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  Qualifications of elders question

  by charity7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys!

  i thought you guys would be able to clarify something for me.

  according to jw’s what qualifies you to become an elder and who does the appointing?

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  Londo111

  As mentioned: field service hours is the #1 criteria. Something mentioned NOWHERE in the Bible.
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  What makes you---YOU?

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  of course this is an open ended question but have you ever really thought about what makes you who you are?.

  is it our looks, our personality, our physique, our intelligence, our experiences and subsequent memories, our beliefs?

  is it a combination of all these things and even more?

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  That was one of the things that bothered me as a JW. In the resurrection, the person would be a copy, but there would be no continuity between the person who died and the person being resurrected.
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  A non-Witnes who accepts 607 BC?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  an eyebrow raiser to be sure.

  i can understand the clergyman being so baptist that he'd still use the name jehovah since it was popular in english and german churches for a long time during and after the reformation, but 607?.

  see ¶ 6 under the heading "the historicity of the book of daniel".

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  Londo111

  Maybe Watchtower should build a wall around 607 and make 587 pay for it.
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  My mom is haunted by the ghost of Fred Franz... now we have gotten to the root of this problem

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so last night at around 11 while me and the wife were watching netflix and my cellphone rings.

  i didn't make it in time and saw it was my mother who never speaks to me.

  i decided to call back fearing something happened with my dad.

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  Londo111

  In a talk, Anthony Morris mentioned how the 144k would kill all non-JWs are Armageddon.

  So in that mindset, a vengeful Freddy would make sense.
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  What happned to the Quick Builds

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so the qbs were huge in the 80s and 90s, now i hear nothing.

  have they stopped?.

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  Londo111

  In the 80's there was growth. Now there isn't.

  Also...it used to be if JWs wanted a new Kingdom Hall, they saved the money, or took out a loan, and had it builts. And the property was theirs.

  Since that time, Watchtower has taken centralized control of all Kingdom Hall builds, repairs, and property.
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  Rumor: New light comes from outside marketing consultants

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is a rumor i heard back in november, it comes to me third or fourth-hand.

  feel free to poke holes.

  i have many doubts about this myself.

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  Londo111

  From what I understand, the SDA do not practice mandatory shunning anymore. So I give them points for that.

  And the Mormons evidently do not shun to the degree JWs do. They allow a heck of allot more dissent then Watchtower does.
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  Even elders don’t know their beliefs

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had a deep conversation with my elder father today about the bible.

  first i talked to him about luke 16:19-31. the one where jesus makes this crazy illustration regarding the afterlife.

  of course he had to look it up on the watchtower library to be spoon fed his beliefs.

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  Londo111

  Most elders don't have the time to do any research.
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  Rumor: New light comes from outside marketing consultants

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is a rumor i heard back in november, it comes to me third or fourth-hand.

  feel free to poke holes.

  i have many doubts about this myself.

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  Londo111

  I wasn't the source of this, nor can I confirm any of it...I'm more taking it with a grain of salt and seeing what happens. The similarities of style between Watchtower, Scientology, the LDS do make me wonder.

  Even though maybe not doctrinal stuff, I do think there may be some truth to it as far as outside consultants for Watchtower business/administrative issues. For some of this video stuff they do, I do wonder if they may have outsourced some of the work.
  
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  Do Witnesses Experience Racial Discrimination To Your Knowledge?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my experience in the kingdom hall was that racial discrimination and profiling was not typically practiced....that i know of.

  i was in a diverse city with every type of skin color and nationality imaginable.. i’m wondering if the witnesses have changed due to the current affairs exposed by the media everyday.

  are there discrimination issues in jw land??

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  Londo111

  This probably should be best answered by a JW of color.

  But then again, if one looks up at the makeup of the Governing Body, one token black person, no Asians, no Hispanics, and compare that to the demographics of the rank and file, that should speak for itself.
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  BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.

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  Londo111

  They words it in such a way to make it seem that beard's are okay and there are no repercussions for having one. But in reality, what they mean is entirely the opposite. It takes experience in understanding their gist.

  It's truly a masterclass of passive aggressiveness.