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  Speculation: Female Ministerial Servants coming soon

  by Londo111 in

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  ive no source for this, just personal speculation.. * there is a good case to be made that there were female deacons (ministerial servants) in the bible.. * there is a lack of qualified brothers for basic assignments such as microphones, accounts, literature.

  in some cases, elders have had to do double duty because of a lack of ministerial servants or qualified brothers.. * women outnumber men in the organization.. * there is supposedly a surprising change coming "down the pipe".. perhaps the only difference between male and female ministerial servants is that women will still not be allowed to teach..

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  AlphaMan

  I've thought about this more and I just don't see any way the JW Governing Body would let females be Ministerial Servants. For one thing it is totally contrary to all the views the cult has had about women up to this day. I think it could cause many problems with some femake MS making some males look bad. Too many situations where a male elder or MS would be alone with a female MS. My main logic in any of these speculations about changes the JW Governing Body could make is that anything too radical this late in "the time of the end" makes them look more like the complete idiots they are. How could they claim all this time the bible doesn't allow for women to be MS, then still believe the end can come tomorrow, next week, month or year and then all of a sudden say the bible teaches women can be MS? I think they can come up with something to allow woman more responsibility in the KH, but I don't think you will see females being appointed MS.
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  Would JWs Really Drink The Kool Aid?

  by minimus in

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  if push came to shove and it was a showdown for loyalty to the organization or not following whatever decrees coming heir way, what percentage would remain loyal to the organization?

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  The only way a high percentage of JW's would drink any suicidal kool-aid is if it were a worldwide coordinated event. Otherwise other witnesses, family members & authorites would get the news out and KH's would be shutdown and JW's rounded up. Now, a diabolical JW Governing Body could pull off a coordinated mass JW kool-aid drinking party if they put their minds to it.
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  TODAY I published my book THE MONORAILS of MARS the first JW sci-fi

  by Terry in

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  http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-walstrom/the-monorails-of-mars/paperback/product-21717981.html.

  under the cover illustration, click "preview".

  a preview screen will appear.

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  That is awesome! A si-fi about JW's. LOL Excellent job Terry.
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  So many dubs

  by Nosferatu in

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  last weekend while i was checking out garage sales, i swear i saw about 10 "pairs" of dubs doing their important work.

  they were handing out the pamphlets for the convention.. i've never seen that many in one weekend.

  was there some sort of special, motivational request for doing the preaching work last weekend?.

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  Hit-and-run campaigns always draw bigger dub groups. You don't have to say much (if anything at all), time goes by quickly and it's the easiest way to count time.

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  Don't forget......they also get to boast at the boasting sessions that they partiscipated in the "special" campaign.
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  Something Big is Coming...

  by notsurewheretogo in

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  the annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.

  "at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.

  all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".

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  I will go on record as saying if any big change really is coming in the JW Org it is NOT going to be that everyone will begin partaking at the Memorial. IMO....that would just be too big a radical change. Yes, it is Gospel simiple that all Christians should partake of the emblems, but the not partaking by the JW "other sheep class" is a deeply rooted JW ritual. They can explain away "over-lapping generation", "blood factions" and "GB now only the F&DS", but how in the hell could they go all this time, claim the end can be every tomorrow, then have all JW's sudden switch to partaking when every Memorial should be the last Memorial? That surely would be a sign that the JW Organization is man-made and that the leaders of this religion just make up doctrine as they go along. Sure, the GB could claim "new light" and hard core JW's would not question it, but then surely it would have to wake many people up that something is not right in the JW Organization.

  I agree with those who think if anything "big" is announced it will be along the lines of their witnessing work, using female members more, allow beards or something else along those lines.
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  What is the "new" date JWs are "hinting" at for Armaggeddon?

  by booker-t in

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  after the 1975 "we did not say point blank armaggeddon was coming we only suggested it might come" fiasco what is the new date jws are "hinting" at for armaggeddon?

  i know now they do not point to any specific date but hint that maybe it might occur such as before 2000 the preaching work will be finished.

  this is a suggestion not a prediction so they can wiggle out of this one.

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  AlphaMan

  AlphaMan, be happy that you are nowhere as deceptive and perverted as those Spiritual-Rapists and Spiritual-Pedophiles who sit on the Governing Body.

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  Kiss my ass you asshole!!! I'm not deceptive or perverted AT ALL asswipe!!!
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  What is the "new" date JWs are "hinting" at for Armaggeddon?

  by booker-t in

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  after the 1975 "we did not say point blank armaggeddon was coming we only suggested it might come" fiasco what is the new date jws are "hinting" at for armaggeddon?

  i know now they do not point to any specific date but hint that maybe it might occur such as before 2000 the preaching work will be finished.

  this is a suggestion not a prediction so they can wiggle out of this one.

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  AlphaMan

  If I were the GB I would hint at October 2034 as the end. They can spin the Noah preaching 120 years before the deluge blah, blah, blah. They can keep 1914 and the over-lapping generation. They can create urgency to get their new HQ build sooner. Older ones can be talked into leaving their estates to the Watchtower to help complete the greatest witnessing work ever blah, blah, blah. It would give them somethng to rally around for now. They would really get a bump in membership 4 years before 2034 like they did with 1975. Lot's of positives in a Doomsday cult having a doomsday date. Of course when 2035 comes they can always come up with "new light" while they are laughing all the way to the bank.
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  Something Big is Coming...

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.

  "at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.

  all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".

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  Wait a minute ! In that lovely pic Oubliette posted, do I see a pair of feet sticking out of that freshly made steaming pile ?

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  Yep.....he represents the local body of elders taking the theocratic food from the Watchtower F&DS to feed to the publishers.

  
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  Something Big is Coming...

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.

  "at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.

  all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".

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  AlphaMan

  My vote is a field service modification, with downsizing, toward eliminating the door-to-door work. The liability of sending a "large army" of publishers out door-to-door is not worth the return without literature sales.

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  Very true. People easily forget that this cult is run by a "Legal Department".
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  Visit from JW relatives..

  by NVR2L8 in

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  AlphaMan

  You're right. When you are a fader and JW relatives visit.....there isn't much to talk about.