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  The newest 30 hour pioneer month is...........

  by Poztate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no, this is not a thread about the march, april 30 hour push or months with a c.o.

  visiting.

  it is about where it will go from there if successful.

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  Quarterback

  I'm holding out for when 10 hours a month is proposed.
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  Public Talk today!

  by MinisterAmos in

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  2. friends

  i attended the meeting today, and i just wanted to share my observation of whaty i consider to be part of the hypocrisy inherant to all organized religion.

  one of the things i hate most about the jws is the way they point fingers at others while calling them "worldly" or "not christians" while quietly doing the same thing that they accuse everyone else of.. one of the local elders gave the talk about forgiveness to relate with today's study topic.

  one of the scriptures he quoted and emphasized was psalms 15:5 which, paraphrased, asks and answers the question: "o lord, who shall sojourn in your vtent?

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  Quarterback

  The thought about not charging interest was in the day when inflation wasn't an issue. Think about it, if you lended $1,000.00 to somebody, and at the end of the year the inflation rate was 2%, are you really getting back what you lended if the borrower only gave you back that amount? Your money has depreciated by 2%. So there was a time that the Society gave Mortgage loans that reflected the inflation rate to the congregations. Today, the inflation rate is really minimal, so no interest is being charged on the mortgages.

  If you just left your money in the bank without any interest, you would lose it's value. Inflation is a menace.
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  Necessary family business

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
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  that seems almost redundant to me.

  isn't all family business important and necessary?

  having a meal with your grown, disfellowshipped child seems to me necessary part of having raised a decent, family-values sort of child.

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  Quarterback

  Necessary family business is not a biblical term, and neither is 'Disfellowship'.

  It's just a mental warfare strategy that the Admin Class of the WT soc is trying to use. "Shunning" is I suppose another word for it.

  Shunning is used in the Med field, Legal field, and many religious org's worldwide. Mind you, it's not as extreme as the Muslim faith does, but it is a form of bullying. The Wt Soc go extreme in putting a wall between the family members.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-27-2013 (FORGIVE ANOTHER)

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  forgiving one another.

  why must we be willing to forgive?.

  paragraph 18 = 0. .

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  Quarterback

  Thanks, Blondie.

  As Don Henley said, " It's about forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness......"

  Something that the WT seems short of particularly with their treatment of DF'd ones.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-20-2013 WT Study (FORGIVENESS)

  by blondie in

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  jehovah [is] a god merciful and gracious,.

  how did jehovah deal with the sins of david and manasseh,.

  nation of israel as a whole?.

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  Quarterback

  This is what Blondie does...She takes the time to connect the latest WT material to other sources that the WT has written in times past. It's really informative, and enlightening. I appreciate what she does. Her work is well researched.

  But granted she is not the FDS, and she doesn't want to be.
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  This just new: Thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering (letter)

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just wanna post post this.

  to all congregations.

  re: thirty-hour quota for auxiliary pioneering.

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  Quarterback

  I hate this reporting of numbers. When I was the secretary there was a publisher that made Pioneer hrs each month, but never signed up. The CO would chastise me when he thought the stats were off. He asked why was she omitted? I said, " She was approached on the matter and felt that she didn't need it announced each month". She was a good example, of not broadcasting her sacrifice.
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  ANOTHER SHOOTING

  by Mary in

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  2. current

  albuquerque, n.m. - authorities in new mexico have arrested a 15 year old boy who shot and killed his parents and siblings.

  i heard on the news this morning that the little bastard admitted that he had also planned on going to an open place (like a mall or school perhaps?

  ) and opening up fire on everyone there too.

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  Quarterback

  That's horrible.
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  I'm so offended by what happened today at the KIngdom Hall!!

  by Vienna Angelika in

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  2. beliefs

  so today we were late for the meeting as usual.

  this is because i take a really bad medication where i literally cannot function in the first part of the day but without it i am even worse.

  we got there near the end of the talk and it was in my opinion very anoying.

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  Quarterback

  Sorry to hear about your medical condition, and how some react to it because of ignorance. JW's are imperfect and many times come accross as cruel despite their best intentions.

  I remember when I was young, some in the congregation didn't want their children to associate with me because my parents were inactive.

  I did have a good friend that hung in, and we pioneered many years as we grew up together.

  I used to be in charge of a First Aid dept at the assemblies, and understand the issues that you faced. So many came, but I felt that they should have stayed at home. One time a older brother came to the assembly, and had breathing problems. He stayed in the first aid the whole time. The next month he had died. He gave his all, to his faith.

  You will learn that these things will stop to bother you in time as you get older.

  Peace
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  Something weird from my mom

  by doublelife in

  1. jw
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  earlier today, i posted a picture on facebook of me reuniting with a couple of my childhood friends.

  we all grew up together in the kh.

  i, unfortunely, was the only one stupid enough to get baptised.

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  Quarterback

  Not strange at all. We use different Bible translations that are backed by different faiths, why not ideas?
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  2014 Predictions

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you know, every year i see these sort of things in the news and i like to do ten.

  i normally get one or two right, but it could be because they like the others in the news are generic in nature.

  anyway, here we go.. 1. i predict that congress will put a sales ban on ar15 rifles and limit magazine capacity to 5 rounds.

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  Quarterback

  Very good predictions. I thought about some myself.

  11. People will realize that life is all about the Hokey, Pokey, finally.