The only caveat is that you need someone who has the Legal Standing to give the Vows and sign the marriage documents.
Anyone can give the talk, but you must have someone the law recognizes to give the vows.
Posts by ttdtt
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24Elder/MS requirement for marriage talk? (Wedding not in KH)
by respectful_observer inokay team,.
some family friends who are engaged are getting some flack around the particulars of their wedding ceremony (surprise!
"strain out the gnat, gulp down the camel", and all that).
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The Great Watchtower Guilt Trip
by pale.emperor inas im sure almost all of us on here are ex-jw, we all know first hand how well the watchtower used the power of guilt to manipulate our thoughts and actions for the entire time we were active witnesses.
guilty for not going on the ministry enough.. guilty for not trying harder while on the ministry.. guilty for not turning up for hall cleaning that time.. guilty for saying a swearword.. guilty for looking at a porno mag.. guilty for masturbating through my teens (i thought i was the only one who did!).
guilty for thinking the gb is wrong on a certain thing.. guilty for touching my girlfriend there... even though we've been dating for 3 freakin years and not had sex (thats not natural imo).. guilty for not following along in the watchtower magazine on sunday.. guilty for not studying.. guilty for nodding off during the 8 hour convention.. guilty for my mind wandering during the talks.. guilty for thinking of sister so-and-so.. the list goes on.
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Yes its a long list for sure. One we all have.
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The con is completed - comments from the US branch's LDC chief
by sir82 inrecently attended a special assembly day.. guest speaker was thomas chicky, a member of the us branch committee and the head of the us ldc (which has replaced the rbcs).. the last talk of the day is scheduled for an hour.
it was the usual boring mumbo-jumbo.
he appeared to have blasted through his hour-long outline in just about 45 minutes, so he "treated" us to informal comments on recent developments.. he commented on the new wt complex in fishkill ny.. then he dropped the bomb (well, to anyone with ears and at least 2 functioning synapses).. the following is not a word for quote, but presents the gist of his comments:.
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stan livedeath3 hours agowith all the printing technology and know how----why doesnt the watchtower society simply print money ?
THEY DO!! They call it "Publishers Pockets"
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Here's a morbid thought...
by Rainbow_Troll init probably will never happen but... imagine the gb recieved some new light that told them the great tribulation was imminent.
the world is going to hell and all jws can expect until armageddon is terrible persecution the likes of which no christian has ever experienced in two thousand years.
but jehovah has a solution: put yourself and your family 'to sleep' and after armageddon's over, jehovah will 'wake his people up' at the resurrection.
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Kinda goes against 100 years of teaching that the Great Crowd will survive the big A and just about everying else JWs believe.
Also there is NO motivation for the GB to ever do that.
Just silly.
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Conservatism + the Bible Belt = people who continually votes against their own interests and never realize it.
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Mass JW exodus
by stockholm_Syndrome inmaybe there will be a mass exodus from jws when thinking people read feb 2017 watchtower telling them the governing body stuff up, shouldnt expect correct/ perfect information and basically make up guff as they see fit.....ya reckon?.
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Ahhh no.
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Is the watchtower preparing the rank and file here?
by Thisismein1972 inhttp://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/28736-that-most-beautiful-of-2015-videos-is-now-live/.
above is a link (if you can stomach it) from jwtalk.
have a look at the comments.
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I have no idea how you came to that conclusion?
The whole video is of people in paradise and welcoming the resurrected ones.Great storm is just a metaphor for the big A.
Again nothing new at all.
https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/VODBible/pub-jwbcov_201505_11_VIDEO
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Special Talk During the Meeting Today About the Bad Press in Canada
by RobertT18 ini was invited to a congregation in ontario, canada today and as soon as the meeting opened the brother conducting the meeting said there was a very important statement coming from the borg.
this talk replaced the two last parts of "living as a christian" section.
he started reading a letter from the borg about how much they loved us.
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I have checked and there is NO such letter sent to Elders in the USA as of yesterday.
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Daily text for 12-7-2016 Gods promises "Dynamic"?
by NikL inwife read me the daily text this morning out of the blue this morning and a couple of sentences stuck out in my head.. all of jehovah’s promises are dynamic, not static, because he is constantly working toward their fulfillment.
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46:10; 55:11) once a person realizes this about jehovah’s word, what he reads in the bible can exert a powerful force in his life.. .
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DoubleSpeak BS just like the rest of the WT crap.
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The December Broadcast... OMG- what the heck was that?
by Sliced in"of course not- we want to eat from clean dishes!
dishes that have been cleaned thoroughly inside and out.
" we have to be sure the things entering our minds are clean... rejecting exciting fun stuff that features sex.
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Can this guy who talks about dishes speak in a MORE condescending way?
Is it be possible?Do they teach that as a special course on jw broadcast?
All I know is i will now start cleaning the insides of all my dishes on the inside.