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  can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?

  by Chris Tann in

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  so it's rumored started by one member that there is a new pioneer rank called basic pioneer, announced at annual meeting.

  can anyone verify this is true?

  everything else presented at the meeting has been verified except this.

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  DwainBowman

  I just got this from my distance cousin in Walkill!!
  Dwain
  
  The following were not mentioned at the annual meeting...
  
  -- In September next year there will be a new level of pioneering. Currently, this is auxiliary, regular and special .... new option called Basic Pioneer that involves reaching 10 hours a month and the purpose is to reach a milestone in August that all brothers and sisters report and avoid inactivity.
  
  -- On 01/01/15 a new part of the service meeting entitled “How you learned the truth” to replace local needs in which all members of the congregation can relate their experience.
  
  -- Bethelites with five years or more service may serve for a year on a missionary assignment.
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  He said in a follow up note, that it got started on Friday, and spread like wild fire, as something coming along to be announced later, and just went from there!!!!
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  AGM 2014 Detailed Highlights - including talks summary.

  by Da.Furious in

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  it is more likely to be one attack under different names.. gog of magog is not satan but a coalition of nations.

  1. what do talents represent?

  so who has the 5 talents?

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  DwainBowman

  I just got this from my distance cousin in Walkill!!
  Dwain
  
  The following were not mentioned at the annual meeting...
  
  -- In September next year there will be a new level of pioneering. Currently, this is auxiliary, regular and special .... new option called Basic Pioneer that involves reaching 10 hours a month and the purpose is to reach a milestone in August that all brothers and sisters report and avoid inactivity.
  
  -- On 01/01/15 a new part of the service meeting entitled “How you learned the truth” to replace local needs in which all members of the congregation can relate their experience.
  
  -- Bethelites with five years or more service may serve for a year on a missionary assignment.
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  He said in a follow up note, that it got started on Friday, and spread like wild fire, as something coming along to be announced later, and just went from there!!!!
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  I'm going to read on Sunday :p

  by Yondaime in

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  DwainBowman

  I started being used as a reader, 2 month's after being duncked at 12. And have done so every where i have ever lived. The cong i am in now only has 4 servents, and 4 eladers, and the rule here is you have to be one or the other, so we get the same mostly crapy reader all the time. Not that i would do it, even if asked!! But there are a lot of good readers that just warm the seat in this cong!!

  Dwain
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  Is the AGM today?

  by hamsterbait in

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  anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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  DwainBowman

  I just got this from my cousin in Walkill!!

  Dwain

  The following were not mentioned at the annual meeting...
  
  -- In September next year there will be a new level of pioneering. Currently, this is auxiliary, regular and special .... new option called Basic Pioneer that involves reaching 10 hours a month and the purpose is to reach a milestone in August that all brothers and sisters report and avoid inactivity.
  
  -- On 01/01/15 a new part of the service meeting entitled “How you learnt the truth” to replace local needs in which all members of the congregation can relate their experience.
  
  -- Bethelites with five years or more service may serve for a year on a missionary assignment.
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  Is the AGM today?

  by hamsterbait in

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  anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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  DwainBowman

  I am not sure one way or the other, we will find out in time! I can see why they might do it. So many no longer make the 10 hours a month qouta, that any kind of carrot would help, and we all know that borgland is a lot about titles, no matter what the gb says!!And if they did make a basic pioneer rank, I would guess it would not extand the pioneer school, or yearly Pioneer meeting, to them, being they would not be full time pioneers. The Aux pioneers are excluded from those events too!!

  A sister I have known for a long time, was just crushed after she divorced her "apostate" hubby 15 years ago, that she could no longer pioneer. At the time I told her, that the title was not importand, but that she was doing what she told jehovah she was going to do in her heart. She has never turned in more than 5 hours a month since then. It was all about the title, and the Big yearly pat on the back from the special yearly pioneer only meetings!!! I remember her wearing her Pioneer Badge at the assmblies back in the mid 80's with such PRIDE, she was SOMEBODY!!!

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  Is the AGM today?

  by hamsterbait in

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  anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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  DwainBowman

  Thanks Buddy!!!!!!!!

  Dwain
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  TMS schedule for 2015?

  by PlatinumFix in

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  just a question - has anyone seen the tms schedule for 2015 yet?.

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  DwainBowman

  Yup. Where I am they posted it in Dec.

  Dwain
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  Did it bother you that they taught, "miss a meeting and you'll fall away?"

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  how many times did we hear that if we dont attend meetings we will leave the truth because satan will get ahold of us?

  that always bothered me.

  i thought, "if my faith isn't able to stand alone what good is it?

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  DwainBowman

  Remember the saying, "Seven days without meetings, makes one WEAK!"

  I Was scared to death over that, I was often sick and in the hospital, and missed lots of mettings. I just knew i was going to be destroyed at the BIG day!

  Dwain
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  TMS schedule for 2015?

  by PlatinumFix in

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  just a question - has anyone seen the tms schedule for 2015 yet?.

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  DwainBowman

  They have not been included the last year or so. They send a copy to the school overseer!

  Dwain
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  JW.Org Google Ranking Not Looking Good for WT!

  by JW GoneBad in

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  DwainBowman

  100 people could type the same thing into Google, and get different results! One person can type in the same search on different computers, and get different results!

  Dwain