insearchoftruth
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Thinking of an method to get my wife to think about the organization.......
by insearchoftruth inam still trying to come to a course of action to deal with my wife and her renewed zeal for the wts.
one new detail that i find interesting is she was assigned a sister to study with and the gal called somewhat early yesterday morning and my wife chewed her up and told her she does not want to study with her, she want so study with sister whatever.
i am sure that the sister that called was somewhat taken aback by this.. i think a slant i may be able to use is the anointed/fds since my wife really did not know anything about this and especially since she gave me the phone when she was talking to the first sister she knows and i asked her some questions and she confirmed that they were one in the same as well as how people can fall from being anointed by not be 'faithful'.
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Help.....What is the current 'implied' time of the end
by insearchoftruth inwas at the assembly and many times the speakers mentioned we are so close to the end.
what is the current teaching the jws are using on this, the reasoning book she has still states that some of those alive in 1914 will see the end.
is the new teaching tied to the change in anointed teaching?
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Reflections on the assembly - please help!!!!
by insearchoftruth ingood morning,.
one of the two district assemblies was this past weekend in hampton va and my wife was very excited to attend, but she only attended about 1.5 hours on friday and then i attended the morning session with her on saturday.
not sure how these number compare with past years, but about 5200 folks were in attendance (by their count) and it appeared that about 20 folks were going to be baptized.. here are couple of my thoughts on what i heard, i kept notes, but they were in my wife's binder, so was unable to grab them this morning.. most of the speakers i heard slammed higher education....and they tried to tie that back to the bible, that was sort of a reach if you ask me...wasn't luke involved with medicine in some way??.
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Assembly day one - less than two hours attended
by insearchoftruth inwell my wife went to day one of the assembly, but for only 1.5 hours, she left early to meet me for lunch and off to an appointment this afternoon.
she really did not say much about the assembly except it was "nice" and she said that the speaker was really good, not sure which speaker she was referring to, either why be guided by god's spirit or the holy spirit at work in creation, most likely both....... when she called i told her stay if she really wanted to, but she did not..... any ideas of what these two presentations were about.....and any references that may help me drop some ideas and provoke some thoughts?.
not sure of her plans for tomorrow or sunday......may be heading to some of each of those days as well, if she goes tomorrow, i may go for a few hours with her, to insulate from love bombs as well as to be able to ask why folks are allegiant to an organization rather than jehovah??
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E-Watchman and JW Reform
by insearchoftruth ini have read some very interesting and thought provoking articles on the subject sites.
having never been a jw, what is the feeling of a 'run of the mill' witness towards these sites sympathetic towards the general doctrines of the wts, but calling for some major reforms?.
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Insight In the Scriptures.....is there anything I can use in these volumes?
by insearchoftruth inwhen i got home today i noticed another stack of stuff on the kitchen table, more wt garbage, including the english version of reasoning from the scriptures as well as a copy of insight in the scriptures that sister gave my wife.
my wife said she wanted to 'read the bible', i asked a simple question why she needed all the other books to accomplish that...she said just to provide her some assistance.
she was also stating today how it really does not matter how people interpret the scriptures, because there is only one correct interpretation....i wanted to get sick...... is there anything in these books, since they are from 1988, that i can use to my benefit....for example does it talk about the annointed and the generation where i could ask her to look it up as compared to the new light..... just wondering, may be reaching here, but anything would help!
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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think
by insearchoftruth ingood afternoon,.
my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.
it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .
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Voting - what is the current position?
by insearchoftruth inmy wife recently became a citizen and when she was registered to vote, she was very excited....now she is with the mindset that though earthly governments are important due to keeping some semblance of order, voting only brings one farther from jehovah because it makes one more of this world....what is the current view on voting, is it one of those things that is stated to be a matter of conscience, but one is strongly frowned upon if they actually make a decision to do it?
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Governments and voting - have there been reinforcments in this?
by insearchoftruth inwas wondering since this an election year in the us, if the wts has been reinforcing its position on the voting ban...i thought it recently had become a matter of conscience, but tonight my wife was talking about how she realizes there is a need for governments, but there will be only one government which will bring peace.
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i asked her about selecting the government and she said that there will always be people who vote and they can select the governements since overall government really does not matter.. i am guessing that she has spent more time with the pesky sister in her free time than i had previously thought.
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Looking for help on JW Doctrine on Paradise Earth
by insearchoftruth ini believe that it is fear of impending armegeddon that is the 'gravity' that is acting on my wife by the jws, and i know a lot of that is due to the media and the portrayals of the current world conditions.
she has asked me about the lutheran view of armageddon, which frankly i am not sure of, since it is not a focal point of the faith (so i need to do some homework on this) and also she keeps bringing up the paradise earth doctrine, and asks me if 'jehovah' did not mean for man to inhabit the earth, why was it created.
what would her come back (or should i say the jw comeback) be if i pointed her to the many places in the bible where it talks about a new earth, the destruction of the present earth and similar?