Posts by Caminante

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BOE LTR (PDF) Brazen Conduct !!!

by yknot in

i apologize to those in the vincinity of my spad's ladies bathroom....... yes!

oh my gaud!

give it to me baby!

Caminante

baltar447:

The September 16, 1991, letter is the same letter as this one (so the latter makes the former obsolete), but refering to the Kingdom Ministry Schools organized when they released the 1991 edition of the Pay Attention book.

The June 20, 1994, letter provided elders with some safety measures and proper use guidelines in connection with the book: (1) new elders should read and study the book soon after their appointment, look up all Bible verses, periodically review the book so that the information keeps fresh in mind; (2) electronic use prohibited: "The Society has not released the textbook for use on personal computers. Therefore, if any of you have copies of the textbook in your computer, either on a hard disk or on floppy disks, such copies should be deleted right away"; (3) reminder that the textbook is "confidential" (the word is set in bold in the actual letter), no parts (verbatim quotations) are to be circulated.

Since the Sheparding book is new, there is no need for any policy reminder yet. It will surely come when the Governing Body sees it as being appropriate.

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Book Study publication?

by SuspiciousMinds in

can anyone let me know the name of the book that jws are studying at the cbs these days, and when it was released?.

sm.

Caminante

Actually it was released at the "Follow the Christ!" district conventions in 2007.

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DVD "JW's Faith In Action, part 1 Out of Darkness" Omits! Omits! Omits!

by Wasanelder Once in

i've been watching the new dvd and it is a bull fest about russell.

i haven't even gotten half way and they already excluded one very important bit of information.

you'll recall that russell "lost" his faith and "turning away from church creeds and searching for truth, russell examined some leading oriental religions, only to find these unsatisfying".

Caminante

Could anyone of you please PM me the link(s) to the DVD rip?

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THIS GENERATION - again! Who belongs to "This Generation"?

by Titus in

jw
friends

what about dan sydlik and henschel milton, for example?.

they were born in 1919 and 1920 (after 1914), and both died before the "great tribulation".. .

the definition of wt says:.

Caminante

"Dan Sydlik and Henschel Milton don't fit into the new generation doctrine at all. They didn't see 1914 and they didn't survive until the Great Tribulation."

Dan Sydlik and Milton Henschel are part of this generation, but they are not part of those who will be at hand at Armageddon. According to the current understanding, some of the annointed whose lives overlap with annointed who were at hand in 1914 will survive the great tribulation.

I'm not sure whether it's about annointed ones receiving their calling by 1992 or born before that date. Since according to w10 4/15 it's the "lives" that overlap (some translated editions don't use the word "lives", but "are contemporaries of"), it seems logical that babies born by 1992 and due to receive their heavenly calling in the future might be considered as making part of "this generation". I'll ask an elder to confirm.

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November 2010 JW Campaign

by dozy in

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friends

to be entitled "offering the bible - what is its message?".

possibly a tract or brochure - haven't had any other details yet.

maybe they are even going to offer the bible (now that would be a novelty!).

Caminante

It's the 32-page brochure released at the district conventions last year.

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why did they read the un charter at the special talk???

by peaches in

jw
friends

i have been trying to find the answer,,,it does not make sense to me????

anyhelp would be appreciated...thanks.

Caminante

A friend of mine, who's a ministerial servant in a Hungarian congregation meeting in our Hall, sent me the audio recording of the talk. The speaker based his introduction on David Walker's life story.—Awake!, December 8, 1985, page 4.

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TMS Schedule 2010

by BathroomServant1 in

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friends

news from the "inside" isn't too plentiful nowadays.

the full tms schedule has been posted as a pdf on the jw.org site.

last year, the number 2 assignment focused on learn from the great teacher.

Caminante

The full official PDF of the Schedule (ss10-E) can be downloaded here: http://www.jw-docs.org/e/downloads/doc_download/7-ss10-e-theocratic-ministry-school-schedule-for-2010

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2010 Convention Rumor

by Hikaru in

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friends

um... a witness sent me this in an email.

it's going around as the rumored program, but there's no proof.. if it is real though...is very last one symbolic?

or is it literal?

Caminante

@Hikaru: actually the "Chairman's Address" and the talk entitled "Conventions Help Us Stay Close to Jehovah" are two separate talks. The former is the introductory talk and welcome note by the convention chairman. The latter is a common feature of conventions which contains interviews with certain publishers about how they benefited from talks presented in previous district conventions.

Yes, the June issue of the Awake! magazine has been around for almost two weeks on jw.org; that's where this information comes from.

@wobble: i guess the 'Technology' part will refer to internet (IM, social networking, 'apostate' websites etc.), texting, excessive usage of electronic devices as in means of distracting the brothers from fully accomplishing their ministry. As you might remember (it has been mentioned in a thread around here), at the circuit assembly there was a talk where the speaker shed a negative light on social networking platforms (Facebook, hi5).

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Came across this 2009 Report

by aniron in

i decided you guys would like to see watchtower's claimed statistics for 2009. interestingly their new baptisms are down though they claim enormous growth in the u.s. and around the globe, which most do not believe are valid.

anyway, just click to see; odds are your own nations show up in the list:.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3a%2f%2fchristianwitnesses.com%2fid175.html&h=d6ab1675d89fc85a1798e9f2f9b374c3

Caminante

In 2008 there were 9,986 partakers. In 2009 the number got raised by 871 (10,857).

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WTS publication: Mankind's Search for God

by Gorbatchov in

friends,.

at the end of the 80's the wts published "mankind's search for god", about the global mainstream religion's.. what's your opinion about this publication?.

i think it was written for use on the weekly bookstudy, there were questions for all paragraphs.. after the publication it was never used at the bookstudy, and it was only rarely used in the congregation.. .

Caminante

Actually the book was released during the 1990 District Convention. In my opinion it's pretty well documented, mostly factual about the various religions. I believe the Society published the book so that the Witnesses may have a reference work about the world's religions published by the "faithful and discreet slave" class so they wouldn't have to browse material that might pose a threat to their faith.

The presence of study questions does not necessary mean that the book is intended for the Congregation Book Study, it means that the Governing Body recommends the book to be studied. That can also be the personal study or a part of family worship.

Although the book is still being offered sometimes in the ministry and has been reprinted with the new, 4-color soft cover (but no end-sheets with the maps), the book hasn't been released in certain languages. For example, the Witnesses in Romania don't have their own translation of the book and I don't think the Society will ever (in the near future) consider translating it into Romanian.