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  Do you know anyone with corona virus?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. friends

  just asking if any here personally know anyone with or who has had the corona virus?.

  what was their experience like?

  are they on the mend?.

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  So the Witnesses still believe in rapture

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. beliefs

  according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.

  the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.

  it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.

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  JW.org greater than the Bible now

  by eyeslice2 in

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  there was a time when brooklyn bethel was emblazoned with the words; "read god's word the bible daily" but it seems to me now that even the bible has taken second place to jw.org.

  i remember having lots of studies using the 'truth' book.

  we asked the students in those days to prepare well and look up the scriptures in their own copy of the bible.

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  Not training speakers/teachers any more?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  not having attended any meetings since about 2001, for reasons of safety (sounds a bit dramatic but i don't like my wife being out on her own late at night where we live now), i have started accompanying her to the mid-week meeting.. when i was young, the ministry school and service meeting were central to training brothers to take the lead.

  you were assigned instruction talks, then if you cut it, you moved pretty rapidly to public talks - a full 55 mins at the time.

  i was just 18 years old when i gave my first public talk and this was a first step to moving rapidly through the ranks.

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  Trump explains this generation

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. humour

  glad to see the president making good use of visual aids again after his hurricane debacle.. .

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  This week's Watchtower study - Really, really, really?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  interesting to see how they home in doctrines that are impossible to defend, even solely from a bible point of view, and state them as facts that only satan would question.. no same sex marriages - really?.

  don't celebrate christmas and birthdays - really?.

  refuse a life-saving blood transfusion - really?

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  Will directing people to jw.org actually prove counter productive?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. friends

  there was a time when the society was very skeptical about the internet and the so-called lies and apostate information that was out there.

  it sort of was something to be avoided.

  over the past ten years, however, it seems they have taken to it with a passion.

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  Dangerous promotion of 'Serving where the need is Greater'

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. friends

  both the june and july broadcasts featured sections about serving where the need is greater.

  as i recall, my wife watches them as i hover in the background, india and thailand have both been heavily featured.

  next, i hear some friends talking about how they are thinking of moving to india.

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  No careers in this cheapskate organization

  by eyeslice2 in

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  2. friends

  if you go to jw.org, you can download the program for 2019 convention.. what i notice is that nowadays there is no meeting for ones wishing to serve at bethel or for those interested in gilead missionary school.

  rather, there is just a meeting for those interested in 'the school for kingdom evangelizers'.. two things strike me about this.

  first, although there was once a big play on bethel and gilead being held out as career options, this is now just about dead and buried.

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  Repercussions over Whiskygate?

  by eyeslice2 in

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  anyone any idea if there have been any repercussions over whiskygate and if anthony morris was ushered into the backroom after a meeting?

  i am pretty sure if this had been a member of the r&f and the video was all over the internet, something would have been said about being careful not to bring jah's organization into disrepute.

  i am sure the local elders in the congregation he is assigned to wouldn't have the balls to do it and there would have to be a mole pretty high up to find out if the gb got involved.. we can but speculate i guess..

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