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  OK so the GB are shaming Bros who don't "reach out" but would they ever consider this?...

  by purrpurr in

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  i note on here the feedback from the currently ongoing conventions that the gb are heavily trying to guilt and shame any brothers who are not ms or elders.

  i agree with most posters who reckon this shows just how thin on the ground they are for ms and elders but... my question is.

  how comes that even though they are so desperate they still will not allow women to fill those roles?

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  Lieu

  Most real Biblical scholars don't think Paul even wrote the Timothy letters or Titus. It seems they are attributed to Paul, yet were written long after his death. They contradict most of what Paul wrote; which were never personal letters.

  The "personal" letters set up a no-no hierarchy. The only vestiges of all Christians not being on the same level. Nor to collectively choose their spokesman.

  We're talking about a guy who wouldn't even let the Jerusalem group tell him what to do. (Circumcision issue)

  As for JWs, you heretic, :-) they only let women do the hard work men refuse to do; like the preaching work.
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  Thought only JWs were doing the preaching work world wide?

  by ducatijoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as one of jehovah's witnesses for over 40 years, i was always taught that we were the only ones who went door to door, preached world wide, built our own buildings and so on.. however in the past year living in the south, not 1 jw has knocked on my door.

  yet 4 various people from local churches have.. tonight i meet a young man who is preaching with a group in china (baptist) a block away i watched a congregation build their own church.. i could go on all night with the thing i have found to be un true with the org.. glad i'm out.

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  Lieu

  Ya gotta go to college to be a doctor or nurse. Left to JWs, third worlders would be lucky to find a shaman to shake some smoky palm leaves over them.

  Mormons only "preach" for two years. Yeah, and Christ only preached for three years ... and didn't begin until he was 30.

  I always kinda envied other churches true charitable works while embarrassed by our giving rocks to people who needed bread. Hungry? Here, take this mag.
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  Waiting For The "Real Life"...

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many times did we have to hear this?

  just another way to make you feel guilty for wanting to spend time improving yourself or enjoying life outside the organization.

  to think of all the people that died waiting for the "real life" that is not coming is actually very sad and depressing.

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  Lieu

  Well, if one of them gets bumped off by some unforseen occurance., so much for NS babies. It's sad to see elder ones today who went along those lines. No one to look after them in their golden years.
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  Star Of Bethlehem To Appear July 3, 2015? Oh Really?

  by millie210 in

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  this meeting in the sky is known as a conjunction.

  this conjunction between jupiter and venus usually isnt rare, but this is the closest they will have been in 2,000 years!

  together, they create the rare star of bethlehem.

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  Lieu

  Yeah, but what do the Maya have to say about it?
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  Who were the Sadducees and the Pharisees?? Are there similarities between them and JW's??

  by confuzzlediam in

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  last month, i had the privilege of traveling to jamaica with a study abroad group from my community college.

  while there, we went to a place called my father's house in which severely disabled children lived when they had no one else to take care of them.

  as part of their day, they hold worship in a small, outdoor meeting place.

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  Lieu

  And lest we not forget that the Pharisees ran schools. ie Rabbi, or teacher. Saul/Paul studied under the most famous of all, even to this day. (Big on the Talmud/ oral traditions.) So many rules, ridiculous rules to the point they placed a heavy burden on the people and made the Torah worthless.

  WTBTS is similar. There are sufficient rules in the Bible that no one needs their added shit. GB personal likes and dislikes should be their own private problem.
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  Slow motion pioneers

  by 1Averagejoe in

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  observing our local unemployed pioneers and how long they take to get to their first or next call, usually taking the longest route to get to one they know won't be there anyway.

  along the way it's gossipy this and that.

  pioneers?

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  Lieu

  ShirleyW

  There is no scripture. It's one of those modern man made WT rulz. Kinda like having people wash up to their elbows when a basic hand wash would suffice. You see, the Apostles didn't work for a book factory, therefore they had no need to punch time cards.

  As a pioneer, my time was voluntary & volunteers don't punch time cards. I honestly didn't care if I made the time or not.

  Most of the pioneers would drag out their day because they knew the time factor was an exercise in futility and quite redundant. Why would a religion require "quotas"?
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  Master piece!

  by coalize in

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  what we can read in the wt 10/15/2015... they have really no shame!.

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  Lieu

  Well, that's what happens when you allow 19 yr olds to write stuff.
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  Candace Conti Settles

  by Nitty-Gritty in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  hot topic on topix seems to be candace conti settlement.

  but it's all quiet here.

  are you guys aware that your hero, who was not in it for the money but to change policies, settled without changing anything?

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  Lieu

  Corporations settle when they want to diminish the amount of bad publicity. WTBTS is like any other big corporation.

  The payment is an admission that wrongdoing occurred. (Just like the RCC)
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  This just happened within last 15 mins......

  by Lied2NoMore in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.

  the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .

  i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.

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  Lieu

  Haaaaa! The funny ha ha's never end.

  Maybe it will occur to them that Jehovah isn't God's name either. Probably why Jesus never once used it, not even when dying. It's some English translation of guess the vowels from Hebrew texts.

  Wonder why they don't use the Hebrew names?
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  Waiting For The "Real Life"...

  by JW_Rogue in

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  2. experiences

  how many times did we have to hear this?

  just another way to make you feel guilty for wanting to spend time improving yourself or enjoying life outside the organization.

  to think of all the people that died waiting for the "real life" that is not coming is actually very sad and depressing.

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  Lieu

  Pretty much the sole basis for doing absolutely nothing of real value in this given life.