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  Advanced Warning I - WT August 2016 "Study" articles re "Reaching Out"

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the brief outline for this item makes reference to the most recent wt on the subject of "reaching out" (august 2016 - pages 20 - 29) if you are a jehovah's witness and thinking about becoming a ministerial servant or elder, then please consider the following information prior to attending the kh for this week’s wt “study” and the week after.

  first - if you hope to become an elder, in the uk you will also become a charitable trustee.

  you will not be given any training for this part of your role.

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  Nicolaus Kopernicus Tried to like your post but it didn't work. Anyway well said👍
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  Do they know what 7.5 billion dead bodies look like?

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  in their sick and twisted bubble that they live in, the jehovahs witnesses clearly have no idea about the logistical nightmare of disposing of 7.5 billion corpses.. when i heard an elder once say that it will be a joy to clear away the wicked from the earth, he actually had a smile on his face.. can they even begin to imagine what 7.5 billion dead men, women, children & babies looks like?.

  "let the eye feel no sorrow".

  sick bastards..

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  Just seeing a tiny fraction of that number traumatised the allied soldiers who liberated Belsen and Auchwitz for life.
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  If a JW Came To Your Door How Would You Handle It?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses have never come to my door but they have come to my girlfriends door.

  i have coached her as to what to say or ask but it appears that they always seem to come when she's not there.

  .....just curious would you get into it with a jehovah's witness at your door especially if it was someone you did not know?.

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  Fernando I have a friend who did talk about Grace with me, and I'll be honest...I didn't understand, I really didn't 'get' it. I didn't know the witnesses translated it as " loving- kindness"...That came years later. It took an awful lot of research, (and other things that convinced me they didn't have 'the truth')before I finally understood the concept. So even if they had posed that simple question, would we have understood?
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  Hey everyone

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  popping in to say hi.... been away from the forum for a long time.... had some serious health issues starting at the beginning of this year.

  on the mend now, and getting back into the swing of things.... great to be alive!.

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  Hello Coffee_black.

  Don't think we've met I've only been here about a year. Good to know you are getting better. I'm in my late 40s and have had some health problems for the first time last couple of years, had a near miss a year ago...so I know how it feels a little. Life is good, young one's appreciate your health!!!

  Had a little look at your bio and I'm Glad your family is with you and no attachments to the WT!🌹get well soon, anyway all the best and hi!
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  Impact of NWT

  by menrov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi all, just recently i was thinking about the period of my study and eventual baptism as jw.

  it took many years, i guess in all about 10 years.

  various times i stopped the study but after a while it started again.

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  Chook Out comes the white rabbit out of Toni Morris pants LOL 😂😂

  I knew a couple of old dears back in the 70s 80s that used the King James at the Kingdom Hall, baptised so long ago who knew if their was a NWT back then.

  Menrov I too liked the Good News - I was given it at a kids summer hols thing run in our local park. It was run by some Evangelicals, games, food , fun for bored kids in the hols in the UK ( we didn't have summer camps like the USA). It was the most fun I ever had in my childhood. I thought I was in heaven. Parents didn't know, just thought I was in the park playing.
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  Big Day fast approaching Letting go

  by rebelfighter in

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  2. friends

  the big day is two days away when she will say "i do".

  i knew this day would come someday but as a mom you just want to hold on even though i did everything to train her to be very independent.

  she has been making most of her own decisions since middle school.. she moved away 5 years ago but still was totally mine till 2 years ago when mr. wonderful appeared in her life.

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  WingCommander !!!! Get back to bomber command and stop being a Debbie downer!!

  Enjoy your day Rebelfighter you've done your best for your girl now it's up to them! ( I've always found superglue on your dress works quite well if you change your mind!)
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  Going To A Christening Next Week

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my girlfriends, friend has invited me to her little boy's christening.

  6 months ago if you'd asked me this i'd have recoiled in horror.

  in a catholic church?!!!

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  Ahhh....Remember to "wet the baby's head" for me! That's an old tradition you might approve of! It involves those old enough to imbibe to drink a toast ( or three) to the future health of the baby. Enjoy the day...as Astronomer Royal Martin Rees says about church " I do it for the tribe". It's a lovely welcome to a New life, I always think what will this little one see that I could never have dreamed of.

  Rebelfighter I love to attend church purely to listen to the choir at Kings College.
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  Serious question..Leviticus 20:15 Why slay the beast???

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's not as if the sheep was trying to seduce the shepherd, the poor creature was violated.

  we have come a long way from those days, thank goodness.

  so why slay the sheep or beast?????

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  Smiddy good point.

  If Adam hadn't been so fussy....with that in mind....

  I had a friend who used to say that it would be so much more exciting if you didn't know what you were going to give birth to... "Oh look, I've had a monkey" or " ahhh, it's a baby kangaroo". She actually didn't want kids but was desperate for a pet penguin.

  Just sayin'....😋
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  Been witnessing today - first time in over 2 years!!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and it felt wonderful!!.

  i went into the city to where i knew there was a "cosmopolitan witnessing" trolley, because i wanted to ask a simple bible-based question.

  the trolley was attended by an elder and a sister who was another elder's wife.

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  Well you've opened my eyes, that's extremely interesting. And the poster underneath Bobcat who explained it some more ( Merism) I hadn't thought about the worthlessness of the poor great crowd whose good works now count for nothing. Maybe tested unto death here only to be tested again in WT's paradise. ....how unfair when the GoBod gets a cosy life at Warwick and gets a pass straight up to heaven. Yuk.

  Good witnessing, and as they say " baby steps...". Who are we to say how these people really think, there has to have been a last day we all went in service for the Watchtower Corp., be it last week or 40 years ago.
  
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  WOW - 18 Elders in ONE congregation!!!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hazel grove congregation in stockport, cheshire, u.k.. not only is the congregation saturated with elders, it is/was pretty well saturated with cash - according to its 2014 financial statement to the charities commission.

  http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/accounts/ends82/0001066282_ac_20140331_e_c.pdf.

  its elders are listed as frank broadhurst, nick ashton, nigel bailey, noel crossley, peter davies.

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  What poor old coot told them their £264,000 was ' in trust' with the Watchtower. Obviously one living in the last century.