Wow, I wonder if that machine takes EBT (electronic benefits transfer) card payments as well. After all, if one is on public assistance, a person is still expected to tithe from those evil riches, right?
JustVisting
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BOE Letter: New Adjustments
by pixel in**this was predicted from some members here**.
to all congregations .
re: adjustments in organizational terminology and assembly arrangements .
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regarding blood
by never a jw inas a father of a baptized jw 17 year old girl i am concerned about her stand on blood.
so i decided to do some research.
i found the following in the elders' book "sheperd the flock of god" pages 110-112.
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JustVisting
In JW-think it makes perfect sense. If you take blood and live, you have renounced the blood of Christ and are therefore worthy of spiritual "death". If you bang your fellow elder's wife, you can get off if shed crocidile tears or due some time by deing DF'd for a year.
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3 years of study, Just found out!
by impala63rag inhello friends, .
i would like some advice from those that are inpartial, and are familiar with the teachings of jw.
i studied with a wonderful jw couple weekly for 3 years.
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JustVisting
As Data-Dog correctly points out, the judging of the faithful slave is a future event. They has shown to be neither "faithful" (getting in bed with the UN, pedophile handling) nor "discrete" (do as we say not as we do).
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Sing Dirges to Jehovah?
by donny inback in 1985 my then-wife and i were having a lunchtime "gathering" at our place to show some support to the ones in our congregation who were full-time pioneers.
i had just recently received the vinyl collection of the songs featured in the song book "sing praises to jehovah" which had been released the previous year.. .
many of these melodies sounded depressing to me although i would have never admitted it at the time.
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JustVisting
DATA-DOG, You have flair my man. That's wickedly funny.
losingit, the FIRM AND DETERMINED song was in fact written in the concentration camps during WWII. There's a WT video where a German annointed sister gives some background information on that song.
I heard comments that the songs do not follow "standard" music chord progressions, melodic phrasing and so forth. That is what you get when your song-writers have no formal training (read: education) but are selected because they have the "spiritual" qualifications (read: full-time service). I read somewhere that one of the brothers that collaborated on the new song book actually had music/recording industry experience but quit half-way into the project when he experienced the pettiness and hypocrisy of the WT project overseer or something to that effect.
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Most Annoying Things That Happen At JW Meetings
by LittleSister intoday i was remembering how angry i used to get at the meetings and all the little irritations that in the end would just make my blood boil these included:.
prayers that go on foreverstudy or wt conductors still taking comments when its clear that the point has been covered 20 times alreadymeetings over running by more than 5 minsmy favourite was this one elder who would play guess the point i am thinking of.
he would keep rephrasing the question from the wt until someone would bring up the point he was thinking of.
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JustVisting
R_O: Ah, yes the monster corporate lawyer bookcase. That one hit close to home, when I was first in I had a case that would have made Marcus Welby MD jealous. I thought heck, you never know when an exorcism will break out, you need to be prepared for anything.
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What book do they study with ''newly interested ones'' ?
by ThomasCovenant inas title, when starting a new ''bible study''..
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JustVisting
"Listen to God" is a brochure used to study with those with limited reading ability/eyesight.
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When you bring your lunch, bring along extra's to feed others
by Quarterback inlast week's service meeting had brought out the experience in the 2013 yb about sharing their lunch with someone in the audience, who didn'y have anything.
although i beleive this to be a good idea, but, i couldn't help but think how things had changed.
the society wasn't playing by that same principle of hospitality, when they had the food arrangement at the assemblies.
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JustVisting
Giving food to hungry people is what Christ did, that is why the Society did otherwise.
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Be obedient and decisive! Governing Body instructions to elders leaked on YouTube
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/be-obedient-and-decisive-governing-body-instructions-to-elders-leaked-on-youtube.
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JustVisting
Don't worry about the busts, worry about the skeletons in the closet.
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WAKEN UP TO THE TRUTH
by The Searcher inas an awakened, "still in" witness, i especially ask fellow witnesses to think about the following conclusions as to whether they are factually correct or just rantings.
analyse these statements using your powers of reasoning, and what you know is really ordered by the governing body in new york, and not by the bible!.
1. there is no need for individual witnesses to "study" or meditate on the bible, because all the study & meditation has been done for you by a writing committee in brooklyn.
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JustVisting
I would have to say that they do encourage #1 and #2 with respect to individuals asking for HS to reach and accept the "correct" understanding of the Bible and consequently the WT. If ever one gets to #3 and #4, refer to steps 1 and 2 in order to avoid 3 and 4.
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3 years of study, Just found out!
by impala63rag inhello friends, .
i would like some advice from those that are inpartial, and are familiar with the teachings of jw.
i studied with a wonderful jw couple weekly for 3 years.
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JustVisting
Just read the opening two paragraphs of this week's WT study and ask yourself just who really guilty of duplicity, misleading statements and outright lies? Consider some of the heart-wrenching life stories of jw-net members and I believe you will find the answer.