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  2014 Annual Meeting Online

  by toweragent in

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  i don't know if anybody is interested, but they put the entire 2014 annual meeting online at tv.jw.org if you can stomach it.

  it will be nice to finally verify or disprove some of the rumors that have been flying around.

  enjoy!.

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  Quarterback

  Well, I watched it, and nothing mentioned about Basic Pioneering as was confirmed by others. An interesting point was picked up in Losch's interview talk with experienced elderly ones. A comment a sister made was she heard an announcement that week, during lunch, at Bethel, about Bethelites being invited to attend Pioneer school. She felt this to be good, because when she pioneered years ago, there was no Pioneer school.

  The Basic Pioneer (10 hrs a month) may still be a reality, but it was announced somewhere else than the AGM
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  One Day assembly in Arizona- $17,000 !!

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

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  i heard from a reliable source that a one-day assembly in arizona last weekend had a "cost" to the publishers of $17,000.. predictably, the elders were nice enough to obligate the attendees to a $6,000 donation to wt before the assembly "costs" (i.e.

  "rent/extortion) were even met.

  $11,000 rent plus $6000 in extra "donations".

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  Wow.
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  Why doesn't the GB make field service optional for certain congregation members only similar to the Mormons?

  by yadda yadda 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ephesians 4:11 makes for a strong case that not every member of the congregation should have to go door-to-door.. "so christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,..".

  this shows that different members of the first century congregations served different ministerial functions.

  so why don't the jw's say that field service is no longer compulsory for all congregation members, only for those who feel a calling for it per eph 4:11..... the mormons sort of do this with their young men and women 'elders' doing 2 years voluntary, genuinely full-time service (these mormons boys put in some big hours 6 days a week and have their meals provided for them, etc!

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  By George, you've got it, "The rain in Spain, doesn't stop Field Service in the Plains"
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  Why doesn't the GB make field service optional for certain congregation members only similar to the Mormons?

  by yadda yadda 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ephesians 4:11 makes for a strong case that not every member of the congregation should have to go door-to-door.. "so christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,..".

  this shows that different members of the first century congregations served different ministerial functions.

  so why don't the jw's say that field service is no longer compulsory for all congregation members, only for those who feel a calling for it per eph 4:11..... the mormons sort of do this with their young men and women 'elders' doing 2 years voluntary, genuinely full-time service (these mormons boys put in some big hours 6 days a week and have their meals provided for them, etc!

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  Quarterback

  Yes they are working on this right now. They are implementing a new pioneer arrangement and the new category of "Basic Pioneer" (10 hrs a month) is being developed. If this is successful, they will have "Basic Publishers" that don't go out at all. The objective is not to have any inactive. By eliminating the word, inactive, out of the JW vocabulary, and replacing it with another word would work. Then everyone wins, and the Mormons will want to become one of us.
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  Is This ALL the Society Meant By Big Stuff Coming?

  by millie210 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, internet tv, some new songs and updates on a couple obscure prophecies no one cares about.... .

  i for one was so disappointed at the smallness of it.

  i guess i bought the hype that when they said "big", they meant it.. .

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  What do you expec from old guys that dance on the Bethel table when they discover there is Blueberries in their oatmeal. The GB perception of Big Stuff is not some ordinary person expects. They are in a different world all of their own.
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  New teaching! ...the end is NOT near by GB Steven Lett

  by apocalypse in

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  have you watched some 'dub tv' yet?

  it's very interesting.

  steven lett of the gigglin brothers, put his foot right in watchtower's big mouth.

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  Good observation, Guys.
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  Implications of Dropping "Types/Anti-Types"

  by Antioch in

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  2. bible

  i've seen this part of the agm folded in with other topics and poked around, but no really critical discussion of the implications.. .

  the hermenuetics of the type/anti-type practice was a big deal to me in realizing the tatt.

  i searched high and low for a rational basis for concluding that god was communicating in a type/anti-type format that wasn't special pleading and circular.

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  I think that this is the biggest update to come from this AGM. It may move slowly, but it will gradually remove all of the numerous guesses that have come from the last 100 yrs.
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  Is This ALL the Society Meant By Big Stuff Coming?

  by millie210 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, internet tv, some new songs and updates on a couple obscure prophecies no one cares about.... .

  i for one was so disappointed at the smallness of it.

  i guess i bought the hype that when they said "big", they meant it.. .

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  Well, they are really holding out for that new Rocket they are building. They thought it would have been ready in 2 months, with materials that have been donated. But, they have asked a Rocket scientist how long it normally takes to build one of those, and he said two years. They're realizing that maybe that project will actually be two years. Stay tuned for a animated episode of Caleb's Rocket. Just to wet the appetite.
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  JW.ORG logo tattoos

  by LogCon in

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  JW.ORGan could be placed in a nasty place
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  AGM 2014 Detailed Highlights - including talks summary.

  by Da.Furious in

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  it is more likely to be one attack under different names.. gog of magog is not satan but a coalition of nations.

  1. what do talents represent?

  so who has the 5 talents?

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  Quarterback

  As far as the type/antitypes are concerned, it may be the last we heard of the Jonadab Class, Shulamite Maiden Class, Abraham the greator Jehovah, etc...

  So much instruction has been stroked out from the past. We are now reinventing our faith.