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  Can you take someone with you in Judicial Committee?

  by zound in

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  i've heard of a couple of cases of a person being present (maybe wife, or friend) for support at judicial committees - is this commonly accepted by the elder committee or is it just a rarity?.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Marked.
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  Husband can sit in on wife's judicial committee meeting, but not other way around

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not long ago, there were comments on this topic.

  i cannot find it, i don't know what the actual thread was.

  i've checked back through the pages and done several searches, but don't know what the key words were, am coming up blank.

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  Yes! Thank you! I kept looking up adultery and husband!
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  Husband can sit in on wife's judicial committee meeting, but not other way around

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
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  not long ago, there were comments on this topic.

  i cannot find it, i don't know what the actual thread was.

  i've checked back through the pages and done several searches, but don't know what the key words were, am coming up blank.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Not long ago, there were comments on this topic. I cannot find it, I don't know what the actual thread was. I've checked back through the pages and done several searches, but don't know what the key words were, am coming up blank. Does anyone remember this and what the topic was? Thanks for any help.
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  Has anyone going/been to Oberamagau??

  by quellycatface in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to watch the "passion play"?

  i have visited the town near christmas time and it's gorgeously decorated etc..... wondered if anyone went to see the famous play at all.. just a little bit of information as well.

  councillors in oxford recently, banned the reinactment of this play, as the thought it was going to be a sex show.

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  Such a beautiful place, didn't see the Passion Play, but I bought great wood carvings...beautiful fountains too.
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  Your Experience with Resigning as an Elder

  by committeechairman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm considering resigning as an elder.

  i'm not planning to fade or stop as one of jehovah's witnesses, just stop serving as an elder.. i have responsibility in the congregation and in circuit, district, rbc, etc.

  and i'm completely exhausted.

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  Often the WTBTS uses the old testiment to shore up their take on things. Yet, they ignore the scriptures that show men in charge of the spirituality of the Israelites were PAID to perform at the temple, so they wouldn't have to make a living and MINISTER. It was the same way when Jesus was on earth. While he did away with Mosaic Law, the principle of not overworking the minister stands. It would make life so much easier if the WTBTS would simply pay the elders. Of course, they would never part with any money.
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  Essay by Barbara Anderson: "What's in a Name?"

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  whats in a name?

  posted on april 15, 2014 by barbara anderson http://watchtowerdocuments.org/whats-in-a-name/ .entry-meta-icons .entry-meta .

  .entry-header one morning at bethel in 1989, after the usual text discussion before breakfast, there was an announcement to the staff about the legalization of jehovahs witnesses in poland.

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  Barbara, thank you for the very informative article. Another note: the Borg is also stressing those crazy carts! I saw one on a pier in San Diego. Talk about crazy! Everyone else was walking around in shorts, bathing suits or other beach attire and the 'brother & sister' manning the cart were dressing in meeting attire. They looked like ridiculous weirdos. Would you talk to a person at the beach that was dressed in a suit and tie? Didn't think so, no one else was either. There was also a cart at the airport, which was also being ignored by passers-by. Yet, they must be having minor success with this method to keep pushing it.
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  So Spill the Beans, Brothers: Were There More or Fewer At this Year's Bore-Fest

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jw date-worshipped memorial has just completed its bleak worldwide commemoration.

  that wasn't a dust cloud you saw; it was a millionfold hearts limply beating themselves into another round of great tribulation expectations.

  i was knocked into a deep, deep sleep by the imagined experience of being at several thousand consecutive kingdom halls as the platformed drones spat forth the predictable sludge that, once released, hits and stains white clothing and bleach is useless.. we know that memorial attendance worldwide has dipped for two consecutive years since 2011 when it reached a high of 19,374,737 and for the promised land, obama's usa, the all time memorial attendance high was also 2011 when it hit over 2.5million (2,563,518) but shrunk in shame back to 2,502,055 in 2012 and spluttered upwards a handful or two to 2,504,114 last year.. so, what was attendance at the date-obsessed bore-fest this year in your neck of the woods?

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  Fewer, lots of empty seats and they didn't set up that many more chairs. My kid commented that it seemed like a well attended Sunday meeting, not like the Memorial.
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  "Why Do Many Male Jehovah Witnesses Who Learn TTATT Grow Beards"?

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the bible with me drove by and had a full on "charles manson" looking facial hair and beard.

  i asked tina, a friend what's up with him?

  tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication.

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  The ladies throw out the pantyhose and stop buying ugly dresses and skirts...they start buying sexy ones instead!
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  Memorial Attendance: The Single Most Impactful TTATT "Witness" to Family and Friends

  by AMNESIANO in

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  2. friends

  anyone who has awakened to ttatt and conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent individual from a prominent multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.

  by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dimissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".

  nothing blasts a louder, clearer, and more deliberate message to the jws who personally knew you and those familiar with your jw bona fides that you are not merely "not making the meetings" or "spiritually-weak" but that there is a conscientious reason you have rejected the entire watchtower society life than choosing to forego what they know you know to be their one-and-only holy and sacred event of the year, the lord's evening meal.

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  PaintedToeNail

  As one who feels compelled to go to keep the peace in my family and not break my mother's heart, I too agree with what is posted above. While there, I know people will look at me with sympathy and ask how I've been. I plan on telling them that I have NEVER been better and that I feel great. Recently I've had a few people from the KH comment on my Facebook page about my new business and how great I look. Of course I look great!! I've stopped being filled with panic attacks, anxiety about armeggedon, anger at feeling required to go in service and report time. I'm calm now, don't beat myself up because I have to go in service. My nights are free and so is my heart. I'm enjoying my life and shows...that is the best revenge.
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  Did anyone in the congregation discourage you from going to college?

  by Trapped in JW land in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember being out on service with an elder when i was 17. he asked me what i plan on doing after high school.

  i told him i was thinking of going to college to be a teacher.

  he then asked me, "do you think this system is going to be around that long"?

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  Trapped-Good for you! Yes, the elders and others feel free to ask personal questions all the time. When my son got into his middle teens, the elders and pioneers would ask him that question. He came to me, saying he didn't know what to say. They would ask him also what his spiritual goals were. I told him to answer this way, "That is a personal question between me and Jehovah". If the personal questioning persisted, to reverse the questions and ask them what their spiritual goals were and were they planning on quitting their jobs to pioneer. If they answered him and he was still being pressed, to tell them once again, "It is a personal matter between me and Jehovah."

  He once had an elder, who was an appliance repairman, press him for an answer, when he told the elder finally, what it was he wanted to do, the elder disapproved of his choice and asked him if he thought park rangers were going to be useful in the 'New System'. My son responded with, "Well, I don't think there will appliance repairmen needed there either." That ended the conversation.