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  New Textbook For Elders

  by Lost in the fog in

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  i have to say that i found item 3 on the above page raised questions in my mind.

  if an elder is deleted presumably for wrongdoing the hard copy text book is taken off him and destroyed.

  but who ensures that any electronic copies of the book in his possession are deleted?

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  jp1692

  I’m keeping my digital copy. The GB can go pound sand for all I care.
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  2018 Branch Organization Manual!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  just in case anybody needed this.. 2018 branch organization manual.

  https://we.tl/t-vya6lknwtn.

  atlantis!.

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  jp1692

  As always: thanks!

  I don’t even read them, but I like that we can have them—often before the elders—just because it must drive the control freaks on the Governing Body crazy!
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  It's time

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we got a call from close jw family, that it is now time to visit the kingdom hall again because armagedon is a question of a few months.

  now it will happen in a very close time, the brothers say so, was the message.. i had earlier the feeling that jw's think the time has arrived because what they say and what they do, work like mad men with their chart every weekend.. so the expetations are high.. gorby's wife replied "how do you know, you should not know day and hour".

  stay alert was the reaction.. so sad and so stupid.. g. .

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  jp1692

  Jehovah's Witnesses, over a century of proclaiming Armageddon is coming "soon!"

  Let's review: It's a cult!
  
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  Confidential

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to share a short story from my time studying that congregation (not studying with) where the elder told me 5 years to armageddon i thought some posters might enjoy, little mid-week chuckle that's what i'm going for here.. so this one elder in particular came across like he saw himself as a 'spiritual giant' (weird term cause i thought the nephilim caused all the problems before the flood but thats how jws talk about 'spiritual' people so hey, when in rome).

  it just came across in how he held himself and the kinda cold, superior way he looked at you... well, until one sunday at least.. so i came into the hall for the sunday service and i saw him strutting around by the 'information board' (not bulletin board, god forbid) with a manilla folder he'd scrawled confidential across enormously in black sharpy.

  he posted a couple letters and then strut into the sanctuary, where he got on stage to read for the watchtower study.

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  jp1692

  That’s doubleplusungood.
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  2019 Elders Manual and a Whole Lot More!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  single zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-uiqj87wimd.

  2019-02-02-musical preludeshttps://we.tl/t-zyfpnodizd.

  s-21-e congregation's publisher record (2018-12).pdfhttps://we.tl/t-i9qamx3s0q.

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  jp1692

  Glad to know that I have the new elders’ manual before most of the elders!
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  Who would you like to be the next President of USA?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  any takers?.

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  jp1692

  What Fink said!

  And to add to it: someone educated about history!
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  If you had to

  by rolliepollie in

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  if you had to follow one religion, what would it be and why?.

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  None.
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  Another day, another run-in

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so a couple days ago i ran into a colleague of mine coming back from the mall, let's call her lianne for the story.

  we started talking about our research and when lianne asked about what i'm working on these days i told her about a paper i'm drafting where i argue the culture of jehovah's witnesses is collectively narcissistic, which just means they (typically, most often) think they're special and that their faith is better than others, and i cite a lot of evidence to that effect, things witnesses said to me in conversation, videos i watched on youtube of antiwitnessing, study articles and book chapters, things i heard cos say ("this is the greatest organization in the universe") so a lot of data from a lot of different places that really drives the point home and shows i didn't just invent this after some cranky old man went on a rant one day in when they commented in the watchtower study or something.

  lianne seemed interested, i kept it brief, but i noticed this older woman across the aisle staring at me, not glaring, just sorta staring at me blankly or almost in surprise, and lianne and i moved on to another topic for a couple more minutes and then went back to reading our books, we each had one on us and put it down to chitchat for a few minutes, it was nice running into someone i knew, i got the same vibe from her.. after i read a few pages the older woman got my attention politely and said something like, i wanted to tell you that i'm one of jehovah's witnesses (i wondered that when she started staring at me) and i don't agree with what you said, and i'm wondering where you got your information.

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  Interesting experience. Yeah, JWs are notoriously dishonest about a lot of things when it comes to their beliefs and policies. You should know that most JWs lie to themselves about these things too -- the cognitive dissonance is too great to deal head on with all of the contradictions and inconsistencies of WT "theology."
  

  Thanks for sharing.
  

  Just an aside, it would have been a whole lot easier to follow your writing if you'd mentioned you were on a bus in the beginning of the story and not keep us guessing where this all occurred until the fifth paragraph.

  jp
  
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  Atlantis--Do You Have This File?

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  atlantis, do you have the: [ i pledge file ] in a download?.

  hi becky, sure.

  it's the file on the national federation of the blind and so forth.. .

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  jp1692

  Is there some connection that I am missing between the NFB and jw.org?
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  Old Goat

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of you may remember old goat who used to post here.

  he died last night in his sleep.

  he was 92 years old.

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  jp1692

  I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing about your relationship.

  "Each and every tear is a memory. And when you feel so intensely all that you have lost, you are also remembering everything that you have had. And that is beautiful ...” - Daniel O’Brien