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  What exactly is encouragement?

  by naazira in

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  2. friends

  when elders want to meet with an inactive person to encourage them, what does this really mean?

  encouragement is a term thrown around by the organisation.

  does this encouragement usually consist of prying into the inactive one's lifestyle?.

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  OneEyedJoea day ago

  Encouragement (n) -

  1. Passive-aggressive social pressure intended to get you to become more involved with the cult.

  Yep
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  Is this what the society imagines will be above that 'secret hiding room' in the basement?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  More fear mongering. I guess if it's worked for 130 years , why not continue?
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  Excited about the CO visit

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the many years of being a jw, i could never really bring myself to be exited about the co's visit.

  this has been an issue that always kept me wondering back to religions.

  why could not feel the same happiness that made everyone around me cry during the sunday service?

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  As for others being excited about the circuit overseer I think it is all a pretense. They are expected to be excited so they are excited.
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  would it have been different if we knew why?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i always took issue with the idea of no one knowing why a person got df.. i know im not alone.. i complained to my mother about this when i was younger, explaining that how do we know what it is that gets a person df if no one knows what they did?

  my moms answer was , .

  'if people knew a persons personal faults and what they did , others would not be so forgiving when they were reinstated, because we'd always view them with that view, so in other words, if when so n so, committed fornication, and the whole cong would know it, if they announced from the platform then his/her reputation would be permanently stained' .

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  , 'bro poorhouse is DF because hes a hoarder'. [yes i know someone who was DF for having a 'dirty' object packed house. they died being DF.]

  Disfellowshipping someone with a mental illness related to OCD. What's next disfellowshipping because a person is in a wheelchair?
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  Patterson vs Walkill vs Warwick

  by Magnum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i understand that warwick is to be the new world headquarters of jws, patterson is an educational complex, and walkill is a literature production center.

  will patterson continue to be used as it is now after the completion of warwick?

  if not, what will happen to it?

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  They print the magazines for North America in canada.
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  Blondie's Highlights in February 22, 2015 WT Study (FACING THE END)

  by blondie in

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  2. bible

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  Thank you blondie. As usual watchtower puts the onus and blame on individual publishers.
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  By their own logic, JW's should leave Watchtower.......

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "university and college campuses are notorious for bad behaviordrug and alcohol abuse, immorality, cheating, hazing, and the list goes on.

  watchtower2005 oct 1 p.28.

  having been to university and a jw..it made me think about their logic....... "jehovah's witness congregations are notorious for bad behavioralcohol abuse, immorality, cheating, domestic abuse, child abuse and the list goes on.

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  Vidiot

  Problem is, they'd end up with a worldwide body of illiterate morons.

  If they keep printing simplified watchtowers it will happen

  
  
  
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  Funny story about dumb JW rules

  by cookiemaster in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some years ago (the year when i got baptized), i was at a district convention (or whatever they call them these days) with my best friend.

  he had a part in one of those acting parts at the convention (i have no idea the term jw's use for them in english).

  anyway, we were both seeing through the bullshit of the borg but weren't aware at the time of this forum or other "apostate" groups, nor of the full extent of the perversity of this religion.

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  Brandnew

  were you dfd or the sister with the 4 kids
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  Local needs talk

  by hoser in

  1. social
  2. humour

  one of the elders was missing his service bag and suspected that one of the publishers stole it.

  he was determined to root out who did it so he decided to give a local needs part on the ten commandments focusing on you must not steal.. he enlisted the help of a trusted ministerial servant and got him to stand at the back of the kingdom hall during the part.

  he told the ms that he would read off the ten commandments and when he got to the one "you must not steal" he would pause longer than usual and see if anyone acted nervous or suspicious.

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  For the newbies
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  Your body of elders - were they liberal, conservative or moderate?

  by minimus in

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  in my first kingdom hall, the elders were ultra conservative.

  our presiding overseer used to be a zone overseer.

  the second hall i was in was moderate.

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  I just came from a congregation with a hard assed elder body. One alpha male who needs to prove something I guess. The other elders fall in line to his demands and life was hell in that congregation. Despite this I was still able to make progress in my fade.

  The elders where I am at now seem to be more laid back, so far.

  2 of them are very weathy and never seem to be around always going on vacation. Another elder misses a lot of meetings for work and that seems to be ok.

  So my missing meetings shouldn't be an issue.