It would be a place of friendship and hospitality, somewhere where people can come and feel wanted and loved, appreciating all Jesus taught and how it can help us to become more compassionate and caring, I would love to be able to walk in a place where it glows with warm and I felt and made others feel relaxed and at ease.
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Starting your own church.....
by oldflame inif you could start a church of your own, what kind of church would it be ?.
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mine would be absolutely non judgemental .
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OMG! OMG! OMG! My DAD has the Sept KM QB part!! We have been....
by oompa ine-mailing back and forth for days about the qb, and he only told me today that he had not even noticed anything new or different about this material until i had brought it up.
he says it would be "absurd" to think the fds mean all literature and web sites other than the wt ones are not to be used for anything, but that the context of the article needs to be taken into consideration.
that the context is key.
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The org is political and the so called sheep are apathetic, they will go along with whatever they say, it has become like that.
After the meetings, what do they talk about, nothing spiritual you would be hard bent on finding someone to discuss the bible or anything that was said, they talk about the day, their job, shopping the new colour they want to paint the house, or winge about their kids and school what ever.
They have become spiritually lazy just as the org wants them to become, they are so warn out by trying to support themselves and their familias what with all the meetings and preperation they have no time to really think and dont want to, so the society does it for them, and it works for the society and for them, because they cant think it is a religion a controlling religion, worn out and couldn't be bothered flock just passively go along not rocking the boat it is easier.
They have become spiritually and mentally lazy.
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Earth to GB: Questions that Demand Answers!
by Room 215 inin recent conversations with several of the local jws, including elders, a number of recent decisions by the watchtower leadership have provoked questions of the types that most jws lack the temerity to ask:.
--- what is really behind the decision to recast production of the watchtower magazine into two versions, one an ``insiders only" edition and the other for public consumption?
besides reducing the volume of printing (the ``privileged" edition intended solely for jws would naturally be produced in much smaller quantities than the ``public" version, is there any reason to suspect that the gb seeks to shield its core kool-ade message to the initiated from scrutiny by a less indoctrinated and therefore a more-likely-to-be critical public?.
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Its to make them feel even more special or better than the outside world, they now have their own special WT and how special they are, they will draw even closer to the GB that makes them feel so much better, that way all the GB say for them to do they will, it is idolatry and very controling.
This is becoming more of a secret society, they have to contro the ones they have left, to many are leaving.
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If you were an iraq resident who would you say is the real terrorist by definition? the american in charge seems to me to be the hitler of teh 21st century and we sit around going about our daily lives watching it happen everyday and dont see the trees nor the forest
Shadow thanks for youre honesty...so true.
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I was in bed and watching TV and dozing of, ( Aust) I had the TV on low and I would just wake and look up, and I saw this plane flying into this building, I thought it was a movie until all the news was going by on the bottom of the picture, I jumped up and turned the sound up, then I saw another plane fly through another building it was like a movie, I just couldn't believe it, was the worst thing I had ever seen, and I couldn't grasp what was really happening for a day or so. Just horrific.
They showed bush at some school talking to kids and I watched his expression I didn't know what to make of it, was strange, then they mentioned Bin Ladin, I had never heard of him before, and all these other reasons for what was happening started to come on TV with different so called experts on Terrorism, I had never really thought about Muslims or Islam.
It changed the world in the way we think and introduced us to something we never really knew about.
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OMG! OMG! OMG! My DAD has the Sept KM QB part!! We have been....
by oompa ine-mailing back and forth for days about the qb, and he only told me today that he had not even noticed anything new or different about this material until i had brought it up.
he says it would be "absurd" to think the fds mean all literature and web sites other than the wt ones are not to be used for anything, but that the context of the article needs to be taken into consideration.
that the context is key.
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fresia
Fresia, too boring! Don't tell me NOBODY asked why the change from not viewing just Apostate stuff, to the FDS not approving "ANY" other literature/websites. Was it just a normal boring part or was there any buzz?
They read scriptures that were sited, the buzz was no one cared it was apathetic, and one brother just laughed and answered where to they get the time to do anything other than all we have to do with preperations for the meetings. Basically nothing was said, and if anyone didn't agree nothing was said, quiet a few put there hands up but mainly the elders answered.
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My District Convention pioneer experiences- I fed my kids from the gutter?
by Witness 007 ini wen't to the district convention 2 years ago, the talk was on "sacrifices," a pioneer couple were interviewed by the c.o.
they had pioneered for many years with two kids, the dad worked part time.
they explianed how money was "tight" for them many times.
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We had an experience from last circuit assembly of b/s pioneer and how they moved where the need was greater, somewhere in Queensland Aus; they had spent all their money on petral and rent and had nothing left for food, but this kind sister came around and left 7 pumkins on the verandah, they were so grateful, and 7 not 6 divine isn't it, they laughed and said we had pumkins for a week. Ha can you imagine the colour their skin would be not to mention the other end of the body, pumkin soup, pumkin scones, baked pumpkin, isnt God thoughtful.
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Is it The Truth? Does this answer work?
by jwfacts ini know that a jw that wants to believe in the wts will not listen to any form of logic or reason.
however, could the following reasoning reach the thinking ability of a few jehovah's witnesses?.
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"Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world's end." Kingdom Ministry May 1974 p.3
"Today there is a great crowd of people who are confident that a destruction of even greater magnitude is now imminent. The evidence is that Jesus' prophecy will shortly have a major fulfilment, upon this entire system of things. This has been a major factor in influencing many couples to decide not to have children at this time." Awake! 1974 Nov. 8 p.11
Really is disgusting who they can just wipe their hands and say was over zealous brothers, I know that my nieces husbands parents sold their home and pioneered for years, but they have nothing now at retirmnet age, their kids are numb nuts have no education at all, just terrible.
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OMG! OMG! OMG! My DAD has the Sept KM QB part!! We have been....
by oompa ine-mailing back and forth for days about the qb, and he only told me today that he had not even noticed anything new or different about this material until i had brought it up.
he says it would be "absurd" to think the fds mean all literature and web sites other than the wt ones are not to be used for anything, but that the context of the article needs to be taken into consideration.
that the context is key.
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fresia
The thing that would awaken more people would be a hard core presentation.
You are right it was very much tonuge in check the elder that handled to talk was xPO, and is the most easy going elder we have, he really tried to lighten it up in the beginning he asked the question does the GB endorse privatate groups studies ect; the answer he said NO, then said ok next talk and everyone laughed then he got into the article.
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OMG! OMG! OMG! My DAD has the Sept KM QB part!! We have been....
by oompa ine-mailing back and forth for days about the qb, and he only told me today that he had not even noticed anything new or different about this material until i had brought it up.
he says it would be "absurd" to think the fds mean all literature and web sites other than the wt ones are not to be used for anything, but that the context of the article needs to be taken into consideration.
that the context is key.
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fresia
Had a talk tonight on Stranger Danger, to be wary of the media and its lies about the WTS and also the biasness of the media cant trust, they are half truths or lies. The sheep know the shepherds voice so they should avoid anthing other than what we learn at the meetings and from the bible.
Then it was question box time. Was handled ok without any great drama. Just basically saying the the GB does not endorse private group study and nor does it endorse get togthers on the net and own web sites, have enough spiritual food provided by the FDS why waste time getting into things that leave us with more questions and can wreak our faith. Basically if we need to get deeper in study we can go to the insight book or other publications. All these studies and private chat without the FDS endorment just causes divisions and the next step is apostacy.