It's going to be the ones who have the money be picked for elders. When they don't meet their monthly tithe, then they need elders who have money to cough up the rest. These dimwits will pay their way to the top ( so they think) just to find out the society will be waiting with their loot bags to catch their hall's money that is oweing. Live entertainment at your best.
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Do you think the nepotism and favoritism will stop with the appointing of elders with the new arrangement?
by toto555 indo you think this is a fairer system and brothers who have never gotten a chance at being elder will finally get it since it's up to the co to decide?
how do you think that's going to work?
do you think the favoritism will go away or be marginalized?.
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Yoga
by FL_Panthers inone elder in my cong told me that this is a df offense?
is this true?
can yoga be practised?.
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A few years back we had a local needs on being careful to research the background on things like yoga. When they said the word things I thought there was more to it than just yoga but the whole talk was on yoga. Afterwards I spoke to the elder who gave the talk and said I have ten tapes on yoga. How can there be anything wrong with it when all it does is put you in shape physically and mentally relax you to start your hectic day. He said to be careful that it doesn't go beyond the physical aspect and not touch into the mental aspect. He said some get you to focus on things like spiritisim while you are working out and that the ones doing the teaching are into spiritistic worship. That satan is very decieving.
Sheesh! I should have put a turban on and wear my push up sports bra under my see through blouse to the meeting like some who have the custom of doing.(Like the elders wives for instance)
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Feeling disloyal
by stirred but not shaken ini've been visiting here for about a year or so, but didn't really feel compelled to participate other than reading the various posts that interested me.. there's been that uncomfortable feeling of being disloyal to god, the organization, many friends and relatives.. i've been associated since birth.
after 65 + years of service within this organization and actually enjoying that time, it troubled me to find myself wanting to express feelings that were contrary to all that time of "faithfulness".
those years were filled with progressive "privileges and responsibilities" even at a high level, and there was considerable success in our evangelizing activity.
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Glad you made it here and hope you find encouragement from this site. We found what helped us to get out and stay out was the insight in to the scriptures that the friends here have. Ones like The Searcher, Blondie, Terry, JW Facts, gosh there are so many honest hearted ones to name a few. Now there's one more to add to the list. Looking forward to reading your posts. Welcome!
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New Article: Jehovah's Witnesses and Chosen Ignorance
by daringhart13 inwould love your feedback.
thanks gang!.
http://darrinhart.hubpages.com/hub/jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-chosen-path-of-ignorance .
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Very good! Proverbs 24:12 comes to mind when I was reading your article.
In case you should say: " Look! We did not know of this," will not he himself that is making an estimate of hearts discern it, and he himself that is observing your soul know and certainly pay back to earthling man according to his activity?
Jehovah's witnesses worldwide, please please wake up!
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What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?
by Julia Orwell ini'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.
i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.
you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.
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Julia, the greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what other people think. You have a talent therefore put it to use. Forget what others think and focus on you and your talents. I think the biggest failure we ever saw was not ourselves but the society promoting it and trying to instill it into all of us. They are the failures for we walked away from their abuse. You go girl:)
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Letter to BOE: Adjustment in process for appointing elders and ministerial servants
by pixel inhello, you read it here first!.
governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
to all congregations.
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I know two months ago I went into bethel with my transcript of my jc and gave it to two brothers in service department. Didn't hear for two months so I called and the idiot said that it would take at least two years to take a look at it since it was sitting in a stack of complaints and the other complaints come first before mine. And yes they are getting tons of letters of complaints coming in but like I was told by someone in bethel, the society is looking after the lawsuits for there are many and us little shits are a waste of their time.
I had even called the branch committee brother and he told me to bring it in and that if there were problems that they would send two brothers to investigate it. He later denied saying that to me over the phone and when I called him back he hung up on me. I couldn't call out for forty minutes.
I don't see this changing anything since our co is around forty and has grown up with all these wicked elders. He's in thick with them all. He didn't want to help me untill he found out I had my jc taped. He was like jeckyle and hyde. All he wanted was the tape which I did not hand over. It's a cult for sure!
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What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?
by Julia Orwell ini'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.
i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.
you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.
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Julia, you have alot going on there. Girl, you have some talent. I was just on your facebook and thought why not a part time art teacher? Could you not open a little studio maybe a few nights or days a week teaching art? Just curious. We live in a touristy town where there's a farmers market in one close town and the same vendors rent shops along the river in two other towns that join together. Could you not take your art even to a market and set up booth with your business cards as well. Over here we have the largest market in Canada along with every town having a market. The booth will cost thirty-five dollars to start and if you need more space then you pay more dollars. Everyone does well here from all the butchers to the flower lady to even the coffee stands. Just a thought. We did the markets for a while along with our shop.
Can people send in pictures of their pets or properties, portraits or whatever and get you to do up a picture for them?
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Ray Franz Emails: Part 3 - Final
by brotherdan inhere is the final email i received from ray prior to his death.. [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:trackmoves /> <w:trackformatting /> <w:punctuationkerning /> <w:validateagainstschemas /> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:saveifxmlinvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:ignoremixedcontent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext> <w:donotpromoteqf /> <w:lidthemeother>en-us</w:lidthemeother> <w:lidthemeasian>x-none</w:lidthemeasian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>x-none</w:lidthemecomplexscript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables /> <w:snaptogridincell /> <w:wraptextwithpunct /> <w:useasianbreakrules /> <w:dontgrowautofit /> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark /> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp /> <w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables /> <w:dontvertalignintxbx /> <w:word11kerningpairs /> <w:cachedcolbalance /> </w:compatibility> <w:browserlevel>microsoftinternetexplorer4</w:browserlevel> <m:mathpr> <m:mathfont m:val="cambria math" /> <m:brkbin m:val="before" /> <m:brkbinsub m:val="--" /> <m:smallfrac m:val="off" /> <m:dispdef /> <m:lmargin m:val="0" /> <m:rmargin m:val="0" /> <m:defjc m:val="centergroup" /> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440" /> <m:intlim m:val="subsup" /> <m:narylim m:val="undovr" /> </m:mathpr></w:worddocument> </xml><!
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dear daniel,.
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Thank you so much for this treasure. We're speechless. Wish we could have met him and his wife. Will make sure I pass this on to others.
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Baby Gorillas Born at Bronx Zoo - Video
by cofty injulia is a 33-year-old gorilla who gave birth to her third baby on march 10, and 19-year-old tuti had her second baby on april 17.. read more.... ....
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Thank you Cofty. Getting ready to go to sleep and this is just what I needed. Pleasant dreams everyone:)
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This weeks study article.....seriously flawed and insensitive reasoning
by stuckinarut2 inok, so this weeks study article says the following:.
14. how has jehovah been the rescuer of his people?.
14 the psalmist david sang: i am helpless and poor; may jehovah pay attention to me.
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He helps them as a group. Yeah, so they better stay as close to the org(group) or else they will die. That's not even in the bible! Was Jeremiah, the apostles, Abraham, Noah, Isaac, Joseph,Adam, Eve, Daniel, Moses, the two spies, Jesus, the Prophets, David ect,,, in a group when Yehovah helped them???????
The nation of Israel was a group but look what happened to them back then. Or the ten spies. We all have an individual accounting. He puts life and death before us so that we may choose. That's in the bible! People wake up!