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  Have You Ever Rejected Being Appointed an Elder/MS Before the Announcement?

  by GermanXJW in

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  when i was a jw several brothers (ms) told me in private that the elders had asked them several times if they did not want to become an elder.

  they said they rejected because it was too much responsibility for them.

  were you ever approached that the boe wanted to make you an elder but you refused?

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  LOL at freddo and defender of truth. But, of course, you never served in the congregations I did so you aren't in a position to judge. There are a couple of members of this forum who were in the same congregation with me and know that I'm telling the truth. Lack of humility is one thing, my friends, but false modesty is another and is just as bad. Few of the elders and servants in my congregation had more than a high school education. Their speaking and teaching abilities left much to be desired, relying as they did exclusively on WTS training. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what the result of such education and training will be.

  The WTS promotes false modesty in many ways. It talks about humility, but its staunch and unwavering opposition to higher education, personal growth and development of individual gifts and talents--except when these can be used and exploited by the WTS in its projects--and people seeking a different way of life and new opportunities show that it would rather stifle others than see them grow. I had Theocratic School Overseers come to me for help in how to understand the WTS Guidebook; elders who sought my counsel on how to talk to householders in the canvassing work; and traveling overseers praise my abilities. Perhaps you and others have had similar experiences and can speak to mine. If not, then you're not in the best position to judge what I have seen.

  Be that as it may, I was certainly not the only capable man to be passed over due to fear and envy. As I posted, being overlooked did me no real and lasting harm. And judging by what others have posted on this thread, there are many who can say the same.

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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 08-31-2014 WT Study (FULL POTENTIAL)

  by blondie in

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  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

  united nations http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm.

  newly baptized brothers (not sisters) because the wts needs men to reach out.

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  Thanks for reviving your commentaries, Blondie. While I will never attend another Witness gathering/meeting again, I want to stay informed as to the flavor of the kool-aid being doled out nowadays.

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  Have You Ever Rejected Being Appointed an Elder/MS Before the Announcement?

  by GermanXJW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was a jw several brothers (ms) told me in private that the elders had asked them several times if they did not want to become an elder.

  they said they rejected because it was too much responsibility for them.

  were you ever approached that the boe wanted to make you an elder but you refused?

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  It depends on the local BOE. I was never approached about being a ministerial servant let alone an elder. I always thought that strange because they were glad to let me pioneer and I was by far and away the best teacher and speaker in the congregation. On the whole, I am glad I never served and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

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  What is the best advise you have ever been given?

  by new hope and happiness in

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  awhile a go i was uptight about a matter i can't remember now and my friend said to me " give the other side the victory".

  a while ago my little boy was getting uptight and argumentative with his mum i asked him " to let it go" in effect i suppose " giving the other side the victory".

  anyway i am sure our life exsperiences have allowed us both receive and give good advice.

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  I was laid off from my hateful job with Western Electric in Birmingham, Alabama back in 1981. A co-worker there, who escaped the axe, told me, "Quendi, this is your big chance. You've always talked about how much you want to live in Colorado. Take your severance pay and move there right away." I have always been grateful that I followed his advice.

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  TAKE IT EASY!! DON'T SAY THAT AFTER A CONVERSATION!

  by NoMoreHustle in

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  this drives me insane when i am rebutted after i say "well take it easy brother so & so" after a small conversation.

  they always seem to reply "we are in jehovah's organization there is no taking it easy" or "we are in the last days brother we don't have time to take it easy".

  i guess this makes me a care-free man of the world rather than a spiritual man!!

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  I remember an elder condemning the phrase "Take it easy" from the platform during a circuit assembly program. He stated that "Jehovah's people don't think about taking it easy during these dangerous last days." I thought he was absolutely right and purged the words from my speech, only to realize much later how fanatical and unreasonable that was. But I was a deep kool-aid drinker in those days and loved every last drop.

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  AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN

  by steve2 in

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  here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.

  as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.

  it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.

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  I suspect that two witnessing methods will be promoted. For Internet-saturated countries, the jw.org website will be aggressively promoted. For lands where the Internet is not ubiquitous, the old door-to-door canvassing will remain the norm.

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  They came swiftly and left like a speeding bullet, JW.ORG

  by jam in

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  i was in the den when the old lady yell, "your friends are here".. at the door stood a jw.

  hi sir (no good morning sir) we have a web site,.

  jw.org in different languages.

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  What a hilarious post, Juan Viejo2! That was the best laugh I've had in a long time. Thanks a lot.

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  What Would You Answer A JW If They Asked You If You Would Ever Come Back ?

  by minimus in

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  "Not just NO, but HELL NO!!"

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  November 2014 WT - Points out the fact that Knorr supported false teachings.

  by objectivetruth in

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  - it's amazing to track the confusion and stupidity contained in wt articles.

  - in only one watchtower you can find multiple contradictory statements, and representations of truth that are simply lies made up on the fly.

  - as an example the nov,15 2014 wt has the following quotes : -.

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  Quendi

  From its very beginnings, the editors and writers of The Watchtower have ignored both hermeneutics and exegesis in their approach to the Bible. C.T. Russell had no formal or classical training and his successors have been equally ignorant. So we shouldn't be surprised at all that their writings are riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions. Those Witnesses who have ventured into the fields of biblical research independent of the WTS rapidly discover that Witness theology is spiritually bankrupt. Looking back now I marvel that I could have been so stupid and blind as to accept it as unquestioningly as I did and consider myself very fortunate to have escaped alive and whole.

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  Corpus Linguistics - Text Analysis of All Watchtower Publications since 1800's

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been working on a side project for a while.

  the goal of the project is to create a comprehensive database of all publications throughout history.

  with this database i will be able to instantly find trends in text,sentiment of writing, methods used, and scriptures emphasized.. essentially i will be able to put a word like "apostate" into my tool, and instantly receive a report showing every time the word (or similar words) has been used in all publications since 1870.. i will also be able to create reports showing word density used in publications over time.. so i'll be able to see that the word "governing body" has increased in usage 25% year over year since 1975.. or i will be able to analyze the november 2014 wt and run an algorithm that helps to determine, what the tone and motive of the writing is.. the thing that i am most excited about is the ability to instantly find every occurence of a scripture in every publication.. this will be a great tool to find flip flops in doctrine as well as inaccuracies in biblical interpretation.. i will for sure publish all interesting findings here.. .

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  Interesting research and I will be very happy to see what fruitage it will bear. Jwfacts raises an interesting question about when did Jehovah gain ascendancy over Jesus in Witness theology. I wouldn't venture to be precise, but my guess would be this trend became pronounced with the publication of the 1 January 1926 Watchtower. That issue had as its lead article "Who Will Honor Jehovah?" and I remember other WTS publications citing this as a very important development in the changes that came with Rutherford's presidency. The climax came with the 1931 Columbus, Ohio convention when the new name "Jehovah's Witnesses" was unveiled.

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