Olin Moyles Ghost : you are correct. In almost every congreation I have been in the local elders had the final say in what we were allowed to do, didn't matter what was in print.
maninthemiddle
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Facebook condemned
by straightshooter inmy wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.
this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .
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Scans from Messanger about Beth-sarim 1931 with pictures.
by maninthemiddle inhere are two pages about beth-sarim printed the the wtbs rag the messenger in 1931. they are scans of a copy, so not the best quality but readable, just view them full size.. feel free to save them for later, so many don't belive it existed, of course this article won't say the real reason.. if i can get my hands on the copies again i will rescan them better.. right click and "save as" will help.. scan1.
scan2.
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maninthemiddle
Here are two pages about Beth-Sarim printed the the WTBS rag the Messenger in 1931. They are scans of a copy, so not the best quality but readable, just view them full size.
Feel free to save them for later, so many don't belive it existed, of course this article won't say the real reason.
If i can get my hands on the copies again I will rescan them better.
Right click and "save as" will help.
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Article on Education and Belief in the bible
by maninthemiddle ini found this while sifting through old papers at my aunt's house.
even though it isn't a wts paper, it loooks like someone "studied" it very well.. there have been related topics in the past, but i think this goes to show it is not just jws.
the second page has a wonderful graph that i think says more than the article.. .
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maninthemiddle
I found this while sifting through old papers at my aunt's house. even though it isn't a WTS paper, it loooks like someone "studied" it very well.
There have been related topics in the past, but i think this goes to show it is not just JWs. The second page has a wonderful graph that i think says more than the article.
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WTS claims to shine as brightly as the Sun
by cattails injust saw this pop up at the fuentes' forum extjforum.com.
http://www.extjforo.com/foro/showthread.php?t=15473 .
it's a scan (you can thank iloowy for the scan) of the march 15, 2010 watchtower where there's a picture of a radiant sun of a wt logo along with a tm mark right next to a paragraph that says 'they "will shine as brightly as the sun"' (matthew 13:43).. .
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maninthemiddle
@restrangled
I was asking myself the same thing.
Does anyone remember? I thought "new light" from several years ago pushed the "seperating work" into the future..during or after armagadon i thought.
so is this new old light that is new again?
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Why do Ex-JWs start celebrating pagan Christmas?
by DubR inhiya guys and gals.
im not trying to be self-righteous but i want to understand the thought process of someone who knows the origins of christmas, but starts celebrating it (putting up christmas tree, exchanging wrapped gifts; repeating merry christmas to everyone they see in the month of december)??
it seems very silly to me (imo) after knowing how and why christmas was created (to cater to pagans sun worship and convert to christianity)!!
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maninthemiddle
used to think "how can parents just out and out lie to their kids about Santa?"
I have pictures of my son with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Do I relly need to worry about it when he finds out they aren't real?
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Recent assembly
by Iwonder17 in1) stop using internet,facebook,myspace,email,texting and spend more time studying and in service.. my mate quit their facebook page when we came home lol.
2) maybe i am just more tuned into it now, but they mentioned "apostate" a lot more this time around, espicially when talking about the internet.. it keeps me thinking, if there is nothing to hide, then why is there such a big push not to look?
it's like an ugly girlfriend not wanting her boyfriend to look at the girls on the beach .
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maninthemiddle
CoCo, this interests me, what was the context around this comment:
'I'm not saying Brother So-and-So is an apostate, but he sure sounds like one ... I don't understand anything he's talking about.' [reference to Bro. S-a-S's higher learning] The DO said the brother was his friend and that he loved him. -
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Text Messaging, Cell Phone Use and Computers---All A Target At Assembly
by minimus inmy mom told me that she heard a recording of some of the assembly and they really hit hard on the above mentioned things and anything that can take precious time away from the ministry.
(even she sees it's too much control)..
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maninthemiddle
WTWizard:That is how they make sure the call they are headed to next is actually at home before they waste the time driving across town only to find out they are not home
If they did this they may get some real service done, I never saw this. I thought the point of not calling was to be able to sit in the car and get to break time faster.
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maninthemiddle
It was looked down on very strongly where I am from, not sure why though.
Too worried about the stuff "looks" i guess.
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Congregation "Bible Study" Comments - Week Commencing 16 November 2009
by LUKEWARM in*** lv chap.
12 pp.
what kind of speech "is good for building up"?.
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maninthemiddle
So, are they calling this a "Bible Study" now instead of a "Book Study"?
It still looks like a Book Study to me, with the bible as just a footnote.
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My JW mom that don't go to meeting anyways... (about blood issue)
by Butterflyleia85 inmy mom sent me this..... important fyi... a lot to digest, but well worth the read.... .
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friends,.
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maninthemiddle
This is the crap my mother just loves.
Look at the "sources", an anti vacine website, a wacko health food site, corpwatch is nonsense anti- Consumerism and rense.com is a general tinfoil hat wacko nutjob site. Sounds like good sources for an Awake article.
If you research it fruther there are other studies that says there was no connection between squalene and gulf war syndrome.
I have nothing fruther to say, I am always arguing this crap with my family as it is.
-MM
