Pete Zahut

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  "That is going to be the last..." feeling

  by paradiseseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been a long time since i last kept you up to date with leaving process.

  well, i got another teaching job, i started to work in october and my contract will expire in july.

  that's is almost a year of financial security and i have the certainty that i will be called in a different school in september until i eventually get a fixed post - this is how it works in state schools in spain.

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  Pete Zahut

  It isn't an emergency...you don't have to do anything. If you find there are benefits to keeping things the same for a time or for however long you want....why change? Especially since you are making some big transitions in your life. It might be good to have a stable platform on which to fall back on.

  You can keep your thoughts about the religion to yourself and refrain from indoctrinating others and simply look at it as a social outlet. They like you ...you like them...nobody gets hurt. I suspect there are many JW's doing the same thing.
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  Why do Jehovah's Witness members incriminate themselves in judicial meeting?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why do jehovah's witness members incriminate themselves to any judicial process?

  how can three elders conduct a judicial meeting with a 15-year-old teenage girl who supposedly was rumored to fornicate, took drugs or was drunk from drinking alcohol?

  can she or the parents refuse to answer any questions?.

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  Pete Zahut

  Why do Jehovah's Witness members incriminate themselves to any judicial process?

  For the same reason they let themselves or their children die rather than take a blood transfusion. They're indoctrinated to do as they are directed.
  
  
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  Awake magazine: "Help for those who grieve" ?? Appalling omission!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have just had the opportunity to read a hard copy of the awake no3 2018 entitled "help for those who grieve".

  wtf?.

  it really is appalling in its glaring omission of any recommendation to see a professional grief counselor!

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  Pete Zahut

  I remember turning to those articles in times of need only to find them sorely lacking in any real advice or guidance. Knowing that the religion I had grown up counting on, had noting to offer, only added to the grief I was already suffering. Sometimes it's better to have no hope or expectations rather than to find out in your time of need that ones you thought you had, are false.
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  Big Announcement in Montreal

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just got the heads up from montreal that 16 congregations will cease to exist from 1 april 2019. also 3 kh are no longer going to be used anymore.

  this was a major announcement for many and upsetting.

  wonder where the r& f are going to be dispersed with what sacrifices in the way!.

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  Pete Zahut

  Just a thought:

  Most JW's don't know the big picture of the organization they belong to. Why, does the organization announce these closures if they are having financial difficulties or are doing something underhanded?

  It seems to me that halls could be closed here and there and only the ones attending them and a few surrounding ones a would know about it.
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  Not One JW Ever Actually Dies "In the Truth"

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just a thought and perhaps this has been discussed before but no jehovah's witness ever actually dies in the truth.

  pick a year, any year.

  if a jw died in say 1920 or 2020 or whatever...the doctrines change so much and so fast that what is "truth" today is "untruth" the next within this religion.

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  Pete Zahut

  Not one JW ever actually dies "in the truth".

  Following that line of thought one could also say that not one JW has ever been baptized having a full accurate knowledge of "the truth" beforehand because what is considered accurate knowledge, changes from year to year. Even the questions for baptism have been changed since I was baptized. This means that the questions I was asked and the answers I gave before my baptism weren't correct and thus my my baptism wasn't valid.
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  ''Special Letter'' to be Read In Canada Week of Feb 3,2019

  by Beth Sarim in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have just been informed that there is a 'special letter' to be read at the meetings week of feb 3,2019 in canada.

  anybody heard of this!!

  just a heads-up!

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  Pete Zahut

  To all Congregations,

  Dear Brothers,

  You will be pleased to learn that effective immediately, all literature carts will be stocked with JWorg merchandise.
  

  To simplify this new arrangement, there has been a loving provision made for all publishers to purchase the merchandise in advance themselves and ask for contributions from the public as they pass by. JWorg merchandise must only be purchased from distributors shown on the attached a "Approved Vendor List ".

  The publisher may direct the interested ones to the literature on their cart if it seems appropriate but only after a purchase has been made and the transaction has been completed.

  All monies collected will be sent to the Society and used to support those taking the lead in world wide work as this wicked system draws to a close .

  Love and greetings from the governing body.
  
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  Infiltrated Elders?

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i'm watching john cedars commentary on the annual meeting from this last october, and at one point he shows a clip of garrett loesch talking about the struggles jehovah's witnesses faced decades before in the soviet union.

  he claimed that police officers, maybe the kgb, infiltrated congregations which met in secret by studying with jehovah's witnesses, getting baptized, and then working their way up to becoming elders.

  ceders jokes that this shows what kind of role holy spirit actually plays within body of elders, but another interpretation came to my mind just now.

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  Pete Zahut

  I'm guessing that one day there'll be an experience given at an assembly about a former government agent who was commissioned to infiltrate the organization but in the process was so impressed with Jehovah's Witnesses that he resigned his government post and became a JW himself. (queue applause)
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  Is this the most awkward and forced kiss in cinema?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  right after rose smashes into finn's speeder, she practically sexually assaults him (#finntoo) .

  besides, i thought finn had the hots for rey.

  as soon as he woke up from his coma at the beginning of the film, he was like: "where da white woman at?

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  Pete Zahut

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoWG7wteVYM
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Called At My Door

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  last saturday morning, i answered a knock at my door to see a man standing next to a young boy who handed me a pamphlet posing the question, "how do you view the bible?

  would you say it is (1) a book of human wisdom?

  (2) a book of myths and legends?

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  Pete Zahut

  I asked the boy which answer he would choose. He chose answer #3, opening the pamphlet to reveal the following quotation: "All scripture is inspired of God." (2 Timothy 3:16, New World Translation)

  "All scripture is inspired of God." ...said every human who wrote something that ended up in the Bible.
  
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  Something more than physical life.

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most every night, where i work i transport dead persons to the morgue.

  others i work with have told me that around 3:00am they hear voices in the morgue.. i asked them have they experienced something more than physical life?

  just the voices inside the cold morgue.

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  Pete Zahut

  Others I work with have told me that around 3:00am they hear voices in the morgue.

  People who feel ordinary and or have nothing much to say on their own often like to have a story to tell and they even start believing them after they've told them long enough.

  These stories are always fear based. If they're going to hang around after death, why is it that the spirits in these stories never do anything fun like go to the beach or to Disneyland? They always lurk about in dark lonely places....the same places they were afraid of when they were alive.

  Billions of people have lived and died on this earth. It seems like there's been enough of them that have come and gone that we'd all have had at least one encounter with a lingering spirit, in our own lifetime.