Diogenesister

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  The Governing Body Are Proud To announce..

  by Ron.W. in

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  the governing body are proud to announce... can you finish off the line for them - the more outrageous the better,, .

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  ......Sister's are permitted to grow beards and Stephen Lett will be wearing a skirt and called 'Brenda' every third Saturday of the month
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  Wanting advise on a draft copy

  by joe134cd in

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  i’m just curious what you think.

  this is in its draft stages.

  so excuse the mistakes and grammar.

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  According to your SOPs my father should not even be talking to me about spiritual matters, if talking to me at all.

  I think you meant :

  According to you S.O.Bs my father should not even be talking to me about spiritual matters, if talking to me at all
  
  
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  So Let's Say Bigger Change Happens

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if a change in the blood policy happens, who will be more upset, jws or former jws?

  i suspect the latter.

  when the beard thing went down, jw's seem to immediately embrace it, whereas many former jw's have been brooding about it.. did it take away a pet gripe we had?.

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  so much change was ready at hand and quick to be to be thought of by the next generation of prophets to follow up behind in the footsteps of self-proclaimed appointee-of-God Charles Taze Russell

  I was thinking today it occurs to me that people often speak less harshly of Charlie than any of his successors......but he really was an arrogant asshole*le.
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  JW's lost their appeal to avoid investigation by a New Zealand Royal Commission

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the jehovah's witnesses have lost their appeal to avoid investigation by a new zealand royal commission.

  "a legal bid by the jehovah's witness church challenging a ruling by the royal commission of inquiry into abuse in care has been dismissed by the court of appeal.

  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515102/abuse-in-care-inquiry-jehovah-s-witness-appeal-dismissed.

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  Well done and congrats to Rachel EXJW @RapunzelAwake and all the New Zealand Apostates for all their hard work!!!
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  Blasts at assembly in India

  by InquiryMan in

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  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/29/explosion-hits-jehovahs-witnesses-prayer-meeting-in-indias-kerala.

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  " Course correction"?? !!

  As usual the innocent are punished for the crimes the leaders commit.
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  Was Anyone Ever Disfellowshipped For Having a Beard?

  by NotFormer in

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  i read a comment somewhere that having a beard ( before such was allowed) was never a disfellowshippable offence.

  but does that mean that no-one who grew a beard was ever eventually disfellowshipped?.

  growing a beard when such was frowned upon would surely attract the attention of those with nothing better to do, and possibly lead to sniffing around to try and find things that the "disobedient" one was up to.

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  BB It didn’t always mean even a loss of privileges. In the late 70’s when the beard thing broke we wanted to appoint to be a MS a bro who was bearded.

  Blues his name wasn't Gordon was it?

  This chap was bearded when baptised and refused to ever shave for that reason alone. He did the accounts to my certain knowledge, too. Very brainy type.😀
  
  
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  Was it Designed?

  by Jeffro in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jw website is currently featuring a piece: the shell of the diabolical ironclad beetle​—was it designed?

  it is part of their regular tedious 'was it designed?

  ' series that purports that very very specific animal species must have been specifically designed because of some seemingly amazing feature.. but they seem completely unaware that this directly contradicts their notion that only very broad 'kinds' were required on the mythical 'ark'.

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  Jeffro But they seem completely unaware that this directly contradicts their notion that only very broad 'kinds' were required on the mythical 'ark'. Does anyone ever point this out to them?

  Watchtower has always believed in micro evolution. They accept "kinds" can adapt to different environments - they just get flaky when it comes to speciation.
  
  
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  Taylor Swift owes me a new shirt this morning

  by Mickey mouse in

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  go listen to the opening verse of the smallest man who ever lived..

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  Does she write her own lyrics?

  Great lyrics.

  Musically very dull. Late 80s US pop. A bit like the Bangles or something.

  Boogie The persecution of "Jehovah's people" (not Christians) has begun!

  🤣🤣🤣
  
  
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  The org. Came out with a Christmas song!!!!

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. beliefs

  holy nativity batman!

  on jw broadcasting.

  final song for this year's convention.

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  Notty possibly have a choir of their own present their new Christmas song to the world,

  I've never understood why JWs don't have regional choirs anyway.

  OK they do have the Bethel choir/the one they use to make official recordings & video's. But I've never gotten why say circuits can't have their own choirs (and orchestra's) - especially for conventions and weddings etc

  Music is a huge part of worship in the western tradition and nothing brings people together like it. Just another thing JWs are deprived of😟
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  Can God Change his Mind?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is 31:yet he also is wise and will bring disaster and does not retract his words.. 1 sam 15: furthermore, the eternal one of israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not man who changes his mind.. numbers 23: god is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes his mind.

  does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?.

  when the god you worship pronounces judgement, is he, really just issuing a warning or has the matter been determined through all the godly powers of insight, foresight and perfect judgement?

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  Sea Breeze But how can you say it was conditional? Because it didn't come to pass? Surely "I will destroy Nineveh in 40 days " is just as definitive a statement as "your house and kingdom will endure forever"??

  Perhaps things happen and humans, seeing agency in everything as an evolutionary survival adaptation, see "the hand of god" in the unexplainable (such as the tragic death of king David's baby). Or perhaps use Gods anger as a convenient excuse for, say, loosing a war, or a volcano destroying a city (or not as the case may be).