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CO is chasing me . Meeting him tomorrow.
by Ancientofdays inthis week is the "special week", co is back.. he phone called me this morning asking to meet together.. i replied "i don't refuse people who want talking to me, but my condition is that you must be alone, and we meet in public space.".
he agreed and we will meet tomorrow in a cafe.. .
this week he already met with my wife in the kh, and he told her "i believe your housband is apostate !!
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Question for Active and Other Elders - Re: God's Blessing
by berrygerry inthe shepherd book makes reference to "evidence of god's blessing" as well as "fruits that befit repentance" when deciding the fate of a sinner.. jj did a video covering the scenario of an elder who sinned secretly, and hid it for years, but could remain an elder if certain things were true, including "evidence of god's blessing.".
i believe jj's video was making the point that this scenario was if an elder sinned before becoming an elder.. however, the shepherd book does use the terminology "if the sin occurred before he was appointed as an elder or ministerial servant...".
does not that terminology indicate that a sin that occurred after appointment could also be forgiven, and the elder could remain as such?.
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Surprising how WBTS became EXACTLY what Russell was against.
by Fernando in*** jv chap.
15 p. 205 development of the organization structure ***.
however, brother russell emphasized that they were not attempting to set up an earthly organization.
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Additional BOE Letter: Please Be Advised that Further Direction Will Soon be Sent to the Bodies of Elders...
by TTATTelder indear brothers:.
we are writing as a follow-up to the letters dated january 24, 2014, and march 29, 2014,. to all congregations regarding the adjustments now underway to accelerate construction of king-.
dom halls and assembly halls.. .
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last big convention-last memorial buzz
by scotoma inare others hearing this meme from speakers at their congregation?.
is it a newspeak technique for instilling a sense of urgency?.
if it is - it's more manipulative than 1975. it seems like a way of getting around over use of the word "soon", "just around the corner".. maybe after 100 years of waiting they feel they need to approach it from another angle.. i should mention that the qualifier "may" is added "this may be our last___________________ fill in the blank.. lots of wiggle room.
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Help locating video of Judicial Hearing asking if WTS is God's channel
by berrygerry insometime ago, i watched a video, which the offender secretly recorded, of his jc.. the elders asked a handful of times something to the effect:.
do you believe that the watch tower society is the faithful and discreet slave?
do you believe that the watch tower society is god's channel?.
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Feeling disloyal
by stirred but not shaken ini've been visiting here for about a year or so, but didn't really feel compelled to participate other than reading the various posts that interested me.. there's been that uncomfortable feeling of being disloyal to god, the organization, many friends and relatives.. i've been associated since birth.
after 65 + years of service within this organization and actually enjoying that time, it troubled me to find myself wanting to express feelings that were contrary to all that time of "faithfulness".
those years were filled with progressive "privileges and responsibilities" even at a high level, and there was considerable success in our evangelizing activity.
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How to cope with depression?
by make yourself ini know its very common for jws and ex jws to deal with depression.
maybe it's a side effect of cognitive dissonance or the whole outlook on life being a jw.
but what are some ways to cope with depression?
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Jehovah's Witnesses's Matthew 24:14 Good News of the Kingdom.. A different Good News Galatians 1:9
by objectivetruth injehovah' witnesses use matthew 24:14, and their world wide preaching work, as proof, that they are the only "organization" that is doing jehovah's will.. what if the good news that they are preaching is a false good news or as paul would call it "a different good news"?
is there any value to a world wide preaching work, that is preaching a false good news?
or should that entire work be accursed?.
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they died because they stayed
by Crazyguy inaccording to a video over at jwsurvey there was 3 congregations in the path of that supper typhoon that hit the philippines.
the government had told people in these areas to get out but the jw's stayed for thier thursday night meetings and then spent the night in thier kingdom halls to weather out the storm.
two of the 3 congregations even though their halls were destroyed they all survived but the third a hall in the worst hit area was not so lucky.