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  Question for current meeting-attenders...

  by Kudra in

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  i am wondering if they still say "dear brothers," (as in brothers only, no mention of sisters) when they read letters from the governing body.

  also, do they still address the audience at conventions and assemblies as "brothers, aren't we glad ...blah blah something blah blah".

  this would bother me ~5 years ago when i was attending the kh and even then, it was a terribly outdated and chauvinistic way to address a large crowd -it just seems like there would be outright rebellion if the crowd at a convention or kingdom hall were to be addressed that way today.

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  facemouse

  Yeah, they still say dear brothers. You know the masculine form is supposed to represent all of us, right?
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  My granddaughter said the prayer at the dinner table

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  our 6-year old granddaughter had just gotten over a bout of scarlet fever.

  clyde and i were at her house and so was her other grandparents.

  her other grandfather is a ministerial servant but not very zealous and not a bit judgmental--thankfully.

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  facemouse

  We let our children pray all the time. My husband is so afraid to leave the org. I've been ready to go. My eight year old daughter prays over dinner, so does my son. No, we don't make her cover her head, and now my husband even wants me to pray sometime. Very unconventional Jehovah's Witness, but I believe it draws us closer to hear what everyone is praying for.
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  Doctrinal ramifications of large increase in 2008 memorial partakers?

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  the nearly 10% increase in partakers at the memorial in the 2008 annual service report is a huge increase.

  there were increases in the previous years too.. this massive increase is no doubt attributeable to the 'new light' this year that the calling of the 'heavenly class' was not closed in 1935, as previously taught.

  the new understanding this year is that the calling of the 'anointed' class is 'evidently' still open.

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  facemouse

  wobble, you posted about the reject jesus party. I've read something about the way we do the memorial is actually a gnostic ritual of denying the body of Christ. I can't find it anywhere anymore, anybody have any idea where to find anything about this in print?