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  Elderly sister (married) says rumor is that RC talk says resurrected will be with thier mates! Poor thing.

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  87 year old sister (who's current husband, a total nazi one foot in the grave) was excited to relate that (she heard) a talk at the regional convention said a wife would be happy to meet her ressurected husband and grab him in her arms!

  she reads that as reunion of the married kind.

  she is pooping skittles she's so happy.

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  TheOldHippie

  It's in QFR in July or August study WT.
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  Who Will the Circuit Overseers "Report" to Now???

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i still do not understand the new structure at this point.. there has to be something between thousands of co's and the gb.

  i know there were zone overseers that the do's reported to.. i have spoken to a couple of elders i can talk to frankly and they both said they have no idea.. rub a dub.

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  TheOldHippie

  The COs will continue reporting to the ones they have always reported to - the branch.

  The DOs have never been someone to whom they have reported.
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  The real reason for the new donation arrangement?

  by redvip2000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yesterday i was having a beer with a friend of mine who happens to be an accountant, and we began discussing this ridiculous arrangement that the watchtower has put in place.

  after giving him the backstory of how the watchtower has been lending money to the local congregations and charging interest, he simply could not believe they had been doing that.. he then offered an explanation which really made sense to me.

  he said that in reality what the watchtower society has been doing is actually not legal in light of their tax-exempt status.

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  TheOldHippie

  "Now JWs have no actual world HQ,"

  Because ............?
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  Society money grab tonight

  by Red Piller in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  wow.

  you read about it here.

  but, it still doesn't prepare you.. our hall passed a resolution to give about 15,000 to the wt.

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  TheOldHippie

  "Still if every cong did 350 a month x12 x 112000 congs"

  Yeah. Very realistic. Thousands upon thousands of congregations in Congo, Benin, Togo, Nicaragua, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Moldova etc. etc. donating 350$ each - monthly ................ Very, very realistic.
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  STARTING OVER with my Elderette - What Does the Bible REALLY Teach?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?

  at this point, she opened with a prayer.

  "...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.

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  TheOldHippie

  "Jesus didn't read YHWH when he read from the ancient scrolls,"

  Wow! Now THAT was an interesting and bold statement! How do you know? Were you there (....when they crucified my Lord, as the song text goes)?
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  STARTING OVER with my Elderette - What Does the Bible REALLY Teach?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?

  at this point, she opened with a prayer.

  "...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.

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  TheOldHippie

  I cannot help it, but I wonder a bit if this has been an actual conversation or study ............. How is it possible word-for word to remember an entire conversation like that? I said - she said - I said - she said, lots of topics. Strange .................
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  Eva Braun vs Judge Rutherford

  by LogCon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  eva braun liked expensive cars.. judge rutherford had two expensive cars.. eva braun liked dictators.. judge rutherford was a dictator.. eva braun loved her boyfriend.. judge rutherford wrote a love letter to evas boyfriend.. eva braun had no children.. judge rutherford told everyone not to have children.. no one came to eva brauns funeral.. no one came to judge rutherfords funeral.. ....... .

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  TheOldHippie

  "No one came to Eva Braun’s funeral."

  Large (or any, for that matter) scale funerals were not directly EASY to carry out around April/May '45 in Berlin ...................
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  ...The WBT$ Theft of Kingdom Hall Bank Accounts and JW Elders...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  .. the new wbt$ donation arrangement/ jw kingdom hall bank account theft... is a very hot topic right now... the wbt$ is literally going to clean out kingdom hall bank accounts,filled with donations from jws... that theft is going to happen world wide..the wbt$ is going to steal from 7 million plus jw`s... .. we have jw elders here on jwn,that know whats going on... they "serve" in kingdom halls,they are "supposed" to be looking after the welfare of the average jw... they know there is a 4 page letter,only one page will be read to the congregation..the rest will be kept secret... they know the wbt$ is about to steal jw donations..on a world wide scale!!!...

  .. i would like to know what you active jw elders are going to do about this??!!...

  are you going to let "your" congregation know about the other 3 secret pages?...

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  TheOldHippie

  "So many doctrinal & organizational changes in a very short time."

  With that I agree. Every second week a letter is read containing new changes. Yesterday it was two meetings during COs week and not three, couple of weeks before that it was COs installing elders and servants, in-between the donation system, then it was one-day conventions etc. etc.

  I remember when soft bound books came. They said large books and bound WTs/Awakes would still be hard bound. Next year they were soft. Awake changed, but we were told WT would not. Next year it did. Hard to catch up with it all. Why the hurry?
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  Tonights meetin: rare attendance

  by Jon Preston in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well in light of the 17 billion calls i got this week my wife and i decided to attend the meeting.

  it was nuts!

  we got love bombed right when we got there.

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  TheOldHippie

  NAVYTOWN - you should join JWs, cause that is just what they are saying! :-)
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  Tonights meetin: rare attendance

  by Jon Preston in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well in light of the 17 billion calls i got this week my wife and i decided to attend the meeting.

  it was nuts!

  we got love bombed right when we got there.

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  TheOldHippie

  In the study they brought out that God cant help everyone the same way

  He can, but the point was that we shouldn't expect supernatural help on a sort of automatic basis. That would validate Satan's claims in connection with Job, that God had blessed him all along but that he would turn away from God if he experienced problems.