TheOldHippie

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  A new celebrity JW . . . albeit from Nigeria.

  by neat blue dog in

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  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/clarion-chukwurah-turns-jehovahs-witness/.

  this is begging for some nigerian scam jokes, i'm just not clever enough to think of them 😜.

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  TheOldHippie

  Another story on the same page:

  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/secular-artiste-turned-gospel-singer-john-agoha-drops-jehovah-video/
  
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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

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  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  For eating dead animals? Animals will die and dead/sick/wounded ones will be eaten by the others?

  By the way, "don't believe in evolution" is - in my eyes - a far to simple sentence. "don't believe in classic Darwinism" as an explanation would sum up my belief, in the sence that infinitely small adaptive steps are no explanation for novelties, new species, new Types.
  
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  So Are Inactives officially SHUNNED?

  by minimus in

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  i've read here that inactives are the same as disfellowshipped, treatment wise.

  is that correct or did i misread it??

  thanks......

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  So while complaining there is no way out except being df'ed, you are complaining you are left alone and unbothered while not being df'ed?
  
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  JW Stream congregation meetings

  by neat blue dog in

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  last october if i'm not mistaken, wifi bandit leaked a letter which mentioned not only recordings of regional and circuit assemblies, (which he uploaded to youtube), but also recordings of congregation meetings, which the letter said would only be online for one week each.

  unless i missed it, none of these have been leaked as of yet.

  has anyone seen or heard of this?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Meetings are streamed from chosen congregations for the benefit of sick or elderly to be watched for a week. Likewise convention programs can be watched. Why the fuzz?
  
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  A cheeky cigarette in Adelaide

  by wozza in

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  my partner has been going to the adelaide law courts recently and as she goes thru the topham mall she has said hello to the jw cart ladies on her way ,well, today one of the ladies she observed went around the corner from the cart and lit up a ciggy...so naughty.. my partner has never been a witness but she knows i was once and asked me if they were allowed to smoke now.. jeez they get up to some naughty stuff when they are lounging around on their phones ,must be the devils tools corrupting them ha ha.

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  " of the ladies she observed went around the corner from the cart and lit up a ciggy."

  Yeah, sure.
  
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  Did others experience this on the ministry or among JWs generally?

  by slimboyfat in

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  sometimes it's hard to know if our own experience of jws was typical and what features were peculiar to our own area or the individual jws we knew personally.

  i was wondering if others experienced this among jws:.

  a few times on the ministry, when we were working wealthy areas with large houses, some brothers and sisters would make the comment that they look forward to taking ownership of one of these big houses after armageddon, when the worldly people have vacated them.

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  TheOldHippie

  Never heard it myself, only rumours. Might it not be that someone has said - as I myself might say on occasion - that "wow! this is a nice place, I would not mind living here" - and then that statement has been mis-interpreted?
  
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  Do JW beliefs deserve respect?

  by azor in

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  what say you?

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  I in fact respect other people and I respect their beliefs. There are many things other people believe that I do not agree with, but I never ridicule them for their beliefs. I say I disagree, I try to discuss in a calm manner, I try to put things as nicely as possible. Ridicule - no. There are so many reasons why people believe as they do, each of them/us has so much of a load to carry, so much background, that I would never ridicule. When I come to know somebody good, I can criticise, not until then - but never ridicule.
  
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  Germany in charge of all treasury for Europe

  by sp74bb in

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  according to our sources, germany bethel will take in charge all treasuries for all europe starting sept 1st.. each bethel will deliver the funds as a donation to german legal entity.. gold ages for ibsa and other entities in eu are over :).

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  TheOldHippie

  Not all European countries allow funds collected thru donations being transferred to other countries.
  
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  Ahh, WT Writers

  by berrygerry in

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  the famous may 22, 1969 "never grow old in this system" awake.. in 1968 there was a fantastic 17-percent increase in crime over 1967. this came on top of many years of other large increases.

  the population, however, grew only one percent last year.

  so crime exploded seventeen times as fast as the population!.

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  TheOldHippie

  It is "funny" - for those of us who understand it, but I never stop being amazed at how difficult it is for many to do percentage math or calculate increase/decrease or combine this with "x times as many", "threefold", "half as many", "three and a half times the size" etc. Tell a number to a journalist and you are almost certain of it being misunderstood.
  
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  Who are the "Inactive"?

  by thereishope in

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  this was my starting point in this journey of rediscovery, and i've made great strides, but here i am again asking the same question.

  all this talk re the rc and the shunning of the inactive ones.

  there is no announcement made obviously about "shun sister so-and-so, as she is inactive.

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  TheOldHippie

  An inactive one is a publisher who has not been out in service / has not turned in a service report for the last 6 months. Hence it is not a thing a single elder can decide, but is based on the missing reports.