont see it any different to any other form of immorality. At the same time, a persons love for God can help them overcome this temptation. Its about having a balanced approach and not false reasoning. I know one brother who has managed to control such feelings in this life and is an upstanding christian. God and Jesus dont change their views on morality because society decides to change it.

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  144000 Literal or Figurative?

  by why144000 in

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  the speaker at the memorial tonight stated straight up that the 144,000 is a literal number as we will stop celebrating the memorial when jesus 'arrives' and takes the few remnant with him.

  how can the society change the 144,000 to figurative without blowing themselves out of the water?.

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  The searcher, your point is the only way they can dig themselves out of the hole they have got into. keeping a count of numbers of this that and the other is pointless. and will lead to further embarrassments ahead.
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  The watchtowers biggest mistake

  by Truthexplorer in

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  the moment the leadership of the wt (a publishing company whose purpose was originally to produce pamphlets and books to edify christians) first made the claim to be gods sole channel of communication for dispensing biblical truth here on earth.

  that not so discreet assumption has now left them wide open to 'everything they teach as truth'.

  as a result, every time an error is exposed or a teaching is changed, their credibility will continue to be affected.

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  The moment the leadership of the WT (a publishing company whose purpose was originally to produce pamphlets and books to edify Christians) first made the claim to be Gods sole channel of communication for dispensing biblical truth here on earth. That not so discreet assumption has now left them wide open to 'everything they teach as Truth'. As a result, every time an error is exposed or a teaching is changed, their credibility will continue to be affected. Let's say they had never claimed to be Gods sole channel of communication, that they continued to offer their thoughts in publications that were written simply to edify Christians faith; and like the other bible student groups allowed each congregation the autonomy to be led by the holy spirit as it was in the first century...... I am sure things would have been much different.
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  "This Generation" at the meeting today

  by Batman89 in

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  it was really quite amusing 2day at the meeting when we got to the "this generation will not pass away" subheading in the wt.

  the conductor spent very little time on the section and the comments that were given didnt at all make sense really.

  you can tell its not understood by the majority of the friendsand will go over there heads, i was trying not to laugh lol.

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  some great points here. I particularly liked your observations smiddy re generation being somewhere around 50 years. Funny enough, one brother mentioned to me 'that was confusing' during the meeting. I just nodded and said you're not the only one. Afterwards whilst out walking with my wife 'who was brought up in the truth'. I said to her...what decade would you say 2 Tim 3: 1-6 really took off in the 20th century. She automatically said round about late 60's, early 70's. I then mentioned that Jesus said that no one knows the day or hour....so why are the society so dogmatic and fixated about 1914 etc. She just said yeah, but never said anything for or against it. I told her I believe in Jesus words only, not the writings of imperfect men.
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  daughter questions me about mothers day!

  by Truthexplorer in

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  my daughter came home from school and said they are doing some cards at school for mother's day and asked me if that was ok. i looked and just smiled and said darlin, just make a lovely mothers day card and make sure to put lots of love from dad on it too .

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  thanks for everyone's kind comments. To be honest, I am totally loosening up in regard to such things. I also told my daughter not to feel under any pressure about this or that. She is to start high school after the summer and told her just to enjoy those years....AND to enjoy college and uni if that's what she chooses to do in the future
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  Describe What a Jehovah's Witness Elder Is Like

  by minimus in

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  i know what they are supposed to be like.

  but at this point in time, do you think the elders look joyful?

  are they serious bible students?

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  The elders in our hall are quite nice, but definate organisation men. one elder got the shock of his life when I said I couldn't attend a zone visit as I had committed to working that day. he told me about 2 weeks beforehand. It was as if he was saying in his mind ' what! a GB member giving a talk and you decline an invite to the zone visit
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  one eighth of jw's are regular pioneers?

  by Truthexplorer in

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  that's what a brother said during his public talk.

  i mentioned this to the missus afterwards and asked if i heard right?

  seems quite a high number!.

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  Just wonder if the apostle Paul ever got to a point.......ah I didn't get all my hours in this month.....oh here comes that guilty feeling
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  daughter questions me about mothers day!

  by Truthexplorer in

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  my daughter came home from school and said they are doing some cards at school for mother's day and asked me if that was ok. i looked and just smiled and said darlin, just make a lovely mothers day card and make sure to put lots of love from dad on it too .

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  Truthexplorer

  my daughter came home from school and said they are doing some cards at school for mother's day and asked me if that was OK. I looked and just smiled and said darlin, just make a lovely mothers day card and make sure to put lots of love from dad on it too
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  one eighth of jw's are regular pioneers?

  by Truthexplorer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  that's what a brother said during his public talk.

  i mentioned this to the missus afterwards and asked if i heard right?

  seems quite a high number!.

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  Truthexplorer

  yes intetesting
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  one eighth of jw's are regular pioneers?

  by Truthexplorer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  that's what a brother said during his public talk.

  i mentioned this to the missus afterwards and asked if i heard right?

  seems quite a high number!.

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  Truthexplorer

  That's what a brother said during his public talk. I mentioned this to the missus afterwards and asked if I heard right? ? Seems quite a high number!