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  Recent refinements / changes in WTS

  by Da.Furious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we had our co visit and on his second talk he mentioned we need to be a pillar and support of the truth.

  we can do this by accepting and working with all the changes, refinements and the speed of jehovahs organisation moving forward.. he listed the refinements and changes that occurred in the last couple of years:.

  1- study edition of wt - allows the society to use more meaty articles and not worry about non jws understanding them.. 2- public edition of wt and awake.

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  WTS/GB is run as a corporate. Managers should be young but it does not matter for the Board!
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  Shaving: Wet or Electric?

  by FL_Panthers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  something i ponder about now and again.

  i don't shave that much, maybe twice a week so it's not even a big deal, but i saw someone at the health club using an electric shaver and that got me pondering all over again.. .

  i've been using mach iii recently and fairly happy with that.

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  Da.Furious

  I used to shave using Braun electric shavers. I also used to do it twice a week. found out that wet shaving is quicker and better. The electric one gets hot on the skin and starts irritating.

  The downside of wet shaving you don’t get the smooth fell of electric ones!
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  CO Visits

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  more questions from an uninformed ubm: do co visits all happen at the same time each year?

  is now co visit season?

  what does this mean in terms of harrassing inactive memebers to come to meetings?

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  Da.Furious

  Unfortunately, it will take her sometime. The CO visit is like a motivational speaker seminar. Will get you all pumped up and sets targets and show you what great things you are missing and privately will ask elders to link a pioneer with your wife to help her out in ministry - in addition to love bombing.

  This is purely mind control and if she is not careful she will get dragged back in.

  Although i am still active (learned how not to listen), since i stopped caring what happens and never get bothered what others say, we stopped fighting at home and relationship is much better. Wife is slightly dedicated but she is noticing the better person!
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  Troll Accusations

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have noticed that some of us are a bit too eager to label new posters as trolls.

  while it is clear that there are some posters who just like to stir up trouble or are out and out apologists there are others who are witnesses starting to have genuine doubts and so ask questions but then when they see the responses the cognitive dissonance kicks in and they push back and argue with what they are being told.

  this can lead to very negative reactions from jwn members and accusations that the person is a troll.

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  Da.Furious

  Very True. I had the same experience and met with FL_Panthers, Katewild and Laika. And they are all nice people to have around.

  Text/posting does not do justice to anyone.

  Frazzeled_UBM, maybe we should meet sometime, i am also near London.
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  Recent refinements / changes in WTS

  by Da.Furious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we had our co visit and on his second talk he mentioned we need to be a pillar and support of the truth.

  we can do this by accepting and working with all the changes, refinements and the speed of jehovahs organisation moving forward.. he listed the refinements and changes that occurred in the last couple of years:.

  1- study edition of wt - allows the society to use more meaty articles and not worry about non jws understanding them.. 2- public edition of wt and awake.

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  Da.Furious

  We had our CO visit and on his second talk he mentioned we need to be a pillar and support of the truth. We can do this by accepting and working with all the changes, refinements and the speed of Jehovah’s organisation moving forward.

  He listed the refinements and changes that occurred in the last couple of years:

  1- Study Edition of WT - allows the society to use more meaty articles and not worry about non JWs understanding them.

  2- Public Edition of WT and Awake. Everything is written in a simpler way to help readers understand.

  3- Reduction of the Magazines size from 32 to 16

  4- Reduction of weekly meetings to allow more for family worship

  5- Regular Pioneers can attend more than once the pioneer school

  6- The new schools of Single brothers and Married couples which later got combined to school of evangelizer

  7- The greater use of Audio and Video in our ministry

  8- The new redesigned website. More languages are available online

  9- Special metropolitan ministry - allows to capture the people who may not want to talk with us at home

  10- The new Search Guide which is available in 160 languages compared to the WT Library which is only available in 40 languages.

  That’s all he mentioned. I think he missed some others:

  1- New tithing arrangement

  2- No Bible study when CO visits

  3- Scrapping of special assembly and splitting Circuit assemblies to 1 day and having it twice in a year

  4- Changing the name of the District Conventions to Regional Conventions

  5- Scrapping of DO and their responsibilities picked up by CO

  6- CO ultimate power in instating and deleting elders and MS

  7- Allowing tablets on platform

  Not sure if i missed any - feel free to add!
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  Who Ever Votes No In The Kingdom Hall?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how many of you have ever observed no votes in kingdom halls?

  especially for spending on stuff?.

  i've actually seen a few close votes but i is my experience unusual?

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  What I have seen is that they ask if all agree, this is done by raising your hand. Never been asked anyone in disagreement? Presume due to the majority raising their hands. I never put my hand up for any resolution involving giving more to WTS.

  Last resolution about the monthly contribution, i think i was the only person did not raise his hand and was confronted by one elder later about it. Just told him i don’t agree with the arrangement and changed the subject avoiding confrontation and checking if I believe in GB- too early to expose myself!
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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  Da.Furious

  Enlightened since childhood but still active - Fading is not working!
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  ...The WBT$ Theft of Kingdom Hall Bank Accounts and JW Elders...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  .. the new wbt$ donation arrangement/ jw kingdom hall bank account theft... is a very hot topic right now... the wbt$ is literally going to clean out kingdom hall bank accounts,filled with donations from jws... that theft is going to happen world wide..the wbt$ is going to steal from 7 million plus jw`s... .. we have jw elders here on jwn,that know whats going on... they "serve" in kingdom halls,they are "supposed" to be looking after the welfare of the average jw... they know there is a 4 page letter,only one page will be read to the congregation..the rest will be kept secret... they know the wbt$ is about to steal jw donations..on a world wide scale!!!...

  .. i would like to know what you active jw elders are going to do about this??!!...

  are you going to let "your" congregation know about the other 3 secret pages?...

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  Da.Furious

  I believe elders in this case are like departmental heads with lots of people eying their jobs. If they don’t comply when the CO visits them they get the chop and somebody much worse will take over.

  I don’t envy them, I spoke to an elder and he somehow expressed his doubts in this arrangement and then changed the discussion. No one trusts anyone with anything, what guarantee they have a R&F will not report them to another elder or CO - elder x has doubts and does not like the new arrangement.

  After all it all about position in the congregation. Some are totally brainwashed they will not notice and others are afraid to talk and very few will get the chop for raising doubts when the CO will come.
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  I'm In London!

  by FL_Panthers in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can anyone recommended any good congregations to visit?

  my hotel is in waterloo area so something close please.

  anyone else here from london?.

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  Da.Furious

  Tempted to join you guys but not sure!
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  BOE: Re: Midweek meetings during visit of circuit overseer

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you read it here first!.

  to all congregations.

  re: midweek meetings during visit of circuit overseer .

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  Da.Furious

  Very interesting. Wonder if this has to do with crowded kingdom halls. I attend at a hall with 4 congregations and the only free day is Monday with the current schedule. So having the extra meeting causes lots of trouble and changes for the other 2.

  So, is the plan to cram more congregations to one hall, hence no one can complain about the CO visit and change in schedule!