Posts by LoyalLeon

i wandered outside the convention around mid-afternoon, returning for the concluding song, so i didn't get to hear "summary of the botchtower" nor the final talk (which gets all the seals clapping).. .

know that the kingdom of god is near .

LoyalLeon

a scan of the whole programme would be much appreciated LL

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2005 District Convention -- complete audio

by Jourles in

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ok folks.

to whoever missed the spiritual buffet this summer, you're in luck.

all of the talks are now available 'a la carte.

LoyalLeon

no songs... :-(

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Up to our elbows in Newbs on JWD

by IP_SEC in

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wow, what's going on here?

i look at all the new folk here that seem to have joined in the past 2 months and are posters who are under 100 posts and i gotta wonder why.. has something happened in dubland recently to cause a lot of folk to reach out?

if you are new here at jwd, how did you find us?

LoyalLeon

I'm really looking forward to see the annual report of JWD published in a thread on January, 1.

Perhaps listed countrywise , so we will see what countries have the greatest increase, average of apostafests, newbies and posts...

LL

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Up to our elbows in Newbs on JWD

by IP_SEC in

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wow, what's going on here?

i look at all the new folk here that seem to have joined in the past 2 months and are posters who are under 100 posts and i gotta wonder why.. has something happened in dubland recently to cause a lot of folk to reach out?

if you are new here at jwd, how did you find us?

LoyalLeon

Okay, as i understand it's difficult to compile all that data so quick, it's better to publich it on February 1.

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Questions You Will Not Hear during Daniel Book Study

by VM44 in

blondie's continuing series "comments you will not hear at the watchtower study" always is more interesting than the actual watchtower article bering studied that week.

the research she adds is accurate and puts the study article in the proper perspective it deserves.. when will the weekly book study start the daniel book?

we need a new series "questions you will not hear during the daniel book study" akin to blondie's series on the watcthower.. think it would be a good idea?.

LoyalLeon

So as Sister Blondie is already serving as Watchtower Study Overseer, who is going to be appointed Congregation Book Study Overseer in the JWD congregation?

LL

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Just As A Matter Of Curiosity..........

by hillary_step in

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just as a matter of curiosity i was wondering if any of you know of anybody who has read raymond franz' 'crisis of conscience' and who actually remained a jw?

i have sent and lent this book to a number of people within the wts, even a co, all of whom left eventually.

one person remained due to domestic issues, but resigned from all his duties and remains as such.

LoyalLeon

I read parts of it in books I thought to be unconspicuous in the local library at the time of my baptism as a teenager. I was not shocked at all, it confirmed to me, that the experiences of family members, who had more contacts to higher-ups were evidently not made up, but true. So I was used to a certain degree of critical approach in the post-75 era.

Over the years i made my own experiences with the imperfections of the organization, reading eventually the whole of CoC, joining this board, which nonetheless didn't stop me from my belief in God and the fact that he uses an organization. Evidently no perfection can be found anywhere, but personally I didn't find any alternative.

So I try to do my part to live the Bible's principles and apply some of the quite excellent suggestions in the magazines, (nice ones in this week's Watchtower study...) though it is hard to do so if you have to deal with the average-minded elder...; but the ideals are good and people will need 1000+ years to get where they ought to be in the first place.

LL

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The amateur speculations of Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses

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friends,.

there's a trend among us that i find disturbing, if not humerous.

that is the gullibility we sometimes have in believing that the society is close to putting out a "new date" for armageddon.

LoyalLeon

it was only seconds after reading about 2034 on JWD that a speculating family member mentioned the corresponding Watchtower article to me.

how good i read first JWD, because i would have overread the statement in the magazine, as I am not of the speculating sort...

but there are lots of speculating amateurs among the R&F, so that all those who wer duly programmed decades ago, read between the lines: 2034

it's true, the GB will never set a date again, but the whole religion lives of the expectance of the end, so speculations are 'encouraged', though not openly

look at this new brochure released -- no substance (a boring 3-volumes on Ezekiel would have been more substantial, and even a 'the-end-is-so-near-we-didn't-print-a-new-release-talk') but it's to be used in the ministry -- telling people the end is near!

i have absolutely no idea which publisher who can choose between ten to twenty brochures will choose this subject, but 9/11 just across the Brooklyn river must have made a substantial impression on the GB...

LL

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WT CD rom

by simplesally in

i now have a pc again.

i had gotten rid of the wt cd because i had a mac ................ can anyone get me a cd-rom?

LoyalLeon

believe it or not - tonight it was announced that the Wachtower Library 2003 is ready, can be ordered and is to be shiped to the congreegations no later than April 2004 plus it contains the maps of "See the Good Land" with links to various publications plus it will also be available in Finnish and Korean plus you will need a higher version of Windows than 95, 98 or ME for the Watchtower Library 2005.

So brothers and sisters start saving money for updating your hardware

LL