anyone else finding it troubling?
anyone feel it represents their views?.
is it being reported in usa/australia etc?.
The term 'racist' is applied just as unjustifiably in politics, as 'apostate' is in the JW's.
And with the same objective - to put people in a labelled box and shut down thinking.
That word has become so overused as an everyday, unthinking insult, it's true meaning has been all but lost.
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anyone else get the distinct impression that jws are being worked up into a frenzy with all the changes and activity nowadays?
by the end of august, there will have been four campaigns inside of a year.
one last november, a memorial campaign, a convention campaign and an advertise jw.org campaign.. then there's the conventions with all the hooplah around that with all the video, and the aggrandizement of synchronized gb talks.
At my last CA we were told by the DO (soon to be retired) that this year is bigger than the "Advertise Advertise Advertise" year.
We are to expect an exciting DC.
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i am sure we have all seen the recent letter to the boe concerning the change that will take place to the meeting arrangement during the week of the co visit.
to recap the basics: the meeting that usually contains the cong bible study (book study) and a co talk will be discontinued, publishers are encouraged to use their family worship night that week to cover book study material.. so here is a point that i think has been missed, or not even considered:.
if that particular meeting is hereby deleted from the schedule, the co and his wife will never ever have to participate in or go to another "book study", or "bible study" night again.
The CO's do love to work alongside the factory workers (publishers).
How else will they get ammunition to hammer the elders with?
It is by the CO going on the ministry with your average joe publisher that the elders are kept in a state of anguish over what the CO may hear.
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just heard from an elder.
he told me that there is another change to be announced in august.
he didn't know more about it.. any other info?.
BluePill2 "lift up a standard for the people"
A standard is a flag.
This will be the directive for every kingdom hall to display the jworg banner on the outside of the building, much like they have in NY.
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information on how to download the 1928 messenger in pdf will be given at the bottom of this post.. the messenger was the name given by the watchtower society for an occasional watchtower publication that reviewed conventions for bible students/jehovah's witnesses in the 1920s to 1940s.
there were issues published for (not a complete list) 1928, 1931, 1938 and a couple other years.
(perhaps someone else could give a complete list for us?
To complement Leolaia's photo on page 2, who's this sat next to Van Amburgh's wife?
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a couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".
overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.
the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.
For every teaching that has stayed the same, I can name another 5 that have changed.
Or, for every teaching that has stayed the same, I can name another one which has changed 5 times!
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i'm extremely neutral in our house, so it's not my influence - honest!.
my 11-year old is light-years advanced with his intelligence and humour.. he's going around the house singing "listen, obey, and be castrated.".
was not impressed.. pretty hard to contain my laughter..
Very funny kaik!
"Listen, Obey and Donate"
"But God's people never pass the plate"
"If you give everything, God will feel great"
"Listen, Obey and Donate"
Lolz
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waisted days and waisted nites.. freddy fender..
Erasure's "Joan"
Blind vision, Blind faith
You really can be sold If you dare to disagree
It's just not within the scheme of things
To give up your life so easily
That's not the way you're meant to be
What a waste of time and energy...
Blind vision, Blind faith
You really can't rely On what they tell you for effect
It's just not within the scheme of things
To give up your life so easily
That's not the way you're meant to be
What a waste of time and energy
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the article addressed luke 20:34-36 and now they finally admit jesus could have been referring to the heavenly resurrection.
they said "put simply, the answer is that we cannot say" which is surprising because they have something to say about everything.
perhaps all the old people who are waiting the new world as widow and widowers want to know if they have a chance to be reunited with their dead loved one.
In Luke 20:27-33 the sadducees posed a situation about a woman who had many husbands, one after the other, then asked Jesus "Who will she be married to in the new system?"
According to this latest teaching from the WT, Jesus didn't actually answer their question but talked about something else altogether different.
First instance of Theocratic Warefare?
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the article addressed luke 20:34-36 and now they finally admit jesus could have been referring to the heavenly resurrection.
they said "put simply, the answer is that we cannot say" which is surprising because they have something to say about everything.
perhaps all the old people who are waiting the new world as widow and widowers want to know if they have a chance to be reunited with their dead loved one.
@Designer Stubble
My favourite verse for these constantly changing teachings is Galatians 2:18:
"For if the very things that I once threw down I build up again, I demonstrate myself to be a transgressor."
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