ExBethelitenowPIMA

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  A City Having Real Foundations.

  by LostintheFog1999 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone asked me recently when did i start to have doubts as an elder about what i was teaching from the platform.. i have given it a lot of thought and i can say that it was when i was delivering a public talk about the book of hebrews.

  so i paused and read it again.. i looked at the audience and said to them let's look at the cross-reference for this verse which is hebrews 12:22 and i read that verse.

  after which i remember saying "and this is how the outline puts it.... " and i read from the outline verbatim.. abraham was not looking forward to an earthly kingdom hope.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  You can play the Bible like a musical instrument, it can play many tunes depending on how you play it.
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  A BEARD PREDICTION FOR 2024

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  fyi, i posted this prediction on my facebook page last night and it has received 224 likes and there have been 83 comments made.

  many of the comments are hilarious.. .

  a beard prediction for 2024:.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Just heard that those in Bethel had at least a weeks extra notice on the beard new light.

  Many Bethelites had stopped shaving at least a week before the new light was announced to the world. Now some of these bethelites have proper beards already.

  Oh how times have changed, could you ever imagine going to Bethel and seeing all the brothers with beards?

  Id say this year 2023 has marked a very significant shift in the organisation with no more reports and the fact that you don’t have to take Pascal’s wager you can now wager the JWs have it wrong and change your bet after horse race has finished and see who won ✅
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  The Governing Body - Both sides of their coin

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how many can you think of.... they speak for god.. it would seem presumptuous to say they speak for god,.

  they are neither inspired nor infallible.. they are god's only channel for issuing truth here on earth.

  they won't be apologising for any errors/falsehoods they have promoted in the past that fail.. congregation members must be quick and apologise for their errors to avoid harsh discipline/disfellowshipping.. when they change a major belief/doctrine you must not complain or criticise them.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  So many times it’s been drilled into us follow direction even if it doesn’t make sense just obey.

  what annoys me is how we keep getting covid brought up like the GBs direction protected everyone. They want to get credit for telling everyone to wear masks and wash hands and isolate. But they were late giving that direction, we were still going to meetings and then they said meet in peoples homes for the last week before zoom and nobody was wearing masks at that stage which was the most dangerous part. They were too late, and then there was the stupid late direction which was after covid was just like a cold and it went on far longer than was necessary, the time when covid wasn’t that bad anymore. They had it exactly the wrong way around.

  And then there are still the answers up in the watchtower about how great the GB direction that the covid vaccines were safe and from Jehovah.

  Follow direction no mater what, even if it is exactly the wrong way around
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  A BEARD PREDICTION FOR 2024

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  fyi, i posted this prediction on my facebook page last night and it has received 224 likes and there have been 83 comments made.

  many of the comments are hilarious.. .

  a beard prediction for 2024:.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  I’m interested to know how many have stopped shaving.

  people I ask it’s between 20-30% of some congregations
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  JWLITE

  by Teddnzo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  even elders can be part of the new jw lite brigade these days.

  they don’t need to go on door to door anymore and there is no requirement for anything really.. taking meeting parts is all dead easy you could turn up on the day with zero preparation because it’s all in the meeting workbook.. quarterly elders meetings are just old men having a good old natter just like old men do down the pub.. congregations could be likened to pubs or bars these days just without the drinks, those come at other times.. no need for territory maps, these almost went away with covid letter writing now they are extremely slow getting finished as those who still go door to door only do ten mins.. you could even voice your questions these days about things the gb say and then just say “we can’t be dogmatic we just don’t know”.

  i predict they will say this about 1914 soon..

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  There are still the hardliners, who tell parents off because their kids are not zealots who just want cleaning jobs so they can pioneer. Those parents just say they don’t want their children to struggle like they did because they only got cleaning jobs to pioneer.

  the two new younger members of the GB seem to mark a new period of JWlite. The load is getting lighter and the yoke is far more comfortable.

  Otherwise there won’t be enough sisters left to do microphones let alone brothers
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  So what happens next...

  by Farmer Jim1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with what is arguably the biggest change to jw life in recent decades (the scrapping of publishers counting hours) what does this lead to?.

  in my mind these are the results;.

  1) a massive decrease in 'preaching hours'.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Apathy = JWlite

  The top dogs don’t seem to mind it, it is what will keep the con going where it would have collapsed by now.

  There are still the hardliners, who tell parents off because their kids are not zealots who just want cleaning jobs so they can pioneer. Those parents just say they don’t want their children to struggle like they did because they only got cleaning jobs to pioneer.

  the two new younger members of the GB seem to mark a new period of JWlite. The load is getting lighter and the yoke is far more comfortable.

  Otherwise there won’t be enough sisters left to do microphones let alone brothers
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  Leaving update

  by MissDaSilva in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just to give you guys an update on mine and my son’s exit from the matrix.

  my son put on his instagram page he was no longer a jw and wished everyone a merry christmas.

  🎄💥😳the blocks/unfollows came thick and fast.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  Ron, yes exactly. Cut off those hardliners who you would be happy to never speak to again. But keep the good ones
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  Further education

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just saw on a video that there has been a change about further education.

  here is a screenshot of a letter that went to all elders.

  i am an elder but i don’t remember this one, perhaps it is only for some areas?.

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  I’ve had it on authority from someone in USA that this letter is not a fraud and it was sent to a few select congregations in the states only.

  Is there anyway to confirm if this letter was real or fake?

  Shunned podcast YouTube channel insists the letter is real and it was really from the branch
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  Load is getting lighter and yolk so kindly it’s hardly there👏

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i heard an answer recently about how jesus said my yolk is kindly and my load is light.. he actually as good as said jwlite but not in so many words.. he said jehovah and jesus know it’s getting harder in these critical times so have made the load even lighter and the yolk even more kindly with padding.. all the changes recently, no more reports, beards allowed it’s jw lite with actually calling it such.

  zoom meetings and ministry groups, new meeting format in january that is so easy there is no preparation needed.

  anyone could turn up on the day not even having looked at the material and give any item as it’s all on rails.. people were talking after the meeting “there is so much new light it’s as if jesus is saying we know you are finding things hard, here let me make the load even lighter still.”.

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  How much lighter can Jesus load get and how more comfortable can his yoke be?

  If someone stays on zoom meetings and ministry and only goes in person a few times a year then how much easier could it be?

  If men grow beards and can still have all the advantages, you won’t be looked down on.

  No more reporting requirements, and this is just the start. I predict the load getting even lighter still, and the yoke even more comfortable.

  Yes I predict next sisters can wear pants if it’s cold and they say their legs get cold, but then it will carry over and sisters will wear pants a lot of the time.

  Out of all the celebrations I think birthdays will be the first to have the load lighter. Then blood fractions will go even further like how the cell saver machine can be used and maybe even a halfway option to have blood transfusions if life depended on it. This new direction will of course be taken further.

  The advanced education will also have new directions saying as long as aware of dangers it’s ok to go for advanced education and this again will be taken further than the GB wanted.
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  Leaving update

  by MissDaSilva in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just to give you guys an update on mine and my son’s exit from the matrix.

  my son put on his instagram page he was no longer a jw and wished everyone a merry christmas.

  🎄💥😳the blocks/unfollows came thick and fast.

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  ExBethelitenowPIMA

  I would advise caution.

  Why make things so difficult that all JWs will shun you?

  Surely it would be better to fade, then you will be loved bombed anytime anyone runs into you