Actually it is about every 3 or 4 months. And the one next month will be the last. It will be replaced with an oral review under the new Theocratic Ministry School arrangement. So I hope you are all looking forward to that as much as I am!
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Fun At The Written Review!
by WildTurkey inbring a pillow.
fall asleep (or pretend to) until the last 10 minutes.
wake up, say "oh geez, better get cracking" and do some gibberish work.
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Why Worldly Standards are Superior
by metatron inwitnesses are accustomed to think that watchtower generated rules would make the.
world a peaceful happy place.
let's examine that claim:.
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another excellent post Metatron. Some months ago, my wife pointed out a
newspaper editorial where the writer compared living under the Taliban
to waking up and finding out Jehovah's Witnesses had taken over the
country. She could not understand the analogy. The more I thought about
it, though, the more I saw how accurate the comparision was.
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Theocratic News
by No Apologies inreading the thread about declining attendance got me thinking.
what happened to theocratic news?
you remember, that little box in the km with exciting stats about countries most dubs could not find on a map.
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Reading the thread about declining attendance got me thinking. What happened to Theocratic News? You remember, that little box in the KM with exciting stats about countries most dubs could not find on a map. At one time it was a monthly item, now it seems to have disappeared. Last year I went looking and had to go back to a 1997 km to find it. Has it been seen since? I guess its only news when the numbers are going up???
I am referring to the US edition, don't know about others.
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What Era Would You Like To Have Lived In?
by DakotaRed inbesides the one we are currently in, i mean.. for me, i feel a strong draw back to the late 1930s and early 1940s.
as i get older, i find myself enjoying the big band sound even more than i ever did, as well as the movies and radio programs of the era.
for some reason, the appeal to that era stops about mid ww2.
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You all seem to think the past was just like the movies. You seem to overlook all the bad things of the past. Slavery. Wars, famines. Women basically were property of their husbands, most of them died giving birth. No indoor plumbing. As witnesses, we were always being told how we were living in one of the worst times in history, and that man would probably destroy himself if God didn't step in. What a load of crap. Me, I want to live in an era somewhere in the future, where we are not stuck here on one little planet. Do you realize how may medical advances are coming along very shortly? Our grandkids will live to be at least 100, and probably longer. They will colonize Mars, and move out past our solar system.
Assuming the whole planet doesn't get wiped out by nukes or an asteriod.
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What was your message
by A Paduan in.
when going door to door were you delivering good news (without an if) like, "your landlord has given you the house"or were you selling 'love' like, "if you do as we do then you will be loved"or were you pretending to be normal but giving the underlying warning about the imaginary beast-god - who was perhaps going to get yourself.. paduan
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I was delivering the good news. Now I feel sorry for myself. What do I do now?
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Wisconsin Bar Brand
by No Apologies inanyone here recognize that name?
it was one of those companies made up mostly of jw's, sold snack foods back in the eighties.
i know there were dubs from all over involved.
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No, It was a wholesale outfit. They were based in Pine City, Mn and had distributors all over. Distributers would have a sales route of customers, bars, convenience stores, etc. Pioneers, exC.O's... They would sales meetings; felt like a circuit assembly because of all the JWs you'd run into.
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Wisconsin Bar Brand
by No Apologies inanyone here recognize that name?
it was one of those companies made up mostly of jw's, sold snack foods back in the eighties.
i know there were dubs from all over involved.
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Anyone here recognize that name? It was one of those companies made up mostly of JW's, sold snack foods back in the eighties. I know there were dubs from all over involved. Those were the days.
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Letter read at Supplimentary Elder's School
by messenger inchristian congregation
of jehovah's witnesses
2528 route 22
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This letter makes me want to barf!!!! Can anyone confirm it is legit? No offense, messenger, but this is very important to some of us. How long will they continue their head-in-the-sand strategy?
"Were Jehovahs Witnesses to immerse themselves in refuting all false charges made against them, they could also fall into a trap of the great accuser Satan the Devil
what about the the charges that aren't false? hmm?
Therefore we will ignore the lying misrepresentation by opposers as we are assured by Jehovah that we are walking well.
another gem. Since they are all lies, we will ignore them. And how exactly are "we" assured of anything?
Every time I think maybe they are acquiring a clue, they spout out more nonsense like this.
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4th Generation Witnesses and Maybe more ?
by out4good3 injust read a thread about a guy being a forth generation witness and a question came to mind.
how is it that jw's can rationalize the end being always "just around the corner" when there is soon to be 4th, 5th, and maybe 6th generation witnesses?
just how is it that the previous generations can continue to follow so blindly after one failed prediction after another of never getting old in this "system of things"?.
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You have raised some good points. Here is a religion whose main idea is that "the end is near, we are in the last days" then after a date like 1975, some leave the organization, they will say, "well, they were just serving a date" Of course they were, that was the whole point of the religion in the first place!!
acting as if the beliefs they held yesterday never happened
That is so true, not just the fact that the belief has changed, but somehow convincing the followers there was no change. Straight out of Orwell's 1984. "We have always believed this way. We never said college was bad. We said that 1914 would mark Jesus presence, and the beginning of the end. Vaccines, did we say vaccines were bad? Homosexuality not grounds for divorce, when was that? We have for many years encouraged victims of child abuse to report such abuse to the proper authorities."
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What's The First Step To Leaving The "Trut...
by minimus infor those that have entirely left, what was it that first got you seriously thinking that this really wasn't the truth?
for those that may be in just mentally, you can answer too....
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Wednesday,
I know almost exactly how you are feeling, in a state of flux, not knowing where to go next, waiting to be 'outed' and possibly DF'd. So just hang in there. Don't give them any rope, and there will be little they can do. My wife is very suspicious, and if she found out I am on this board, I have no doubt she would run screaming to the elders.
Some people can keep up a charade for years, going to meetings, out in service, etc. I can't. I won't.
I have better things to do with my life.