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  Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays & a Safe & Prosperous New year to all of you for 2020

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.

  milwaukee.

  berlin.

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  RubaDub

  Happy Festivus.

  Rub a Dub
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  Need to vent. I am thinking of leaving my wife.

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
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  i am so sick of this cult, this religion has such a grip on her.

  since i left in 2014, things just are getting progressively worse.

  and she it's just getting deeper and deeper.

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  RubaDub

  I have been down the divorce road before.

  As many here have mentioned, communication is the key. Let her talk. Then let her talk some more. And then more.

  Even if you have strong disagreements on religion, you have been together and know each other.

  There are so many negatives or downs when breaking up. Again, I am speaking from experience.

  I don't know your feelings about using a biblical verse, but you could quote the Matthew 19:6 verse that says what God has put together, let no man tear apart.

  Maybe that is not applicable in your case but keep it in your pocket if she goes too far down the religious route.

  I wish you the very best, but please communicate.

  Rub a Dub
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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  RubaDub

  I find her a bit odd.

  Rub a Dub
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  The 144,000 are being deported!

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  promises aside, deportations under trump dropped this year.

  december 12, 2019, 5:17 am pst.

  detainees at an immigration and customs enforcement processing center in el paso, aug. 2, 2019.

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  RubaDub

  Back off with the negative comments people.

  They are serving as kings and priests in Mexico.

  Rub a Dub
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  Ewart Chitty

  by NoAbuse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ewart chitty was appointed as secretary-treasurer , which position he held until his appointment to the governing body in november 1974.. when in brooklyn, chitty seems to have preferred younger men as roommates.

  the actual charge brought to the gb against chitty was made by a former roommate and involved some sort of inappropriate conduct.

  the gb concluded that chitty had homosexual tendencies, and asked him to resign.. a rare photo of chitty in happier days.

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  RubaDub

  I was there! We probably bumped shoulders, or passed each other on the way in/out of the loo, or something.

  sir82 ...

  Yes, the only thing I can barely recall at Pittsburgh is Franz talking. He was always the one you hated to give the final part at the end of the day at any assembly.

  I clearly remember "back in the day" at Yankee Stadium when the sessions ended at 9PM in the evening that he would easily go on for an extra half hour or more. Once I remember, nearly 10PM. He would just talk and talk and talk. As a little kid at the time, it felt like torture.

  Anyway, I will find the old centennial brochure in one of the boxes of old stuff and put it here for all to see.

  Rub a Dub
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  JW.org greater than the Bible now

  by eyeslice2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there was a time when brooklyn bethel was emblazoned with the words; "read god's word the bible daily" but it seems to me now that even the bible has taken second place to jw.org.

  i remember having lots of studies using the 'truth' book.

  we asked the students in those days to prepare well and look up the scriptures in their own copy of the bible.

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  RubaDub

  We asked the students in those days to prepare well and look up the scriptures in their own copy of the Bible.

  eyeslice2 ...

  There is such a dumbing down of JW's now, especially the young ones. If you put a real NWT in front of them and asked them to read a scripture from Ezra, Micah, Amos or some other smaller biblical books, they would have the "deer in the headlights" look on their faces.

  I mentioned that to one of our elders recently that the scripture of "handling the word of truth aright" is being ignored. All he could say was, "I guess if persecution comes, we may need solar chargers for the iPads."

  This is sad compared to what we had to know in the past.

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  Ewart Chitty

  by NoAbuse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ewart chitty was appointed as secretary-treasurer , which position he held until his appointment to the governing body in november 1974.. when in brooklyn, chitty seems to have preferred younger men as roommates.

  the actual charge brought to the gb against chitty was made by a former roommate and involved some sort of inappropriate conduct.

  the gb concluded that chitty had homosexual tendencies, and asked him to resign.. a rare photo of chitty in happier days.

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  RubaDub

  I know I must be twisted, but why when I think of Chitty with the young bethelites does that old movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" come into my mind" ?

  Rub a Dub
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  Ewart Chitty

  by NoAbuse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ewart chitty was appointed as secretary-treasurer , which position he held until his appointment to the governing body in november 1974.. when in brooklyn, chitty seems to have preferred younger men as roommates.

  the actual charge brought to the gb against chitty was made by a former roommate and involved some sort of inappropriate conduct.

  the gb concluded that chitty had homosexual tendencies, and asked him to resign.. a rare photo of chitty in happier days.

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  RubaDub

  That makes the overlapping anointed generation a year longer or 2 because david Splane calculated the groups with a middle point o 1992.

  waton ...

  Just blame it on the zero year, that f'n zero year.

  If your calculations don't work out right, it's the zero year.

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  Ewart Chitty

  by NoAbuse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ewart chitty was appointed as secretary-treasurer , which position he held until his appointment to the governing body in november 1974.. when in brooklyn, chitty seems to have preferred younger men as roommates.

  the actual charge brought to the gb against chitty was made by a former roommate and involved some sort of inappropriate conduct.

  the gb concluded that chitty had homosexual tendencies, and asked him to resign.. a rare photo of chitty in happier days.

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  RubaDub

  He [Chitty] often spoke at Gilead graduations, and was the concluding speaker for the day at the Watchtower Centennial business meeting at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1984.

  Wow ... I must be getting old.

  A relative of mine got tickets for me. I drove to Pittsburgh for the Centennial meeting and still have some of the brochures. I even went to the grave site of CT Russell and saw his pyramid gravestone.

  Wow ... that brings back many memories.

  Rub a Dub
  
  
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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  RubaDub

  Yes, they do encourage the flock to be teachers.

  That is, teaching people how to go to jw dot org.

  Rub a Dub