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  January 2018 Watchtower

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the cover page shows a photo jws loading a small plane with watchtower literature to take to a remote area in bolivia.the first study article introduces the 2018 year text isa.

  40:31 "those hoping in jehovah will regain power".

  according to them, you may leave home to do field service or attend a meeting feeling exhausted but you return home refreshed and 'jesus' yoke is kindly indeed!

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  Diogenesister

  freddo12 days ago12 days ago

  I wonder if the "executive from a large company" worked for MAN Roland printing presses and was buttering up what was then a good customer?

  Freddo wins the internet today for sure!
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  Why I get out of bed every morning.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because someone needs my help.. as a jw -- you can relate -- i truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality.

  you know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment.

  of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).. at nearly seventy years of age -- no, i didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad.

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  Yes CoCo it would be good, just now, to have back our youthful vigour.

  But I always thought, as to others? Well I know the people I loved and respected most were, to a man and women, older people.

  What would we *do* without them? They are, with young children, our very best we have and , without whom the world would be a cold and joyless place. In your case I have a proverb I will always think of *you * CoCo whenever I hear it:

  Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
  
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  Kleenex Head Covering

  by jwundubbed in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  growing up a woman in the cult was pretty bleak.

  most of the adult women i knew were either depressed sad women or an embarrassment to me.

  i was typical kid in that regard.

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  As someone mentioned about elders wives, ( and I will say this over and over). The women I knew that were so keen to do that rubbish were the ones who wore the trousers in the marriage . It was almost a perverse jw game to them.

  You never saw the brow beaten sister, always silent, head down in shame with the black eye at the back of the hall as one that loved to get her tea towel out.

  So perverse. Put a slipper on when unbelieving hubby walks in but nothing whenbyou pray. Jewish women for whom the OT was written don't show the top of their head to GOD when they pray - never mind whose present - it's about respect for GOD. Even the men wear skull caps when praying, teaching or in synagogue as it's about respect toward God.

  In the middle east they have an obsession with hair ( which is why Mrs Merkel was removed from an orthodox magazine), not as the leader of europe but coz she showed her hair!....of course jw's have got that obsession a little bit, but as usual utterly confused eg arse about face and don't allow beards!!

  BUT there is no doubt in mind jw women are the worst treated and culturally it's getting worse.

  Even in the Koran it says women and men are EQUAL. They also can inherit property and be rulers. Jewish women have it worse but can be judges, prophetesess and rabbis.

  Due to Pauls ravings Christian women are in the worst position, even though his most mysoginistic writings( Timothy etc) were actually not written by him according to the majority of academics. Even so In the NT there are female apostles ( means messenger or envoi) and diakonos - deacon - or ministerial servant. But in Watchtower as women we have only head cook and bottle washer.
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  Why pigs???

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why did jesus supposedly cast the demons into a herd of pigs?.

  (matt 8 / luke 8).

  and, how were there so many demons inside one man, that when "released" by jesus, it took a whole pack of pigs to contain them??.

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  I always found the tale of Jesus spitting into the mud before it applying the potion to the blind man's eyes slightly distasteful.

  Why the spit? If merely touching the hem of his garment can heal one, why was it necessary to add mud and spit in this particular case?
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  This week's "Give Us Your Money" meeting item.

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?

  just the video or some commentary too?.

  i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".

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  Ah thank you Sir 82, so it's actually WT trying to get the publishers to donate to them, rarther than another charity, in order for the pubs to reduce their income tax for the year. Got it!

  Wouldn't know about that being a lowly nurse. I give my measly monthly donation by direct debit to 3 charities but I don't think it would ever be worth it for me to claim! We are allowed to claim deductions on our stockings, too, I've never done that either!
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  This week's "Give Us Your Money" meeting item.

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?

  just the video or some commentary too?.

  i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".

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  hi lads, WiFi, Dark spilver etc just a quick question from a financial dyslexic (?!) Why would they push for donations at the end of the financial year? I mean surely if you donated in, say, Jan or Feb '18 they would just claim the monies as tax exempt from *that* year - I guess what I'm saying is why in heck would it make any difference to them....every year is 'tax free' year to them!

  Unless....they suspected it might all change as govts wise up to non-charity doing cults like them?!
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  which member of the GB would you like to see on here ?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. humour

  if any member of the gb were to turn apostate---and join this site-----who would you like it to be ?

  and why ?.

  and--least like--and why ?.

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  Without doubt Jackson.

  I saw his discomfort at the ARC. He knows. He knows it's wrong.

  I've also heard from Paul Grundy he and his first wife were basically decent sorts, (I'm sure his second wife was a poor hard working islander who used to pioneer with them when he was a missionary in Polynesia, so I'd like to free her too).

  I think hes a born in who was a seriously brainwashed child, his parents were hard core and converted Grundys family.

  I think hes the most likely to turn, for sure.
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses and “the Friends”

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i never understood why many jehovah’s witnesses will say “the friends”.

  it seems so mormon like..

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  Never was a thing in the UK. Wierd.

  Also they used to say brothers AND sisters more often from the podium in the UK, now I Im sure they just say brothers more and more.
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  Are any of the 1st Cnetury Apostles Still Alive Today ?

  by maccauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the second coming was in the 1st century all things have been fulfilled because jesus told them some would still be alive when he returned.

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  The second coming was in the 1st century all things have been fulfilled because jesus told them some would still be alive when he returned

  Hi Maccuak could you explain how please?( genuine question here honestly don't understand what you believe)
  
  
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  This week's "Give Us Your Money" meeting item.

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you went to it, (or go later this week) how was it handled?

  just the video or some commentary too?.

  i have heard of a few negative comments from some that attended - one jw even openly said to me "not very encouraging, all they go on about is money lately" and another (a serving elder, no less) said "someone's got to pay for all those lawsuits".

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  Yeah right Hosea...you fancy the pants off a hooker but want to remain a prophet in high standing so what do you do?

  That's right!" Jehovah told me to marry her!"( he was prolly into S & M, that or she was cute and loaded)