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  Are JW's using different terminology for "congregation discipline"?

  by booker-t in

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  i have been out for over 20 years now and sometimes i run into a young jws on the street and the language seems to be "greek" to me.

  i have a hard time understanding what they are talking about.

  when i was in(90s) they had 4 catergories for congregation discipline.

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  As an aside, I always find it amusing HOW the announcement is made. Even if the person already on stage is an elder, they do this whole "dog and pony show" of saying: "Br. So-and-so has an additional announcement." followed by one elder leaving the stage and another elder coming up to make the DF announcement, then leaving so the other elder can return to the stage and continue with his Service Meeting part.

  I never understood why they couldn't just have the elder who had the next part make the announcement. It seems like unnecessary dramatics.
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  why using a tablet at the platform during the meeting?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  i can't understand why the governing body aka fds has to deside about using a tablet by the speaker at the platform.. why using a tablet anyway at the platform?.

  just a toy to keep the youth inside the congregation.. gorby.

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  I'm in the same camp as XBEHERE. It's so much easier to just bring ONE thing with you to the meeting...no Bible, no song book, no WT, no KM, no Jeremiah book, etc., etc...

  EDIT: To Gorby's question as to why the GB even has to be involved in "allowing" tablets to be used is a bigger question for me. After all, using tablets in worship was actively encouraged under the Mosaic Law...even if Moses did manage to break the first couple he got.

  Some might think that type of rule making is a bit Pharisaical.
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  Use Of Electronic Tablets At Meetings

  by Brother Mike in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i do.. what does the soceity actually say about them?

  (i know some the members of the gb use them) .

  what do you think about using them at meetings?

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  Tablets are used quite liberally in my congregation. As far as I know, the only "rule" (albeit via a branch letter to the elder body which was not read to the congregation) was that tablets are currently banned from use on the stage so that the Friends TM don't feel pressured to go out and buy one.

  Example: the only time my school overseer DOESN'T use his tablet is when he's conducting the TMS.
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  Conspiracy theories.

  by chrisuk in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'd just like the opions of some of the more clear thinking member on this please:.

  let me just start this by saying i don't really buy into conspiracy theories, but sometimes they seem to make sense, i suppose that's the point of them.

  all this business with edward snowden seems to add a little more weight to certain conspiracy theories.

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  If the Watchtower IS a conspiracy, it's certainly not a very successful one...considering they have only fooled less than 0. 05% of the world's population.
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  ELDERS STEPPING DOWN

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  between two congregations that i know of four elders have stepped down in the last two months!

  there is something really going on in this mandmade organization!

  it's busting at the seams!.

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  The long-serving CoBE of my aunt's hall very recently stepped down of his own free will. Without going into details, he's not the only appointed brother in the hall who will likely be on this forum at some point-- if he isn't already.
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  New JW Bible nickname

  by JWOP in

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  i had a face to face conversation with an active jw today.

  i was informed that they congregations don't like the new bible being referred to as the "gray bible", so some are starting to refer to it as the silver sword.. .

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  How about "Sixty-six Shades of Grey"?
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  What color is your bible?

  by Faithful Witness in

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  what a great way to divide the sheep and goats, both within and outside the great flock!

  jehovah has given us new light.

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  Hey Christendomians! Are all of yalls bibles black? Cause apparently the rewson for jdub grey/grays is that they are the light and Christendom is the dark so they have dark ones. Straight from an elders wife, at my bible study. Maaaaaan.

  Oh, and I thought it was because the all that New Light TM getting brighter and brighter has caused the black to fade to a washed out grey.
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  I was wondering why did they pick a gray color on their new bibles?

  by Iamallcool in

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  if i was on the committee to choose colors, i will definitely turn down that really ugly color!.

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  I've heard witnesses calling it "the silver bullet" already.

  Seriously? Oh, dear lord.

  I saw a group manning a JW.org table yesterday and they all had their fancy new grey bibles in hand. I wanted to walk by and say "Heyyy...nice grey bible *wink wink*. But I just didn't want to get dragged into a convo about where I'm from, what cong., etc., etc....

  If I ever hear someone say that, I'll be forced to make some witty comment about beer (let me start thinking now...)

  
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  Email conversation with a colleague

  by zakharijah in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to share this conversation i had by email with a jw colleague last year at easter.

  (on my professional email address).

  or how can you say to your brother, allow me to extract the straw from your eye; when, look!

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  I know a "sister righteous" and she counselled me a few times too. She ( told me not to wear white socks because people would "think I was gay"

  None of the gay men that I know would ever wear white socks; they're way too fashionable (well except at the gym, I suppose, where they do spend quite a bit of time).
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  WTF... JW Library ranks #4 in the Top (Free) Charts on Apple Store for iPhone/iPad

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  checking out the apple store for any new cool apps, and lo and behold!

  i see that the wts has finally embraced that demonic form of information dispensing.

  and all jah's chil'ren are snapping it up.

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  iTunes review: "I am thankful to Jehovah for giving us such talented and dedicated brothers. If this isn't proof that we are in a divinely led organization, I don't know what is."

  WHHHAAATTT????? Being able to design a useful app is proof of divine leadership?!?! If that's true, then Steve Jobs must be so happy looking down on as a member of the 144,000.