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  have you heard anything ?

  by lancelink in

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  2. beliefs

  i was a witness from grade school ( 1976) until 2007. i seem to remember an important aspect that was always talked about at the hall as being a fact.they would say that "the rocks themselves would cry out" if the public preaching work was to stop,,,,, all i've seen and heard these past few months are the witnesses complaining about the witnessing work coming to a halt.but i've not heard one rock crying .. .

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  tiki

  I like the stream one...😁 however...what about "until houses are without man"??? Now that everyone is stuck at home that one becomes an enigma....
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  Buzz words

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am so sick of hearing ( wife is pimi):.

  critical times so hard to deal with.

  last nano second..... buy out the time.

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  So happifying.....food at the right time.....

  So encouraging......

  .....try gaggifying....
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  How service is being conducted with the zoom meetings

  by newsheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a friend of ours who is married to a jw said that this morning for service everyone who was on zoom got to do a call while the rest listened in on the call.

  there were thirty-one this morning listening in on one who would call someone to preach to.

  shouldn't the person they are calling on be warned first that there will be so many listening in on their phone call from the zoom meeting.

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  This is shocking! Invasion of privacy reaching a new outrageous level. And all the zoombies count time for being implicit in the obnoxious activity?!? What is the matter with these people.....rhetorical question.
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  The New World's first Convention... - LMAO

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.

  apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!

  smh :-/ ) .

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  tiki

  Yeah.....apparently this will occur after the babble language reversion that will magically have everyone speaking Adamic.

  Where will it be held though? Or will it be a global zoom?

  Balaam's talk as blubro has shared will surely be a must hear for me. Oh...rats.....I will be turkey vulture poop at that point. But....great fertilizer!
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  Kingdom Hall Scheduler

  by Thetruthhurts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure there's already topics on this but i couldn't find one so i'm starting my own.

  is the kingdom hall scheduling program new?

  is this where they are entering all of the members data now?

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  tiki

  Sounds odd. What does your carrier have to do with it....you got a number and a connection...that's it. None of their business who you pay for said connection.
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  Weekly Meeting Importance Being Reduced - Your Thoughts?

  by JWTom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am pimo, but now have 40+ years of being a jw as i was raised in a 3rd generation family of witnesses and continue to fake my way through things - fading as i can.. for the vast majority of my time as a jw, the meetings were the central focus for all jws to get teaching, association, information and so on.

  nothing was more important than being at the meetings!

  over the last 20 years starting with the elimination of the weekly book study in homes and continuing down to today - my opinion is that the value/purpose of the weekly meetings continues to be diluted or minimized.

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  tiki

  From my observation, a good portion of jw's remain loyal for social reasons...the people factor, the group dynamic. Take away that actual organized physical aspect by deleting halls and actual real meetings and there are going to be a lot of unhappy campers....and they will gradually seek alternative support groups and systems. The doctrine used to be so much more significant, but that has been so convoluted and diluted most don't even know what they believe in....so.....I see the sect dissipating.
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  Another heart-worming story

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today, i got an email from an old friend with a story told by brother andre ramseyer who attended training at patterson in england.

  a service dog regularly attended the meetings with his owner.

  when the owner passed away, the dog was given to another blind man.

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  Dog disease heart worm???
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  The Great Crowd Fallacy

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the great crowd of other sheep witnesses allegedly first began forming early on in the 20th century.

  rutherford was totally unaware of this crowds existence until 1935. it was revealed to him in 1932 that the great crowd members were heaven-bound.

  then light flashed from heaven in 1935 showing that this group was an earthly class.

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  Such a conundrum...perhaps the judge figured that since he was heaven bound he'd need earthly subjects, hence the new light. In any event millions then living have now died. .......so my erudite conclusion is that the judge misinterpreted....
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  Another heart-worming story

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today, i got an email from an old friend with a story told by brother andre ramseyer who attended training at patterson in england.

  a service dog regularly attended the meetings with his owner.

  when the owner passed away, the dog was given to another blind man.

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  tiki

  Too funny!! I remember hearing that bizarre story. Patterson is in New York state...which is not New England...just abuts NE states....not that that matters...

  Perhaps the dog got a lot of attention at the hall...maybe people brought him treats. That would account for the meeting time excitement. Other than that dogs can be creatures of habit...so perhaps it was just his routine. Or perhaps the story is just a fairy tale.

  At any rate, that was a spiritually minded dog. How happifying.
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  My latest letter to WT demanding correction from their side

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  brothers and sisters associated with the watchtower society may 9, 2020. i have tried to inform you of the necessary adjustments you ought to take in order to truly be in the truth.

  but my efforts have remained fruitless.

  you well know the biblical procedure.

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  tiki

  It seems all this mental energy could be made of better use..... Have you considered applying your intellectual acuities to something truly meaningful and constructive? The study of human physiology....the intricacies of astronomy and the universe....genetic biology...biochemistry.....so many interesting fields in which to gain expertise. Why not reduce biblical interpretations to a simple fun hobby..... Kosonen, you must be spending so much precious time on things over which you really have no say or control...why not regroup and attack a different challenge?