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  Did any of us ever enjoy meetings?

  by stephanie61092 in

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  this is a legitimate question.

  did any of us ever find real joy in being at the meetings?

  did any of us ever finish a meeting and think "i feel so enriched"?

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  Londo111

  I would say the vast majority of JWs do not enjoy the meetings. I doubt even the Governing Body likes them. Whenever there is an event that cancels a meeting, a JW will find relief and joy in being able to spend that time how they wish.

  When I was a JW, even though meetings were dull, I felt a measure of relief afterwards because I thought I'd fulfilled my obligation and pleased God by doing so. It was my understanding that not being regular at meetings, or field service would lead to eternal destruction at the Big A.

  Addendum: The social aspect after the meetings and assemblies was the only enjoyable part. It gave an illusion of friendship and brotherhood and love. This illusion was stronger in the 80's, but by the 00's I noticed the social aspect had cooled.
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  2016 Regional Convention - Invite First Look

  by pixel in

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  2. beliefs

  you saw it here first!.

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  Londo111

  As the ship slowly sinks, the grip tightens and "loyalty" will be the focus. No matter how crazy things seem, no matter how much it doesn't make sense, no matter the scandal and exposure and news reports: stay loyal to the org. Loyalty used in this way can be a thought stopping word.

  They've changed Micah 6:8 in the NNWT and I would bet they will probably be beating this drum: "He has told you, O man, what is good. And what is Jehovah requiring of you? Only to exercise justice to cherish loyalty, And to walk in modesty with your God!"

  Other translations render this "love mercy" or "love kindness"...even the old NWT was a similar thought. Rather than love, mercy, or kindness being the emphasis, they've made loyalty the important thing. Be loyal to Watchtower right or wrong (well never wrong: waiting for adjustment, clarification, new light, ect…)
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  JWs win 2015 Bronze Telly Award in the “Online Video News Feature”

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jworg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a telly award.. i don't need to add to the jworg website hits, so here is the award listed on the telly award website:.

  https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=b.

  2015 online video bronze winners.

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  Londo111

  Only a bronze?!?

  Could it be...Satan?
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  CRA screwup for WT Canada?

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  okay, they've posted their 2015 return - i am very confused.. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/t3010form23-eng.action?b=119288918rr0001&fpe=2015-08-31&n=watch+tower+bible+and+tract+society+of+canada+%2f+la+tour+de+garde+soci%c3%a9t%c3%a9+de+bibles+et+de+tracts+du+canada&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cra-arc.gc.ca%3a80%2febci%2fhaip%2fsrch%2fbasicsearchresult-eng.action%3fk%3dwatch%2btower%26amp%3bs%3dregistered%26amp%3bp%3d1%26amp%3bb%3dtrue.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/311690001/canada-branch-finances-whats-going-on?.

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  Londo111

  This bears watching...
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  The word “BROAD” and the Australian Royal Commission

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  perhaps i am making too much of this, but was anyone else struck with the number of times the word ‘broad’ and ‘broadly’ were used?

  sometimes i wondered if it was due to coaching, in particular when the questioning put a person in a tight spot.

  for instance, from the testimony of bowditch:.

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  Londo111

  Perhaps I am making too much of this, but was anyone else struck with the number of times the word ‘broad’ and ‘broadly’ were used?

  Sometimes I wondered if it was due to coaching, in particular when the questioning put a person in a tight spot.

  For instance, from the testimony of Bowditch:

  Q. And as an organization, in your experience, you don't seek to protect or take care of children who are outside of the congregation?

  A. That's a broad statement.

  From the testimony of Spinks:

  A. It's such a broad, sweeping, ill-informed comment.

  And finally from the testimony of Jackson himself:

  Q. Would you disagree, then, with anyone who said that the efforts to highlight and deal with child sexual abuse in the Jehovah's Witness church are engaging in apostate lies?

  A. I guess that's a broad question, because sometimes those who make these accusations make many other accusations as well.

  Of course, the Watchtower is the master of "broad statements" all the time, in particular when they call this matter "apostate-driven lies".
  

  
  
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  JWs win 2015 Bronze Telly Award in the “Online Video News Feature”

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jworg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a telly award.. i don't need to add to the jworg website hits, so here is the award listed on the telly award website:.

  https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=b.

  2015 online video bronze winners.

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  Londo111

  “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.”—Matthew 6:1-2

  Of course, this passage doesn't apply to the Watchtower because they don't give to the poor. When they blow their trumpet, it's about something inconsequential.
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  Just threw away...

  by stephanie61092 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  so even though i don't drive much because public transit is so good where i live (and parking is a living nightmare), i always had a paper taped onto my glove box that said "no blood transfusions - jehovahs witness.

  see legal documentation in wallet.

  going through this "wake up" process as been a very crazy, emotional experience.

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  Londo111

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWNlyyM32ts&list=PLyNx0oM_bmgBuDVZWWiInBRGoovkUj95B&index=1
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  Car crash

  by truthwillsetyoufree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  boy who was seriously injured in a collision at gamlingay in cambridgeshire last thursday has died.. nine-year-old archie stevens, of western way, sandy, bedfordshire, died in hospital early on saturday afternoon.. the collision at about 10am in drove road, which involved two cars, also resulted in the death of his grandfather, 68-year-old martin harker, of green acres, sandy, who died at the scene.http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2016-02-22/nine-year-old-boy-dies-after-cambridgeshire-crash/.

  the boy and his grandfather were jehovahs witnesses and they were on field service when a car drove into them.

  the lad, who is the son of an elder who moved to a cambridge congregation to serve where the need is greater, was on life support before the sad decision was made to turn it off.

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  Londo111

  Something similar happened to a friend of the family. He, his wife, and another lady were in rural territory, driving house to house, backed out into the road, and got hit. The man got badly hurt. His wife died.
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  Special meeting this weekend in canada anyone know what it is about?

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  it is announced for sunday afternoon.

  i am just wondering if it is a local thing or national.

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  Londo111

  Probably will be dullsville, but keep us informed!
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  Could we ever see a GB member disassociate?

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we saw it with raymond franz.

  but do you think we could ever see one of the current gb members or future ones, make the same choice?.

  to leave, and expose it..

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  Londo111

  Sometimes I wonder if Sydlik and Swingle and others were awake or nearly awake, but because of this, stayed on board.