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  Public Speaker Training stifled by wt, it's new 'school' programme.

  by prologos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 2015 school setup, discussed this week eliminates the last "school talk" by brothers in favour of 'demonstartions" (a la sisters conversations) of family worship sessions and the like.. is this not a shift away from encouraging bright young ones to hone their (under-estimated) speaker skills ---to.

  now using more of the die-hard, org-bound, --even elders in indoctrination demonstrations?.

  do you see this trend?

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  88JM

  They have "demonstrations" of how to have "Family Worship"?!?!?

  I'm sure many can remember years ago when the book study was still going and meetings were much longer, despite the constant nagging at meetings about having a family study, very few families actually did it.

  I think they were trying not to let the same thing happen with the family worship night - the C.O.'s have been nagging the Ministerial Servants and Elders to set an example and also mention family worship in their talks. Reports C.O.'s are getting indicate (unsurprisingly) that not many families are following through with it, and single people are basically ignored so they certainly don't bother.

  As a single person, I personally found most of the time and items spent at meetings talking about family worship a total waste, depressing and insulting, as it was all geared towards families, and making things more interesting for kids.
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  After Mar 15 WT, who NOW is represented by the Wise Virgins??

  by hamsterbait in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it used to be that the master "arrived in 1918" and the virgins put their lamps in order.

  according to the noolite, the arrival is yet future.

  however, the gibbering buddies now insist that the annointed have not fallen asleep, but stayed awake up until now.

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  What a mess. But as I recall from those series of articles, didn't it do away with the idea of an "unbroken line of anointed" through history? Where do they say the anointed didn't fall asleep (yet)?
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  Public Speaker Training stifled by wt, it's new 'school' programme.

  by prologos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 2015 school setup, discussed this week eliminates the last "school talk" by brothers in favour of 'demonstartions" (a la sisters conversations) of family worship sessions and the like.. is this not a shift away from encouraging bright young ones to hone their (under-estimated) speaker skills ---to.

  now using more of the die-hard, org-bound, --even elders in indoctrination demonstrations?.

  do you see this trend?

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  88JM

  Ironically, I dare say you'd hear longer passages of scripture read at one of "Christendom's" churches.
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  Elders removed in Northern PA. Congregation

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a close family member just informed me what happened during their last c.o.

  visit.

  this occurred 3 months ago.

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  88JM

  I really wonder what kind of ass-kissing elders they get to replace these guys?

  How do they manage to convince them to move/step in to sort things out? Threaten? Bribe?

  Surely the guys who replace them must know why they stepped down?
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  88JM

  It may seem corny, but I think the best policy is embodied in this quotation:

  BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

  It's funny - I actually heard that maxim used in a public talk at one of the meetings recently. I can't remember the justification for it, but obviously it was abusurd to hear it coming from a JW!
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  crisis of conscience

  by venting in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you were going to skip some parts of this book which ones would they be?

  whats the best part?

  i know i sound lazy, but i can't read this in bed next to my wife.

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  I think it's done over 2 chapters, but the most enlightening part for me was where he highlights the hypocrisy of the Mexico/Malawi situation.
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  Jesus didn't go "undercover" to point out the hypocrisy and injustices of the Temple Scribes and Pharisees of His day, did He? Didn't he actually go and turn tables up on them?

  As I recall, it didn't work very well for Jesus either, as he had to go do it on two occasions. Maybe he gave them a persecution complex as well, so they just went right back to it.

  I presume he did it out of principle and being moved to do so emotionally, rather than the misguided belief that his actions would actually stop people doing what they were doing.
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  Headquarters representatives visit to UK 2015

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a letter is to be read out at service meetings this week in the uk saying that sam herd & john larson are visiting next april.

  on sat 25th there will be a 3 hour programme streamed to all congs.

  the postscript (not to be read out) instructs congs that haven't already done so, to order the necessary equipment.

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  If there are any halls left that they haven't sold off by then. I guess it might be like a "thanks for giving us all your money" speech. Or knowing the WTBTS, more like: "are you sure that was all of the money? did you try down the back of the couch?"
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  Pat Condell on Britain's Cultural Crisis

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  a scandal is brewing in the uk.

  for many years gangs of asian men engaged in rape and torture of young girls who were in the "so-called" care system.

  it is believed there were around 1,400 victims in north west england, focussed on the town of rotherham.. if reports are to be believed, social workers, police and the cpc knew it was happening and everybody failed to act for one simple reason.

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  If you really want to put on the "tinfoil hat", there are some who believe there is (or was) a paedophile ring even in the top levels of government - abuse of power may start at the top.
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  Waters Under the Oceans?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  interesting article from the bbc.. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141029-are-oceans-hiding-inside-earth.

  (genesis 7:11) "....on that day all the springs of the vast watery deep burst open....".

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  As I recall, this was also one of the main purposes of the recent Rosetta mission, due to one theory which says much of earth's water came from impacting asteroids. Apparently if they find the same isotope ratios on the comet, it could add weight to the theory.

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329822.400-rosetta-probe-poised-to-touch-and-taste-a-comet.html#.VHuqGIusXuw