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  Don't be too Christian, you'll raise red flags

  by neat blue dog in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for the past few years all my comments and talks have been a purely christian message.

  i tiptoe around wt dogma and focus on the basics of love, life compassion, etc.

  and i deliberately do not use jw terminology whenever i can.

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  Should have asked them why Bible talks about sins of David and all the other Bible person.
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  Brothers with hearts. Where are they?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one poster here mentioned how, after he was appointed as an elder, things took on a more "corporate" feel.

  i was an ms and as such went, dutifully, to the bi-annual meetings with the co. i was sorely disappointed.

  i had imagined sort of a round-table discussion of trends and potential difficulties in the congregation, along with a coordinated effort to help people out.

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  Think they thought it was only the preaching work that was important.back in the days of Rutherford. It's to late now for them to change things. They probably gonna convert everything to online religion. The only thing they still gonna put any effort on will be the preaching, that they think it's what workt out for them.
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  Brothers with hearts. Where are they?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one poster here mentioned how, after he was appointed as an elder, things took on a more "corporate" feel.

  i was an ms and as such went, dutifully, to the bi-annual meetings with the co. i was sorely disappointed.

  i had imagined sort of a round-table discussion of trends and potential difficulties in the congregation, along with a coordinated effort to help people out.

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  First of all if publisher starts improving he gets shut down by elder that are jealous of them. They usually want rutin and publisher not to improve to not shake things up. Plus they think it makes them look bad if someone that is not appointed make improvements. You have almost be a CO to make improvements in the platform and be left alone. They took a good decision shutting down the school. The quality of that arrangement is more a embarrassment the anything else. But that goes back to the ,40s when it started. If the organization didn't use God's name I would see it more like a comedy club.
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  New Governing Body member in video

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he hasn't been in the limelight before, so here's his debut:.

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201804_13_video.

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  A least he seems to be sound of mind and sticks to Bible and not how tight pants should be.
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  They have a point...

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last week in the sunday meeting a sister made a comment and collapsed, a massive heart attack.

  one of the young brothers is a fireman and he gave her mouth mouth and according to the doctor this saved her life.

  so if she had missed the meeting that day she would have surly died because her husband is not in great health.

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  There's another part to not forsaking to gather. not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

  There's not much encourage in today's cold and boring gatherings. AKA kingdom halls meeting. First Christians would gather in houses.Eat and drink together. Sing phsalms. I see quoting Bible online as a gathering also.
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  Bethelite statistics

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey guys, i'm working on a paper about exploitation amongst jehovah's witnesses ( i'm also preparing a book about jehovah's witnesses and interaction ritual theory, and another paper about jehovah's witnesses and discrimination against women).

  i'm trying to calculate as exact figures as i can concerning how much bethelites are paid.

  does anyone know the monthly stipend as of now?

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  That wouldn't even cover my wine consumption!
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  Watchtower growth ?

  by pepperheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in perth western australia the watchtower have sold a kingom hall to hindus for $2 million aust dollars and they have a second one up for sale in the same area embleton .

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  In old Jerusalem the tempel were build with gold and precious stones. Crystals and gold are spiritual stones. When person enters the tempel right there he's in a more accepting mood for spiritual teachings. Old Jerusalem is the base how the 1000 years gonna be. There are not gonna be any kingdom halls made of cement there.
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  Shallowness in 4/29 Watchtower study

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  move forward as a spiritual person.. paragraph 2 "robert and his wife began passing time by quizzing each other on bible subjects.

  his wife, a spiritually strong person, had no problem answering the questions, but robert found himself constantly embarrassed, not knowing what to say.".

  there is no indication of how she fits the template of a spiritual person other than she can answer bible trivia.

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  I thought being spiritual was showing fruits of the spirit. I give her praise for quoting Bible text if we live still in time's of Jesus using the scrolls. But now you can just get Bible verses using an app.
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  ...'special'.. televised talk today.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  29th april.. anyone have a lead on the ..'special'.. talk that my wife et al has to travel miles to hear/see?

  just so i can be advised.. thanks..

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  It's a talk a person that has never improve in the platform (you can hear it from recordings years back) that you have to pay the airplane ticket. Plus the gasoline you pay fore to get to the assembly. And the money you have to put in the boxes. All this to be bored to death for some hours. But at least you can show of you been there and seem more spiritual to others😋😎
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  End of biblical generation.

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this organization use god's name.

  when puting god's name they accepted some things.

  to complete the preaching work.

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  This organization use God's name. When puting God's name they accepted some things. To complete the preaching work. High quality on things like platform. And of course being a loving organization. As God is love. I just wonder if this organization didn't fullfil the requirements. Cause sens the year 1995 when the end of the 80 generation ended it's been downhill in the western world for them. And now it's spreading world-wide. One can not compare the energy in the congregation before the middle of the 90s and after. Maybe holy spirit already has made evaluation of things.