The problem gets bigger and bigger for them as educated people and a lot of the "first" world are opening their eyes, the growth is from third world countries with little money and less possibilities.
Posts by fulano
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23New video telling the R&F to be generous
by Splash inbro sanderson has a 7 minute video up on their streaming website called "be willing to open your hand".. in it he tells us not to be "tight fisted" or "stingy" and later "regardless of how much we have or how little we have, we'll find something within our power to be able to do".
we have the responsibility to imitate jehovah's generosity.. there's a bit about giving to one another when we see the need, which is nice, then he drops in how 20 years ago the canada branch committee asked the bethel family for donations to the disaster relief fund, and promptly raised over $10,000.
i think that's pretty good going for those under a vow of poverty.. "the generous person will prosper" he says, then illustrates this using a made up story.
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How to Resist Demon Attacks - Caution: Scary Stuff!
by snugglebunny inwt.
12-15-66: investigating house and household objectsone under demon attack should calmly, not in hysteria, investigate his house and household articles.
in some few cases the house may be the cause of trouble and the best thing to do is move out.
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fulano
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Governing Body meeting.
by Driving Force inthis is a recording of a gb meeting, i am not sure what they are talking about.. https://www.dropbox.com/s/syqkn95etlvtx0n/governbody.m4a?dl=0.
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fulano
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5 Year Old "Ministers"
by minimus inall witnesses are ministers.
from the time a witness is baptized, they are considered ministers.
this religion is getting more ridiculous each passing day.
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fulano
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Question: Are single sisters allowed to be missionaries in other countries?
by Wild_Thing inas 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.
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fulano
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Question: Are single sisters allowed to be missionaries in other countries?
by Wild_Thing inas 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.
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fulano
The greatest challenge of missionary-work is, in my opinion, as I wrote here many years ago....the missionary-home. Living together as strangers, from different cultures is just not easy, and no course ( that's what Gilead is when you are used to wordly education), can prepare you to that.
Day after day living with people who never had learned how to handle a fork or/and knife, speaking loud with their mouth full of rice or bread, instead of taking a shower spraying " old spice" is hard.
Then morning worship, in the local language, hearing the strong accent of Some of the biggest countries in the world in Spanish, after years and years making the same mistakes and errors....thanks who ever to be liberated of that.Than the art of cooking of some, horrible.
Anyway this is off-topic I know.
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Question: Are single sisters allowed to be missionaries in other countries?
by Wild_Thing inas 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.
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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 inas 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.
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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 incouple 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.
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fulano
Reminds me of the movie " uitgesloten " , which means Disfellowshipped ...
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Did Ray Franz ever address his thoughts on atheism?
by JWINQUESTION indoes 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.
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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.