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  New musical video on jw.org / humour or sad??

  by Gorb in

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  today i discovered the musical highlight of jehovah's witnesses, recently added to jw.org.

  we had "from house to house, from door to door", but this song will be more famous!

  https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=e&docid=1014316&srcid=share.

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  Somebody in the Organisation is channeling "Sweet Charity"! 😱 A pity that video clip wasn't choreographed by Bob Fosse; it might not be so cringeworthy.

  I recall a theory that someone in the art department was slipping subliminal images into WT material as some sort of statement against the organisation.

  This cart video is so lame that my first reaction was that this is someone taking the piss. It can't possibly be real! If it is, then someone in the PR department of the Watchtower is deliberately doing this to make it look idiotic!
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  Is JW.org going Broke?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/e6gh6w7v03y.

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  @Nathan Natas: "the flock that must be fleeced"?
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  Anthony Morris the III has been FOUND

  by Terry in

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  note: photos can be found on the blue envelope channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nakezkhqbmtony and susan morris are living in lumberton, north carolina.

  a real estate document on the robeson county website is filed:.

  the religious order of jehovah's witnesses has provided a "life estate" for them.they can live in this townhouse until they are deceased or choose to move away and in either case the ownership becomes entirely the property of jehovah's witnesses.

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  Is there anything new to report about this situation?
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  Out Witnessing

  by NotFormer in

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  2. humour

  just a quick comic page i whipped up.. .

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  Thanks 🙏😺

  The reference is to a book entitled "You can Live Forever on a Paradise Earth" (I think) A mate of mine told me that a JW neighbour of his referred to that book as "The Red Rocket". 🙄 Apparently they thought it was their finest work at the time. 🙄🙄🙄

  Does anyone remember that book?
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  Out Witnessing

  by NotFormer in

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  just a quick comic page i whipped up.. .

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  NotFormer

  Just a quick comic page I whipped up.

  
  
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  Jws getting drunk

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?

  i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!

  i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....

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  Out of curiosity, how quickly could someone who is new in the faith become a JW elder? The Bible says not to quickly elevate a new person in the faith into leadership. Could a talented, enthusiastic newbie be fast tracked?

  And of course there is Simony: can a person who is generous with his wealth in all the right ways simply buy his way into an eldership? WT actually did an article on Simony, saying that "real Christians don't", which meant that exactly that was happening in some congregations. Does it still happen?
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  Jws getting drunk

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?

  i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!

  i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....

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  I always saw these fresh faced youths with their "Elder So and So" badge on, and I'd think "You're not an elder, you're a youngster!" 🙄
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  C. T. Russell, Knight Templar

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i've come across stuff on the web that states that russell claimed to be both a knight templar and a mason.

  and also stuff on here that quotes various such organisations saying that russell didn't display enough knowledge about them to have ever been a member.. why do people act like such a revelation about russell is some sort of smoking gun?

  rutherford purged russell from the organisation as soon as he could.. the people who would be more worried about the accusation would more likely to be members of the various surviving bible students groups.

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  https://food4jws.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/bible-students-and-jehovahs-witnesses-whats-the-difference/

  "Today, Jehovah’s Witnesses can read the writings of Baptists, Methodists, Catholics & etc., however, some have been excommunicated and ostracized for reading, studying and agreeing with the writings of Charles Taze Russell."

  Methinks that the Bible Students are claiming to be "special" in JWs eyes. Can JWs be disfellowshipped for reading the writings of Baptists, Methodists, Catholics & etc.?

  Is reading old Russell material a disfellowshipable offence?
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  C. T. Russell, Knight Templar

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i've come across stuff on the web that states that russell claimed to be both a knight templar and a mason.

  and also stuff on here that quotes various such organisations saying that russell didn't display enough knowledge about them to have ever been a member.. why do people act like such a revelation about russell is some sort of smoking gun?

  rutherford purged russell from the organisation as soon as he could.. the people who would be more worried about the accusation would more likely to be members of the various surviving bible students groups.

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  NotFormer

  I've come across stuff on the web that states that Russell claimed to be both a Knight Templar and a Mason. And also stuff on here that quotes various such organisations saying that Russell didn't display enough knowledge about them to have ever been a member.

  Why do people act like such a revelation about Russell is some sort of smoking gun? Rutherford purged Russell from the organisation as soon as he could.

  The people who would be more worried about the accusation would more likely to be members of the various surviving Bible Students groups. What do they say about it all?

  And how are they doing, these days?
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  Jws getting drunk

  by Farmer Jim1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?

  i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!

  i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....

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  NotFormer

  "no--this was about 7 years before the elders idea was copied from the mormons."

  That's interesting. I knew that the elders' "arrangement" was new in the early seventies. Was it really pinched from the Mormons?