Posts by hoser

Now they are gradually being forced to comply. I wonder how many elder bodies will initially resist this change until the Governing Body takes the appointment process power completely away from them and place it solely on the circuit overseer?

I don’t think this will happen. They want the elders to appoint locally as it doesn’t connect criminal behaviour of some appointees back to the organization. The liability falls on the local elders

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20250115**Ages For Ministerial Servants and Elders!

by Atlantis in

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2025-01-15-ages for ministerial servants and elders.. see page 2. .

https://pdfupload.io/docs/1b0b5c00 .

https://imgbox.com/p3a9yjmr.

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ukpimo

There is an entire lost generation of Jehovah’s Witness males that were shut out of the program.

I’m one of them. I was actually appointed as ministerial servant in one congregation but they put so much work load on me and I didn’t know how to say NO that I quickly burnt out.

We moved to a new congregation and I was passed over because the circuit overseer felt my wife wasn’t spiritual enough. I guess being a new mom wasn’t a good enough excuse.

The problem with my wife is she is way too honest. She wouldn’t lie on her field service report and was always a low hour publisher.

They did appoint me again in a third congregation. My wife’s field service time was still very low but I guess rules change when they are desperate. I didn’t last very long in that appointment as the elders kept moving the goalposts in what they expected of me.

Now neither my wife nor me care and I was tired of jumping though hoops for manipulative elder bodies just to have another hoop put in front of me.

Good riddance

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The Dangers of Independent Thinking

by daystar in

"the dangers of independent thinking".

reading mary's thread regarding the july 15th wt, i began to really consider what the wbts' problem is with "independent thinking".. what exactly is "independent thinking" and what about its opposite, "dependent thinking"?

i think the following excerpt from an article here does a good job of defining them.

hoser

One old elder said as he was conducting a watchtower study about independent thinking.

He said independent thinkers think their way out of the truth.

The audience laughed

True story

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WT HQ is never proactive, they are reactive to everything put out showing their blatant hypocrisy and abject stupidity

by WingCommander in

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a few on here (and of course many on the ex-jw reddit forum) have mentioned that wt hq just recently (like in the past couple months) put out a video warning against the praising of jw actors, taking photos with them, etc.

to not do it anymore.

it was narrated by geoffrey jackson.

hoser

So it seems the exjw community is setting policy for the governing body

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WT HQ is never proactive, they are reactive to everything put out showing their blatant hypocrisy and abject stupidity

by WingCommander in

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a few on here (and of course many on the ex-jw reddit forum) have mentioned that wt hq just recently (like in the past couple months) put out a video warning against the praising of jw actors, taking photos with them, etc.

to not do it anymore.

it was narrated by geoffrey jackson.

hoser

So Hendricks got caught screwing around?

There was a leaked video of him on the pid commenting on the good looking sisters on the department and how they could get you in trouble

He seems like a slimeball

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Canada exploring changes to tax rules that exempt religious organizations

by Scully in

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-oppose-removal-of-tax-status-in-canadian-proposal.html.

the proposed change will revoke charitable status of canadian churches who have an anti-abortion position, and will not give tax exemptions to organizations whose sole claim is to promote religion, which is the basic claim for all jw related entities in canada.

this will be interesting!.

hoser

Jan

Same reason they voted for trump. Lack of viable options

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Canada exploring changes to tax rules that exempt religious organizations

by Scully in

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-oppose-removal-of-tax-status-in-canadian-proposal.html.

the proposed change will revoke charitable status of canadian churches who have an anti-abortion position, and will not give tax exemptions to organizations whose sole claim is to promote religion, which is the basic claim for all jw related entities in canada.

this will be interesting!.

hoser

Blondie

Your country has term limits, we do not

We can get stuck with a bad prime minister for a loooong time.

Old man Trudeau was in power for 16 years and it took another 16 to get out of the mess he created.

Pierre jr aka Justine trudeau has been in for 10 years and the country is a financial mess

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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

by LongHairGal in

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this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

(i don’t go on jw dot org).

it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

hoser

Jehovahs witnesses were never stopped from working full time or saving for retirement.

They we’re just treated badly in the congregation.

No privileges and minimal association outside of the meetings.

I’ve been the recipient of a marking talk for being open about some of the investments I have.

The Jay dubs want to keep you hand to mouth poor. You are easier to control that way.

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Canada exploring changes to tax rules that exempt religious organizations

by Scully in

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-oppose-removal-of-tax-status-in-canadian-proposal.html.

the proposed change will revoke charitable status of canadian churches who have an anti-abortion position, and will not give tax exemptions to organizations whose sole claim is to promote religion, which is the basic claim for all jw related entities in canada.

this will be interesting!.

hoser

Jhine

The new law if enacted would not allow charity status to organizations that don’t do charity work. Recruitment and retaining members is not charity and the government wants to close this loophole.

They wouldn’t be able to issue tax receipts for donations received. In theory either more income tax would be paid which can go to social programs or the money would be donated to the local soup kitchen or food bank which relieves the government of the responsibility

Canada is in a political turmoil right now and there is a good chance that parliament will be dissolved so this bill might not make it to law.