next year, jw's have international conventions at least in switzerland, spain, s africa, japan and australia.
they usually have their big conventions in countries where they desperately need some positive pr, so what is going on in these countries?.
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Years ago ICs were held worldwide with NHK and FWF attending mostly all of them. As the GB cannot attend conventions in all countries in one summer, they split it up nowadays.
In Europe they had ICs in 98 in Germany and the BI (as they call the UK), in 02 in France and Italy now it's the turn for Denmark, Spain and Switzerland. Next time perhaps Portugal and the Netherlands and than they start from the beginning.
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any words that are in italics or caps are used to stress that particular word the way the co stressed it.
i have this talk on audio tape.
the quotes are exact!
Seems to me your CO must be in his mid 80s.
Since the Service Dept. provides them with outlines for all their talks they usually stick to that without going into too many details about the local cong.
And comparisons are usually not made - except your CO is doing his job for 40 or more yrs and is simply sticking to his good old routine of publisher bashing.
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the background to this thread is that i love wearing (?
) a beard, but my wife hates it.
i've changed my profile pic to reflect four states of facial hairiness (if it doesn't show, hit "refresh" on your browser).. i'm interested in your opinions.
btw, did you start growing your facial hair before your stepping down or only afterwards?
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the background to this thread is that i love wearing (?
) a beard, but my wife hates it.
i've changed my profile pic to reflect four states of facial hairiness (if it doesn't show, hit "refresh" on your browser).. i'm interested in your opinions.
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as a disclaimer, i am an ex-jw (da'd) for about 15+ years, so i really haven't kept up on what's going on in bethel (come to think of it i wasn't really interested in it when i was a jw!
recently, however, one of my relatives (current jw) commented that, although my nephew had applied to bethel (oh what a privilege!
), he was basically told he wasn't needed at this time because they aren't "mailing out the publications" there like they used to.
There have always been ups and downs and the hire & fire mentality has always been used.
"You have been appointed to serve again as regular pioneer in your home congregation."
"Thank you very much for this unique privilege."
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oh man....check this out.. my brother, an active jw, whom i am very close too, called me sometime last year to tell me about the un issue.
i never cared to talk about religion .... most of my family is in and i'm not.
so i boringly reply,'oh yeah'..not really listening.
I'm sure it won't take too long before you're talking again. If her husband continues to make research as he did. Anyway the number of lurkers keeps on increasing.
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i'm curious to see if anyone here has any major anxiety disorders and how it affects their lives.
as a semi-confession, i think i may have something of this sort, but i'd like a comparison first.
being a male, i never go to the doctors unless my leg is falling off, so i don't just want to go to a doctor to medicate a problem that could be overcome in other ways.
Elders meetings are among the most stressful moments of my life.
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i have been coming here as a lurker for some time and occasionally posting.
i was first drawn by posts from alanf and farkel who i suspect are in my age bracket and from my era in the wts.
i look forward to bill bowen's posts because i have a personal interest in combating the abuse of children in any form or group.
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today i was out in service, met sveral nice peopel who like to here about god news from the bibel,i was reding from luk 21, and showing them what will happend, and that jehova can solve our problems.i think here in matrealistik sweden we have a bigg los of spirutal sings, evrything here is about money, and young peopel dont like this so much, they want a new order, some have gone to this proclaim the streets movment, it is a anarkistic movment.. so i must say the messege from bibel is radher the same, a bigg dissaster, and then a new order.. but i dont think as the gov body that only jw are saved,i am more i touch widh rutherfords talk,million who now live will never die.. never forget that the bibel say, we are not judges,it is jesus who have this power,think gb has forgett this thing.. greatings from the north.
Miljoner som nu lever skall d. Med syn pa detta kan vi bra predikar, fr hoppet blir den samma.
Det viktigaste r at gr a Jehovas vilja, nu och efter uppstandelsen.
Millions Who Now Live Will Die - Good News Needs to be Preached
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this was terribel, out from the wordcup, and on overtime we have one ball inn the post.. i was dieing, in the netw minut senegal hvae one post inn, small margins, and now we hope that sven is going to final.
Looking forward to see Scandinavia back at the next World Cup.
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