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  New Word Coined In April 2016 WT!

  by Naoscillator in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  and the word is... .

  canaanitelike!.

  here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.

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  The Searcher

  Nearly as bad as being parasiticlike!
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  CoBE Joins those Elders Deserting the Sinking Ship

  by The Searcher in

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  2. beliefs

  from a reliable source:.

  a young cobe - late thirties, maybe forty - has resigned in december 2015, both as the cobe and as an elder.

  word is that he is a man with a young family who is stressed out and has had enough.

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  From a reliable source:

  A young COBE - late thirties, maybe forty - has resigned in December 2015, both as the COBE and as an Elder.

  Word is that he is a man with a young family who is stressed out and has had enough.

  That now makes six ex-elders in the same West country circuit in England.

  6 out of 21 in only 10 months. (including the congregation that got disbanded.)

  Perhaps those in the "elder-class" are starting to smell the coffee!
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  When did district conventions become regional conventions and why?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  i think it was gary and heather bottings' book the orwellian world of jehovah's wifnesses that noted the function of the habit of the watchtower organisation of changing organisational terminology periodically.

  congregations became companies and then back to congregations again.

  circuit overseers became circuit servants and then back again.

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  "District" conventions were last mentioned by the Org in the October 2013 Kingdom Ministry.

  If my memory serves me correctly, I think "regional conventions" were revealed in a letter in January 2014.

  My suspicion at the time - which now appears confirmed here in the U.K.) was that greater numbers of J.W.'s were going to have to travel greater distances within a "region", as opposed to a "district".

  Many J.W.'s in England now have to book into hotels for their "regional" convention", because the daily travelling time/distance involved is prohibitive.
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  Yearbook 2016: Annual Report (15177 Partakers)

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the 2016 yearbook is up on jw.orgbranches of jehovahs witnesses: 89 (was 90)number of lands reporting: 240 (was 239)total congregations: 118016 (was 115416)worldwide memorial attendance: 19,862,763 (was 19,950,019) decreasememorial partakers worldwide: 15,177 (was 14,121 in 2013:13,204) large increasepeak of publishers in kingdom service: 8,220,105 (was 8,201,205) minor increaseaverage publishers preaching each month: 7,987,279 (was 7,867,958)percentage of increase over 2014: 1.5 (was 2.2)total number baptized: 260,273 (was 275,581)average auxiliary pioneer publishers each month: 443,504 (was 635,298) huge decreaseaverage pioneer publishers each month: 1,135,210 (was 1,089,446)total hours spent in field: 1,933,473,727 (was 1,945,487,604) decreaseaverage home bible studies each month: 9,708,968 (was 9,499,933)

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  As far as the "congregations" figures are concerned, it's important to bear in mind that the Org is continually pushing the sheep to learn new languages in order to form new "groups". These groups - e.g. sign language, Chinese, etc., can eventually be classed as a separate "congregation" within an existing congregation, and simply has its own meetings in the same K.H. on alternative days. Increase!
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  I have doubts... can you help me??- A new idea

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been perplexed as to how to brung my wife out of jws and to exit the religion... but i had an idea last night.

  i know that elders will legitimantly meet with brothers who have doubts and encourage them... not df them .. this is a sheperding call etc.. thus since my wife knows i have doubt s i could say: i want to have two brother over to discuss this ... she will agree.... of course i will hit these guys with biblical textual issues, an biology to where they are stunned and still ask... "so brothers... can you solve this conflict...?".

  in this case they will not think of me as an apostate but may question their own beliefs... .

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  Try her/the the elders with this "doctrine" which creates the Org's 2-tier Christianity.

  Here's what the Org teaches about the New Covenant and its participants:

  jr chap. 14 p. 169 par. 4 You Can Benefit From the New Covenant"To understand the new covenant, we first have to grasp the purpose of the former one, the Law covenant.".....But who would be in this new covenant and gain that forgiveness?...That proved to be "the Israel of God," composed of Christians anointed with holy spirit......What of those who are not [directly] in the new covenant, the "other sheep," who hope to live forever on earth? In a sense, they are like the alien residents in Israel, who accepted and benefited from the Mosaic Law.

  w83 3/15 p. 8 Who Should Partake? "So with the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, a "new covenant" was put in force. What was the ‘old,’ or "former," covenant that it replaced?......This was the Law covenant. It was made with the nation of Israel shortly after they escaped captivity in Egypt. Moses was the mediator of that covenant made between Jehovah God and the Israelites (just as Jesus is the "mediator of a new covenant"). But it is noteworthy that there was a vast mixed company of non-Israelites who escaped from Egypt along with the Israelites. And although they enjoyed benefits as a result of this covenant, they were not included in it. There is a similar situation with the new covenant. Only Christians referred to as "the Israel of God" are taken into this covenant with Jehovah God. However, there is a "great crowd" of other Christians, referred to by Jesus as his "other sheep." Although these enjoy benefits from the new covenant, they are not included in it."

