In fact the the feature articles of Awake February 2012 were devoted to FB and judged by watchtower standards it seemed rather liberal to me... At least it did not at all demonize FB as some might have expected... But of course this was in Awake, not in the study edition of the Watchtower, different targets
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No Facebook?
by lavendar inare jws not allowed to join fb?
if so, what is the reason that the wts gives them??
and also if so, what is the real reason??.
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Question about Private/Public Reproof Records
by letsgetout inhello all, i have seen several topics of df/da records being kept, but not any on how long they keep private/public reproof records.
anyone know?.
are forms sent to the society on these instances like they do for df/da individuals?.
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InquiryMan
Due to strict privacy laws in European countries, things are somewhat different over here.
E.g. in Norway, no records are kept... When a notification of a DF is sent to the Society, the reason for the DF offense is spelled out with reference to a bible quiotation onlye, e.g. Matthew 5:3 (example have no real reference). The file are not kept.
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Will higher gas prices cause a policy change (New Light) re. field service?
by doinmypart inwill higher gas prices bring about some new light regarding field service?.
in the part of the u.s. where i live most of the territories require driving long distances.
some congregation members are unemployed and many are retired/living on limited income.
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InquiryMan
This is kind of funny. In Norway the gas price has risen to some 10,80 dollars a gallon...
Why do you complain about gas prices?
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Grandma attacked by pitbulls and saved by bible throwing JWs
by InquiryMan inhttp://www.ksdk.com/news/article/304267/28/jehovah-witnesses-hurl-bibles-at-pit-bulls-attacking-grandma.
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InquiryMan
I also remember being attacked by a dog, but fortunately i was not bitten. But I was scared for dogs for years, and still a bit weary.
To me it seems that witnesses saw a householder or a person walking being attacked by the dogs and intervened on her behalf,
but I might have understood it incorrectly.
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Grandma attacked by pitbulls and saved by bible throwing JWs
by InquiryMan inhttp://www.ksdk.com/news/article/304267/28/jehovah-witnesses-hurl-bibles-at-pit-bulls-attacking-grandma.
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Born ins..Were You Forced to Be a JW Growing Up?
by LostGeneration inmyth: parents who are jehovahs witnesses.
force their children to follow their faith.. fact:witness parents strive to inculcate love.
for god in their offspring, just as the bible.
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InquiryMan
Was never forced.
They never had to.
My parents got involved when I was about nine years old, my grandmother had been baptized two years prior to that.
I went to meetings several times on my own and also gave talks etc before my dad did.
Was a small eager discipline who actually found real delight in theocratic activities..
Sort of theocratic geek. ha ha....
They never denied us things, we had the freedom to do, but we were so disciplined that we never did anything mischievous anyway...
Of course, apart from me falling away as an elder and later a gay man.... So I guess I made up for all the good behaviour... ;-).
Ps: am now married and live just as orderly as before ;-) But have added celebrations etc to it!
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Sentence in Priest Beating: Jehovahs Witness member gets six months
by sizemik insentence in priest beating: jehovahs witness member gets six monthsphoto: epress.am.
ter yesayi artenyan.
by gohar abrahamyan.
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InquiryMan
In neighbouring Georgia, there has been numerous reports of priests attacking witnesses. Most people know that JWs refrain from non-violence, esp while in iministry... The whole article seems rather dubious to me...
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Responses to the Feb 15 2012 Wife Beater Article
by discreetslave inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntezntyv60.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnttwkadag&feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2db9jmvzri.
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InquiryMan
Yeah that is right. It is rendered that way in the Swedish and Spanish version...
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New Field Service Policy - jw's assigned to neighborhoods
by skeeter1 ini am looking for confirmation on the following:.
jws are now being individually assigned to smaller territories, and they are told to consistently work that same territory over & over again.
the reason is that the watchtower wants the jws to build relationships with the people in that area.
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InquiryMan
I remember visiting a congregation in Germany some 25 years ago.. They had the same territories for years.
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"Feeling sorry for yourself" about being hit by your husband is not Christian 2/15/12 WT Page 25 P 12
by yourmomma inhave anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?
its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .
if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?
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InquiryMan
Interestingly, in the Swedish version of the Watchtower, the story is rendered somewhat differently. The part about hitting is omitted, so the reader is left to the impression that "only" verbal abuse was involved.
The Norwegian and Danish versions, however, have a literal translation of the account on Steve and his wife.