That question came up in an interview during the convention. The answer was "if you can do something about the situation, pray for wisdom. If you can't do anything about the situation, pray for [inner] peace."
Posts by pirata
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24ok so your planes crashing towards earth... do you pray?
by highdose inhmm?
heres a question i was wondering about.. if you were in a situation like that, would you pray to god?.
i'm not sure i would.
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Wives - How do you "manage" your husband?
by hamsterbait inas far as my experience goes, most males once married go back to "little boy" mode.. wheres the butter?
(while looking at it in the fridge).
where are my clean socks (where they always are).
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Wheres the butter? (while looking at it in the fridge)
Where are my clean socks (where they always are)
It's should be in the ______. Let me know if you need me to help you look for it. If you can't see it try moving stuff around and changing your eye level.
How much did you spend on your hair this month? ( But you only paid 25 on the card, then handed over another 50 for the expert color job)
How much did that (Mulberry handbag, pair of Jimmy Choos ) cost? "Oh, this ole thing, its been at the bottom of the cupboard for AGES.
Ask HIM about an expense and it is IMMEDIATELY raised to world importance.
Arrange ahead of time a monthly budget amount that you can both spend "no questions asked" (amount should be equal for each). Anything over requires joint approval. You can "save up" the unspent budget amount for future purchases.
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JW replies on my Shunning article
by besty ini have a google article on shunning -.
http://knol.google.com/k/why-jehovah-s-witnesses-practice-religious-shunning#.
its had almost 15,000 page views :-).
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"Nice try. You cannot really be a Jehovah's Witness since leaving comments here would be an act of disobedience against the 'Faithful Slave'."
Hey... wait a minute...
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If your AVATAR could speak then???
by hamsterbait inif your avatar could have a voice, (for the days when computers routinely read out posts audibly).
whose voice would you choose?.
a poster here thinks my avatar would speak with the mellifluous sexy "mel gibson baritone".
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The reader for the "My Book of Bible Stories" tape. The voice always reminded me of Winnie the Pooh. I think it's brother Barr?
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You know your an Apostate when
by pleaseer2001 inok jesika and i started this in chat so here it goes,.
you know your an apostate when..........worldy is a word used for your friends.
you now your an apostate when ............your parents call after five years....and say anything new!.
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You see a forum post with the title "Finally got CoC!" and you don't automatically assume the person lost their virginity.
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The Adventists that taught Charles Russell made many false Armagedon Prophecies...and still HE didn't learn??
by Witness 007 inwilliam miller the founder of adventists preached that armagedon would come between march 21st 1843 - march 21st 1844...nothing happened.. when nothing happened he said: "i confess my error, and acknowledge my dissappointment..." april 18th 1884 was set as the new date....then october 22nd 1844. russell claims he learnt everthing he knows about chronlogy from the same adventists....then he goes ahead and makes afew false prophecies of his own.....don't they learn anything from history???
what drive these men....including todays governing body to continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over..
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Russell didn't learn, Rutherford didn't learn, Knorr didn't learn, the GB doesn't learn...
Interestingly, the Awake Mar 22 1993 stated that the Millerites were not false prophets (of course they had to state that otherwise, they'd be putting their shoe in their mouth):
William Miller, generally credited with founding the Adventtist Church is quoted as saying "I am fully convinced that sometime between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844, according to the Jewish mode of computation of time, Christ will come."
Does the failure of such predictions to come true convict as false prophets those who made them, with the meaning of Deuteronomy 18:20-22?... [quotes the scripture]
There are some who make spectacular predictions of the world's end to grab attention and a following, but others are sincerely convinced that their proclamations are true. They are voicing expectations based on their own interpretation of some scripture text or physical event. They do not claim that their predictions are direct revelations from Jehovah and that in this sense they are prophesying in Jehovah's name. Hence, in such cases, when their words do not come true, they should not be viewed as false prophets such as those warned against at Deuteronomy 18:20-22. In their human fallability, they misinterpreted matters.
I wish red flags had been raised when I first read this article. Guided by spirit but repeated "human fallability"... hmmmm...
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JW doctrines that annoyed or troubled you
by Luo bou to inbloodguilt a doctrine that really annoyed me when i was in.
like i was responsible for who jehovah destroyed..
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Don't do spiritual research outside the Society's publications.
Governing Body's recent consolidation of power (We're the representatives; Only WE get the holy spirit; Obey us; Do not question us).
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this lurker's first post.
by dances with smurfs in:|.
...........im gonna go have an anxiety attack now.
lol.
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dances with smurfs, welcome!
I felt the same way my first post too.
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There's something I don't quite get
by dgp inlet's say you're an active witness (well, you guys were, or are active witnesses) and you look around you.
practically every appliance, invention, whatever, most of the food, all the new discoveries, virtually everything was made by worldlies.
it's been that way for thousands of years.
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dgp, I agree. I misread your initial post as more of a question than a statement.
One day I drove by a church that had grown so much that they had to double the size of their parking lot. I commented on that. The Witness I was with just shook their head and said 'false religion'.
I once pointed out how succesfull someone was in their field. The response was "If we focused on worldly pursuits, then we could do just as well."
Those are both cases of using a thought-stopping phrase to calm an uncomfortable or conflicting thought.
By acknowleding that the worldlies efforts were not futile, the JW would be admitting that perhaps his or her efforts are futile. Denying it calms the cognitive dissonance.
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GB's response to rising Memorial partakers
by 5thGeneration inbr.
pierce addressed the rising number of memorial partakers at the convention on sunday.. he said that many are asking why the number of partakers is going up year after year.. his response (paraphrasing): "it's none of our business.
it's jehovah's business".. in other words, shut up and keep your place.. 5th.
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Earlier, the Jan 15 2008. pg 23, par 15 WT gave this reason:
It seems, however, that not all who have been called to a heavenly hope, since the 1930's are replacements for ones who have fallen away. Jehovah has evidently made sure that we will have anointed Christians among us all through the final days of this system of things until the destruction of "Babylon the Great."
Problem is, with the increasing numbers, this can make it seem that the great tribulation is farther away since more and more anointed are appearing.
Evidently, they invented the new generation understanding to help reign in this type of reasoning.