respectful_observer
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WT Study 26th Oct. '14
by BluesBrother ini could find another thread so i thought i might add a few comments here - not a full critique though.
"hear jehovah's voice wherever you are".
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140815/hear-jehovahs-voice/.
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respectful_observer
I was looking at the comparison pictures. What really struck me was the top picture was what normal people do. They are demonizing normal , activities. Where was the sin?
99.9% of the world's population do what comes naturally to human beings (top row of illustrations). 0.10% of the world's population forces themselves to reject natural human behaviour (bottom row of illustrations). These latter ones are the ones that experience "true happiness" and "the real life".
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What Kingdom Halls do you know of that have been closed down recently?
by 4thgen inrecently, we drove by the kingdom hall in galena, il, the sign was removed and it was closed down.
a while back, the hall in taylor mo was also closed.
one congregation in peoria, il was dissolved last year.
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The Natick, MA congregation was dissolved a few months ago, which is interesting since its Kingdom Hall is actually attached to the Natick Assembly Hall. Now the old Kingdom Hall just sits empty, aside from being used for the lunchtime Elders' Meeting during the Circuit Assemblies.
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Awful WTBTS " infomercial " funeral service talk
by RULES & REGULATIONS inw77 6/1 pp.
346-347 mourning and funeralsfor whom?
a funeral or memorial service?
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Oh, and one other experience.
I went to a large memorial service for a young brother who'd died after a short illness. It was attended by hundreds of people, many of which were his co-workers. When it ended, a J-dub sitting in front of me turned to one of the "worldly" co-workers and said "Wasn't that a wonderful service?" The man replied: "Actually this was the worst one I've ever heard. They barely said a word about him. All they did was try to sell his religion! I worked with him for almost 10 years, and he never tried to push his religion on anyone this much. I actually hope he is 'asleep' or whatever. Because if he had to watch this from heaven, he'd be embarrassed!"
The J-dub was left speechless. I asked him afterward what he thought of the response. He replied, "Oh, I didn't really listen. He obviously just doesn't like Witnesses."
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Awful WTBTS " infomercial " funeral service talk
by RULES & REGULATIONS inw77 6/1 pp.
346-347 mourning and funeralsfor whom?
a funeral or memorial service?
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respectful_observer
I had an uber dub pioneer aunt comment to me about a wordly funeral she attended of a bible student. "you know (with a look of disgust on her face) they must of only spent 5 or 10 minutes talking about the person and the rest of the time was taken up with the church". Just hit me like a bus that comment. WOMEN OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!!! Of course I never said anything.
Ha! I had the same experience. We all went to a the funeral of a non-JW relative. When we got back in the car, the first thing uttered by my father was:
"That was disgusting. The priest only spoke about him for 10 minutes. Obviously he didn't know him that well, otherwise he would have said more about him. The rest of it was just like another Mass."
"Dad, I was thinking the exact opposite. He spoke about him for much longer than the JW memorial talk outline allows for. You get, what, maybe 5 minutes about the person? The rest is just the standard outline about the Ransom and resurrection."
"Well that's different. There's a reason we do it that way. This priest had no excuse."
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Finally, Anointedjw Names Some Names
by metatron inhttps://www.anointedjw.org/apostasy_in_fenway.html.
not names of the anointed jws but names of elders and a location.. .
are we getting hints that this thing has legs?.
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Anyone from Boston know any of these guys on this guy's JC?
Les Fashank, Anthony Aguirre, Peter Husbands and Lance McBrayer
Are they as arrogant as this guy makes them sound? Although Aguirre came across as the most reasonable (or inexperienced).
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AGM 2014 Songs
by wifibandit inall thanks must go to my anonymous source.. .
full set: http://imgur.com/a/bwl52.
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Oh, and why do they repeat the line "The Kingdom has been brought to birth...." Usually if they lyrics are identical for both verses they just print it as one line (as they do with the last two lines).
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AGM 2014 Songs
by wifibandit inall thanks must go to my anonymous source.. .
full set: http://imgur.com/a/bwl52.
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I can't help myself, but whenever I read the lyrics "Let it come, Let it come!" all I can think of is "Let it go! Let it go! from Frozen.
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New songs coming
by kneehighmiah inheard from an inside source that there are 3 new songs coming to the songbook.
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Oh, and I can't wait to hear the first JW say something to the effect of:
"This is so exciting! The Faithful Slave has given us these wonderful special new songs. It's amazing how quickly the Chariot is moving. It's getting hard to keep up!"
(Ignoring, or not recognizing the fact that a new song has nothing to do with the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.)
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New songs coming
by kneehighmiah inheard from an inside source that there are 3 new songs coming to the songbook.
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Two questions:
1. What's so special about those 3 songs, that they thought it was necessary to update/republish a songbook that was newly issued a few short years ago?
2. Was that the only "big news" that came out of the special Bethel meeting that was held ahead of the Annual Meeting this weekend?
I wonder if they've all be directed to learn the new songs this week and those will be the ones sung at the Annual Meeting this weekend. Just a guess.
