Just as there will be no female pope, there will be no such addition to the GB. The reasons are not only idealogical. You can't just jump to the GB from nowhere. Women are in absolutely no positions of authority in the JWs, anointed ones included. The closest thing you can get to power would be a wife of a GB member or Bethel top administrator, and this would only be by extension. The GB wives had power only because of who they were married to, and people had to have had a sense of fear about displeasing them. Even if they were to decide one sunny day to appoint a woman, who would it be, and why choose them in particular? They've got men at Bethel and the branches who'd be first on the list.
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Why no females on the governing body but ok to be one of annointed
by not bitter inso why not female governing body?
why not female anything?
i mean, i kind of know the answer.
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Who has had their District Convention seats stolen by other Witnesses?
by ÁrbolesdeArabia inover the years i have had to deal with this problem personally and as a attendant covering my section at various convention centers.
i had people who were suppose to be decent jehovah witnesses pick up all the books, bags and coolers belonging to brothers and sisters who arrived at the appropriate time and picked them up and dumped them all at the end of the seating row.
so here is what goes down, the sister runs up to me panicking and saying "dear brother, i had all those seats reserved for my family and now look!
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At the first interrnational convention I attended, I was shocked at how the seat saving stampede was unravelling. The family I was staying with also happened to be waiting for the doors to open. The duct tape people were the worst. They didn't even make any pretense of saving seats for immediate family. You heard the 'RIPPP!' of the tape and two rows were sealed off instantly. I had already placed my items on an aisle seat at the time someone was heading for me with tape. He just taped it over with the 'Sister, these seats are taken', even though I was there first. My friends pulled me back and I ended up sitting next to them and noticed that not all seats were occupied. Several were just spaces to store their lunch and book bags, and for their outer clothing.
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Out with the old....
by wha happened? ini purchased a condo late last year and due to my personal schedule, i wasn't able to redo it to my preferance until a few months ago.
all the heavy work is done.
now just replacing electrical outlets, fixtures and such.
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My ailing grandmother moved out of her spacious home and into a more smaller, yet more convenient place for her ongoing care. She had a library of old publications, both in Spanish and English. Though one of my brothers reluctantly offered to take them so as not to appear to show disrespect for the publications, the decision was made to toss them into the skip and to count her time doing it because there was the possibility of someone finding a bunch of books there and taking one.
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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!
by rip van winkle inthis is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
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I openly wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that you can't use pseudonyms on incorporating documents?
The Sparlockian Voice is a poor choice of a title for the official newsletter. Only a select people will get the humour in it. To anyone else, it might sound like a title for an episode on Star Trek. 'Captain - these transmissions we have intercepted contain... the Sparlockian Voice!'
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Millions now living will never die - false prophecy yet?
by slimboyfat inrutherford wrote the booklet of that name in 1920. is that definitively a false prophecy yet?
even if everyone who was alive in 1920 survived armageddon, if it was to come today, would that amount to millions of people?
according to wikipedia there are 316,600 people who are a 100 years old or older.
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Those few hundred thousand people remaining from 1920 would also have to be either Witnesses or those who have never been preached to and never had the choice. The ones who did manage to slam the door in the face of a JW in the following 93 years, thus rejecting the JW message, cannot be counted as one of the 'millions'.
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JW-land is now bigger than Switzerland!
by slimboyfat ini notice the latest yearbook was making a big think about jws being more populous than the country of switzerland.
jws have overtaken a number of small countries in recent years, such as norway, denmark, israel, el salvador, finland, georgia, hong kong and new zealand.
they will be overtaking places like austria, portugal, belgium and greece next.
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The point is that JWs are obsessed with numbers and believe that this is all a sign of the last days, God's approval and blessing, and the their rich spiritual heritage.
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The antidote to the myth that JWs are declining
by slimboyfat inone of the most persistent myths on this website is that jws are already in decline, the rot has set in, and the descent of the watchtower is inevitable from here on in.
unfortunately the facts do not bear this out.
jws are still increasing even in most developing countries, and they are still growing worldwide at a faster rate than the general population.
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What is disturbing to me is that the increases, though modest, are still increases. JWs have to be one of the more meticulous religions out there in only counting as members those who still actually attend services regularly. And not only that, but you need to actively preach for them, otherwise you fall off the member rolls. Contrast that with someone who was baptised as a Catholic in São Paulo in 1972. This person doesn't even have to enter another church for 40 years, and guess what? They are still counted among Brazil's 123 million Catholics. All they would need to do is self-identify as such. I'd be curious to see the real numbers on all the various Christian sects if they used the same criteria as the JWs use and wonder how it compares to the worldwide JW numbers.
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Valedictorian Rips Up Preapproved Speech, Recites Prayer Instead
by Sam Whiskey inreally proud of this young man for his speech.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nir4zbz18e.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/valedictorian-rips-preapproved-speech-recites-prayer-instead-172941933.html.
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Not true! Like Marvin, I am just a huge AAWA fan!
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Valedictorian Rips Up Preapproved Speech, Recites Prayer Instead
by Sam Whiskey inreally proud of this young man for his speech.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nir4zbz18e.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/valedictorian-rips-preapproved-speech-recites-prayer-instead-172941933.html.
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Tsk Tsk. You should know that brains have no nerves in them. They can operate on brains without anesthetics. Show me proof of a human brain that can actually feel localised pain before you make these unsupported assertions.
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Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, suicide attempt
by RubaDub inwow, just reported that paris was rushed to the hospital with slit wrists.. i normally have a lot to say but this one is a very sad situation.. rub a dub.
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The BOE in Encino needs to get in on this, since Paris is an unbaptised publisher. Get back to the KH and beg for forgiveness or be marked. Having your famous father die and then become absorbed into the JW life almost immediately is a certain recipe for disaster. It had to be bad if she went back to a 'mother' that swiftly abandoned her for a cash payout.