study the bible on family worship night?
nah!
let's study the organization and dress up like rutherford!
1) Read the "Advertise" speech in it's full in the old Watchtower PDF. Find out that Christ returned in 1874.
2) Read about the release of the book "Children" in the few months before Armageddon.
3) Read how the Governing Body makes Decisions in "Crisis of Conscience" by Ray Franz.
had a good look into the doctrine, beliefs and practices of jws and to be honest, i don't really see anything wrong with it at all.. it's biblical and i've had such an eye opener the past year or so reading some of their books and magazines .
is there really any real reasons why i shouldn't want to get involved further?
:-).
Don't mean to derail the discussion but:
Learn from the JWs
Learn from the exJWs.
Whatever you do, if one side tries to prevent you from reading, learning or talking to the other side, then you are at risk of not making an informed decision.
forgive me if this has been touched on many times before.. i was wondering if anyone has actually written the society requesting their response/justifications to the many discrepencies and flaws in their doctrine and history, such as failed/altered dates and prophesies, pyramidology, beth sarim, lack of transparency, economic and political ties to the world, how they no more than archeologists, biblical contradictions, etc, etc..... if so, what was their response?.
Here's some correspondence to/from the watchtower on a few topics:
607 vs 587 BCE:
Blood transfusions:
http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk/blood_-_jensen_letters.html
Noah's Flood Global?
does anyone know what book will be used for the next book study after this book?.
Meeting times are still the same, but the Sunday meetings 15 minutes shorter because the public talk is 15 minutes shorter. I don't rememer ever getting an official reason for the shortening of the talk.
with the printing facilities for the magazines having been moved to canada, can anyone tell me where the writing department is now located?.
still in brooklyn?.
in patterson?.
Magazines printing consolidated in Canada.
Books, Brochures, Tracts, etc printing consolidated in Brooklyn. Writing committee is still in Brooklyn, the only place where God's holy spirit makes deep truths known.
finally, i get an answer.. that's a relief.. doctor hopes medication and diet will be sufficient.. i hope so, too.. syl.
Snowbird, you have a PM.
Don't forget to take probiotics after you've done your antibiotics (it's a waste to take them while you're taking your antibiotics, because the antibiotics will just kill them before they do anything).
does anyone know what book will be used for the next book study after this book?.
I'm no longer up to date on the meetings schedule. Wasn't the book study scrapped, and replaced with a family study night? Also heard rumblings of shortened Sunday meetings.
"Book Study" had the name changed to "Congregation Bible Study", was merged with the "Theocratic Ministry School" and "Service Meeting" (which were both reduced by 10 minutes each to make room for the 20 minute congregation Bible Study). Unfortunatley it's not really a Bible study, it's still a book study, and you still look up the Bible texts to "prove" what the book says.
The Sunday public talks are now 30 minutes.
Those are the best changes the Faithful slave has implemented recently :)
does anyone know what book will be used for the next book study after this book?.
"Bearing Thorough Witness" About God's Kingdom (2009)
It's a "commentary" on Acts of Apostles with lots of application for modern day witnesses today about the preaching work.
welcome unstopableravens!
i was in hong kong recently, which is a lovely country but very much a big city where people live differently because of it.
on one of our days we were walking to the ferry through a covered walkway and there were heaps of people handing out all sorts of leaflets to passerbys, you couldn't walk 10 steps without someone trying to give you their leaflet.
i was surprised when we came across about half a dozen witnesses trying to hand out magazines.
Witnessing work is done a lot like that in Hong Kong. Especially since in the rest of the mainland the preaching work is banned. Chinese travellers can get literature this way. A publisher can place hundreds of magazines a month this way. Some even set up booths in high traffic areas.
