Mostly, it's number 5 - they want two witnesses to everything. And of course, like Prisca said, they can't visit a sister alone, lest the lustful wench seduce them.
rocketman
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #44
by ozziepost inhow's your weekend going?
i trust that you're finding time for a bit of "peace and quiet".
mrs ozzie and i have enjoyed being out in the crisp autumn air here in the highlands.
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When You Were A Witness, Did You Ever Want To Go To Heaven?
by minimus insince it's very close to the memorial celebration, i thought that this question might be appropriate.
did you ever feel that you might just want to go to heaven???
or was your future only an earthly one?
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rocketman
While I never really desired heaven, lv4 makes a good point - life on earth in the "new world" might not suit a lot of folks if indeed the trend would be back to the horse and buggy days.
Hey minimus, maybe we should call it "Geheaven"
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We'd Like to KILL the apostates, but we can't....
by betweenworlds ini read this quote at tom's site (thanks tom!
) and then looked it up for myself on the wt cd.
this is truly disturbing and shows their true mindset....this is from the nov. !5th 1952 question from readers.
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rocketman
Yep, it's a very real statement, quoted previously on this site and others. Nice people, huh?
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Wanted: King of the North
by metatron inemployment opportunity for aggressive candidate.
"king of the north" needed to fufill fading hopes of apocalyptic cult.. applicant should be aggressive, willing to discipline actions to pre-recorded.
prophecy and able to assume risk of total destruction by most heavily armed.
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rocketman
Funny post metatron. Good one.
And I agree with Neonmadman - the US and the Soviet bloc were always West and East, respectively. So the WTS compass always seemed a bit off.
My latest observations about King Of The North: France is now a candidate, since it's definitely on the US crap list. Of course, maybe North Korea is vying for a shot at the title - at least they have the name "North" in their national designation.
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4 Deceptions in the Require Brochure
by blondie ini read this post by libby on channel c and thought it was very insightful and thought-provoking for both non-jws and jws.. posted by libby on wed - apr 2 - 11:32am: .
greetings fellow posters, .
deceptions 1 & 2: in paragraph #1 the reader is told that the bible is like a letter from a loving father to his children.
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rocketman
Interesting post Blondie, thanks.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-6-03 WT Study
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 4-6-03 wt study .
february 15, 2003 wt page 17
quotes from the wt will be in red ; reviewers comments in black and parentheses.
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rocketman
Blondie, thank you for the review and for all the research you do. Your efforts are much appreciated!
This is, as all have already mentioned, an obvious attempt to get the number of partakers more into line with jw-think.
We had a sister in this area who years ago was partaking. Many people questioned her understanding of the anointing teaching, and her motives I think were questioned as well. And as Blondie points out, the article is again questioning motives, implying that perhaps they seek prominance and glory. By the way, from what I heard a while back, that sister no longer partakes. I guess she kind of got talked out of it.
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What Was The Final Straw That Made You Leave The Organisation?
by SpannerintheWorks inas a faithful and zealous witness, nothing can question your faith.
but one day, something does!
you begin to have doubts.
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Some very compelling experiences here. Alan F, I it's cool to read about what the final straw was for you, after having read several of your essays, which by the way played a role in my greatly decreased level of activity. And Scully, what happened with you was really very sadly indicative of the jw way of thinking. By the way, I love your use of the TM!
For me, there were a variety of factors. But getting back to Alan F's essays, itw as not long after I placed a Creation book with a friend at work that I started reading Alan's essays. You see, that friend handed the book back to me and told me tactfully that it was very biased, whereas all along I thought it was well-written. When I checked into it, and found those essays, I realized how intellectually dishonest the book, and hence its publishers, were.
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One Reason Jws Can Be Duped Easily
by rocketman inwhat i am about to state here has been said many times before in various ways, but i am offering some observations that i made as a bookstudy conductor over a period of 12 years, 9 of those as an elder, and before that as an ms filling in.. i was the type of conductor who would attempt to 'probe beneath the surface' as it were, when i conducted.
i was often amazed and sometimes a bit frustrated (though i tried never to be impatient with the people there) by the lack of comments at the bookstudy that would offer anything more than just a re-read of what the paragraph said.
i realize that many folks have busy lives and of course have little time for extra thought or research.
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rocketman
Very good points Craig!
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Birthdays - I may need some input
by rocketman inwe had a birthday "party" for my daughter at a local restaurant today, with a group of her friends invited.
we are "inactive" but i still attend some meetings.
i do not comment or want any 'privilages'.. anyway, one person whom my daughter invited is a jw, though she has said that she may want to get out soon.
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rocketman
Artful, thank you for the research! Excellent point too, and yes, I noted that the article never really answered the question. It seems to be another case of them picking and choosing which celebrations they want to ban.
Eyebrow, over the past three years, I have in effect worked myself into a position whereby the can do liittle at all to me. By having no privilages, there's nothing they can take away or use as leverage against me, so that's the nice part about this. You made a good point - what can they do? Not much. I got very tired of being held hostage to privilages - over the past 25 or so years I've had certain things bestowed and then taken away as punishment. After a while, it gets very tiring.
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did wt shut doors 9/11?
by topanga inis it true because all of those tunnels dinning rooms factories and supermarkets could be of great help to the community in a time of attack.
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rocketman
Truth, you said "should Jehovah's Organization be any different" (no question mark).
Yes, it should be. It claims to be, very emphatically in fact.