the watchtower—study edition | november 2022. study article 48. keep your senses when your loyalty is tested.
14 vlado, a 73-year-old elder in slovenia, struggled when his congregation merged with another congregation and the kingdom hall that he attended was closed.
he says: “i did not understand why such a beautiful kingdom hall would be closed.
Rules, Unfortunately there are many "Vlado,s" in this organization who have learned to rationalize even the most irrational decision that comes down from the top. They have given up their power of reason to the old men in Warwick.
Vlado is like Boxer in Animal Farm, blindly following the pigs assuming they have the farm's best interest at heart when in reality the system he loyally serves betrays him.
So bad, so sad
how is the territory done in your congregation now we are back to door to door?.
there has been now directions from the top.
there are basically two options .
From what I am hearing it goes something like this" "hi my name is so and so and I would like to direct you to jw dot org. have a good day"
hello friends, i have been writing comments to the revelation book and posted them on my site.
so far i have gone through revelation chapter 1 to 14.. i invite you all to take a look.
https://www.comejesus.net/comments-to-revelation-1.
Not for me! I had enough Revelation study. After studying the Revelation book 3 times ad nauseam, I am good for the rest of my life.
if you are looking for pre-1950 watchtower mags, try.
https://wtarchive.wordpress.com/english/zions-watch-tower/.
how about pdfs.
Thank you!
a dyed in the wool witness actually posted this as if non-witnesses invented unheard of terminology,.
"those who devote their life to criticize jehovah’s witnesses use a lot of very specific expressions and ideas common only to them:.
“8 old men in new york”,.
Sounds like this "dyed in the wool" witness has been spending a little too much time looking at ex jw sites.
pursue peace assembly 2022 shows a resurrected, newly shaven joseph, the son of jacob and rachel, having a nice dinner at a beautiful restaurant in the new system.
the survivors of armageddon all want to know if joseph can share stories about his life.. ''can you tell us what egypt was like?
what was pharaoh like?''.
OMG- I'll have to to and check this clip out.
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you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.
mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.
How did we sit through all that tripe?
interesting remark i overheard today.
the physical attendance for the sunday meeting, in my local area, was 10. i tried to find out those on zoom.
i was told that the zoom attendees wasn’t mentioned.
From what I see from my parts from a congregation of 100, 60 are on zoom and the rest go to the hall.
my wife had a hip replacement on june the 17th and while the op itself was apparently succesful ,she has had a reaction to the anesthetic ?
and has suffered delirium and is still in hospital with no apparent improvement.. its been very distressing for me to say the least.
sorry if i sound a bit morbid but i just had to share,.
Sorry to hear this. I hope the effects will diminish as time goes on.
in b.c.
, canada, a victory for ex-jws.
https://infotel.ca/newsitem/privacy-commissioner-orders-north-okanagan-jehovahs-witnesses-to-hand-over-private-records/it92596.
