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  Strange letter to local congregations

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this summer i saw on the bulletin board of a specific kh a strange letter, the info of which i'd like to share with you.. it came not from the gb or the branch office, but from the local evangelizers school.

  what it said was roughly this:.

  because they want to enrich the school's library, they ask from the brothers in the region (i.e.

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  CO Special Meeting with MS & Elders

  by Syme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when the co visits a cognregation this semester, a special meeting with elders and mss is sceduled tuesday night, right after the normal meeting.

  does anyone know what this meeting is about?

  this special meeting is held at the beginning of the co-week, and is different from the standard meeting with personnel which is held friday evening.

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  Selective Statistics & extraordinary JW claims

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  * a jw family leave their crops and livestock unattained to go to a convention.

  when they return, the crops and livestock are doing just fine.. * a desperate person is anxiously praying to god to give her a chance to know him.

  even before the prayer is concluded, two jws knock at her door.. * a pioneer prefers to take leave from her work in order to attend the pioneer school, even though she's sure she'll be fired.

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  Arrested by French authorities for wanting to perform Female Genital Mutilation

  by Syme in

  1. social
  2. current

  here's the story, from guardian:.

  http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/10/france-tough-stance-female-genital-mutilation-fgm.

  these are very interesting news.

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  Groucho Marx quote fixed

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "those are my beliefs, and if you don't like them... well, i have others.".

  -governing body(tm).

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  'Evolution' of the Creative Days length

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  we all know that wts likes to distance itself from the young earth creationists, who believe in the literal 6-day creation.. so are we supposed to be something fundamentally different from the yecs?

  not so much.... i did some research some time ago about what the society believes abouth the length of the creative days.

  this is what i found:.

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  Why the field service reports?

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some years ago, we had this difficult bible study with a guy who was unofficially a witness for about 40 years, yet he would never make the step of becoming an unbaptized publisher.

  we pushed him at some point to tell us the reason, and the reason was this: he didn't agree with the field reports practice.

  he said he did a lot of preaching by himself but didn't see any reason to report it to the congregation.. of course, we told him that the reason we hand in field reports is so that we have statistics, and know how much work is done worldwide and bla-bla-blah.

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  "I don't want to be here when that happens"

  by Syme in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recall a memory from a circuit assembly almost a year ago and wanted to share it with you.. .

  i had already been in serious doubt (about everything, not only the wts) for over a year, yet at that period of time i conducted 2 bible studies, with some nice young fellows.

  at that circuit assembly, on sunday, both studies came: one sat on my left, the other on my right.

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  Jehovah’s Witnesses and Communist Parties similarities

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as an example i will use the existing communist party in my country.

  the cp of my country is generally viewed as a rigid, stalinist party (one of the few remaining in the world), so it is a very suitable analogy.. the comparison will be as this: i will describe the characteristics of the cp and i will highlight in red letters the (in my opinion) characteristic that resembles the jw, although some characteristics are so similar, that this marking may seem unnecessary.... activity of members: every member of the cp is expected to read regularly the party literature, which includes one daily newspaper and one bimonthly magazine; not just read it though, but absorb it.

  a party member is also expected to actively participate in party propaganda, which often includes (yes, youve guessed it) door-to-door activity!

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  First Post - Introduction

  by Syme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my first post on jwn, and i would like to take a few lines to introduce myself.. i currently am still in the organization, though my conviction in the last 1-2 years is more or less agnostic/atheist (closer to atheist).

  i am an ex-elder and mts graduate, having served in another 3 congregations, apart from my home one.. the reason for the above-mentioned conviction shift has to do with science and rational, logical thinking generally, and with the grand theory of evolution, specifically.

  it took me long, endless sessions of hard reading and study of serious scientific literature (plus cross-matching all the quotes and claims in jw evolution-related literature), to finally make the shift from utterly firm religious belief to doubt, and then to lack of religious faith.

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