None that I can remember and I go back to the early 60's...a few of the anointed I knew back then were already old and now have all died. Some were pioneer sisters, a few "congregation overseers" and a couple of lunatics...as the WTS would call them: emotionally disturbed. I knew a young MS that suddenly started partaking...it had a negative impact on his recent marriage...they separated and either of them remained a JW...that Holy Spirit sure is powerful.
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19Do you know of CO's, DO's or their wives who are anointed?
by Pistoff inhello all, help me to recognize a possible trend:.
is your current or recently past co or do or their wives of the anointed?.
i think i have discovered a disturbing trend..
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Governing Body Members Appointed By Jesus Christ And Not Men?
by frankiespeakin inthis is an unfounded delusion or lie either one take your pick.
blondie quoted this on another post and i'm pasting it here.:.
*** w01 4/15 p. 29 do you remember?
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North Korea - U.S - War ?
by *lost* inthings look to be hotting up here.
scary.. what are the chances of it all kicking off ?.
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I travel to South Korea once a year and I was in Seoul shortly after North Korea bombed the island and killed 4 people. The news papers were reporting the retorics from the North and I asked my host if I was going to be able to make it back home before the war starts! He started to laugh and said that the threats of war have been going on for decades...that they were part of North Korea's strategy to obtain concessions and aid from foreign nations. I not saying that this time there are no risks of escalation, but what I see here in the news has been a daily occurance for decades for South Koreans...
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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!!!!
by Julia Orwell inthat's how i feel when i see these crazy new wt study articles and the inane reasoning contained therein, and the indoctrination machines of meetings run by all those little hardened human cogs and the unending stream of propaganda we're pitched up against.
.. you could spend all your time working through those wt articles (see cedar's post on the latest 'new light') and refuting the stupidity, and yet most witnesses aren't even concerned with changes to the fds or 144 000 because like all of humanity they're too busy trying to scratch a living as it is.
such airy doctrine changes don't have any effect on their day to day lives and is thus irrelevant.
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Julia,
I experienced the same emotions for decades...I wish instead I listened to reason and left long ago. Of course I would lose all my friends, but I quickly realized I had no friends within the "brotherhood". I stopped going to the meetings suddenly and I didn't get one phone call from my friends...of course they would tell my wife to say "hi" or that they "miss" me. Then a year later 2 elders came to my door unanounced with their uniform suit and tie and bible in hand. I told them to leave me alone. One of these elders is the hugger type...he even kissed me on the ckeeks at every meeting...Now I realize this meant absolutely nothing since he never even made an attempt on his own to find out what was going on with me. He to my door because of his sense of duty for the Watchtower and not love towards me!
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Madness in the pages of the very first Golden Age. The date? Oct 1, 1919
by cedars ini was doing some research in the very first issue of golden age (forerunner to awake!
), published october 1, 1919, and couldn't believe what madness was contained on some of its pages.. for example, i can't believe i missed this clipping when i was researching my article on racism in early watchtower literature a year ago..... .
segregation of black children is basically praised as "wise" and "probably an advantage to all concerned.
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The only way Watchtower writers can praise the value of the Golden Age magazine in publications written decades later is because they didn't researched what it contained...or if they did, they were counting on the fact that these old publications would just disapear with time and be available to very few. Thanks to the information technology nothing can be burried in the past!
Thanks Cedar for bringing these back into the light!
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What if you were DF'd for apostacy, but instead of the expected...
by respectful_observer inthis is a hypothethical, so i'm not looking for whether you would ever do this, or "why would you want to subject yourself to this...", but rather, what would happen if some did do this..... .................... you're half of a married jw couple, and you admit to doubts about certain wts teachings and it leads to an eventual disfellowshipping.
but instead of walking away from the kingdom hall forever, you stay put.
you faithfully go to every meeting with your spouse.
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The best of conduct from semeone disfellowshipped would be perceived as an attempt for reinstatement and proof that this form of discipline works. Instead of going to the meetings with my wife I go out on my motorcycle...meet nice people at the coffee shop...go for walks along the river...I couldn't stand going to the meetings now that I know the truth about the truth...Ivalready gave them 50 years of my life so the time left is mine.
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Are we all bitter?
by LouBelle ini posted a link on fb that lead to a topic here.
i then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....fact he said.
(he used to be a jw elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) the more i tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the jw's and only attack the jw's.
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All attacks against the WTS are perceived as personal attacks by individual JWs...even someone who is inactive may not feel the same bitterness expressed here against the lies and spiritual betrayal of the WTS because he as not yet broken free from the mind control of the cult...Also they he has been taught about us bitter apostates...
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24 baptized at Tucson, AZ today - attendance 5,670
by Gayle ina friend, non-jw, went to convention today.
she observed about 1/3 baptized were youth.. ***********************************************.
i read article:.
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Not kidding...the speaker said the talk should serve as a reminder for all who are dedicated...of the commitment to serve with the same zeal we had on the day of our baptism...of course he did not review the questions...
I remember a time when we had less than 500 at a CA and there were always baptism candidates...but these were the good ol'days.
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24 baptized at Tucson, AZ today - attendance 5,670
by Gayle ina friend, non-jw, went to convention today.
she observed about 1/3 baptized were youth.. ***********************************************.
i read article:.
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I haven't been to a meeting since June 2010...but I was shocked to see 0 baptized with 1500 attending at one of the last CA I attended! Bizare to watch the brother giving the talk for no one...