Posts by fulano

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Question: Are single sisters allowed to be missionaries in other countries?

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

as far as i remember, only married couples were allowed to be missionaries.

my jw sister recently told me that single sisters can be missionaries, too.

this sounds too progressive for jws, so i just want to verify it.

fulano

Hi Blondie.

Personally I havent seen that much missionaries that went straight to branch work or travelling. In fact having a missionary to do Bethel work would be a waist of money.

I do have seen some that came from other branches in the developped world and were assigned as bethelites, they brought some needed skills with them ( accounts, construction).

Directly into travelling work is not wise in a third world country as conditions are bad sometimes not to speak of learning the local language. All of the missionaries I have seen coming went straight into homes. That was a periode of almost 10 years I served as a missionary.

No single sister I have seen being assigned.

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Question: Are single sisters allowed to be missionaries in other countries?

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

as far as i remember, only married couples were allowed to be missionaries.

my jw sister recently told me that single sisters can be missionaries, too.

this sounds too progressive for jws, so i just want to verify it.

fulano

For a long time they accepted single sisters as missionaries, as a fact, we lived with one in our missionary-home, from fifth class.

she died in 2009, I read.

This was under Knorr. After the seventies policy changed and they preferred single brothers or Couples.

To tell you the truth, it makes sense. As a home- overseer like I used to be it is like having an extra wife. If you want or not you feel responsible for the safety and health for such a sister.

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Ties at the Kingdom Hall

by CloseTheDoor in

couple of weeks ago an elder took a young man aside and crawled all over him after the tms for wearing a "skinny" tie.

it was one of those 2 inch wide ties.

nothing bright or scandalous about.

fulano

Reminds me of the movie " uitgesloten " , which means Disfellowshipped ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264121/

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Did Ray Franz ever address his thoughts on atheism?

by JWINQUESTION in

does anybody know if ray franz ever addressed his thoughts on atheism?

from what i've read, he was a diligent reader of the bible.

if anybody has any info and sources about this, it is highly appreciated.

fulano

Onthewayout that is what I liked about Ray Franz. Even though he remained Christian, he didn't preach that if others were not Christians, that they would go to hell. Who knows? Maybe he was uncertain himself about the existence of God.

Well Ray didn't like to preach at all, kept reading his newspaper in his car when he was a CO in the DR, while having the brother doing the biblestudy. To hot you know.

Anyway, it's good news to hear he was a true christian.

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Cut and Paste of "The List" by Prominent Bethelite of Previous Watchtower Predicted Dates

by TMS in

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" {watchtower sep 1 1989 12}.

" {tiah 240-1, also references in wr oct 1879 3941, tkic 84}.

'" {zions watchtower mar 1880 repr 82}.

fulano

The used abbreviations tell me enough....

Prominent Bethelite ....even the housekeepers know better.

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My Assembly Experience

by Clambake in

jw literally take forever to say nothing.

after a whole day of listening how to obtain peace , i am not sure if i obtain peace from obeying mosaic law, having a relationship to jehovah though jesus or be baptized and have a direct line to jehovah.

every speaker tries to out bore and contract the other one.

fulano

Funny 😀😀

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Just had a blow up with jw mom and she said the bible referenced angels being called gods, it that true?

by Question_Mans_interpretation in

long story short my mom was acting weird, snubbing me, when i tried bringing her grandkids to see her, so i tried again and this time i just went up and hugged her since she wouldn't hug me or acknowledge any affection.

when i released her i immediately saw her annoyed look and asked what?

bang, she unleashes a floodgate of how she's still mad at me for going to another church that believes the trinity.

fulano

Yes she is right.

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Regional Convention 2015 - Program

by Designer Stubble in

friday morning9:20 music9:30 song no.

5 and prayer9:40 chairmans address: imitate jesuswhy and how?10:20 symposium: lessons from jesus word pictures observe the birds and the lilies have salt in yourselves build your house on the rock11:10 song no.

120 and announcements11:20 follow jesus patternkeep on asking, seeking, and knocking!11:45 keynote address: concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom12:15 song no.