  Here's what the Bible really teaches:

  (Deuteronomy 29:10-15) "All of you are stationed today before Jehovah your God, the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officers, every man of Israel, 11 your children, your wives, and your foreign resident who is in the midst of your camp, from the one gathering your wood to the one drawing your water. 12 You are here in order to enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God and his oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today 13　in order that he may establish you today as his people and that he may be your God, just as he has promised you and just as he swore to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 14 "Now it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath, 15　but it is with those standing here with us today before Jehovah our God and with those who are not here with us today."

  To reinforce what Moses wrote, Ruth and Rahab (two non-Israelite false-god worshippers) became full members of the nation of Israel and full participants of the Law Covenant - and as such, their respective offspring all gained inheritances within that nation.

  This is confirmed by the fact that both of them were assimilated into the tribe of Judah and became direct ancestors of Jesus Christ. If both women were not fully Israelites, then Christ's lineage was corrupted by these women.
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  for all the 'sheep dogs'..

  by zeb in

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  2. current

  https://www.youtube.com/v/m2g9-zbgdim&autoplay=1&rel=0

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  The Searcher

  Good song.

  Overwhelming thought:

  Military "Bethelites" abandoned by their "mother" to rely on others when they are of no further use.

  Don't the governments treat their loyal ones just like the Brooklyn ruling-class treat their pawns?
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  Need advice on fade...

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
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  the elder that was the coordinator of the boe has just left town to attend one of those infamous schools with this wife.

  the view is that he will most likely return to be appointed co. not sure he is going to stick around here for a lot longer.. i am saying this because, despite them knowing he will return when the school is over, they removed him from the coordinator position and appointed someone else.

  it was announced last night that the biggest jerk of the group of elders is now the coordinator of the boe.

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  The Searcher

  Don't worry about any of the wolves - ever again!! Politely decline any/all invitations for "chats."

  Just build a brick wall which they can't overcome - they'll get the message loud & clear.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/428170001/fading-beginners-guide

  All the best!
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  Latest, SHOCKING JW Paedophile case.

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.stratford-herald.com/45973-jehovahs-witness-jail...

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  Only five years?????????????????

  The scum-bag will be out walking the streets before the new Britain Branch is built.
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  Hello

  by Darryl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just joining this site i'm not going to give you my personal history because you already know it, you lived it.

  anyway been df'd for about 18 years just curious are there any people out there from the richmond va area.

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  The Searcher

  Welcome. Have a seat & a drink, and put your feet up!
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  The mistranslation of John 14.10

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  darby bible translation says the following at john 14.10 (brackets his): .

  "believest thou not that i [am] in the father, and that the father is in me?

  the words which i speak to you i do not speak from myself; but the father who abides in me, he does the works.".

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  The Trinity is best "explained" by its creators - the Catholic church. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm

  Here are some of its explanations on the subject. Not unlike the gobbledygook which the Org uses to explain such things as "overlapping generation", "personal death cancels a persons sins", "144,000 will become kings as well as priests", "Christ came in 1914, was present for about 5 years, then went away, but will return yet again!"

  "The Vatican Council has explained the meaning to be attributed to the term mystery in theology. It lays down that a mystery is a truth which we are not merely incapable of discovering apart from Divine Revelation, but which, even when revealed, remains "hidden by the veil of faith and enveloped, so to speak, by a kind of darkness" (Constitution, "De fide. cath.", iv). In other words, our understanding of it remains only partial, even after we have accepted it as part of the Divine message...... but we cannot attain that fuller knowledge which supposes that the various elements of the concept are clearly grasped.......

  All theologians admit that the doctrine of the Trinity is of the number of these. [mysteries] Indeed, of all revealed truths this is the most impenetrable to reason.....the plurality of Persons in the Godhead is a truth entirely beyond the scope of any created intellect.

  The Fathers supply many passages in which the incomprehensibility of the Divine Nature is affirmed. St. Jerome says, in a well-known phrase: "The true profession of the mystery of the Trinity is to own that we do not comprehend it"

  Only after the Aristotelean system had obtained recognition from theologians was this question thoroughly treated."