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  The Days if Noah - Is this the new unofficial generation?

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  edit - "the days of noah" damn!.

  long story short - i need to go to bed!

  i was in edinburgh today with my wife (football, coffee, walks, food, cinema) and i always try to take 10 minutes to have a chat with the jws on the trolley in the "big city".. i challenged an older guy who turned out to be an pioneer about the generation.

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  I find it amazing to hear them defend the overlapping-generation.

  
  

  I find it amazing they were able to do so. Most Jws have a hard time with it and try to avoid the discussion
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  The Days if Noah - Is this the new unofficial generation?

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  edit - "the days of noah" damn!.

  long story short - i need to go to bed!

  i was in edinburgh today with my wife (football, coffee, walks, food, cinema) and i always try to take 10 minutes to have a chat with the jws on the trolley in the "big city".. i challenged an older guy who turned out to be an pioneer about the generation.

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  I think I've said this before They should have stuck with the 1995 generation teaching that it meant the wicked other than invent this overlapping nonsense. Another option would have been to scrap 1914, cut their losses and move on.
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  A "body of elders" or really one main guy?

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wts promotes the idea of congregations being managed by a body or elders who all follow their rules and so are in full agreement with how things should be done.. was your hall like this?.

  out hall was a constant battlefield for power between a couple of elders and their families - relatives that had been promoted to various positions.

  it wasn't some hidden secret, it was blatant and obvious.

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  Usually the most aggressive fight it out for top spot and the rest of the elders follow
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  Are Parents Who Shun Their Children At Risk?

  by Englishman in

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  2. friends

  who looks after the welfare of ageing witness parents who have disfellowshipped children?

  are these df'd children (actually, some of these df'd children are in their 60's) meant to ignore being ignored and then care physically for their non speaking parents?

  also, can df'ing your own children lead to witness parents suffering illness or even death as a result?.

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  I know an older couple who shunned both of their dfd children in a harsh manner as per watchtower direction. When they couldn't look after themselves anymore their children wouldn't help and neither would the congregation.
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  in the april 15th watchtowerstudy ed why is the article about how loving dissfellowshipping is curiously missing from simplified addition ?

  by poopie in

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  thoughts

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  A few months back or perhaps longer( time flies) there was an article about reaching out to be elders in the study edition that was omitted from the simplified version. I guess they don't want simpletons to reach out.
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  Favourite show - Les Mis

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  wow...went to see les miserables at the weekend - it was brilliant!.

  anyone else seen any good shows lately?

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  I've been to a fair amount of live shows over the years (10-20). The mrs and I went to les mis a couple of months back and despite all of the hype it wasn't that great of a show IMO
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  I just recorded a new demo song, "What Is Freedom For?"

  by Greybeard in

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  https://soundcloud.com/greggstevens/staring-at-the-sun-1.

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  Same as what cappytan said.

  If I was going to take a project like this on it would have to be individual tracks to see what could be done then remixed and mastered.

  Great voice btw
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  Devouring the Forbidden Fruit - Higher Education

  by cappytan in

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  2. friends

  well, i told my wife over the weekend i was going to go back school to finish my degree.

  she is 100% supportive of it!

  apparently she doesn't think higher education is so evil either.. since my former major was computer programming and that was in the late 1990's, i was told i'd have to retake a bunch of classes since times have changed.

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  Question?

  Did the recent jw tv anti education broadcasts cement the deal for you to go back to college?
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  WTBS Canada received almost $9 million from cong. donations in 2013

  by Richard_I in

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  2. friends

  just saw this on the ex-jw subreddit.

  on opencharity.ca, you can view wtbs canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations.

  you can even see how much some congregations gave.

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  WTF!

  united way of greater Toronto gave the branch $14909 last year?
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  WTBS Canada received almost $9 million from cong. donations in 2013

  by Richard_I in

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  just saw this on the ex-jw subreddit.

  on opencharity.ca, you can view wtbs canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations.

  you can even see how much some congregations gave.

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  Interesting it lists the congregations by name and how much they sent to the branch

  The total money grab from the congregations and circuits in canada was 8.8 million dollars