Ultimately YES, here is a capture from the Elders book in the chapter regarding deciding whether or not judiciary committees:
They leave it vague........if it is intentional or not....doesn't really matter
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Can You Be Disfellowshipped For Merely Repeating What Apostates Are Saying? Even If You Deny Belief In What Is Said?
by frankiespeakin insay a person wants to start making fellow jws think and open up their eyes so they decide to just repeat what they have read on some apostate site but deny any agreement with what read.
how many times do you think he could do it before being called into a committee, and eventually be disfellowshipped?.
how long could someone last playing that cat and mouse game walking on the edge repeating apostate criticism but denying agreement?.
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WBATS BANS ANYTHING BESIDES THE WT! SMH
by ADJUSTMENTS init irks me when i read in the watchtower do not use secular sources or the internet to do research... but in that very same wt it will quote a secular source or literature to prove a point!
how hypocritical!!!
it's all apart of their limited information mind control!
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The R&F think and are trained to think that "they did all the research for us, so we don't have to!" Very sad and VERY controlling!!
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My mom just told me I was demonized! :p
by El_Guapo infunny story: back in march i was talking with mom on the phone.
the topic of how great the nwt was, compared to other bibles.
thanks to jwn, i said "o wouldn't be surprised if we had a new bible by this time next year.
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LOL You got more predictions right than they did!!!!
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A House Divided Against Itself Falls-Luke 11:17
by Stand for Pure Worship inthat text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.
second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.
you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.
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It's all about perception. ex-JW's aren't divided, each one thinks one crack is worse than the other. The cracks in the wall of WT are huge! Your crack could the blood issue....meaning, now we can accept "blood fractions" as part of medical treatment. How many lives were lost before this policy change? How many more could have been saved? But they died faithful right......so if a life is saved now from accepting blood fractions, they are deemed just as faithful because the GB took a vote on it and ruled it "OK" now?
Someone else's crack could be the change on voting. Did you know it's a matter of conscience now? How many lives could have been saved if this "new light" came in the late 60's.......when JW's were being butchered in Malawi? I guess they should have had that vote in NY sooner to save them.
My crack pretty much is 1914. Did you know that Charles Taze Russell first had the date for Christ's coming at 1874, based on measurements from the great Pyramid in Egypt? When that date came and went, he found a new passage in the pyramid, it added length or years as he thought, so the new date became 1914? They wanted something Bible based, so they played with numbers using a bad starting point of 607 BCE as the destruction of Jerusalem......but it was destroyed in 587 BCE, a date verified by historians and the WT themselves, ironically enough.
It's not divisions.......it's just too many directions to go............
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Movie - "Gravity" is a must see
by Comatose init was fantastic in imax 3d.
not a cheap fake computer fake 3d.
this was real 3d.
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Saw it the day it came out. YOU ALL MUST SEE IT ON IMAX! What an experiance!
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REACTION from my neck of the woods...
by problemaddict inas some of you may know i am in the midst of a fade, working on the family coming along (new thread to update there).
most mf my close friends are still jw's to varying degrees.
i would say most are couples that are around our age (25-35), and they attend maybe 90% of the meetings, go in service on sat, pioneer in april, and have a couple bible studies etc... in general the good kind.
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Problemaddict.....NO DOUBT!! All i've seen all friggin day is selfies on FB with the "new" bible. LMAO
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REACTION from my neck of the woods...
by problemaddict inas some of you may know i am in the midst of a fade, working on the family coming along (new thread to update there).
most mf my close friends are still jw's to varying degrees.
i would say most are couples that are around our age (25-35), and they attend maybe 90% of the meetings, go in service on sat, pioneer in april, and have a couple bible studies etc... in general the good kind.
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I heard the same thing....crying when they got the new bible......I guess the old one wasn't good enough!!
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The Big AGM News is That There Was No News
by cofty init was totally vacuous.
despite the promise of "new light" in the opening talk there was nothing.. a few of the more clumsy phrases in the nwt have been improved, and it has a nice new grey cover - so what?.
i am thinking about the jws who have spent a lifetime waiting on paradise.
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Same thing I gathered from my family that went........I couldn't make it...um...something came up! (football) Anyways, what I found interesting, i didn't hear ANYTHING aboutwhat was said. All I heard was, "they are so funny!", "it's good to see how real they are!", "What agreat joyful time!"
I mean, If i want jokes, I'll watch a roast on Comedy Central!!Just insane how people are just being stringed along...each time the R&F get restless.....NEW LIGHT or throw a bone at them with a Special Meeting.
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Funny FB comments about Annual Meeting
by Comatose ini just looked and found some real epic fb posts... oh lordy.. here are a few from my stream, post yours!.
alan xxxx.
xxxx are you at the morning one are they getting it fixed i started crying i felt so bad for all the friends and for the governing body as well xxx.
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" Annual Mtg: Tears of joy shed. "
" I turned to XXXX and said, remember this moment, it is history in the making and you are a part of it! AMAZING"
" I asked XXXX how she liked the mtg (she enjoyed it) and told her she's part of history"
I was reading post on FB...I really feel bad for them!!
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New Revised NWT Inspection Project
by dontplaceliterature inanyone here interested in splitting up the new bible by books to compare it to the old one and see if there are any significant changes they are hiding in there that weren't announced at the annual meeting today?
it'll be available for dl from jw.org on monday....
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Thx Apognophos, I figured I'd better go and download it before it "dissappears" online!!