Posts by ab.ortega

it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.

ab.ortega

Can't they just look these up? Or are they pre2000 references?

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Special Video to be shown this week?

by neat blue dog in

i heard that there is supposed to be a video shown in all congregations this week, preempting the local needs part .

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anybody heard this?.

ab.ortega

Doubt it, it would have probably been leaked by now.

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Covering the territory

by Ding in

how often are jws trying to cover a given territory nowadays?.

logically, they should be trying to cover the territory more and more often the closer armageddon gets, but it seems to me i see them out far less often than i used to..

Congregation I was in covered a huge area and had close to 50 territory maps. The whole territory was never fully covered. Service group overseers had favorite territories so those were worked often. The least favorite were hardly ever worked. Sometimes the person in charge of service wasn't even prepared with a territory so they would just send the pubs to whatever territory off the top of their heads....so some sections were overworked. Even during campaigns the whole thing was not done. (even with 30+ RPs and a large amount of auxiliary for the month)

JWs like to say they are the most organized, when in reality it's not so true.

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Local Elder Mentions this Site from the Platform

by James Jack in

a local elder had the part this week on the "good news" brochure.

he said: "if the householder has any questions, direct them to jw.org, don't say, just look up jehovah's witnesses on the internet(an older sister said this at the door), if you do they will be directed to a site visited by apostates and weak witnesses!

" "this mistake, would cause the householder to never accept bible truth".. i thought to myself, wow, i'm sure some listening to this part, will get curious now(many in the hall are just being exposed to the internet, and practicing with their new tablets) and do, just what they were told not to do..

ab.ortega

That's why they have the research guide. I prefer google.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the March 19, 2017 WT Study (JANUARY 2017)

by blondie in

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blondie’s comments you will not hear at the march 19, 2017 wt study (january 2017).

excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .

ab.ortega

What sticks out at me is "presumptuous"

What are “presumptuous acts”? By definition, when someone rashly or impertinently does something that he is not authorized to do, he is acting presumptuously.

Didn't Jackson say it would be presumptuous to think of themselves as God's channel of communication? However, they do claim to be so. So they are NOT the authorized channel of communication.

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First Visit in Years

by truth_b_known in

i bought a house literally in walking distance from the local kingdom hall.

we used to get saturday morning doorknockers on a regular basis.

then it stopped.

ab.ortega

It's back in style.

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Mexico throws 10 people in jail for being JWs

by darkspilver in

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nvi noticias, friday 10 march 2017. ten citizens are imprisoned in the isthmus for being jehovah's witnesses.

http://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/53600/encarcelan-diez-ciudadanos-en-el-istmo-por-ser-testigos-de-jehova.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5153619030573056.

ab.ortega

Yeah, bribing is allowed by headquarters in Mexico. Not in other countries, though.

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Does Anyone Know The "Real" Attitude That JWs Have Towards "Inactive Ones"?

by minimus in

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does the rank and file or the elders view us as disassociated or disfellowshipped or simply "weak" or possibly a "prodigal son" type?.

ab.ortega

That's probably true, scratchme1010. Though they might not know it, they are jealous. lol

I know they pity me...they fell "sorry" for me but I feel "sorry" for them. What a pitiful lie they are living.