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  STARTING OVER with my Elderette - What Does the Bible REALLY Teach?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?

  at this point, she opened with a prayer.

  "...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.

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  TheOldHippie

  "Jesus didn't read YHWH when he read from the ancient scrolls,"

  Wow! Now THAT was an interesting and bold statement! How do you know? Were you there (....when they crucified my Lord, as the song text goes)?
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  STARTING OVER with my Elderette - What Does the Bible REALLY Teach?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?

  at this point, she opened with a prayer.

  "...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.

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  TheOldHippie

  I cannot help it, but I wonder a bit if this has been an actual conversation or study ............. How is it possible word-for word to remember an entire conversation like that? I said - she said - I said - she said, lots of topics. Strange .................
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  Eva Braun vs Judge Rutherford

  by LogCon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  eva braun liked expensive cars.. judge rutherford had two expensive cars.. eva braun liked dictators.. judge rutherford was a dictator.. eva braun loved her boyfriend.. judge rutherford wrote a love letter to evas boyfriend.. eva braun had no children.. judge rutherford told everyone not to have children.. no one came to eva brauns funeral.. no one came to judge rutherfords funeral.. ....... .

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  TheOldHippie

  "No one came to Eva Braun’s funeral."

  Large (or any, for that matter) scale funerals were not directly EASY to carry out around April/May '45 in Berlin ...................
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  ...The WBT$ Theft of Kingdom Hall Bank Accounts and JW Elders...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  .. the new wbt$ donation arrangement/ jw kingdom hall bank account theft... is a very hot topic right now... the wbt$ is literally going to clean out kingdom hall bank accounts,filled with donations from jws... that theft is going to happen world wide..the wbt$ is going to steal from 7 million plus jw`s... .. we have jw elders here on jwn,that know whats going on... they "serve" in kingdom halls,they are "supposed" to be looking after the welfare of the average jw... they know there is a 4 page letter,only one page will be read to the congregation..the rest will be kept secret... they know the wbt$ is about to steal jw donations..on a world wide scale!!!...

  .. i would like to know what you active jw elders are going to do about this??!!...

  are you going to let "your" congregation know about the other 3 secret pages?...

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  TheOldHippie

  "So many doctrinal & organizational changes in a very short time."

  With that I agree. Every second week a letter is read containing new changes. Yesterday it was two meetings during COs week and not three, couple of weeks before that it was COs installing elders and servants, in-between the donation system, then it was one-day conventions etc. etc.

  I remember when soft bound books came. They said large books and bound WTs/Awakes would still be hard bound. Next year they were soft. Awake changed, but we were told WT would not. Next year it did. Hard to catch up with it all. Why the hurry?
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  Tonights meetin: rare attendance

  by Jon Preston in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well in light of the 17 billion calls i got this week my wife and i decided to attend the meeting.

  it was nuts!

  we got love bombed right when we got there.

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  TheOldHippie

  NAVYTOWN - you should join JWs, cause that is just what they are saying! :-)
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  Tonights meetin: rare attendance

  by Jon Preston in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well in light of the 17 billion calls i got this week my wife and i decided to attend the meeting.

  it was nuts!

  we got love bombed right when we got there.

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  TheOldHippie

  In the study they brought out that God cant help everyone the same way

  He can, but the point was that we shouldn't expect supernatural help on a sort of automatic basis. That would validate Satan's claims in connection with Job, that God had blessed him all along but that he would turn away from God if he experienced problems.
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  What is this new Announcement to take place in August?

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just heard from an elder.

  he told me that there is another change to be announced in august.

  he didn't know more about it.. any other info?.

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  TheOldHippie

  The cart witnessing does not offer the magazines.

  Here it does. Lots of mags offered, and there is a large-format front page of the latest mags as eye catcher.
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  New Arrangement During CO Visit

  by MaybeSo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i usually get the updates from this awesome site, but there has been an announcement pretty recent regarding changes to the meetings during the co visit.

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  anyone got the insigh on this?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Down to one meeting during CO visit. Read yesterday. Changes just keep on comin'.
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  ...The WBT$ Theft of Kingdom Hall Bank Accounts and JW Elders...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  .. the new wbt$ donation arrangement/ jw kingdom hall bank account theft... is a very hot topic right now... the wbt$ is literally going to clean out kingdom hall bank accounts,filled with donations from jws... that theft is going to happen world wide..the wbt$ is going to steal from 7 million plus jw`s... .. we have jw elders here on jwn,that know whats going on... they "serve" in kingdom halls,they are "supposed" to be looking after the welfare of the average jw... they know there is a 4 page letter,only one page will be read to the congregation..the rest will be kept secret... they know the wbt$ is about to steal jw donations..on a world wide scale!!!...

  .. i would like to know what you active jw elders are going to do about this??!!...

  are you going to let "your" congregation know about the other 3 secret pages?...

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  TheOldHippie

  "The Old Hippie - Is it not true that all the congregations (in the world), will be allowed to retain only $5,000 in their acct ? So if a congregation has $250,000 in an account, they will be required to send all but $5,000 to the Society ?"

  That is not true. No such commitment has been asked of the congregations here.

  "One of us has seriously mis-read the G.B.'s follow-up letter - and I respectfully suggest that it's you!!! The letter says that congs will be allowed to keep a maximum of $5000 (£2900) of their own money!!"

  Such a letter has not been received here, and on direct question from me yesterday evening to the elders, the whole congregation was told that we will keep everything which we now have and which in future will come in in access of the donation amount.
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  ...The WBT$ Theft of Kingdom Hall Bank Accounts and JW Elders...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  .. the new wbt$ donation arrangement/ jw kingdom hall bank account theft... is a very hot topic right now... the wbt$ is literally going to clean out kingdom hall bank accounts,filled with donations from jws... that theft is going to happen world wide..the wbt$ is going to steal from 7 million plus jw`s... .. we have jw elders here on jwn,that know whats going on... they "serve" in kingdom halls,they are "supposed" to be looking after the welfare of the average jw... they know there is a 4 page letter,only one page will be read to the congregation..the rest will be kept secret... they know the wbt$ is about to steal jw donations..on a world wide scale!!!...

  .. i would like to know what you active jw elders are going to do about this??!!...

  are you going to let "your" congregation know about the other 3 secret pages?...

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  TheOldHippie

  "The WBT$ is literally going to clean out Kingdom Hall bank accounts,filled with Donations from JWS.."

  That is not true. An amount will be donated each month, yes - but the congregations will still have their "old" bank account(s) and any amount received in excess of the donation amount and the stipulated monthy amount for electricity, water etc. will be kept by the congregation, put into the congregation's account. Only the donation amount will be sent to the WT. Accounts will NOT be cleaned.

  TOH