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  WTS ADVICE FOR YOUNG WOMEN WANTING TO MARRY

  by still wondering in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wait, speak to deborah first.. .

  the upside of this approach is that deborah is a real woman and will be able to give you girls proper advice.. the downside is that you will either need to first find a top rate medium (shes been dead quite a while) or wait for rutherfords god to bring her back from the dead (which rutherford maintains will happen any day real soon now if not even before the convention ends).. you will easily recognise her as rutherford has thoughtfully printed a picture of her in the new and bang up to date children book.. unfortunately if you dont live in the usa you will need to telephone her, which thankfully has recently been invented.

  expect to hang on the line a while as she will be very busy playing her agony aunt role for so many jws worldwide all seeking her advice, but rutherford says that it will be well worth the wait.. .

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  I bet he sold a few books just so the young men could check out this real woman.
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  Has anyone ever heard that Jehovah has to be with JW's because things do get done in spite of the stupidity.

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  out law just reminded me of something i used to hear a lot at bethel.

  it was that jehovah has to be with jw's because of all the dumb things that we had to do that do not make any sense because someone with more power then us would tell us we had to do it their way no questions asked, no matter how stupid it might be or seem, and yet the buildings still got built, the magazines still got printed and everything still runs smoothly.

  out law posted these and he is spot on all of these sayings were said at bethel, i heard them all myself.

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  That sounds like JW logic.
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  Two New Governing Body Members ???

  by possible-san in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  two new governing body members ???.

  http://governingbodyletters.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-new-governing-body-members.html.

  i know nothing with regard to this matter.. .

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  From the link

  The Governing Body for Jehovah's Witnesses has approved the addition of two additional members to the U.S. Branch Committee.
  
  These are: John Ekrann and Robert Raines.

  This was brought up before and note that it says they have been appointed to the US Branch Committee and not the Governing Body.
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  WTBTS Elder & Ministerial Servant Problems

  by JW GoneBad in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.

  in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.

  the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.

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  Maybe they'll come up with a different strategy Farkel, considering that they don't model themselves on worldly corporations. ;)

  The long serving elders would be getting very downhearted in face of the lack of interested from the younger men. The brow beating should work wonders.
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  Brotherdan seems like he really DID leave

  by sabastious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he was an interesting presence on this board.

  he had integral knowledge about bethel and the like.

  i am an emotional guy too so i can kind of relate to why he left.. but, you gotta get thick skin on the forum.

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  Sorry to hear that Ziddina, hopefully he has some good reason for his actions/lack of actions.
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  ...Watchtower World..A place where "Stupid is Better!"...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "watchtower world"... "a place where "stupid is better!"...

  the wbt$ is always doing something stupid..from the begining of the wbt$ to this very day... stupid is on the menu,in watchtower world... .

  it never ends..there is always something stupid happening within the wbt$... these are bethel one liners..bethelites have posted on jwd/jwn... that i have collected over time... .

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  Outlaw wrote Actual One Liners from Bethel..

  "Theres the Right way,the Wrong way and the Bethel Way"..

  "If theres a Harder way to do something..We`ll find it!".

  "If you find a better way to do something..We don`t want to hear about it"..

  "50% of the Bethel Staff..Is here to test the other 50%"..

  Also - What happens in Bethel stays in Bethel.

  The light bulb just went off and it shouldn't be surprising if this is happening in the Org. You could apply all those statements to the whole of JW Land.
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  Beware of things to come!

  by Hortenzie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is an excerpt from awake!

  march 2011 page 22. it's an experience of jw who used to be a real shepherd and he is talking here about real sheep.

  why is it reminding me of something and why does it give me shivers?:.

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  The Foolish Shepherd. - Zechariah 11:15. "And Jehovah said to me, Take to thee yet the implement of a foolish shepherd. Zechariah 11:16. For, behold, I raise up to myself a shepherd in the land: that which is perishing will he not observe, that which is scattered will he not seek, and that which is broken will he not heal; that which is standing will he not care for; and the flesh of the fat one will he eat, and tear their claws in pieces. Zechariah 11:17. Woe to the worthless shepherd, who forsakes the flock! sword over his arm, and over his right eye: his arm shall wither, and his right eye be extinguished." After Israel has compelled the good shepherd to lay down his shepherd's office, in consequence of its own sin, it is not to be left to itself, but to be given into the hand of a foolish shepherd, who will destroy it.
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  WTS ADVICE FOR YOUNG WOMEN WANTING TO MARRY

  by still wondering in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wait, speak to deborah first.. .

  the upside of this approach is that deborah is a real woman and will be able to give you girls proper advice.. the downside is that you will either need to first find a top rate medium (shes been dead quite a while) or wait for rutherfords god to bring her back from the dead (which rutherford maintains will happen any day real soon now if not even before the convention ends).. you will easily recognise her as rutherford has thoughtfully printed a picture of her in the new and bang up to date children book.. unfortunately if you dont live in the usa you will need to telephone her, which thankfully has recently been invented.

  expect to hang on the line a while as she will be very busy playing her agony aunt role for so many jws worldwide all seeking her advice, but rutherford says that it will be well worth the wait.. .

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  Wait a minute. He actually proclaims he knew what she was going to look like. The JW spirits were being poured in gallons back then.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Thanks for the link Curtains.
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  WTS ADVICE FOR YOUNG WOMEN WANTING TO MARRY

  by still wondering in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wait, speak to deborah first.. .

  the upside of this approach is that deborah is a real woman and will be able to give you girls proper advice.. the downside is that you will either need to first find a top rate medium (shes been dead quite a while) or wait for rutherfords god to bring her back from the dead (which rutherford maintains will happen any day real soon now if not even before the convention ends).. you will easily recognise her as rutherford has thoughtfully printed a picture of her in the new and bang up to date children book.. unfortunately if you dont live in the usa you will need to telephone her, which thankfully has recently been invented.

  expect to hang on the line a while as she will be very busy playing her agony aunt role for so many jws worldwide all seeking her advice, but rutherford says that it will be well worth the wait.. .

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  Listener

  It's scarey to think what a real woman was in Rutherford's estimation, sounds like he was a bit infatuated.