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  Advice to reduce hours earn less and spend more time on the ministry

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the advice to reduce work and earn less to spend more time preaching has not aged well.. the cost of living crisis means many have more going out on necessities than they have coming in.. so many asked their employer to reduce their hours and refused promotion only to see their colleagues go up the ladder when they stayed lowly position with rubbish jobs thinking the end will be here soon.

  next week midweek meeting is all about preparing for an economic crisis.. they say have a go bag and new advice for all jws to store food and water at home and grow a vegetable garden, i kid you not.

  this is the new direction..

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  Comments: use by dates, water restrictions in many areas, no gardens in apartments.

  That said, I know "pioneers" who have lost e everything by not carryinghealth insurance and having a serious accident or disease. The brothers offer platitudes
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  All the Old JW Acquaintances Passing Away

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday, my dad told me an older sister passed away.

  she wasn't too old (in her 60s), but i knew her 30 years ago and haven't seen her in 15 years; the main reason being that i faded 10 years ago.. yesterday, i seriously considered attending the funeral and catch-up with old jws i used to know.

  after thinking it over, i decided against it.

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  Witness funerals are a recruiting talk. Very little about the deceased. I think people go for the ,(as you said), catching up and the buffet.
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  WEASEL WORDS--WHAT ARE THEY--HOW THE WTS USES

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "a number of techniques employed to mislead others fall under the category of weasel words, and this article quotes examples that are regularly found in watchtower publications.. weasel words are defined as:.

  “words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading,”[1].

  intended “to avoid answering a question clearly or to make someone believe something that is not true."[2].

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  " will there be more earthquakes? "
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  Hailstone message.....June 23 WT

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  new jun 23 wt....elders to follow gideon example, even if instructions doesn't seems practical, gideon reduced army by 99 % and he obeyed, it could be changes in theocratic direction similar to this.

  what that means?.

  elders will need the courage to follow instructions "may relate to delivering a symbolic hailstone message...".. in another section "major world events may raise some from spiritual slumber".

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  I thought the hailstones happened 100 years,ago. Or was that bowls?
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  Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany

  by EdenOne in

  1. social
  2. current

  mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

  at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

  single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.

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  Maybe a bigger " no weapons" sign? An assessment of who has guns, is not gung ho, and announcements.

  Sanctions against hunters would backfire and maybe set off someone.

  Unhappily the solution is allowing an armed presence.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  Careful

  From appearances now, there is no one on the current GB who is that hostile to Morris

  Reading between the lines I surmise Lett the clown is actually a cunning despot.

  I never would have thought I would have any feeling forTM, but this like watching a soviet purge.

  In actuality Purges came about under every WT leader
  
  
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  When Did the Watchtower Introduce the "Generation of 1914" Teaching?

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm looking for help to track down the development of the "generation" doctrine, starting with when the wt first specifically tied the end to the generation of 1914.. russell taught that 1914 would be the end of this system of things.

  when that failed, rutherford started touting 1925.. no need to talk about generations then; it was just specific dates.. when did they first tie the end in to a "generation of 1914" time frame?.

  i also know that they changed the meaning of generation several times.. first, a person had to have been at least 15 in order to have seen the events of 1914 with understanding of what was happening.. i think they lowered that to 10 and then finally it was anyone who was alive in 1914.. of course, now the generation overlaps.. does anyone know someone where all these wt teachings are set out chronologically (preferably with citations to the literature)?.

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  The problem is plagiarized ideas put forth as if they came directly from heaven to the " only" true religion
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  Young "Elders"

  by XBEHERE in

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  2. friends

  ever since the annual meeting last october and the letter to bodies of elders stating that "exceptional young men perhaps in their early 20's could qualify for appointment as elders.." it even states this in the updated elders manual!

  have any of you pimo's, pimq's, or those on here with family/friends still in hear of any young men being appointed as elders yet?

  i am talking 21, 22, 23, 24 etc.

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  We're watching a fast track 7 or 8 year old being pushed in the " school" right now. Constant bragging on him. I do have to admit he has better reading, pronunciation, and grammar than half the elders. Hw will no doubt be baptized before puberty then there are usually only two outcomes; monster zealot or monster girl chaser. Or both
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  UK Hospital using Kingdom Melodies - complaint

  by AEnEm in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i found out that a uk hospital (nnuh) uses kingdom melodies as hold music, apparently for some years!

  i called and heard it myself.

  i wrote an email to the complaints team and await a response.

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  Who cares. Most hold music is unentertaining anyway
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  New convention video: Do you see what I see?

  by neat blue dog in

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  A friend mentioned seeing a few beards in recent pictures of the new world.

  Related: that bible ( book)study video this,week had a woman progressing in da troof starting with an afro, then braids, then straightened hair.