Smiles
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Keep on watch - why urgent?
by Sektenkult incan somebody tell me what is the name of this magazine in german?
is it somewhere as a pdf ?
does somebody know why this magazine is not so common in the internet (i can't even remember) and why this magazine is not anymore jw borg ?
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Elders confidential September
by Mikejw infor elders.
announcements and reminders.
september 2022.
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@drop
the Rating scheme must have more than a few gaps.
Yes. As mentioned, nepotism & the buddy factor are always in play with JW privilege distribution.
Another factor is, as much as many elders would relish hoarding most of the speaking parts for themselves, that is unsustainable, so they become forced, perhaps even reluctantly, to spread the wealth of weekly speaking assignments to other elders/ms, mediocre public speakers as they may be, because delivering public discourses becomes burdensome, especially when frequently traveling out to other congregations. It is time consuming (and increasingly fuel costly) to prepare, travel out, deliver discourse, then travel home, sometimes with additional responsibilities waiting for attention at the home congregation meeting, such as an elder's meeting after WT study.
Including mediocre speakers on the scheduling list helps to lighten the load for other elders that have learned the wisdom in selective delegating.
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Elders confidential September
by Mikejw infor elders.
announcements and reminders.
september 2022.
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The auxiliary counselor role is to periodically provide constructive counsel (privately) to elders & ministerial servants delivering assignments at the local midweek meetings, and sometimes to observe & report issues with quality of weekend public talk speakers.
You might have noticed over the decades average JWs which are enrolled in the midweek meeting program receive their study point counsel from the platform before all onlookers... however, the lead parts assigned to elders & ministerial servants are never counseled/critiqued from the stage... this is because the congregation elite get to receive counsel privately, one-on-one, from that auxiliary counselor, which is usually just a pat on the back, unless the auxiliary counselor is overzealous or has an agenda.
Most JWs live out their entire life without ever being told about these culty little secrets of WT operations.
As a JW man moves up in rank, cult life often become easier for him, and his household. For example, the coordinator of a body of elders [COBE] although the title may sound intense, actually has the easiest of all roles assigned to local elders, but he enjoys the most prominence.
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The Multilocational Jesus
by Smiles inif jesus is now so superpowerful that he can exist at multiple locations simultaneously (e.g., dwelling inside of a true believer and popping into all the best gatherings of two or more peeps in his name) why does jesus bother hiring angels to work gigs?
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Brilliant! I thank you for sharing your reaearch.
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The Multilocational Jesus
by Smiles inif jesus is now so superpowerful that he can exist at multiple locations simultaneously (e.g., dwelling inside of a true believer and popping into all the best gatherings of two or more peeps in his name) why does jesus bother hiring angels to work gigs?
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If Jesus is now so superpowerful that he can exist at multiple locations simultaneously (e.g., dwelling inside of a true believer AND popping into all the best gatherings of two or more peeps in his name) why does Jesus bother hiring angels to work gigs?
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UNITED NATIONS
by JohnTron7 ini've been posting this for a few years now but, my post get pulled.
so i will try again so that others will read and understand the validity of my statements.
while for years watch tower have declared their thoughts of world changing events leading to the un as the catalyst for turning on religion recently calling russia the final king of the north which has breen debated for decades.
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The growing threat to Christianity will come swiftly by laws established by Gay senators
A bigger threat to WT will come swiftly by closeted gay WT elites.
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Elders confidential September
by Mikejw infor elders.
announcements and reminders.
september 2022.
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2. Rating Convention Speakers
The trifecta assigned to perform this "review" has always been an absurd protocol...
Two of the three reviews will often give high marks to the other one, and vice versa.
When 1 of the 3 is being reviewed, he must step out of the room while the other two grade him. When he reenters the room he can freely look at the remarks & grade given to his speaking ability.
That creates an environment where the three reviewers become a good ol' boy team which often exchange inflated high marks among themselves and for their prefered pals... deliberately and repeatedly downgrading legitimately skilled speakers.
The grades are then forwarded to the circuit overseer who, in most cases, accepts the gradings without a question, then uses those gradings to distribute speaking assignments at the assembly/convention level.
This is one reason why you will see many of the same incumbent speakers at every convention/assembly... because of this flawed grading process.
(and the grading scale is literally: A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, etc.)
Holy spirit at work
Atlantis or another may have archived a scanned copy of the ridiculous grading form (blank)
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Do you think the JW's ever will or could go the Mormon route?
by BettyHumpter inwhat i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.
in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.
yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.
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True, but religious mammonism is still greed, regardless of net worth.
LDS enjoys greater monetary prosperity than WT because LDS is:
- Pro university acedemics/athletics (BYU & numerous other edu affiliations)
- Pro commerce
- Pro childbearing
- Pro tithing (@ 10% ?)
WT discourages all of the above, and is therefore:
- less wealthy
- less likeable
- less intelligent
- less membership
Regardless, both LDS & WT are contemptibly wacky worship systems.
CEO Jesus should be ashamed of the entire lot.
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Do you think the JW's ever will or could go the Mormon route?
by BettyHumpter inwhat i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.
in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.
yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.
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If that is true, LDS corporate will simply payroll more people into membership.
Remember, LDS also controls BYU...
WT would dry up long before LDS or BYU sink.
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Do you think the JW's ever will or could go the Mormon route?
by BettyHumpter inwhat i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.
in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.
yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.
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LDS is a massive multinational religion (and financial stockholder)
Mormons "baptise the dead", thereby further bumping their numbers.
That is why Mormons hoard genealogy records, using the names and birth dates to symbolically "baptise the dead" posthumously.
Very likely they have baptised some of your deceased kinsfolk; if so, Mormons will "undue" a said baptism only by official request of a surviving relative.
Wacky stuff.