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  Governing Body readying the Witness community

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  stop asking decide for yourself!

  today i uploaded a new article highlighting the method of choice by watchtowers current governing body for dealing with problematic details haunting its doctrines.

  moving forward the current governing body will expand on this theme.

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  rocketman

  You might want to re-read your blog post and correct the spelling errors.
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  Tying Your Shoes With Modesty and Soundness of Mind

  by Franklin Massey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the lack of intellectually stimulating material within the jw religion right now is astounding.

  there is clearly a lack of spiritually dense material and a surplus of ridiculous, childish babble.

  the regular "food" that jws are being fed is illustratively equivalent to pureed baby food.

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  rocketman

  Good summary. As far as playing nice goes, I was often astonished at how often jws were exhorted to 'play nice'. One would think that people exposed to constant Bible "education" would get it through their thick skulls to treat others more kindly. The amount of ill-treatment of jws toward one another was disturbing.
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  CO's arrangement finishes????

  by wolfman85 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how true is that the circuit overseer's arrangement ends in 2011?.

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  rocketman

  CO's are needed for one important reason - after a while, what local elders say will no longer resonate with the flock.

  They need a new voice from 'oh high' every now and then.

  I'd liken it to a coach/manager in sports - after a while, players just don't respond like they once did. Periodically, a new guy is brought in and, for a while, everyone responds. Then the cycle repeats.
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  Is this site slow today or is it me?

  by Found Sheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm too sick to go to work today, slept too much to go to sleep, took meds so can't "study"... anyway it leaves me with jwn.

  it seems like the pages are comming up slow?.

  could be my connection bad storm last night....

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  rocketman

  It was slow this morning.
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  C.O. visit means...stumping apostasy!

  by RagingBull in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this week, our c.o.

  is visiting the cong.

  great.

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  rocketman

  If he really used the term "false prophecies" (even assuming that he's quoting critics such as apostates) he's admitting, at least tacitly, that jws do have a history of false predictions. By saying "we don't go by those anymore" he's in effect making the same admission.
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  magazine supply reduction

  by agent zero in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at the meeting tonight was read a letter to all congregations in canada.

  it explained that since most publishers end up with left-over public edition magazines that didn't get placed at the end of each month, they will now no longer continue to have an individual magazine order per publisher.

  instead, the entire congregation's supply of service edition magazines will be in a stack at the back of the kh, and they are to be taken according to need, with whatever is left over after service to be put back in the stack.

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  rocketman

  exwhyzee wrote:

  "I was often embarrased leaving magazines with the public that had to do with congregational matters and were barely of intrest to us. What must they have thought when they read about disfellowshipping matters and Assembly information and when inside lingo specific to JW's was used ?"

  I felt exactly the same. I often wondered what people would think of the articles in the WT that dealt with congregation matters, and often felt embarrased to place them.
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  Our fears and loyalties were manipulated and exploited to make us accomplices in maintaining our own ignorance

  by free @ last in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's been 2 years since i left the borg yet only 3 weeks since i visited my first apostate site... the venerable freeminds.org.

  today i've been knocking myself on the head trying to figure out what the hell took me so long!!

  a grown ass adult too!!.

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  rocketman

  I've been out a nearly a decade, but one thing I haven't done is start using foul language. I do think the occasional 'f-bomb' is funny, when properly placed (not used every-other-word). I've just decided not to curse. Interestingly, a female relative of mine who is a staunch jw uses foul language, and I heard plenty of it when I played sports with jw men back in the day.
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  True Friendship Only Found In the Organization?

  by What Now? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

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  often times, i read in the magazines that only among jehovahs people will you find true friendship.

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  rocketman

  Interesting thread...

  Let's face it: when it comes to maintaining friendships, many humans, both jws and non-jws, are of the out-of-sight, out-of-mind variety. If someone is not brought in front of us on a regular basis whether via the meetings, work, or whatever, we often tend to lose touch. It's the nature of human friendships, because effort is required to maintain the friendship when those people/that person is no longer right in front of us.

  The OP worked hard to cultivate friendships. But it seems as though you made all the effort. It was easy for others to be your friends - just come over as invited, eat your food, hang at your house. Easy. Once you moved from the congregation, it was no longer easy for them. They certainly are not inclined to make the effort to contact you. It looks like you put forth most of the effort to begin with; it's not surprising that now they seemingly have no memory (at least in their actions) of all the things you did for them.
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  To All Elders/MS's/ Publishers Who Come Here

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the past, you were told that you have the opportunity to prove the devil a liar.

  this is a nonsensical claim, given that about 2000 years of martyrdom by christians has already passed.

  there's nothing left to prove or disprove.. however, you have the opportunity to prove that the watchtower society is lying: that their organization is unclean and overrun with corruption - as proven by an endless stream of elders/ms's and publishers who come here, wishing that they could leave.. you also have the opportunity to prove that their published statistics are false - by reporting fake hours and placements.. if they don't like it, too bad.

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  rocketman

  Breakfastofchampions wrote:

  "My FS report for last month includes:
  2 hours
  1 rv
  2 Grande Bold Starbucks
  1 scone

  And that's the truth!"

  This one had me cracking up! I can only imagine what the secretary thought of this report.
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  What's Your Favorite Internet Site?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since my homepage is drudge report, i'd have to say that the drudge report is what i often check during the day.. of course, this site is clearly one of my favs..

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  rocketman

  Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, as of now...Facebook is boring at times though.