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  No more 3-day DCs starting in 2013?

  by respectful_observer in

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  2. beliefs

  apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.

  some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.

  anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.

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  They're already holding District Conventions at Assembly Halls ... Turnersville and Jersey City, NJ are two examples.... If they do the math and calculate that the savings by going this route are greater than any earnings from public venues, hotels, etc. then they'll find ways to make it happen.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 07-08-2012 WT Study (GIFT MARRIAGE)

  by blondie in

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  do you plan to apply in your life?.

  the world book encyclopedia: a man and woman.

  jw parents are allowed to request a bride price for their daughters..... .

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  thanks Blondie; nice job, as usual.... aw geez, is that what I missed yesterday by taking my grandson to a baseball game?
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  Thoughts on the current Governing Body

  by JRK in

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  2. friends

  here is a list of the current governing body members:.

  gerrit losch: born 1942, appointed july 1, 1994 .

  guy h. pierce: born 1935, appointed oct. 1, 1999 .

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  Seven facrs, and nobody's smiling? Doesn't their photographer know how to say "cheese?" What a bunch of pompous non-entities!
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  Watchtower Online Library

  by enigma1863 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hey, did you guys know the wts has there library on line.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/h/r1/lp-e. it only goes back to the year 2000 though.

  anyone know any funny quotes to look up?

  i wanna see if they did some editing..

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  So it appears that they're really closing the books on the Fred Franz (died December 22, 1992) era. As De Gaulle once said: " The cemetery is full of indispensible people."
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  DC Ramblings: A non-comprehensive review of some lowlights

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  recently attended the dc.

  there have been mny threads already on this, but here are some random thoughts giving my take on what i saw & heard.... .

  -- attendance was about the same as last year, averaging around 8000 per session.

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  "Jehovah provides all the spiritual food that is needed - but some feel it is not enough. Some are studying the original Hebrew and Greek that the Bible was written in, as if to check the accuracy of the New World Translation, then discussing their findings in private groups and online. You should read the foreward to the New World Translation. The New World Translation Committee had Jehovah's backing, these other groups do not."

  ... So I guess we older JWs will hae to expunge the Kingdom Interlinear Translation of The Christian Greek Scriptures (of which they produced at least 850,000) and Wilson's The Empahtic Diaglott from out home libraries. ....
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  Watchtower Society Fate?

  by mind blown in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  from what i'm seeing on other sites many are now coming out of the woodwork to file charges against the wts.. in all reality with the conti case payout, could the wts and individual congregations (also having to pay) really sustain these blows?

  and if so how would this play out?

  they're not as rich as rc religion.

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  ...Not only against the Watchtower, but when will Caesar prosecute local elders who willfully conceal the identities of kinwn pedophiles in their midst, and the WT lawyers throw them under the bus?

  Holy Monetary Penalties, Jail Terms, Batman!!
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  Spare the Rod and spoil the child, How did that work for you

  by jam in

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  2. friends

  in proverbs there are several verses on the wisdom.

  of using the rod for discipline.

  the notion that children.

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  It seems the WT has toned down its "spare the rod" rhetoric over the past decade.
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  Hardest most awkward parts of being mentally out but physically in

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  i am still physically in but am completely out mentally.. i was curious for those who spent some time in the borg while being mentally out or are still in that position, what is the worst, hardest or most awkward parts... for me i intensly dislike attending the meetings however its bearable as i can just let my mind wander, but field service is awful.

  i cannot try to bring someone in to a group that i am trying to plot a way out of.

  so now i try my best to either spend the day driving around to others fruitless rv's (we have somewhat rural territory) or eating out at an extended breakfast or if door to door cannot be avoided, i try to work alone and not ring bells.

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  ... having to inconspuously gag in the presence of a dubbie who speaks of being "in the truth."
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  Latest convention brochure on,,, the Governing Body

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've finally get my hands on a pdf of one of the two newly released brochures, this one entitled "who are doing jehovah's will today?".

  here's a link so you can download your own copy.... http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/98881625/file.html.

  predictably, the brochure is extremely vague on key topics.

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  Quendi, what "expunged" the "types" and "antitypes" theology from the current JW lexicon is that death of Fred Franz, and the subsequent lack of anyone remotely capable of donning his mantle. The current seven-man GB is a singularly unimpressive lot of apparatchiks, not one of whom does any writing for the publications. During their watch, the once highly-anticipated "new light" book releases of prophetic commentary at yearly conventions have under given way to fluffy, insubstantial Bible Atlases, glitzy brochures of self-promoting revisionist JW history, DVDs, CDs, songbooks, etc.
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  Website by MODERATE JWs who recognize issues with the religion

  by Hermano in

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  2. friends

  found this website this weekend by jws who recognize there are issues within the organization and are calling for change.

  this is the type of forum moderate jws needs, imho.

  glad to see moderate jws are out there and are doing something.. http://www.jwreform.org/.

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  "Room 215 , There is a petition with some "signatures." Every movement's got to start somewhere. "

  Noted, Hermano, with thanks; noboby would be happier than I if proven wrong or overly pessimistic.