By law in the UK, each and every cong(as a separate charity) has to hold an AGM!
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Pray for the Governing Body
by pirata ini was told that at the 2010 annual meeting, jws were asked to pray for the governing body to remain(?
) discreet and make wise decisions.. please include this in your prayers..
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Pray for the Governing Body
by pirata ini was told that at the 2010 annual meeting, jws were asked to pray for the governing body to remain(?
) discreet and make wise decisions.. please include this in your prayers..
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Cook My Socks UK
Sounds like a business huh!
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Pray for the Governing Body
by pirata ini was told that at the 2010 annual meeting, jws were asked to pray for the governing body to remain(?
) discreet and make wise decisions.. please include this in your prayers..
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Cook My Socks UK
What is "AGM"?
Annual General Meeting (known in the uk as such). This from wiki:
An annual general meeting (commonly abbreviated as AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting that official bodies, and associations involving the public (including companies with shareholders), are often required by law (or the constitution, charter, by-laws etc. governing the body) to hold. An AGM is held every year to elect the Board of Directors and inform their members of previous and future activities. It is an opportunity for the shareholders and partners to receive copies of the company's accounts as well as reviewing fiscal information for the past year and asking any questions regarding the directions the business will take in the future.
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Strangest comment
by drewcoul inwhat is the strangest or most wacked-out comment or answer you've ever heard at a wt or book study?.
i remember at the cong.
wt study, we were studying about the jews being led out of egypt by moses.
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The conductor asked "What seeming advantages did the Egyptians have?".....One lady was called on and said....I kid you not......"Guns. The Egyptians had guns, but the Jews didn't have any weapons."
Ha, I read that and nearly spat beer all over my laptop
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2011 Theocratic Ministry School Schedule (TMS)
by Inside Man in(rs p. 210 para.
(rs p. 210 para.
(rs p. 211 para.
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I will being handing out the talk slips soon LOL.
What for Jan?? Wow, you on the ball!
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Is there anything that could actually bring down this farce of a religion?
by stuckinamovement init seems as if they have survived it all.
bad press such as articles on molestations, neutrality, blood, defections of high ranking officials, crazy changes in doctrines, financial stresses, passage of a 100 years without one prophecy coming true.
yet they are still going strong with new members being recruited at a faster level than those who leave.
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"marginally sincere people"
I think that, on reflection, most JW's are sincere people?
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December 2010 Awake Homosexuality
by bottleofwater inanyone have a good read of the ypa article on homosexuality?.
is it just me or is the doctrine becoming more lenient and less dogmatic?.
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Why not?
I'm not racist, homophobic etc. I make fun of everyone and to exclude any group would be wrong ?
Seriously, if a person has made a decision to live a certain way then why worry about what others say or think. It's you and the man upstairs that counts.
Peace
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December 2010 Awake Homosexuality
by bottleofwater inanyone have a good read of the ypa article on homosexuality?.
is it just me or is the doctrine becoming more lenient and less dogmatic?.
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This thread should be titled
"If someone asks: “What’s your view of homosexuality?” You might reply:
Anyway - God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve (of course this takes for granted you believe in god).
Sorry guys, I'm not a bigot but IMO it's wrong but hey, live and let live, so are lot's of things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNy0iq3_Eo
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Proverbs 16:4
by booby indid god create "even the wicked".
the lord has made everything for his own ends, even the wicked for the evil day.
proverbs 16:4.
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I will just paste what I found on WT Lib for your thoughts:
*** w54 11/1 p. 671 Questions From Readers ***
Proverbs 16:4 (AS) states: “Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” Does this mean that Jehovah makes men wicked, perhaps to fit some supposed predestination of his?—D. U., United States.
Jehovah does not create men wicked to fit in with the doctrine of predestination, for that doctrine is a false teaching. (See the May 15 and June 1, 1953, issues of The Watchtower.) And not for a day of evil nor for any other reason did Jehovah make the wicked. To argue so would be to contradict Deuteronomy 32:4, 5 (NW) and Ecclesiastes 7:29 (Le), which texts read: “The Rock, perfect is his activity, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice; righteous and upright is he. They have acted ruinously on their own part; they are not his children, the defect is their own. A generation crooked and twisted!” “Lo, this only did I find, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought for many (sinful) devices.”
The same Hebrew word here in Proverbs 16:4 translated “made” is translated “ordaineth” at Psalm 7:13: “He ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.” They are appointed for use against enemies. In the same way, the wicked are ordained or appointed for destruction in the day of evil, a day that will be evil to them because it will mark the end of their existence. As a class the wicked are made to exist or remain till then, Jehovah knowing how to reserve them or make them remain till that time of his vindication: “Jehovah knows how to deliver people of godly devotion out of trial, but to reserve unrighteous people for the day of judgment to be cut off.” (2 Pet. 2:9, NW) It is this thought that is given by the Septuagint translation of Proverbs 16:4: “All the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.” The evil day is for the wicked, and the wicked are for the evil day.*** w07 5/15 pp. 18-19 “Your Plans Will Be Firmly Established” ***
Jehovah has made “even the wicked one for the evil day.” (Proverbs 16:4b) He did not create the wicked, for “perfect is his activity.” (Deuteronomy 32:4) However, he has allowed them to come into existence and continue living until he sees fit to execute his adverse judgment. For example, Jehovah said to Pharaoh of Egypt: “For this cause I have kept you in existence, for the sake of showing you my power and in order to have my name declared in all the earth.” (Exodus 9:16) The Ten Plagues and the destruction of Pharaoh and his forces in the Red Sea were indeed memorable demonstrations of God’s matchless power. -
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The Ever Hilarious Awake Magazine!
by metatron inthousands of years ago, greek philosophers advised, "know thyself".
if the watchtower society had existed back then, they would now hold the record for the most un-self aware and oblivious to their faults - religion ever!.
it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
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*** w00 11/1 p. 8 par. 6 A Godly View of Moral Cleanness ***
Other sexual practices between individuals not married to each other, such as oral and anal sex and the sexual manipulation of another person’s genitalia, can also be designated as por·nei′a. All such practices are condemned—either explicitly or by implication—in God’s Word.—Leviticus 20:10, 13, 15, 16; Romans 1:24, 26, 27, 32.I take this to mean that the “other sexual practices” between individuals that are married to each other is ok?