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Two types of elder?????
by chuckyy inits my experience after actually being an elder for a number of years that there are in fact...two types of elder.. type 1....genuine, actually cares about the people in the congregation and wasn't actually bothered too much if he became an elder or not.. type 2....very legalistic, cares more about organizational laws rather than people and lacks compassion and empathy.
this type is more of a spiritual policeman.
he wanted desperately to be an elder and now that he is, he loves the sense of power and prestige.. this has been my experience and if there are more type 2 elders on a body, the results can be disastrous.. what has been your experience???
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unsuspecting JW found UN letter
by keeshah init's on witness world.com .
lol!
one of the fine brothers quickly told them it was because of the (gasp!
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What obligation do you feel towards your family who are still in?
by czarofmischief ineverybody's situation is different, of course, and everybody has their own choices to make.. but do you recall that when we were dubs, we were constantly urged to go out in service, because people needed to hear what we thought was the truth?
they would use that scripture by paul, "i consider myself a debtor to all men" etc.
to enforce the moral compulsion to go door to door.. now that we know the truth about the truth; how obliged are we to tell our family?
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What Is A Blog?
by hillary_step innoun: a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies.
reality: digital chewing gum, where millions upon millions of teenagers and middle-aged teenagers with fetid mucous for brains post completely ignorable and depressingly petty details of their sad and boring little lives.. action : put into same category as regis and kelly, slit wrists and never read again.. prophecy : ten years for now everybody in the world under twenty-five will have a blog and snore their entire lives away posting drivel and getting fatter cellulite riddled backsides by the hour.
in the year 2010 every blogger on the planet will simultaneously post his daily rubbish to the world wide net triggering off an armageddon of apathy and destroying the human race - thank the lord.. hs
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Why quotes from old publications are meaningful
by seattleniceguy inmost witnesses know that if you dig too hard in their older publications, you're bound to find strange, even ridiculous, quotes.
but they are trained not to put too much thought into these older publications.
if reasonable people could legitimately disagree with the wts at that time, then what does that say about "god's channel"?
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I just got access to witness world.com
by ko38 ini can view all their material but it wont let me post.it is a very lame site and is not very active(surprise huh)im shocked that some of the dubs have the rocks to even go online.has anyone else ever been on there?
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Is country music more approved than any other for a witness?
by wordlywife inmy husband has recently started listening almost exclusively to country.
occasionally we would listen to it before, but every time i get in a car he has driven or we are riding he has it on, when before we always had classic rock on.
i don't mind country music, but this recent change of listening habits in light of his having commenting priveledges back again makes me wonder if listening to anything but country is frowned upon by wt ordinances?
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My Elder Friend Got Announced As Being Deleted.....
by minimus infor going to my kid's wedding.
he was told he was not "serious", had no "self-control" and "did not work well with the body".
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Have many become atheists who've left the Watchtower?
by The Leological One inthought i've never been a jw, my wife is, and she was df'd a couple months ago when we got married (we were together a short while before getting married).
sometimes it seems she still tries to defend jw doctrines... others, it seems she's about ready to accept the idea of some other views (protestant), and yet i've wondered at times when she says she doesn't know what to believe if she's about ready to forget religion altogether.
i'd prefer she keeps her faith in god but seek her understanding more from the bible than just from other people's doctrines -- esp.
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FOND FAREWELL TO THE BI-MONTHLY AWAKE!
by steve2 inwith the jw congregations about to be informed that the ubiquitous awake!
magazine is to be issued just once a month from january 2006, now is an apt time for interested parties to share brief memories and/or impressions about the bi-monthly awake!
magazines, whether poignant, hard-hitting or humorous.