Hellothere
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Wife's gone to visit distant relatives.......
by BoogerMan in......so i thought i'd treat myself; i placed an order with the acme escort agency.. damn it, they only had a fiesta available!.
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If I remember right, the Israelites abandon there older wife's for younger ones. God was not happy about it, but he seem too have accepted situation. Don't remember Bible verses -
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End of watchtower
by Hellothere inshouldn't gb tell members to abandon organisation?
surely things are pointing at watchtower being part of babylon the great.
in with way is watchtower being bless and been shown god's favour this days?
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Shouldn't GB tell members to abandon organisation? Surely things are pointing at watchtower being part of Babylon the great. In with way is watchtower being bless and been shown God's favour this days? It's slave class job to warn against coming dangerous or they gonna be connected to blood guilt. So why are they not warning about end of watchtower.
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Meeting attendance
by Benavidez ini was wondering what your guys' meeting attendance was like.
our meetings here is like 50/50 with zoom and in person.
the spanish has it a little "better" with it being like 30% zoom attendance with most attending in person.. i've heard of congregations in other states having attendance where most (even elders and ms) attend meeting only via zoom and even have their cameras off.
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Going back to meetings that we're useless before pandemic. Back too door to door with was just waste of jw hours before pandemic. Boy do the GB know how to take good decision.... not.
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11/2022 WT, not-so-encouraging experiences
by neat blue dog inhere's some 'spiritual gems' from the latest wt, 11/22.
first up, a bethelite who was kicked out, er, "reassigned":.
"she was reassigned to the field after serving at bethel for more than 23 years.
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They couldn't turn what happened in Russia, with loosing all buildings, to a blessing from God. So they quickly came up with " after deep prayer 😁 yeah right" that it was cause Russia was king of North.
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Dumb 'experiences' you were told as a JW
by BettyHumpter inthis one stands out in my mind.
it was reported that 'a brother', unnamed of course, was out in field service and was set upon by a pack of vicious dogs.
he made it back to the car and was injured quite badly with his arms, hands and leg bleeding heavily.
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One i heard time and time again was about a pioneer in Colombia. He got killed by a sicario when he was out in service. The murder later became a jw. He became a pioneer and vowed to do his time and the time the pioneer he killed would have done. This was back in the 80s when pioneers monthly hours was about 90 hours. Never receive an explanation why drug dealer would kill a jw and why he didn't receive prison time. But that's how the story went.
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Starting September 01, 2022, the Angels will help in the ministry work
by RULES & REGULATIONS in2022 governing body update # 6. what exciting news david splane has for all jehovah's witnesses ( who for the last three years were spared the house-to-house preaching work ) '' that we'll return to the ministry september 01, 2022. just in time for our world wide campaign to start bible studies.
and, i'm sure the angels are excited too, because it will give them opportunities to help us with our ministry.''.
not only will the witnesses be rusty in their return to the field ministry, the angels in heaven have been sitting idle while the pandemic stopped the house-to-house ministry.
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Ok so letter writing kampanj was not supported by angels. They only support door to door 😁 Ditto. No need to write letters or sit beside magazine stand again then. Don't think it's the whiskey anymore. Think lost GB members have serious mental problems. Mix that with living in a compound detach from reality.
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In person encouragement
by road to nowhere inwe need a beatings subject heading.. we got the talk.
if you are not sure about in person ask an elder to assess your reasons for staying on zoom.
no mention of elders asking us about meeting quality.
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GB gonna do what they always have done. Kick the can down the road. Why you think they are in the mess they are. Every it's just rutin this days -
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Local congregation donation and expense report. Very telling
by nowwhat? inin july the congregation received $2300.00.
only 40.00 for the worldwide work and zero for ramapo project!!!.
if this is typical no wonder the org.
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In every country and congregation I have assisted, and there we're plenty. Account servant always hade a smirk on there faces when mentioning how little money was donated. Assembly always came up short. If someone thinks org don't want too go online cause it would mean less donation, your wrong. They get much more money just selling does kingdom halls.
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New and improved?
by tenyearsafter ini have a family member who had been df'ed for 15 years or so...recently they reinstated as a jw.
when i asked what motivated them to make that decision, the response was to be able to see family and old friends.
they insisted that things were different now.
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enoughisenough
Think litterateur Is written for JW children. They know they not getting new members preaching outside. So they focus on jw children. It's a get them when they young deal.
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Where it all went wrong for the WT - JF Rutherford
by LoveUniHateExams ini was thinking a bit about this the other day.
ct russell, from what i remember about him, kinda seemed like a genuine, nice(ish) guy, although he had a few eccentric but harmless ideas.. during the russell era jws (actually bible students) could still celebrate christmas, worship in other churches if there was no kingdom hall available, and accept blood transfusions.. then after russell died, along came rutherford - a major league a-hole, for sure.. rutherford had plenty of eccentric ideas but at least some of them weren't/aren't harmless.
some have been long forgotten about - jesus depicted without a beard, the plan to rename the names of the week because names such as thursday (thor's day) is pagan, the articles about the 'dangers' of aluminium, etc.. one key contribution of rutherford which does a lot of harm is no blood transfusions, even in life-threatening situations.. another is shunning, something which never occurred under russell, or at least was much milder.. rutherford has a lot to answer for, i reckon ....
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Hellothere
Rutherford to me was like the evil slave that came in and ruined things. Gathering and let Bible verses interpret things was removed. Everything was decided by the leaders. He stopped singing before meetings. After what I have read about him he didn't think working on personality was important. That God would accept a person service anyways. Under him the only thing important was to preach. Agape seem not too be that important. Doing many hours was the most important. Think it was Rutherford that decided to put God's biblical name on the org. Yeah he is behind many evil decision.