It is certainly possible. Because, very recently they inducted two very young men (in their late 20's) into the Branch Committee of India Bethel. This may be a foreshadow of greater things to come!
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interesting Rumour
by Slidin Fast ini heard a rumour today to the effect that there is a new gb member in his late twenties/early thirties.
i stress that this is unsubtantiated and requires confirmation or quashing.. can anyone confirm or definately deny it?.
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Why does an Omni... God need Jesus and the 144,000 co-rulers?
by jwfacts inat the thread about jaracz steve2 made the following interesting comment.
by now, ted should be finding his heavenly posting a routinized bore: 4 years and still counting.
he will have chaffed at the notion that all decisions are made by jehovah god who consults no one and who brooks no questioning or independent thinking.
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T D Joseph
Bottom line? Jehovah wants to be a FAIR judge and He does this by stepping out of the way and letting experienced magistrates do the job.
Terry’s bottom line has the punch—Leaving everything to the experienced humans would mean whatever Jehovah had been doing before was wrong—something that will never happen.
Hence what Terry meant was this: the whole affair of using 144,000 persons who are BETTER than Jehovah is the result of some wild imagination of somebody! It is like saying PART IS GREATER THAN THE WHOLE which is, of course, meant to redicule the reason!
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Not just false teaching--but worse: plagiarized false teaching from the GB
by Terry inas october 22, 1844 slowly faded into october 23 a great weeping swept the countryside as 50,000 true believers in the accuracy of william miller's.
prediction (of christ's return to earth) faced the stark reality of total soul-crushingly great disappointment.. .
how had they come to this bizarre conclusion and what would they now face by way of recrimination and disconfirmation?.
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T D Joseph
Classic case of JWs hating the apostates publicly; yet loving their teachings in secret!
Thank you, Terry
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Did you feel pushed into pioneering?
by Xanthippe inso i have been replying to letters from a jw friend who suddenly started writing to me after i've been out for nearly 25 years.. i have mentioned things like the poverty that pioneering causes from my own experience, worrying about having enough money to buy food.. i also said that the scrimping would have been worth it if we had been saving to buy a home or go on lovely holidays.. instead we ended up with nothing materially and we were living in a tiny rented flat when we left.. when i think of all the places i wanted to visit with my husband but couldn't because we were pioneering and had no money and now it is too late because my husband has died at the age of 54. we did get to visit some beautiful places but we ran out of time.. what i was trying to say to her was - life's too short.
stop waiting for the new system, get on with your life.
stop exhausting yourself in that religion.
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T D Joseph
Most of them who take up pioneering are forced into it on two counts:
1) Relentless prompting from the platform and publications that if you do not preach "blood-guilt" is upon you. Then special articles in the km specially in the school vacation time entitled: "Will you do more in these months?"
2) The clapping the pioneers receive when someone's name is announced as new pioneer from the platform (which is of course against the spirit of what Jesus said in Mathew 6:2-4.
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Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchower's Witnesses?
by biometrics ini've often thought about it.
are these people witnessing jehovah or the watchtower.. in the abscense of solid proof that god is backing the watchtower they are only witnessing a group of men who beleive they have god's backing.. .
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T D Joseph
Scot77,
How nicely you captured my feeling towards my friend in Bethel. It cannot be expressed better than Stockholm syndrome
Which is a sort of falling romantic towards one’s own captors.
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Leaving the Watchtower religion behind...are we ABLE to reconsider with FREEDOM what may NOT be "true?"
by Terry inas we all now know, once you leave the watchtower religion you are exposed to the possibility of education for the first time.. an ex-jw discovers that the theocratic lessons they have learned were not all they were led to believe , i.e.
"accurate knowledge.".
is this story actually true?
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T D Joseph
Terry, you are wonderful (your keen eye saw: “ Who was the one "listening" as Jesus poured out the heartfelt prayer in Gethsemane? Everybody was asleep! ”)
I never thought this way!
Really, you are opening a great road—which very few have treaded so far!
Looking forward to you next post
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Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchower's Witnesses?
by biometrics ini've often thought about it.
are these people witnessing jehovah or the watchtower.. in the abscense of solid proof that god is backing the watchtower they are only witnessing a group of men who beleive they have god's backing.. .
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T D Joseph
That is an interesting question!
If they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, they would have been the exact representation of His very being.
If they were,
1) They would have imitated Jehovah in NOT making the distinction between God’s people and pagans (contrast Mathew 5:44-48)
2) They would have enjoyed questionings of their followers, like Jehovah did with Abraham.—Genesis 18:23-33 [contrast this with the treatment they gave to one Bethelite, who is a Gilead Graduate and MTS Instructor. While he was the Head of the Service Department, He questioned certain things he could not digest. He was relieved of all privileges. He is still in Bethel being literally put on a vegetative state. This happened when I was in Bethel—hence know its details.
"THE BLIND WILL SEE AND THOSE WHO SEE SHOULD BECOME BLIND."--John 9:39
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JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes
by Londo111 inhttp://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.
despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.
it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.
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When it happened in India, I was working in its Service Department. Many were laid off. Those who could not make a living wrote back outlining their suffering. Branch had prepared a letter as reply, which in part said: "Your safety is not in the visible organization, but in the invisible hand of Jehovah." Though it was heartless reply and a ploy used to dodge responsibility, they indirectly conveyed--Jehovah and WT are not related!
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If one of the "Anointed" is Disfellowshipped and is Reinstated does he or she lose their "anoited" status?
by booker-t inone of my professors is a jw scholar.
he has written dozens of books and has been on the news and tv shows for years.
his name is firpo carr and he is friends with michael jackson's family.
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For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries."--Hebrews 10:26, 27
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Were U Surprised To Learn Anything About The Witnesses That U Didn't Know??
by minimus inwhen i was a kid, i researched the origins of the religion and realized that the witnesses were an offshoot of adventism.....we're you surprised to learn something about the witnesses that you didn't realize?.
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You know their true color only when you leave them—it gives them valid reason to hate you (not even greeting, boycotting marriage feasts where you are also present......); thus they praise hate and identify with 1 John 3:15 that says: “Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. ”
Hatred is hatred, no matter who shows.