For those who are still IN and attending meetings, do you still study the WT & other books?

by ohnightdivine 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  prologos

  Good suggestion:

  skipping THEIR questions,

  because they are just indoctrination tools.
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  Captain Blithering

  I sit and use the new Jw app on my phone, tbh I find it quite useful, what jgnat said about reading the context of verses quoted is very important, you quickly see misapplications . I like the Kingdom interlinear in the app too, gives the original Greek words, I often come up with something that doesn't fit right or translate well to check out later. And no one can have a go at you, it's the societies app! It's like making the truth your own, all over again, work out for yourself what you believe. Takes time my friend. I did the bible reading from the platform today, from my phone secreted inside my large reference bible. I was hoping to get told off but it didn't happen. .
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  Captain Blithering

  Why do my paragraphs not show up? I used paragraphs.
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  Splash

  I never prepare for meetings unless I have a part, it takes too much of my valuable time.

  I've always viewed the underlining of the WT as nothing more than a public display of self-righteousness. It certainly doesn't help you learn or memorise more.

  Makes me laugh when I see one of those multi-coloured underlined WT's. Happy are those with a multi-coloured, highlighted WT, since the feeling of smug self satisfaction belongs to them.

  Splash.
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  prologos

  a speaker from the platform ridiculing the glow colour underliners:

  " You could get a sunburn from them" leaving them redfaced of course,
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  Apognophos

  I did the bible reading from the platform today, from my phone secreted inside my large reference bible. I was hoping to get told off but it didn't happen.

  Huh? Why? Were you reading the 1984 edition or the 2013 edition?
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  fredPotato

  I'm still in.

  I stopped studying the WT this year as it became unbearable to me to do so. The same applies to all other publications...

  I just carefully surf the web during the meetings using my phone while covering it with either a magazine or a bible. I also go a lot more to get some water at the back of the KH, and when I do, I make sure to spend a while in there so time goes by faster...

  It has been such a pain to go to the meetings these past months that I'm almost giving up.