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  Could we use the new shunning guidelines to our advantage?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to new, officially published guidelines, jws can now shun a person who has not been disfellowshipped from the congregation.

  i see this guideline being abused by many jws who have an axe to grind with a fellow jw.

  for example, let's say sister peinindiass rubs sister sensitive the wrong way.

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  They already have the "marking" system over which there seems to be some confusion. Some JWs think a person is only "marked" if there is a talk specifically about them In a local needs talk. Others seem to think it's up to individuals to decide who is to be marked when, based on their own "consciences".
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  Could we use the new shunning guidelines to our advantage?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to new, officially published guidelines, jws can now shun a person who has not been disfellowshipped from the congregation.

  i see this guideline being abused by many jws who have an axe to grind with a fellow jw.

  for example, let's say sister peinindiass rubs sister sensitive the wrong way.

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  slimboyfat

  I was thinking similar. But then again, the new guidelines (if they really are new) seem to be talking about inactive people. Apparently meaning people who no longer attend meetings and may not have done so for a long time, but who somehow slipped under the net and escaped disfellowship while doing things that would merit disfellowship. So it wouldn't arise that a sister in the congregation does this to another sister in the congregation. If they are both at the meetings then neither is inactive and they are not covered by the instructions.

  But it does seem like it gives license to bully inactive people who may have maintained some contacts in the congregation. They probably perceive these people on the periphery as corrosive and time they were rooted out.
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  Confusing Opinions with Facts

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in a discussion about the best flavour of ice cream everybody's opinion is equally valid.. in a discussion about the shape of the earth or the origin of species everybody's opinion is equally irrelevant.

  only objective facts and evidence matter.. confusing these two categories is a common feature of conversations in this forum.

  people deserve respect, errors do not..

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  I can respect it is your opinion that there is a clear distinction between opinions and facts. However some of the leading thinkers of the last century have tended to argue otherwise, such as Quine: "no statement is immune to revision".

  You can't say that you allow evidence to shape your views, and yet also say that no evidence will ever make you disbelieve a certain fact. You can't have it both ways.

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_come_what_may
  
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  RC 2016 Leaks & Releases

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.

  now, on with the leaks & releases!

  first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.

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  slimboyfat

  If shunning is sanctioned on mere hearsay without a committee, doesn't that just give a green light to gossip and bullying? What's the point of protesting innocence?
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  Please sum up the last decade in JW history

  by oldskool in

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  2. friends

  i used to be a member of this site, but jumped off a good number of years ago (08?).

  i don't have access to my old email, so i'm using a new account.. anyway, i was baptized jw in late 90's.

  da'd mid 2000s.. when i left there were three meets a week plus field service.

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  Decline, from gentle to precipitous, with distinct indications of panic emanating from the top.
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  Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

  i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

  but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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  Reports out of WT land indicate that the discourse surrounding the construction of insiders and outsiders is changing with possible consequences. This worm sees things differently from the WT.
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  RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witnesses face possible liquidation

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2181.

  24 may 2016. russia: jehovah's witnesses face possible liquidation.

  by victoria arnold, forum 18. if prosecutors proceed with their threat to liquidate the jehovah's witness headquarters near st petersburg, thousands of local congregations across russia could also face prohibition of their activities and individuals could be vulnerable to criminal charges for expressing their beliefs, forum 18 notes.. the jehovah's witnesses' principal body in russia is under threat of dissolution as an "extremist" organisation after the deadline in an official warning from the general prosecutor's office expired on 10 may, forum 18 notes.

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  Not good news for anyone. I think it's unfair or uninformed to say JWs or JW leadership "crave" this scenario. They've worked very hard to avoid it and generally pursue good relations with all governments.
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  slimboyfat & blondie made news on newshub.com

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  i know, how do i find this stuff, right?

  the article is long, so just do a ctrl-f then type in your name... also jehovahs-witness.com mentioned in this article.

  "theocratic warfare" is a contentious theological doctrine of the jehovah's witness (jw) movement in christianity.. .

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  slimboyfat

  I missed this reference to a classic thread of mine!

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/91203/theocratic-warfare-apostate-strategy?page=1
  
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  Advice on how to choose a book

  by slimboyfat in

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  i love books; i always have.

  they are my life and my livelihood.

  and many jehovah's witnesses, when they leave the religion, they think to themselves, "i'd like to read a book".

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  Thanks for the additional suggestions on how to select a book. We could compile a book from this valuable information! Trying to distract us with boobs the beach OnTheWayOut was a sneaky tactic, but we remain focused on then task at hand. 
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  Convention Releases 2016 available on JW.ORG

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now available on jw.org the rc 2016 releases (all downloadable movies, no books)for a certainty god made him lord and christhttps://www.jw.org/finder?locale=en&pub=lrc&prefer=lang&srcid=sharehope for what we do not seehttps://www.jw.org/finder?locale=en&pub=dns&prefer=lang&srcid=shareoh jehovah...i trust in youhttps://www.jw.org/finder?locale=en&pub=tiy&prefer=lang&srcid=share

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  slimboyfat

  No books or brochures or anything? If so is this the first year with no print release ever?