weekly, contact with the publishers.
From experience I believe that is supposed to be WEAKly contact!
piztjw
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Four BOE Letters
by pixel infour boe letters.
read and discuss:.
requesting where can we find answers to lifes big questions?
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Four BOE Letters
by pixel infour boe letters.
read and discuss:.
requesting where can we find answers to lifes big questions?
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piztjw
As you meet with them, please convey the love and concern of the Governing Body and those in the local congregation.
And that is why we come around once a year. Because we love you. The other 364 days....not so much!
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Four BOE Letters
by pixel infour boe letters.
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requesting where can we find answers to lifes big questions?
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increased complexity of property acquisition, zoning regulations, building codes, and project development requires specialized skills and considerable experience.
All gained with nothing more than a primary school education and nights spent scrubbing toilets I am sure.
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Four BOE Letters
by pixel infour boe letters.
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requesting where can we find answers to lifes big questions?
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the special campaign to distribute Where Can We Find Answers to Life’s Big Questions? will overlap with the campaign to distribute the convention handbill
Overlapping campaigns to go along with overlapping generations? Perhaps great-grandma, grandma, ma, daughter, and grand-daughter can all go together to the doors....as "one" generation of course.
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Four BOE Letters
by pixel infour boe letters.
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requesting where can we find answers to lifes big questions?
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Elders could encourage dedicated individuals who have recently become inactive to begin publishing again by accompanying experienced publishers.
We are sure this loving provision to help intelligent inactive ones to knock on a door, and then to shove a tract in someones face while spouting a rehearsed, "suggested" sales pitch like a programmed robot promoting an internet web site will be a blessing to all of you!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Is it possible for believers to ask for something in prayer that doesn't......
by punkofnice in....involve someone else being controlledor affected by your chosen god?.
if someone else is controlled or affected, doesn't this mean that freewill is out the window?.
surely god either does or doesn't answer prayers?.
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I think the only positive side to prayer may be that the 'supplicant' gets to vocalise their need and in doing so can work out for themselves how to solve it or where to go for help.
And THAT is the whole key. How many times have the eldurrs/slave said, "You have to pray, and then WORK in harmony with your prayers."? Need a job? Pray, and then pound the pavement looking for a job. Need a vehicle? Pray, and then start checking the adds or car lots and BUY one. Need food? Pray, and then go to the store and BUY IT. The eldurrs always say that god will take care of you if you pray, and then yammer about the scripture that says the birds of the heavens are cared for. But I have never seen birds out standing with their beaks in the air opened up just waitiing for food to miraculously drop into it. They scratch and work for what they get. (End of rant)
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Did You Ever Learn Anything From The Meetings?
by minimus ini found the meetings to be especially boring from the late 1980s on.
before that, we actually tried to make people want to listen.
the meetings were pretty interesting.
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I learned that talking in a monotone, saying so little with so many words, can get one praised as a fantastic speaker; while saying something logical or with a little feeling will get you chastised.
I learned that readiing a six word comment out of the WT and adding twelve useless words would get one praised for being so knowlegable; while giving a comment using just your own words will get you chastised.
I learned how to sleep with my eyes open.
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Marriage Consummation - emailed question has me stumped
by jwfacts ini received an email from a jw that got married, but the wife never had sex with him.
they were together for a period of years.
he told the elders, but they said there was nothing that could be done.
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piztjw---you just couldnt make this stuff up.
Sadly...no.
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Marriage Consummation - emailed question has me stumped
by jwfacts ini received an email from a jw that got married, but the wife never had sex with him.
they were together for a period of years.
he told the elders, but they said there was nothing that could be done.
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Husband cheats, wife is recommended by the elders to stay with him. She sleeps with him but can't bear it, but the elders say she showed forgiveness by sleeping with him so is no longer free to remarry
In my case many years ago it was my ex-wife who cheated, repeatedly. I wanted nothing more to do with her, so followed all the BS rules the sheep shearers spouted out about not having sex blah, blah, blah. Then after only a couple weeks she went and bitched to them about me not having sex with her and said THAT was why she continued f--king around! I was the one who had their ass hauled before the tribunal for refusing the "marriage due"! She was not DF'd, I was! Some years later after I was RI'd I remarried, and both of us were promptly DF'd, because I had not as the , "innocent mate filed for the divorce, but rather she did." They claimed that as such I was not free as I had not been the one to file. Again, it's all about control and who they like! They make the rules up as they stumble along.
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Marriage Consummation - emailed question has me stumped
by jwfacts ini received an email from a jw that got married, but the wife never had sex with him.
they were together for a period of years.
he told the elders, but they said there was nothing that could be done.
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the fact that the marriage was not consumated me it does not count as a marriage.
According to a circus oversneer I know, "as long as marriage vows were stated before witnesses it is a valid marriage regardless of whether it was consummated or not."
So IF it is the marraige vows, and not the sexual act which constitutes making the two "one flesh", then not only I, but anyone else should be safe spending the night with another person, living with another of the opposite sex, or whatever...as long as we don't actually do the deed. After all we have not become one flesh via marriage vows, according to WT dogma.
In reality though we all know it isn't logical, fair, or even half-ways consistent. It's all about making examples of the flock in whatever ways fits the agenda of the moment, or whatever axe the eldurrs have to grind with you at the moment. It's all about control!