Or an “Elder” barely in his twenties trying to counsel a woman of late middle-age.
All she would have to do would be remind him that she “once used to change his nappies” . After that, it would just about be game over!
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How are new Servants and Elders appointed?
by no-zombie innow that we have the tick-a-box field service reporting method, how are brothers measured fit for an appointment as a ms or elder?
has there been clarification in any of the recent elders schools or in meetings with the co?.
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1925--2025... 100 years since Rutherford promised paradise earth.
by Witness 007 inrutherford wrote in 1925 "millions now living will never die"...they died.
he also promised that moses and david and all the old bible heroes would live with him in his mansion.
only he lived there till he died in 1942...100 years and not much changed..
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Rivergang
Ro1234,
Your guess is as good as anybody else’s.
(Which to date have added up to five-eights of three-quarters of seven-tenths of two- thirds of Fanny Adams!)
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FAQ LIES: Dress Codes
by neat blue dog inspeaking to the general public:.
frequently asked questions...is there a dress code?no.
however, jehovah’s witnesses try to dress modestly and respectfully.. meanwhile, speaking to members out of the other side of their mouth:.
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Rivergang
Touchofgrey
Right on the money!
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Jesus Christ Will Arrive Within The Next Four Minutes! (parody)
by Nathan Natas inyes, you read that correctly!.
jesus h. christ will arrive within the next four minutes!
in fact, by the time you read this, he may have alreadt arrrived!.
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Rivergang
Experts are the biggest idiots
Yeah - I reckon!
(In the field of work I am engaged in, we get that all the time).
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1925--2025... 100 years since Rutherford promised paradise earth.
by Witness 007 inrutherford wrote in 1925 "millions now living will never die"...they died.
he also promised that moses and david and all the old bible heroes would live with him in his mansion.
only he lived there till he died in 1942...100 years and not much changed..
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Rivergang
Fifty years on, also, from 1975 - another date they affixed great importance to. (With identical results to their 1925 prediction).
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Is Jesus the Creator?
by Sea Breeze inthat's what the word says.
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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..
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Rivergang
One thing at least remains obvious - this 1,500 year long argument is still no nearer to being resolved than it ever was.
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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’
by LongHairGal inthis information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
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Rivergang
LHG,
From the author David Ignatius:
”Often, the biggest decisions we make in life aren’t really decisions at all. They are the product of habit and momentum - things that have been going on for long enough that that have built up their own speed and force, and have become difficult to stop or deflect.
So you let them happen.
A lot of marriages are like that, and career choices and decisions about where to go to college, or whether to have children, or where to live. We call them decisions, but they really aren’t.They come to us pre-made, the sum of so many previous events and determinations that they have have a weight which feels like a layer of time”.
In short, we are not as free to make our own choices as some may have us believe!
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They are running out of people to do their stuff.
by liam inthis is the watchtower study article being studied today.
so it’s the current new light!.
what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.
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Rivergang
Journeyman,
Not a truer word spoken!
Whatever disaster now follows is entirely of their own making, and their own stupid fault.
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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’
by LongHairGal inthis information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
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Rivergang
Elder Berry
What you are describing is just a continuation of the old theme “Promise them a Pie in the Sky, so they will be content for now to have crap”.
The problem with that idea is a thing called the internet, which makes it harder and harder to keep up that “Pie in the Sky” charade. (Particularly when it becomes obvious to all who make even a cursory search that the JWs have been waving around almost forever that same carrot on a stick).
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My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.
by ExCircuitOverseer inhere is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.
my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.
i had actually become a circuit overseer!
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Rivergang
Ex Circuit Overseer,
Out of curiosity, was your experience one of the “Road to Damascus” type - or was it more accumulative, over a longer period of time?