DwainBowman

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  stupid statement in watchtower about appointments of elders

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after going through all the processes of how they appointed elders in the past they say this:.

  "the elders in turn would inform the newly appointed men of their appointment, asking them if they were willing and actually qualified to accept the assignment.

  so after qualifying the man you ask him if he is qualified.. .

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  Over the course of 20 some years I was appointed 3 times, I turned it down each time. I never felt I had any kind of real training to take on all the responsibility that came with the position!

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  stupid statement in watchtower about appointments of elders

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after going through all the processes of how they appointed elders in the past they say this:.

  "the elders in turn would inform the newly appointed men of their appointment, asking them if they were willing and actually qualified to accept the assignment.

  so after qualifying the man you ask him if he is qualified.. .

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  After holy Spirit has anointed him, they then ask if he qualified, and if they have done anything to disqualify themselves!

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  Father denies children inheritance unless they quit Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Tiktaalik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an article in the sydney morning herald:.

  http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/father-denies-children-inheritance-unless-they-quit-jehovahs-witnesses-and-become-catholics-20140810-102egl.html#ixzz39yziuuvf.

  "from beyond the grave, father-of-four patrick carroll continued a five-decade crusade to steer his children away from being active jehovah's witnesses and into catholicism.. mr carroll wrote into his will that his adult children were not to receive any inheritance unless they met two conditions: attend his funeral and become catholics within three months of his death.. mr carroll died in april 2012. his children attended the funeral but they did not become catholics and challenged the condition in the nsw supreme court in a bid to still receive their share of his estate.. but justice francois kunc last week ruled that mr carroll was entitled to place such conditions on his will.. the court heard that mr carroll's motivation was not so much about imposing his own beliefs but rather the fact he never approved of his children becoming jehovah's witness.. the court heard that mr carroll did not raise his children as catholics, neither he or they had attended church services when they were young and he did not enroll them in catholic schools.. but when he split from their mother lillian in 1959 she became a jehovah's witness and over the next decade the couple's four children, robyn, paulene, anthony and susan, were baptised as jehovah's witnesses.. mr carroll never approved of "their adherence to that faith", the court heard.. "[lillian's] conversion to that faith enraged mr carroll, who for the rest of his life continued to express his very strong objections to lillian's and the children's member of that faith," justice kunc said in his judgement.. the court was told that all four of his children remain active members of their congregation.. in his will, written in december 2011, four months before he died, mr carroll left more than a third of his estate to his four children "dependent upon them becoming baptised into the catholic church within a period of three months from the date of my death and such gifts are also subject to and dependent my children attending my funeral.".

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  I know of two different JW's that wrote there dfed kids out of their wills, instead left it all to the borg!

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  Wow I did not see that coming!!!!!!!

  by Defianttruth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i took my family for a weekend trip to a lake in oklahoma a few weeks ago.

  the area is right at the end of where the "trail of tears" (i don't know if human atrocities should be in paretheses, italics, or underlined.

  yes, i have a dark sense of humor.

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  Hey do you live in Oklahoma? We just went camping by Stroud Lake a couple weeks ago.

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  JW.ORG TRADEMARK DENIED

  by NAVYTOWN in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw on another forum that the trademark application for the 'jw.org' logo had been denied by the trademark office.

  it is too similar to the logo of another company.

  there is an appeals process that presumably gives the watchtower a chance to get the decision reversed.

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  There is another publishing company named JW Publishing, jw.borg is also a publishing company, and would be steping on JW Publishing's trade mark!

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  Barb Anderson relates amazing info about Knorr, also Senior Bethel Writers

  by Dogpatch in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "is it possible that many of the organizational sexual policies began when (in the late 70s early 80s?

  ) some of the people at bethel and even some of the gb were found out to be visiting gay bars?

  i did hear about some bethelites visiting gay bars or engaging in homosexual acts in the late 70s and early 80s and were asked to leave bethel.

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  Wow, totally blown away!

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  using kindle/ tablet/ iPad in meetings how to police?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've noticed about half my half are using these.

  of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.

  are the society going to find a way to police this?

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  They just had it installed in the KH I am stuck in. It took 7 trys to get in. It was rev2134, first I tried ps8318 in 2 differnt ways, then John173, next john316. Once logged in, I went to work on the admin control panel, it was still set to, username = admin, password = password. 10 mintues!!! I thought about chinging the admin username and password, who knows I may yet!! I have 2 tablets, one for playing, they pretty much look alike, but the toy one is for messing around with things like that. The sunday before the next co's visit I should change the log in name to jwfacts.org : )

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  Can JW's get themselves sterilized?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can you be sexually sterilised?no, it is absolutely wrong - w59 7/1 p. 416 questions from readers.

  however, it is absolutely wrong for a person to think that in order to stay free for the kingdom service and avoid family responsibilities in the way of children he is justified in getting himself sexually sterilized.. .

  no, it is harmful - w61 12/1 p. 735 questions from readers.

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  I would have told them where to stick that mirror, and how far to shove it!

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  10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO

  by Absalom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?

  he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..

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  On the latest co rounds, they have been doing that. They are supposed to make special efforts to reach all inactive jw's in there area, and invite them to the talk on Sunday!

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  Does the Governing Body really endorse this product

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. social
  2. humour

  artwork from max borgovah of the meme group.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/jwmeme/.

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  DwainBowman

  Hahaha

  With Tabasco sauce added, fir that burning love!

  Dwain