so the generations overlap, like the shingles on a roof..... but is still one generation... all quite logical
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CO visit comments: Facebook & new "generation" teaching
by sir82 injust a couple more gems from the recent co visit:.
in his meeting with elders / ms, he was warning of the "dangers" of the internet.
following is a more or less accurate quotation:.
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Special meeting in Vienna, Austria June 8th, 2010
by Desilusionnee inwe've got a special meeting in vienna, austria on june 8th (all austrian jw are invited to come to vienna) and i'm really curious about what they are going to tell us.
did you have such a meeting?
desillusionnee.
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I know this sounds cynical, but these events sound like excuses for junkets for the GB. They get to fly somewhere first-class, get treated like the pope, adulation by the masses and all they have to do is give a one-hour talk, scaring the audience with armageddeon talk, and "soon, very soon" pronouncements.
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New CO talk: Be loyal to Org. even if you get weird instructions or can prove them wrong doctrinally!
by sir82 intheme was something about "loyalty to jehovah's visible organization".. i have neither the time nor inclination to summarize the whole thing, but a few points stood out:.
even if it causes you personal hardship.
example: joshua & caleb returned from spy trip to promised land with good report, but were "outvoted" by the other 10 spies.
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Mary, those quotes from the fifties are very interesting; I believe JWs overall, and within obvious limits, had a lot more latitude to speek freely then than now. A lot has changed since the internet ear open the floodgates on disclosure
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DC 2010 Releases and info
by JWFreak insorry i have been very busy and forgot.
as promised.
friday afternoon.
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As I've said here before, I bet that the Jeremiah book is nothing more than a warmed-over series of WT articles from 1979-1980, authored by Freddie Franz. There's nobody there remotely capable of his unique brand of eccentric Bible exegesis. They're left with self-promotion and behavior manipulation as their two remaining cards.
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New CO talk: Be loyal to Org. even if you get weird instructions or can prove them wrong doctrinally!
by sir82 intheme was something about "loyalty to jehovah's visible organization".. i have neither the time nor inclination to summarize the whole thing, but a few points stood out:.
even if it causes you personal hardship.
example: joshua & caleb returned from spy trip to promised land with good report, but were "outvoted" by the other 10 spies.
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They don't dare repeat this dreck to an uninitiated audience; no wonder they've conceived a "Kool-Aid" WT to screen off craziness of this sort from the "worldly" (read "normal and well-adjusted") public!
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2010 "Remain Close to Jehovah" Talks
by garlic81 ininformation taken from the june 2010 awake.
my guesses for releases this year will be an update creation book and a book on jeremiah.
two books were released as recently as 2008 so i don't think this would be out of the question.. friday.
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I heard they were going to stitch together the series of 1979-1980 WT articles on Jeremiah and repackage it as a book. Since there's no one close to Freddy's skill at writing material of this ilk, these spirutally bankrupt geezers will recycle his stuff and fob it off as "new light."
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WOW!! The Finished Mystery SCAN showing Jesus was WORSHIPPED and was THE GOD!!!
by Lady Liberty inunbelievable!!.
just came across this tidbit from the finished mystery, from the organization, in the early years.
keep in mind that these bible students were supposedly selected out of all mankind on the earth to feed christs sheep at the proper time, with "spiritual food"...here is some of that "food" that was supposedly from christ himself:.
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It's another reason to regard a copy of The Finished Mystery as a worthwhile investment: it's fun to refer to some of its most remarkable passages -- many of them some of the nuttiest the WTBTS has ever published--- in casual conversation with JWs.
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No Shorts and T-Shirts After Convention - Remember?
by mentallyfree31 indoes everyone remember a few years back, when the km directed that nobody should wear shorts after the convention while out and about?
i don't have the reference, but i remember a brother in our hall made a comment that night at the meeting while it was being discussed.
he was a very poor brother, with 3 children.
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The solution is simple: NEVER wear a JW badge; then nobody can attribute what you're wearing -- or not wearing, as the case may be -- to your religion! In this instance, as in so many others, JWs, especially the young, are tuning them out in droves.
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586/587 the K.I.S.S. approach --- no VAT4956, Ptolemy, Josephus needed
by Alleymom innabonidus -- 17 years.
nebuchadnezzar -- 43 years.
nabonidus -- 17 years
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Just as our friend MJ's poinra out in his avatar: there's a king of Babylom omitted from the list: his name is "Nevawuzzah" and he ruled for 20 years!!
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A question for former Bethelites
by JeffT inwhat do the wives of the top guys, particularly the gb, do with themselves?
do they have "jobs" of some sort?
are they like uber-co's wifes (boy, that raises some interesting mental images of nosey busy bodies)?
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It would be unfair to characterise all the wives of long-time Bethelites based on cases I witnessed when I was there. Nontheless, I knew of the wives of two very highly placed men who had drinking problems serious enough to require intervention, and at least two cases of 40-something married women hitting on young Bethelites.