FedUpJW

Joined

• started 37 topics
• posted 2,313 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by FedUpJW

• 
  36

  Why are the 2 newly appointed Governing Body Members from Bethel, when there are anointed ones all over the world? they could have used.

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  library.

  books & brochures.

  enjoy life forever!—an interactive bible course.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  Why are the two new ones from bethell? Because ones from any further away are not as able to kiss ass?
• 
  19

  NWPublisher app

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard on the meeting about apps called nwpublisher and cartsmart.

  new world publisher (nw publisher) is a free apple ios and google android app created by jehovah’s witnesses for jehovah’s witnesses.

  congregation publishers can install new world publisher on their mobile devices and be more united and connected with their congregation.. cartsmart was built to streamline the way we schedule our public witnessing shifts.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  then everyone can see the changes straight away.

  I heard about it and read about it on the NWPublisher web site. Waayyy to much private information that appears to be open for any prying eyes. Of course when has people privacy ever mattered to JW"s?

  If I were still in I would never download that app.

  This NW app may be the brainchild of the brothers who run online and physical store carrying all JW items - in upstate NY.

  It's based out of Australia, with the disclaimer in fine print at the bottom: Please Note: All ideas and opinions on this website are our own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of JW.org or the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. This is not an official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses and is not an official program or app of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  
  
• 
  34

  Next change?

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, first the turning in time got axed, now beards are okay, what is up next?

  women wearing dress slacks to the meeting?

  birthdays becoming acceptable?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  My speculation? That women would no longer be forced into the silly habit of scurrying around looking for some type of hat, or resorting to a paper napkin to have a "proper" head covering.

  If one reads the scriptures they manipulate to force this issue that requirement is NOT scriptural. After Paul rants about head covering this is what is said, "(1 Corinthians 11:15) 15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? Because her hair is given her instead of a headdress*. . . and the footnote states very plainly *** Rbi8 1 Corinthians 11:15 ***Or, “given her as a covering.”
  
  
  
• 

  CAPTCHA

  by FedUpJW in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  deleted in favor of a pm

• 

  FedUpJW

  Deleted in favor of a PM
  
• 
  70

  Beards are now allowed - New Light

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lett has announced in the latest video update that jehovah has dignified the brothers by now letting them to choose for themselves whether they want to have a beard or not -.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/global/2023-governing-body-update-8/.

  this applies worldwide and to all brothers in any position..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  letting hair in the ears and nose grow out?

  If they let their ear hair grow out long enough it could be used as a thin bad looking comb over, and nose hair if long enough could be combed to each side for a bad looking mustache for those who could not grow lip hair very good.
  
• 
  13

  New GB update - beards are now perfectly ok (no really!)

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  to save y’all the agony of having to sit & watch lett (looking even more puffy and jaundiced than the last time), here is a summary:.

  beards are now perfectly fine for anyone & everyone, including ministerial servants, elders, and “special full time servants” (cos and betheliites).. but don’t go and feel “vindicated” — even if you knew you were right about beards, you shouldn’t run ahead of jehovah’s “chariot”.. so there you go.. if you need explicit permission from a puffy steroid addled facial contortionist with an increasingly ridiculous combover to make personal grooming decisions…you might be in a cult .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  .
  
• 
  36

  2023-12-15--Beards-BOE!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  governing body update #8. beards--see page 3 #2. page 1.--https://imgbox.com/qs27zbgh.

  page 2.--https://imgbox.com/r4jz1fvm .

  page 3.--https://imgbox.com/wynbxegx .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  It’s a concession that costs them nothing, widens the pool of “qualified brothers” to keep things running

  I don't have a horse in this race, but my speculation is this would be the reason. Beards and/or low field serve-us hours were always the stick used to beat men back into submission to congregation control with the promise of the "privileges" carrot. Both were used by men fading to get off the hamster wheel and have now been removed so that it will make it more difficult for any males in congregations to use either one as a tool to fade.
  
• 
  5

  That's it no more posting. I was the first to post beards are now allowed. Since then 2 more of the same!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  doesn't anyone ever scoll down first to see if the subject was already posted first?

  !.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  I see two that posted at the same time frame. Perhaps more than one person was typing and posted pretty well at the same time and they all came online at about the same time. That happens on a number of comment boards I have noticed. I'm sure no one did it intentionally to make you upset.
  
• 
  3

  JW's face certain death NOW.....

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...if they openly question/disagree with a current truth from the evil faithful slave - "truths" such as this one: .

  w83 10/1 p. 19 - "...a large number of the 1914 generation are still living today.

  of course, their numbers are steadily dwindling, and, therefore, sometime in the near future, we confidently can expect “the end” to come...".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  I asked and elder once "If a new understanding is the truth and it replaced an old understanding that was the complete opposite, and if the opposite of truth is a lie then which of the two understandings is a lie?"
• 
  21

  Retirement

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the difference is now blatantly obvious, older ones who went against direction of the gb and planned for retirement have relatively more comfortable lives.. those who trusted and followed gb direction never got further education or training, pioneered or spent most of their lives knocking on doors for free, making just enough to get by in a part time job.. if you followed direction from the gb then you thought the end was just around the corner so no need to plan for retirement.. now these ones have indeed got old which they were given the impression they never would.

  they are a burden on others.

  the state has to pay for them in their old age.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  FedUpJW

  My father was one of those who even though a servant and then elder for all his JW life used Proverbs 6: 6-8 as his guide. When someone would claim that it was the governing body who said to trust God to provide and Jesus said not to store up treasures on earth he would reply with Acts 5: 29 and say that he chose to obey God instead of men.

  As a result he saved, he invested wisely, and when he retired he and my mother lived a modest but comfortable life. He had enough so that if there were someone in genuine need he could privately offer some assistance, and not limited to just JW's

  I will give an example. A young child had died and his town's local newspaper had an article about how the parents were pretty well destitute due to medical bills for the child. The funeral home was refusing to take care of final arrangements without payment in advance, and the county was going to put the child in a potters field. My parents arranged to pay for her funeral, and all the medical costs on the condition they remain totally anonymous, even though the parents released the fact that some unknown person had done that kindness for them.