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  local memorial attendance

  by outsmartthesystem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have a friend that is still "in" because of his elderly parents.

  he attended the memorial and reported back to me what i thought was encouraging.

  we have two congregations in the city i live in.

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  TheOldHippie

  80 in our small rural congregation of 30 - an all-time high, more than 10 above the previous record!
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  WTS action on Conti's case 3/27/2013

  by mind blown in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as most suspected, the wts filed their brief, at least it looks that way..... http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=a136641.

  it also notes aob in excess of word count limit.. wonder if they did that to buy more time?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Could someone very shortly tell me poor non-US person the time-line or the actions, the "what is happening and what will happen next" of this case? Not what the case is about, but the way and manners the US system works or deals with a case like this. So that I can get an understanding of how the US system functions, as it is different from ours.
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  “New light” Watchtower magazine leaked from organization weeks ahead of general release

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://jwsurvey.org/governing-body-2/new-light-watchtower-magazine-leaked-from-organization-weeks-ahead-of-general-release.

  if doctrinal explanations are missing from the article, it is because they are also missing from the magazine.. i would like to give my thanks again to my source for supplying me with the magazine article weeks ahead of its scheduled release.

  it showed remarkable courage, because risks were taken.

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  TheOldHippie

  On the attack from UN, Cedars, and its apparent incapability of doing anything these days, unless it is tricked into doing it by the US (as was shown in Libya), it is pretty much covered by the WT teaching that it is God who is making the UN carry out the attack. UN and man is not doing it by itself, but is doing God's will in this respect. If that factor is not brought in, I think we would have to wait for ....... quite some time ......... to see religion attacked by UN or any one of the present states for that matter.
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  Congregation had to relocate Memorial...thanks to me

  by Shepherd Book in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, the two local congregations were planning to hold their memorial together at 7:30 at the local community center, but they had to make a last-minute change to their own hall, and i'm pretty sure it was because of me.. let me explain.... at work on monday afternoon, a co-worker returned from her lunchbreak and showed me the memorial invitation that was waiitng in her door when she went home for lunch.

  i noticed the sticker on the back indicated the memorial was being held, not at the local hall, but at the community center.

  from a past (non-jw) event i attended there, i knew they didn't allow alcohol (unless you pay for security guards), so i wrote to the center's coordinator:.

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  TheOldHippie

  Oh, how brave and manly. Human wisdom taken to its extreme.

  If that was an example of the most intelligent thing you managed to do, I see no limits as to how childish people can behave.
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  kingdom hall packed from memorial invitees!!!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after spending a month in cold,rainy, snowy conditions, and using up 100's of gallons of fuel in service.

  jehovah certainly blessed our efforts!!.

  we must have had zero invitees up from zero the year before!!!

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  TheOldHippie

  "The JWs are only attracting disadvantaged, uneducated, social misfits."

  1. Cor. 1: 26-29:

  26 For YOU behold his calling of YOU, brothers, that not many wise in a fleshly way were called, not many powerful, not many of noble birth; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put the wise men to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put the strong things to shame; 28 and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things looked down upon, the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are, 29 in order that no flesh might boast in the sight of God.
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  11 years of compiled yearbook statistics: spreadsheet downloads

  by 88JM in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (edit: sorry about that - i clicked submit before i finished writing the post.

  and its now 11 years, not 10. anyway...).

  hi folks.

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  TheOldHippie

  Comoros

  Check with the number of countries where there are restriction; a Moslem country with not-too-gentle attitude towards other faiths

  Montenegro -

  Comes from former Yugoslavia, but from 2003 to 2006 it was part of the union of Serbia and Montenegro.

  South Sudan -

  Comes from Sudan – obviously.

  Tajikistan -

  Check with the number of countries where there are restriction; a Moslem country with not-too-gentle attitude towards other faiths

  Timor-Leste

  Comes either from Timor or from Indonesia, check if the said figures go down coeespondingly.

  Yugoslavia, F. R.

  Divided into Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Kosovo

  - removed in 2002 - introduced in 2012 removed in 2007 introduced in 2012 introduced in 2007 - removed in 2004
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-17-2013 WT Study (DRAWING CLOSE)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  view of money and pride?.

  jehovah?.

  comments.

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  TheOldHippie

  Certain eagles are reported to have drowned when they did not release

  from their talons a fish that was too heavy to carry off.

  Who writes this stuff? Are they trying to protect the identity of those eagles or perhaps just

  shield their families from the shame?

  More that it is not 100 % certain that they have drowned, I guess, that it has not been taped - not so much because of the shamefulness of having a greedy family member.
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  Pioneer Takes Baby Out In Zero Wind Chill

  by rocketman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  though i haven't been in the mood to discuss jws lately, i had to post this one.

  it's a keeper and shows how fanatical they can get:.

  on my way to work in our city's downtown area i regularly see a pioneer walking up and down the street, holding up his magazines.

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  TheOldHippie

  So in this my part of the world where there are five months of winter and temperatures below the freezing point all that time and for periods down to -20 Fahrenheit - what should people do? Stay indoors, or fear being delivered to the cops, as some of you suggest?

  Man, do some of you live secluded, protected lives!
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  VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA | The Age newspaper | March 16, 2013 | Slamming the Door on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the age newspaper | fairfax media | saturday, march 16, 2013. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/slamming-the-door-on-jehovah-20130315-2g6fo.html.

  slamming the door on jehovah's witnesses.

  she is an apostate, which sounds like a strange disease, and in many ways it is.

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  TheOldHippie

  "An elder ordered that he sit in a glass room at the back of the Kingdom Hall at every meeting, twice a week, for four months, for two hours at a time. The glass room was called the fish bowl and members of the congregation were allowed to humiliate him while he was in there."

  Oh yeah?
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  No Governing Body in 1925

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from the june 15, 1938 watchtower, p. 185: "in the beginning of the first hebrew month the watchtower of march 1, 1925 published the article "the birth of the nation," meaning that the kingdom had begun to function.

  an editorial committee, humanly provided for, then was supposed to control the publication of the watchtower, and the majority of that committee strenuously objected to the publication of that article "the birth of the nation," but, by the lord's grace it was published and that really marked the beginning of the end of the editorial committee, indicating that the lord himself is running his organization.".

  there was no governing body, judge rutherford was the watchtower president making the decisions and running the organization.. .

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  TheOldHippie

  But remember: The Annual meeting article does not claim there WAS a GB back in '25, the quote goes:

  "From 1919 on, there has always been a small group of anointed Christians at the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have supervised our worldwide preaching work and have been directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food. In recent years, that group has been closely identified with the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  The evidence points to the following conclusion: “The faithful and discreet slave” was appointed over Jesus’ domestics in 1919. That slave is the small, composite group of anointed brothers serving at world headquarters during Christ’s presence who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing spiritual food. When this group work together as the Governing Body, they act as “the faithful and discreet slave.”"

  So there has been a group, and in later years, that group has been identified with the GB. It does not say there was a GB right from the beginning, or that there was a GB constituting the slave.