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  Manners and Respectfulness

  by IWant2Know in

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  i would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?

  but i hope this question isn't offensive to this forum.

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  Ding

  Did anyone ever go out in service with Brother Foot-in-the-Door or Sister Insult-the-Christendom-Householder?

  Manners? Respect?
  
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  JWLITE

  by Teddnzo in

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  even elders can be part of the new jw lite brigade these days.

  they don’t need to go on door to door anymore and there is no requirement for anything really.. taking meeting parts is all dead easy you could turn up on the day with zero preparation because it’s all in the meeting workbook.. quarterly elders meetings are just old men having a good old natter just like old men do down the pub.. congregations could be likened to pubs or bars these days just without the drinks, those come at other times.. no need for territory maps, these almost went away with covid letter writing now they are extremely slow getting finished as those who still go door to door only do ten mins.. you could even voice your questions these days about things the gb say and then just say “we can’t be dogmatic we just don’t know”.

  i predict they will say this about 1914 soon..

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  Ding

  When field service plummets, I wonder if the GB will reinstate the reporting requirements.
  
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  "...The Most Important Day of the Year" Watchtower January,2024

  by Listener in

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  2. bible

  what a mockery that statement is to over 99% of their followers.

  there is nothing biblically that makes the jw memorial day important to anyone that does not partake.

  they still continue to say .

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  The more I think about it, the more I realize that the Memorial isn't about remembering Jesus' death at all.

  It's about further indoctrination in the two class system.
  
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  "...The Most Important Day of the Year" Watchtower January,2024

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what a mockery that statement is to over 99% of their followers.

  there is nothing biblically that makes the jw memorial day important to anyone that does not partake.

  they still continue to say .

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  At the vast majority of Kingdom Halls, neither the bride nor the groom nor any member of the wedding party shows up.

  The WT Memorial is a wake, not a wedding.
  
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  "...The Most Important Day of the Year" Watchtower January,2024

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what a mockery that statement is to over 99% of their followers.

  there is nothing biblically that makes the jw memorial day important to anyone that does not partake.

  they still continue to say .

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  Ding

  I know a POMO ex-elder who now refers to it as the "reject Jesus Memorial" for the reason covered by Big Dog.
  
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  "...The Most Important Day of the Year" Watchtower January,2024

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
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  what a mockery that statement is to over 99% of their followers.

  there is nothing biblically that makes the jw memorial day important to anyone that does not partake.

  they still continue to say .

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  Ding

  The whole thing makes no sense.

  If the meal isn't for non-"anointed," why invite them?

  Why come to a meal where you are expected to handle the emblem trays but not partake of anything?

  Why come to a "meal" at a Kingdom Hall where no one at all partakes?

  Why come to a Memorial to Jesus only to be told that you aren't worthy to partake?
  
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  Preaching while traveling, shopping, working, waiting in parking lots

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  kingdom ministry 9/96 pp.

  3-6. preach the good news everywhere.

  2 jehovah’s zealous servants of today have the same objective—to reach everyone possible with the kingdom good news.

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  Ding

  That 1996 KM's reference to "Jehovah's zealous servants of today" stands in stark contrast to recent photos of bored JWs sitting alone next to a cart, looking at their cell phones, talking to no one except to refer anyone who does ask them a question to the Watchtower website.
  
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  Is There Going to be Money in the New System?

  by NotFormer in

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  if not, what's in it for the gb?.

  but seriously, how is it supposed to work?

  pictures of jws in paradise show them raising crops, wearing clothes and building houses.

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  No need for money...

  JWs will spend all their time having picnics and petting lions.
  
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  Can ANY JW provide Bible proof?

  by BoogerMan in

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  hitchins razor - "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  which bible verse/s conclusively prove the following claims?.

  w16 november p. 30 par.

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  The WT theory seems to be that if you say it often enough, that's proof.

  Seems to work for them...
  
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  Former Jehovah's Witness admits: We targeted grief-stricken as 'ripe fruit'

  by Londo111 in

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  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/80708572/former-jehovahs-witness-admits-we-targeted-grief-stricken-as-ripe-fruit.

  jehovah's witnesses target grief and see the recently bereaved as "ripe fruit" for conversion, a former elder of the faith says.. vince and michele tylor​ spoke out after reading the story of wellington woman jean sergent-shadbolt, who received a handwritten letter from a jehovah's witness three months to the day after her step-cousin, friend and flatmate died.. a current senior elder of the faith says it has no policy to target grieving, and those who do so are acting on their own initiative.

  however, he concedes such people may feel guided by jehovah's witness literature.. but vince tylor said he knew of members who would trawl though obituaries to find grieving people, or visit cemeteries.. "not only do we see watchtower printed material suggesting and supporting writing letters from obituaries such as what jean received, but we even have reports and articles of encouragement for jws to go to cemeteries to look for people as well.".

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  Ding

  This practice would seem to fit right in with the WT's view that they are offering the hope of resurrection to people who have only grief otherwise.