besides the bible, songbook, kingdom ministry, and draw close to jehovah book, are there any other books i need in order to attend the tuesday/wensday/thursday night meeting.
do they still use a book for the theocratic ministry school and is it the same one from 7+ years ago?.
Great link from jgnat.
The key pages are 78-82.
These are the student talk points to work on, and the permissable settings for sisters talks, such as setting 14 "witnessing informally in a waiting room" (invariable the doctors), and setting 25 "Working with someone in the Pioneers Assist Others program" (which was discontinued years ago).
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i want to thank ms concernd and leaving quietly in advance for the idea for this topic.. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cognitive_dissonance.
this is an example of an article on emailing and how mind control is done through the wbats which leads to cognitive dissonance.
Love it that the WT warns against urban myths.
Maybe they should have checked up on snopes before that assembly account of someone shooting himself in the head and surviving.
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besides the bible, songbook, kingdom ministry, and draw close to jehovah book, are there any other books i need in order to attend the tuesday/wensday/thursday night meeting.
do they still use a book for the theocratic ministry school and is it the same one from 7+ years ago?.
It's not the TMS guidebook any more, it's the Benefit book.
so i have been told that all kingdom halls are to have a large jw.org sign placed prominently out the front..... can anyone confirm this?.
Won't this constitute idolatry?
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to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: branch visit in november 2014. dear brothers:.
in our letter dated february 19, 2014, to all congregations in the united states branch ter- ritory, you were informed of a special weekend program to be held on saturday, november 8, 2014, and sunday, november 9, 2014. this program is in connection with the branch visit scheduled for the united states and will be broadcast to locations throughout the branch territory.
we are pleased to inform you of some of these arrangements.. since the goal is to allow as many as possible the opportunity to benefit from this branch visit program, provision will be made to allow any kingdom hall properly equipped to receive the broadcast.
nonjwspouse I'd like to see which of those tech companies they invested in. ;) My bet, each one that is used.
In the UK they have a national arrangement for Global4Solutions to be the ISP of choice.
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recently had a discussion with a surgeon who said jw parents "usually" (her word, not mine) privately say they will take blood if the provider gets a court order.. yet another person, with no connection to dubs and no motive to make this up, saying this same thing.
interesting.. i'm surprised the thought police have not come out with an article saying jehoopla reads the hearts and judges as bloodguilty those who are relieved when forced to take blood..
I'm pretty sure the WT covered this in an article a few years ago.
Now I've got to do some research!!!!
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ive given this new arrangement a lot of detailed thought and how greatly it benefits the wt and how much it puts a strain on each congregation.. first, let me explain how the old arrangement worked.. you had 3 donation boxes in each kingdom hall.
one for worldwide work, one for kingdom hall construction and one for congregation contributions.. the congregation contribution box accounted for about 60-75% of all donations.
the world wide work box probably accounted for 20-30% and the kingdom hall construction for about 5% of the contributions.
Unless you need a new build or full refund, you will probably be told that the money isn't meant for small jobs, just save up and sort that yourself.
Oh, and while you're saving up you can't reduce your monthly tithe.
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the catholic church has tradition and magesterium.. protestants have sola fide and sola scriptura.. mormons have 12 apostles and a priesthood.. muslims have the mullahs and the hidden imam.. 7th day adventists have the "visions" of ellen white.. jehovah's witnesses have the mouthpiece of god; i.e.
fds or faithful and discreet slave.. .
all these religions have something in common--mystical links to justify their own authority!.
Oh Terry! You are out of date with your teachings!!
Ref you points:
1. For a start, there is no longer a slave 'class'.
2. The slave only came into existence in 1919.
3. There was no slave in 1918, unclean or otherwise.
4. The slave is not the remnant, just the GB.
5. OK, we can agree on this.
You're just not keeping up with the chariot!!
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*** w75 5/1 p. 285 a contrastmissionaries with an urgent, lifesaving work ***.
another speaker, f. w. franz, the societys vice-president, forcefully impressed on the audience the urgency of the christian preaching work.. he stressed that, according to dependable bible chronology, 6,000 years of human history will end this coming september according to the lunar calendar.
this coincides with a time when the human species [is] about to starve itself to death, as well as its being faced with poisoning by pollution and destruction by nuclear weapons.. franz added: theres no basis for believing that mankind, faced with what it now faces, can exist for the seventh thousand-year period under the present system of things.
Found another, largely unreferenced, quote pertaining to 1975:
If you lived during all this hype, what would you think this means "in terms of real freedom and liberation from God's viewpoint"?
*** w72 8/1 pp. 462-463 par. 2 Cooperating Fully with God’s Appointed Ones ***
2 It is not our purpose to discuss chronology here, yet feel free to ask any of Jehovah’s witnesses to show you from the Scriptures the evidence that we are just a few short years away from the completion of six thousand years of man’s existence on earth, and ask them what they think this means in terms of real freedom and liberation from God’s viewpoint. They will be happy to share this information with you.
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from the book "the divine plan of the ages" - c.t.
russell 1886. as a forcible illustration we mention the sodomites.
surely, if we shall find the restitution of the sodomites clearly taught, we may feel satisfied of the truth of this glorious doctrine of restitution for all mankind, spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets.... unto the jews of capernaum he said, "if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in sodom, it would have remained until this day.
I think the full list of changing views on this is:
WILL THE MEN OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH BE RESURRECTED?
1879 YES WT July, 1879 p.8
1952 NO WT 6/1/52 p.338
1965 YES WT 8/1/65 p.479
1967 NO WT 1/7/67 p.409
1974 YES Awake! 8/10/74 p.20
1988 NO WT 6/1/88 p.31
1988 SOME WILL Insight On The Scriptures, Vol.1, p.616 (released June 17th 1988)
1988 YES Insight On The Scriptures, Vol.2, p.985
1988 NO Revelation - Its Grand Climax p.273
1988 YES You Can Live Forever... p.179 (Old Edition)
1988 NO You Can Live Forever... p.179 (New Edition)
Note: Insight vol. 2 p. 985 says it was the cities that underwent everlasting destruction and not the people, as if the houses, roads and buildings committed the sins!
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