Posts by JustVisting

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From a Non JW Critic Post Memorial: Your Religion is Changing

by kneehighmiah in

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friends

a non jw relative who is a staunch critic of the wt attends the memorial with us every year, but just because she enjoys worshiping with her relatives.

she fought against my parents becoming witnesses before i was born.

she owns the book 30 years a wt slave and suggested i read it.

JustVisting

good point. Our Memorial speaker didn't harp too much about studying and associating with the JWs like they did a few years ago.

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Can Ministerial Servant give a prayer for wine or bread at the Memorial?

by Iamallcool in

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friends

there was a guy in his early 20's that gave the prayer for the bread or wine at my memorial (i just do not remember which one, wine or bread?

) he does not look like elder material at all.

if ms can't give the prayer at the memorial, then he must be an elder by now.

JustVisting

In our hall you they always have elders pray over the emblems and you have to be at least a MS to pass to plates or take attendance or be a baptized teenaged elder's son.

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Disfellowshipped Memorial partakers

by JustVisting in

just wondering if the attendants are instructed not to "count" known df'd memorial partakers.

who sincerely partake of the emblems, considering the unsettling increase in partakers of late.. just asking.

JustVisting

That's what I thought. In other words, based on "whatever they bind on the earth

is bound in the heavens" trumps the annointing power of the Holy Spirit mentioned in Romans 8.

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Disfellowshipped Memorial partakers

by JustVisting in

just wondering if the attendants are instructed not to "count" known df'd memorial partakers.

who sincerely partake of the emblems, considering the unsettling increase in partakers of late.. just asking.

JustVisting

Just wondering if the attendants are instructed not to "count" known DF'd memorial partakers

who sincerely partake of the emblems, considering the unsettling INCREASE in partakers of late.

Just asking

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What usually happens after the memorial?

by Frazzled UBM in

do members of the congregation usually have a meal together after the memorial?

does the fact that my wife has decided not to travel across town to her filipino congregation and is going to the local one instead and wants to be picked up when it finishes at 8 pm mean that she hasn't been invited to a meal with her filipino congregation and that she is being socially excluded by them?

i think this is good news but i don't want her to get caught up with the local congregatin because i don't want them coming around to pressure her to attend when she is irregular.

JustVisting

Ah, does IHOP mean anything to you? Eat stacks of flapjacks drowned in syrup and wash it down with bottomless cup of joe.

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A point which virtually every JW will miss in this week's book study

by sir82 in

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friends

from this week's book study, the "draw close to jehovah" book, chapter 5:.

biologists have identified well over a million species of living things on earth; yet, opinions vary as to whether there may be as many as 10 million, 30 million, or more.. .

wow!

JustVisting

Koceptual99: good idea, always preface your bible study responses with a WT reference. TMS study point: "use of

reliable reference sources, ie., Watchtower and Awake magazines which are rigorously researched and checked."

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Governing Body has a system in place to cash in?

by adjusted knowledge in

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friends

so i recently attended a few meetings in the last 30 days.

i've not been in over a decade.

as posted in an earlier topic, i still have a few family members in.

JustVisting

Should the Big A go down as advertised, the GB will be powerless because they are not legally entitled to any of the dough, only the WTBTS board of directors has that authority. If push comes to shove, the GB will be sitting ducks holed-up in their Warwick compound.

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Does anyone remember the article which mentioned that many non-jws would survive armageddon?

by cultBgone in

i seem to think it was a november wt issue but can't remember precisely, but it was probably printed within the last three years.

after being told for years and years that everyone not a jw would be destroyed, this was amazing to see in print!

yet when i pointed it out to others, they just shrugged it off and left me wondering what i was missing.... does this ring a bell with anyone?.

JustVisting

Is that the one where Black Beard is shown sitting down having a Bible study, ruffled shirt, beard and all? In the next frame he is shown sans beard, sword and is giving his life experience. Is that the one?

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Appeal Against Elders Decision... Can Anyone Advise..

by Almond in

i meet a 6 years baptised jw girl.

we planned to marry here in philippines ( no divorce here }.

judge told me he can do the marriage so we livived together to be married.