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  How Did "Shepherding Calls" Go For You?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did you loath them?

  did you feel it was a "privilege" to have the elders care deeply about your spiritual well being?

  if you were an elder or ministerial servant, did you enjoy going to the homes of the sheep?.

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  In all my time as a JW (almost 40 years) I can recall three shepherding visits:

  1. To discuss my questionable choice of music and my attending a hard-rock concert and subsequently deleting me.

  2. To instruct us to keep our child quiet at meetings and instruct us to not spare the rod - we told the elders to leave.

  3. During our fade to understand why our meeting attendance was minimal and why we had become inactive.

  There were kind and loving elders, but as we were generally the average family without problems, I understood that they had their busy lives.
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  Return to the Kingdom Hall!

  by One Last Kiss in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently did just that and had an unexpectedly uplifting experience.

  whilst on vacay i was informed by my jw friend (only dimly aware of my faded status) that wed be visiting the local kh .

  so there i was, far from home, not been to a kh in over a year and heading to the sunday meeting.

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  Interesting about the IPads. One of the last CO talks when I was still in, was a half hour listening to why we were not supposed to have printouts of scriptures at the meetings - though writing them in the WT was okay. We were supposed to use the NWT (now no longer valid if it is not silver) at all times. What a BS...Must have been a surreal experience.
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  August vacations cancelled

  by wandasoo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  had a vacation planned for august, but got the rug pulled out from under my feet.

  hubby said he wanted to go in september, but gave me no reason.

  i finally told him i knew he had to pioneer in august.

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  30 hours of knocking on doors with nobody at home - as they are all on vacation.

  It would actually be more effective to give some informal witnessing on your vacation address - not that people are waiting for that...
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  Resurrection talk at convention

  by innerpeace in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.

  and apparently a video was shown too on it.

  we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.

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  Sunday Morning 09:40 Anticipate Future Kingdom Blessings

  VIDEO (on screen): Daughter watches mother die in hospital. She then reflects on pictures and memories she had. Then it shows the future when she is resurrected. Delight to know there will be welcoming home sessions in store in paradise for our loved ones.
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  is going to a strip club a disfellowshipping offense?

  by monis1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm pretty sure it is, just wanted to confirm.

  this would be someone who went once and only looked....

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  Brazen Conduct
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  Memorial to cease?

  by Aroq in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard something about the memorial to cease soon.

  not anything to do with jesus returning but rather that the number of folks partaking is increasing and the gb can't explain it since it should be decreasing or staying the same.. has anyone heard of this?

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  I do not see this ceasing and think it is a misunderstanding based on the hype of it maybe being the last with Armageddon so near.

  Mind you, for years the Bookstudy was referred to as the most important meeting and now it is long gone. Young baptismal cadidates will not even remember it.

  Time will tell.
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  Finally learned how to live the REAL real life

  by forest heathen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone suggested i post an introductory thread.

  i am a married, rather young grandma of four precious rugrats, ages 2-9. i guess our only child son and his only child wife didn't want their own kids to be "onlies".

  my other half and i married rather young (18 &22) and will be celebrating 31 years together this summer.. i am sort of add, keep thinking i am still 28, love my husband now more than ever, and am so glad i woke up and left the crazy cult.. my husband and i began studying months after marrying and then decided to take the dunk.

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  Thanks for sharing your beautiful success story...and what a magnificent quote indeed. Congrats on living your lives.
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  Help please!!!

  by braincleaned in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my mom just hung up on me, convinced that the borg has never said that jesus was not the mediator between the sheep and him!.

  i know they have presumptuously took the place of jesus as mediators can someone pleeeeeeze give me the wt references of this?.

  she does not believe me..

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  Watchtower April 1, 1979 Page 31:

  Likewise, the Greater Moses, Jesus Christ, is not the Mediator between Jehovah God and all mankind. He is the Mediator between his heavenly Father, Jehovah God, and the nation of spiritual Israel, which is limited to only 144,000 members." Worldwide Security Under the "Prince of Peace" pp.10-11

  "Is Jesus the "mediator" only for anointed Christians? ... So in this strict Biblical sense Jesus is the "mediator" only for anointed Christians." Watchtower 1979 Apr 1 p.31

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/mediator.php
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  Lawrence Krauss

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  krauss is an atheist activist and self-described antitheist.

  hence his science is biased.

  being an antitheist means he's anti god.. anyone disagree?.

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  Krauss is a great scientist and uses factual matters. Of course he knows that the concept of God is complete hogwash, but doubt it has any impact on his research.
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  New Leaflet to give to JW about TTATT

  by TJ Curioso in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi to all my fellows "apostates" in all world... especially in e.u.a.

  and uk.. as some of you already know, ex-jw in portugal created a leaflet especialy to send to jw in all the country (individualy or to congregations).

  we must say that it was a sucess from the point of view of the impact originated.

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  Thank you for posting this. very valuable. I took the liberty to post this over on JWR:

  http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=20350