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  Can someone compare the midweek meeting now to what it was say in the 60`s - 80`s ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  i can`t believe the tidbits i`m finding out about the changes ,dumbing down of the meetings i used to attend and participate in up until the late 1980`s ...

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  truth_b_known

  The Theocratic Ministry School and Service meeting were two 45 minute meetings with a song/prayer on each side and a song in the middle. For that 90 minutes of program there was about 3 to 4 hours of study prep before the meeting if you looked up every scripture sited. Study prep involved getting deep into the subject matter to have well prepare, heartfelt, insightful answers during the meeting.

  I have not been to a meeting since the change, but my understanding is that it is now shorter, there is little to no study prep because any answer is to be a quick reciting of the words in the source material. Other than that, most parts are prepared and presented in video format by headquarters in New York.

  What used to be like attending college courses to prepare the congregation to be public ministers is now a weekly indoctrination and brainwashing. Leave your brain at home. Watchtower will do all the thinking for you.
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  Truth vs Myth- how to spot the difference

  by joey jojo in

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  myth:.

  speculation... .

  expectation... .

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  truth_b_known

  Be careful when using the words "all, none, always," and "never."
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  Truth vs Myth- how to spot the difference

  by joey jojo in

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  myth:.

  speculation... .

  expectation... .

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  truth_b_known

  Truth - Was, Is, and Will Always be a fact.

  Myth - A belief that evolves to keep it alive.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

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  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  truth_b_known

  To make matters worse, how many of these "experiences" that were enhanced were of JW kids only to have the other parents berate their own children by saying "You should be more like Johnny Experience on the stage"?
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  Question for Current and Ex Elders

  by Iamallcool in

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  have you ever reinstate somebody even if they are not that repentant?.

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  truth_b_known

  My wife and I did something before she was legally my wife.
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  Question for Current and Ex Elders

  by Iamallcool in

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  have you ever reinstate somebody even if they are not that repentant?.

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  I went to the elders once because I felt guilty over a sin I committed. I was an exemplary brother, had every privilege they could give me, had no disciplinary record, and it was impossible for me to commit that sin again. Verdict - We believe you are truly repentant. However, you still must be punished. You lose all privileges until further notice.

  Confessed sin? Check

  Repentant? Check

  Forgiven by Jehovah? Check

  Still need a organizational punishment? According to 3 elders who had less time in the organization than myself - yes.

  At that point I pretty much knew that Judicial Committees being "Spirit guided" was all a lie.
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  What if .... some thoughts

  by menrov in

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  ok, to start, i no longer believe the scriptures are inspired.

  may be some writers were influenced but that does not mean all what they wrote was correct.

  does this mean there is no creator?

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  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

  Jesus of Nazareth, Luke 17:21

  By oneself is evil done,

  by oneself defiled,

  by oneself it’s left undone,

  by self alone one purified.

  Purity, impurity on oneself depend,

  no one can purify another.

  Siddhartha Gautama (the first Buddha), The Dhammapada 12:165

  500 BC a man in Nepal by the name of Siddhartha Gautama was born. Gautama claimed to achieve enlightenment at the age of 30 and shared his enlightenment the best way he knew how - through a common ground of religion. Gautuma is the first Buddha and gave us his teachings (the Dharma), which have a Hindu tone as Gautuma and his contemporaries were raised as Hindus. However, Gautuma was a revolutionary and despised the religions class. This too was apparent in his teachings. Gautuma taught that in life we unnecessarily suffer and he showed the path that would end suffering. There is no god in Gautuma's teachings. In fact, he taught that if we are to obtain enlightenment and end our suffering it is only by our own acts of selfless love that we do so.

  Five centuries later another man in Israel by the name of Yeshua was born. By the age of 30 Yeshua gained enlightenment and shared his enlightenment the best way he knew how - through the common ground of religion. Yeshua used the teachings of Judaism as a vehicle to convey his enlightenment. Yeshua was a revolutionary who despised the religious class. He taught that through selfless love we can reach the kingdom of God which is inside each of us.
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  3 New Letters Arrived!--2019-December!

  by Atlantis in

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  2019 december brd newsletter.

  https://docdro.id/odvxhqr.

  2019-s-1-e-congregation field service and meeting attendance report.

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  truth_b_known

  The Sunday "Public Talk" was just that - a talk designed for the non-JW public that JWs were supposed to invite to hear during their public ministry. I was born in and got our in my mid-thirties. In over three decades I could count the number of people who attended a Sunday meeting that met this scenario on one hand.

  This is a letter of surrender. The "Public Talk" is no longer a public talk. Its just another talk that the rank and file have heard time and time again. Its just another opportunity to gather the flock to be guilted into being fleeced.
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  San Antonio: JWs leadership condemn former member accused of child molestation

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/jehovahs-witness-leadership-condemn-former-member-accused-of-child-molestation.

  jehovah's witness leadership condemn former member accused of child molestation.

  by joe galli.

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  No one at the Kingdom Hall here was willing to talk to me on camera.

  Wow! Here was there chance to give a witness and they passed it up. Better get back to standing next to a literature cart.
  
  
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  105 yrs.of Jesus Christ Rule is About To End ....What has Been accomplished ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.

  been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?

  and what he has accomplished ?.

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  truth_b_known

  105 years is a little over 10% of Christ's 1,000 year reign. That is the equivalent of the President of the United States taking office and for the first 6 months sitting on his hands in the oval office 24/7.