Posts by hoser

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I think we are being shunned

by hoser in

jw
friends

it seems like lately we have been missing out on a lot of invites to congregation gatherings and our field service group has gatherings but we never seem to get invited.

btw this is not a bad thing.

hoser.

hoser

@ LongHairGal

you may be right it might just be jealousy that mrs hoser and me have the courage to stand up for ourselves and take care of our families needs FIRST.

I have been researching the topic of workplace bullying and what the WT does is very similar. If they can't "use" you they want to lose you

@ blondie

I think jealousy may be part of it. We have worked hard the last few years and have made modest financial advances. IMHO

mrs hoser never did feel welcome at gatherings, and I am finding that I have less and less in common with these people.

hoser

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I think we are being shunned

by hoser in

jw
friends

it seems like lately we have been missing out on a lot of invites to congregation gatherings and our field service group has gatherings but we never seem to get invited.

btw this is not a bad thing.

hoser.

hoser

Blondie I have not said anything negative about the wts or questioned doctrine. The only problem is we live our own life. We basically put our own

needs first b4 the WTS as any sane individual should be doing.

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I think we are being shunned

by hoser in

jw
friends

it seems like lately we have been missing out on a lot of invites to congregation gatherings and our field service group has gatherings but we never seem to get invited.

btw this is not a bad thing.

hoser.

hoser

You're so right Billy. I seem to get the cold shoulder even from peeps I know in other circuits. The word must be in the grapevine We're considered

WEEEK

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I think we are being shunned

by hoser in

jw
friends

it seems like lately we have been missing out on a lot of invites to congregation gatherings and our field service group has gatherings but we never seem to get invited.

btw this is not a bad thing.

hoser.

hoser

mr and mrs hoser still go to most of the meetings and are in field service monthly but I guess we must be bad association

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what is the dumbest thing you've been reproved/chided/df'd for?

by rather be in hades in

i'm a big science nerd and i remember when we were going over the creator book, that the big bang doesn't necessarily prove there is no god.. i said this comment during book study and the conductor's jaw dropped.

everyone was pretty uncomfortable and it didn't help that he ct me off as i was explaining the red shift and mom wasn't too happy about all that.

i had to do a lot of bible research and write some nonsense about how the big bang was not reality or some sort...ugh.. .

hoser

got in deep shit once for congratulating a couple on their engagement. Turns out he wasn't baptized, but I didn't know.

I guess ignorance isn't an excuse

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I think we are being shunned

by hoser in

jw
friends

it seems like lately we have been missing out on a lot of invites to congregation gatherings and our field service group has gatherings but we never seem to get invited.

btw this is not a bad thing.

hoser.

hoser

it seems like lately we have been missing out on a lot of invites to congregation gatherings and our field service group has gatherings but we never seem to get invited. BTW this is not a bad thing

hoser

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Who else, besides me?

by AK - Jeff in

over the years on jwn i have often found myself hunting through posts of newcomers, hoping against hope i suppose, that the newbie would be one of my former friends in the local congregation down the street.. i just find it hard to imagine that not a soul among these people has taken the courage to investigate their religion and leave like my wife and i have done.. as the local 'active apostate', i also supposed that at any moment some of the 'brothers' would come covertly to my home, knock and say something like " i am out - please let's talk about it, why i left, why you left.

but, none of the above has ever happened.

i did come across a local former jw here, from another congregation, and we have become good friends over the past few years.

hoser

I was able to reconnect with a special friend I knew a couple of decades back

and I made a new friend talesin and jgnat

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District Convention Points Saturday 21-07-2012 New Light? Governing Body Is Our Mother?

by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

i have been trying to wrap my head around the talk that introduced the slave as our mother?

the brothers at bethel are worried that we are not treating our spiritual mother with respect.

jehovah is our father, the faithful slave (the governing body) is our spiritual mammy.

hoser

hades, they used Proverbs 6:20 as the scriptural "basis" for the whole "spiritual mother" crap. Yet again they continue to twist the scriptures to fit their agenda

prov 6:20 Observe, O my son, the commandment of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother.

the speaker said that this is our new understanding of the scripture

hoser

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Does the Watchtower School of Gilead still send out missionaries to foreign fields and if not how come..

by solomon in

the new brochure "who are doing jehovahs will today?

" says on page 14 that the bible school of gilead sends out missionaries to foreign countries.

i thought this program was discontinued.

hoser

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2011 School for Congregation Elders Hand Book!

by Atlantis in

( credit goes to average joe).

2011 school for congregation elders hand book.click the link in the blue box by the blue arrow.http://www.sendspace.com/file/82jdej.or use this site.1.

click the link and another page will open with the words "download file" in blue color, click on that link.