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  How to reply when someone asks about your spiritual health

  by RodrigoGuerreiro in

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  2. experiences

  first of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").

  she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?

  you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .

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  LevelThePlayingField

  From my experience, most witnesses are asking because they care for "your spiritual health". And I say that in quotes because to them, spiritual health is all about the things you do, like meetings and field service. If you do those things they think, then automatically you will be healthy, which isn't true.

  Then there are some witnesses, usually elders who ask to be noisy or think they can fix you. You're hours are low or you've missed meetings. Again pointing back to what you do in those activities means good spiritual health. They are only victims of what they have been taught.

  If you look in the Bible, it isn't like that at all.
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  Some apostates are coming across as crazed psychopaths

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  i'm not sure whether or not my view on this is correct so please leave your input.

  in recent months i've been viewing youtube videos.

  again, it might just be my view but there has been an increased amount of random people grabbing a camera and doing vlogs.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I think there has always been those type of apostates. But by and large, now a days they are much fewer of them going around as compare to 20 years ago.
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  SPAIN - number of Kingdom Halls

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please note that this post links to websites that are in spanish, if that's a problem, please do not click on the links!.

  it is now just over two years since the wt send the now infamous 17 september 2014 letter regarding the programme of building kingdom halls to all congregations in spain.

  (letter page one / letter page two).

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Good research. I think this shows the picture of things happening in various countries where the org is consolidating the congregations. If you need cash then this is the way to do it. Sell off a KH and move the two congregations to just one hall. If they do this "everywhere" then it shows us that, perhaps, the org is thinking that down the line there will be less of a percentage growth. The reason I say that is because, long term if they consolidate the congregations and they continue to grow, then that will be a problem in the future. They will need more halls again.

  But maybe even if that happens they will simply build using the new KH design. So they are ahead anyway?

  Things that make you go hmmm.
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  JW requesting food assistance to Babylon the Great.

  by sp74bb in

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  2. friends

  barcelona (spain), jan 8, 2017 at 1.30 pm.

  two publishers of the tagalog group in barcelona (public meeting at 4.30 pm) do visit an evangelical church barcelona downtown to receive free food bags.... i can confirm that the queue was long.

  the pastor in charge of this church has not allowed me to take picture of some older jw living barcelona downtown, but i was able to catch these young publishers.

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  the org forgets the part of the Bible that says to feed the poor. It's all about the preaching work and that's about it. Sure you get a mention here or there to "help others in need" but the org should be the ones setting the example in this regard, but they never do. They just say to help others in need.

  Yeah, it could even be argued that they do help others in need during natural disasters by rebuilding JW's homes, but the Bible doesn't say only take care of your own, it says to help "others". That they don't do.
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  Not one visit, 8 years in a nursing home, and not one visit!

  by Raymudas Martini in

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  my dad{rip}, was a faithful jw since the year i was born, i'm 60, he died 2 years ago.

  his last 12 years were spent in an assisted living/nursing home right in the small town where he spent the last 8 years of being an elder/pioneer.

  when he went into the home, one brother would visit him regularly, but after 4 years, that friend moved away, and visitation from the locals ceased, for 8 years!!!!!!!

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  LevelThePlayingField

  flipper, they were worried that the worldy medical staff would steal from mom and dad? That's a crazy idea. So where is the trust? I can see why you were frustrated to say the least. That would have made me very angry.
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  Mockery

  by Steel in

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  2. experiences

  once you woke up did see mockery?

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  from the memorial to the new world translation to the general stupid things said in the hall it seems like some bizzaro world where some supernatural entity controls everything in an attempt to mock god..

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  I know what you're saying, and yes, I see it all the time. It's really just the stupidity actually.
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  Giving money is thrilling?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower study edition nov 16 pg 19. classic............................ .

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  "...and to see how such resources are used faithfully and discreetly?" Wait a minute. We never get to see that. Now the org requires each congregation to submit its financials to them to see where the money is going, but the org themselves do not do such a thing.

  So I'm missing where we actually get to see where the money is going. If we did, then we could see for ourselves if it's being done so faithfully and discreetly. Just imagine if they were really transparent and had a line in their reports for lawsuits....$xxx,xxx million.
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  Data for Partakers from 1935-2016. Latest number wasn´t this high since 1954!

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.

  this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I agree, there are more than 144,000 in that graph. Well, maybe it's really close to that number anyway. So with all the anointed in the first century through until now, plus what the graph shows, it certainly is WAY above the 144k.
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  How to believe you deserve to relax

  by rebel8 in

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  i was brainwashed to believe you generally shouldn't relax much.. demons can enter you if you meditate or even relax your brain too much for one second.

  always be on guard.. scriptures criticizing laziness were repeated often.

  https://www.openbible.info/topics/laziness "be kind to yourself" and all that.. you need to strenuously exert yourself for jehoopla and you're worthless if you don't.. most forms of fun were extinguished.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Since I began learning TTATT I have begun to relax more and more. I found out that the end is not just around the corner, so why rush around. I love to wake up in the morning or sometimes the afternoon and just go and get my hot cup of coffee and then prop myself up in the bed again and sip coffee reading posts like this. I do that for "a while", don't keep track of how long and don't care. Then, when I finally get out of bed I start my day, stress free. I love it, I just love it.. Now, not everyday can I do that, but when I can, I take full advantage of it.

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  Feb. 2017 "Who is Leading God's People Today?"

  by Saethydd in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i know that i am not by any means the first person to take note of this article, but today i finally got around to reading it.

  i quickly found the now infamous line "the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.

  " in the interest of fairness, however, i decided to finish the paragraph, which led me to finish the lesson.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  You make some very valid points. I wish the average JW could hear them, but they won't. They will just cover their ears and run.