NewYork44M

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  My Dead Mother Called Me This Morning!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i woke up a little after 5 am this morning and looked at the clock and realized i had more time to sleep so i fell right back asleep.

  i had this dream that i was letting my girlfriends dog out of her house and the next scene i was at work and i got a phone call.

  the room i was in simply had a table and phone it was very bare.

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  NewYork44M

  Thank you for sharing Minimus. It sounds like you are still working out some issues. I have also had conversations in my dreams with my long deceased mother.
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  (How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

  the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

  the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

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  "At the branch's direction, we're not going to even look at the PRC's of these men."

  I heard a CO state this in an elder's meeting in the early 1990s. I did not believe him then, and I don't believe anything has changed now. This organization is obsessed with made-up numbers.
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  Sisters handling mic's

  by I Faded Twice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a topic on another forum where a sister was supposedly carrying the mics.

  i was curious if this was even possible?

  is it new light or just a lie?.

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  Growing up a JW I was taught the many things that sisters could not do. I never understood this. The general question I always asked was "what is it about this job that requires a penis?" If a penis is not required, then there is no reason why a sister could not accomplish the task.
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  2018/19 new light

  by Ray Frankz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys, long time without paying a visit to this site.

  today i returned to check a 'gossip' that is running around in brazilian exjw forums.. they are stating that is almost certain they will make a big change in their doctrine maybe this year yet in the annual meeting.

  they say people in warwick were commenting on this.

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  I doubt very much that they could replicate the hysteria of 1975. Too much has changed and too much information is available. If there is new light it will simply be abandoning older teachings. You are not going to see anything new from the current GB.
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  Well, that was disgusting. How can he say that education is worthless? Don't they hire lawyers, engineers, and other professionals? These people received their skills through education.

  I feel very sorry for the young people in the organization. This must really suck for them.
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  Financially Are You Doing Better Than a Year Ago?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  this isn’t a usa question.

  is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.

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  Better.
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  Did the jw's leadership ever apologize for 1975?

  by dugout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  talking to my friend who's an elder, when i asked him did the leadership ever attempt to apologize for the 1975 prediction fiasco he said they did.

  and he was going to show me.

  i'm still waiting..................................................tic toc did they???

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  ...nor do they have anyone with the creative or theological skill to reinterpret WT
  eschatology for the 21st Century, so they're stuck with a decades-old, Cold-War-centric End-Times

  This explains the silly undiscernable overlapping generation explanation to justify that the end did not come within the generation of 1914.
  
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  The Longest Goodbye Of John McCain

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can you believe it?

  this funeral arrangement goes on and on and on.

  if the people loved him so much he would have been elected president.

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  I agree that this is long and not nearly as fun as Aretha Franklin's funeral.
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  Did the jw's leadership ever apologize for 1975?

  by dugout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  talking to my friend who's an elder, when i asked him did the leadership ever attempt to apologize for the 1975 prediction fiasco he said they did.

  and he was going to show me.

  i'm still waiting..................................................tic toc did they???

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  It is to be regretted

  By using this passive language they failed to take responsibility. This sentence would actually mean something if it has started "The governing body regrets..."
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  Do Any JW's Still Use/Trust the Reasoning Book?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  under the heading last days, the introduction promises this:.

  "the present wicked system of things, which extends worldwide, entered its last days in 1914, and some of the generation alive then will also be on hand to witness its complete end in the “great tribulation.”.

  will the "slave" explain to their followers that such an invaluable "witnessing tool" is no longer to be used, or will they just revise it electronically to reflect "current truth?

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  I don't recall anyone ever using the publication at the doors in my history of preaching. Given the fact that is all the witnesses do now is stand next to a cart and playing candy crush, I suspect the answer is never.