oh wow..... the public talk today is certainly embarrassing for witnesses!.
started (completely left field too...seemed to come out of nowhere) with condemning homosexuality, and anyone who even tolerates it.
if you like tv shows or movies with gay characters, you are "just as bad" (eg modern family tv show).
Does this count as "preaching hatred" or intolerance?
The police may be interested in hearing the recording of that meeting.
I always wonder how groups such as Stonewall would react if they were invited to a meeting where the public talk spoke about homosexuality.
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so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.
he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.
the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.
Among the 250+ awards won by Pixar are Grammy's, Golden globes, Acadamy awards, BAFTA's, and seven Oscars.
I guess WT have done much better.
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dear brothers:.
you will be pleased to know that the governing body has approved displaying the official.
logo for jw.org on assembly halls and kingdom halls.
You guys are all obviously mistaken. a JW.ORG image at the Kingdom Hall? Never!
Awake! 2014 October p. 15
"Veneration of images is a religious practice that has no support in the Bible. For that reason, Jehovah’s Witnesses do not venerate images, nor do they have religious images in their homes or in their places of worship"
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i checked jw.org earlier today.
the october 1 wt was up, but the pdf function did not work-still you could read the articles.
the october g was up too, no pdf but you could read the articles.. oddly, after the article on belize it had an item about not missing the upcoming 2014 memorial of jesus' death.
The pdf of the October 1, 2014 Awake! is now up on jw.org too
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201410/
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consider an example i often hear.
youre sitting at a dinner table.
the topic of conversation is regarding your mother.
I’d like to hear people’s objective thoughts on the justification of shunning.
The justification should come from the Bible, not from peoples thoughts.
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if you live in the twin cities in minnesota, come to the uu church in bloomington on sunday, july 27th.
i'm giving a presentation there about jws and about leaving, shunning, things like that.
one hour, 10:30, free on-site childcare available.. here's a link with more info.
Good call OneEyedJoe.
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not sure if this bothered other people, but it absolutely drove me crazy!!!!.
ok, typical annual memorial.
the emblems are being passed around.
It was like watching the Chuckle Brothers (to you, to me) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZU61k1ibw
In fact this should be a new song in the Songbook, specifically for passing the emblems around to.
If the sound guy had started playing The Macerena, it would have made the whole thing LESS mad!
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not sure if this bothered other people, but it absolutely drove me crazy!!!!.
ok, typical annual memorial.
the emblems are being passed around.
This past memorial I saw the attendants pass the emblems around the hall, then one approached the speaker for the following drama to unfold:
1. Attendant passes bread to speaker (to serve the speaker)
2. Speaker returns bread (after being served)
3. Attendant passes bread back to speaker (so speaker can serve the attendant)
4. Speaker passes bread to attendant (to serve attendant)
5. Attendant returns bread (after being served)
6. Speaker passes bread to attendant (so attendant can return it to the table)
Repeat for wine.
Now reread those dance steps and imagine it happening in just a few seconds!
It looked mad. Absolutely mad.
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yes, you read correctly..... all appointed men have been told in a new letter that they have to pioneer to "set the lead" whenever there is a "special" campaign month.
they use some scripture saying that these ones have to show by example.... so for any of us who are appointed and have learned ttatt, it is going to be very hard to fade during this time!.
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stuckinarut2 "Is there something holding you back from putting in the application brother...perhaps a reason why you cant sign the form?..."
For every question you get asked, ask one back. ALWAYS respond with a question.
eg, when you were asked the above:
"What reason are you suggesting?"
"Have you heard something that you wish to share with me?"
"If I don't pioneer will Jehovah destroy me?"
"If I don't pioneer will you remove me?"
"Do you know that your questioning makes you look distrustful and discouraging?"
"Are you trying to be the master over my faith?"
"Do you know all of my circumstances? Doesn't Proverbs have something to say about that?"
"Is this your idea of encouragement?"
The list is endless. Just don't answer with a statement.
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this is one of the saddest articles in the wt library... just two years after the organ transplant ban... a jw decided to not donate a perfectly good kidney because of this doctrine... which was changed in 1980. .
*** w69 11/15 p. 701 appreciating jehovahs protection ***.
a difficult decision.
I wonder how he felt once the ban on donating organs and the 'cannibalism' stance was changed.
It would either have messed up his mind knowing that he could have saved a life but didn't, or he would reason that he did what was asked of him so his conscience was clear.
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