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  More assembly fun......

  by integ in

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  most of early friday morning was standard watchtower fare...you know, "wear your lapel badge to restaurants and preach to waiters" etc.

  but there was some good meat later in the morning during the talk "glorious prophetic visions spur us on".

  one point i found interesting was that only the annointed saw christs acsension to heavenly rulership in 1914. no one else.

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  assembly notes

  by integ in

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  i had the "priviliage" of attending the 3 days of the "give god glory" convention.

  for those interested, i will be posting some observations.

  in one of the first talks, the speaker interviewed a young one, who gave his "experience" of being on the internet and being "seduced" by the pornography so readily available there.

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  thrown for a loop by Elder

  by integ in

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  'just when i'm about to get out, they keep pulling me back in"- godfather 3.. this quote does'nt truly apply to me, but just when i am convinced there are absolutely no redeemable qualities about the borg this really nice elder comes up to me and very calmly tells me how much i am loved and missed at the meetings, to not feel any pressure, and that jehovah will always be there for me, and that he (the elder) would too.

  he had a very calm, serene, quality about him.

  came off as truly "spiritual".

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  Fear of Man!

  by integ in

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  in an upcoming watchtower study article about youth's, it is brought out that young witnesses never hesitate to acknowledge the fact they are " one of jehovah's witnesses" when asked.

  and to be prepared to "make a defense" to anyone asking the reason behind their faith.

  and also are admonished (witnessism) to not ever have a "fear of man".

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  Changing Truth........

  by integ in

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  2. experiences

  i was at the book study last night and the elder conducting was talking about the old assemblies, like 1935, when rutherford exhorted everyone with an earthly hope to stand up, and half the crowd stood up, then rutherford said "behold the great crowd" or something to that effect, which was a departure to previous doctrine of one distinct class of salvation inheritors.

  to which the elder conducting commented "we see here how jehovah has been progressively revealing his truth to the faithful and discreet slave class all through the ages"...he then said "we'll just have to see what changing truth is revealed at our next assembly...i'm sure we are all looking forward to these new truths".

  are'nt we all on this forum looking forward to these 3 days of spirtual nourishment?

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  Jesus Leading the WTS?????

  by integ in

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  i was reading the isaiah book today, and came across the paragraph that states that jesus is the head of the organization.

  jesus ate with sinners, jesus preached a gospel of love and forgiveness, not disfellowshipping.

  to say that jesus is the head of the organization.

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  Make room for it..................(NEW KINGDOM MINISTRY)

  by integ in

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  2. bible

  there's an article in the new km called "make room for it".

  the aricle espouses the benefits of remaining single in order to spend more time in the ministry, serve at bethel, etc.

  the title though is more of a demand.

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  Let's Infiltrate....

  by integ in

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  as i eagerly anticipate and pray for the demise of the org, i am thinking about different ways this could possibly be accomplished...one way would be from within.

  i know this sounds crazy but what if some of the bethel "heavies" actually turned against the org, or are already subletly trying to bring it down from the inside.

  i know this is but a dream, but it's not entirely impossible...it seems like that would be one of the only ways to expedite the process..you would start seeing veiled, insidious, anti-org "suggestions" in the mags, books, etc.

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  New mindset of JW's.......?

  by integ in

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  2. child-abuse

  i feel that the "true" feelings of a great percentage of jw's today is more along the lines of hoping that the society will somehow self destruct and they can be free, and that they feel trapped in this religion.

  many jw's have confided with me...albeit in guarded terms, that they want out...but they can't do anything because of family and peer pressure.

  it is a very guarded society, under a collective dictatorship regime.

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  My take on the circuit assembly.

  by integ in

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  last week i attended the circuit assembly in wisconsin.

  a couple of things to note: there was'nt much mention of the" faithful slave" in the talks.

  this surprised me.

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