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"Worldly" what does it mean?
by msconcerned in
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2. friends
i have recently been using the expression "people not of our faith" and it shocks me to be corrected everytime by, "you mean worldly".

i dont really like the word worldly because i feel it is a degrading word to describe people we love so much that we try to find them in the ministry.

below are a couple of quotes from recent watchtowers that really give us the esscence of the word worldly as far as the watchtower is concerned.. janusz, who lives in eastern europe, became engrossed in his gardening business.
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Ha Ha Ha, Wow i have not laughed so hard in a long time.
by msconcerned in
1. jw
2. friends
so i posted a joke online, one that would make my jw freinds think a bit, the way it was written i thought for sure there would be no way it could be taken any other way than intended.

i also thought it was just past the line but wanted to see where it would go..
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Feeling very sick!
by msconcerned in
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2. friends
well as you all may or not know i am an m.s and trying to figure all these feeling out.

but i have a dilemma, i will be going on a shepherding call with an elder to "help" a family who is discouraged with the people in the hall.

i have to admit i feel the same way they do so how can i "encourage" them when i feel the same?
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Wow did not see that coming.
by msconcerned in
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2. friends
so for a while now i have had some doubts and i have slowly started and had conversations with my wife.

she has kind of conceded very minor points in our conversations, but what i have been seeing is that she is starting to use her brain.

im not insulting my wife, but she is starting to think critically.
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Mic issues
by msconcerned in
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so on friday all day, the mic guy did a bang up job.....until david splane got to the podium.

it looked like he discussed how the mic should be set up for him, then finally when the mic guy was walking away david says " well im glad we got that settled".

then today same thing, he got the mic guy to readjust the mic for him again.
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The beroeans....listening to antichrists?
by msconcerned in
1. watchtower
2. bible
w06 12/1 pp.

4-7 - testtheinspiredexpressionsconsider the good example of certain noble-minded people who lived in the city of beroea in the first century.

they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the scriptures daily as to whether these things [spoken by paul and silas] were so.
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Sundays wt study.
by msconcerned in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as i was skimming this article i noticed this in paragraph 1.. you have been.

sanctified.

1 residents of jerusalem are talking.
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Help with part on service meeting.
by msconcerned in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hello all i have the part in the yearbook and cannot find anything on the "smear campaign" and "media attack" on the witnesses in norway.

any ideas?

i have googled all kinds of inquiries and came up with nothin..
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I blew up tonight!!!
by msconcerned in
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2. friends
watching "our whole association of brothers" for the meeting tonight, and we came to the part where the japanese brother lost his two kids and wife.

he went on to relate that holy spirit helped him to cope with the loss.

i came unglued!
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New here and just sick!
by msconcerned in
1. jw
2. friends
hello, i am new and i feel soooo wrong about being here.

anyway i am an m.s and have been disillusioned ever since the new understanding that came out in october.

i have read many things on this board that i have and also have not thought about.