Evacuated

I  saw  this  picture  yesterday  in  our  Gallery,  I  had  to  prove it,  bec. never  seen...
Hard  to  believe...  but  I  proved  it  in  the  Internet !  Poor  little  girl  of  the  past
I  thought,  that's  NOT  possible  -  but  it  IS  - YES    ( Her  body  was  ready,  curious..)
The  story  is  really  true...   I  found  different  link's  and  special  video's  -
She  was  more  mature  than  other  girls  in  her  age,  very  very  rare !
Whatever...  for  me  she  was  a  poor  girl  in  the  past,  bec. thats  NOT  normal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/lina-medina
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/lina-medina/2
WORLD'S YOUNGEST MOTHER (A Medical History) - Lina Medina was 5 years...
What do you think about that rare story ?  Belongs to our imperfect end-time ?

Sorry. Was a misunderstanding, I thought you were talking about a list of doctrines.

This looks like a list to me

Exactly! 
You are not specific about what you are describing as "this spiritual food" here. But, just taking your remark generally, I cannot see a problem with any of the five items you list, as long as they are kept in their place and their relative importance understood. In other words, there is no need to "either/or" them.
I believe we will be in the postion described in scripture as needing the way of truth expounded more correctly for some considerable time to come, if not forever. Don't you?
 
 
 
 

That's an insult to kids!

Exactly! 
You are not specific about what you are describing as "this spiritual food" here. But, just taking your remark generally, I cannot see a problem with any of the five items you list, as long as they are kept in their place and their relative importance understood. In other words, there is no need to "either/or" them.
I believe we will be in the postion described in scripture as needing the way of truth expounded more correctly for some considerable time to come, if not forever. Don't you?
 
 
 
 

Please!. We all know what Jesus Peter and Paul said.
And as for this continual regurgitating of old spiritual food, isn't a bit like trying to eat yesterday's manna? It was good at the time, and certainly did what Jehovah wanted it to do...then. But today? Don't we find it's just like the manna of old which , when saved beyond it's current need,  just "bred worms and stank"?
 

If the suggestion here is that the unity experienced by Jehovah's Witnesses today is based on conformity to a "false teaching", then any of Jehovah's Witnesses who support such a view are standing on a very thin ice veneer over an abyss of apostasy.
So my last exasperated appeal on this much berated subject:
The year 607BCE is seen by Jehovah's Witnesses as the coincidence of 2 events: 
The desolation of the city of Jerusalem and the land of Judah. The deposition of a king ruling as a representative of the family line of David, actually sitting on Jehovah's throne. It is also seen as the starting point of 2 prophetic periods:
A period of desolation of the city of Jerusalem and it's environs (Judah) A period of absence from the earthly scene of a King ruling on Jehovah's throne The first period, is reckoned to span a 70 year period, terminating in the year 537 BCE with the implementing of a Persian decree allowing for the release of Jewish exiles and restoration of the literal City of Jerusalem as a center of worship.
The second period, otherwise known as the "Gentile Times", is reckoned to span a 2520 year period, terminating in the year 1914CE with Jehovah's decree placing rulership of the earth into the hands of Jesus Christ.
This simple construct has had much Scriptural and secular argumentation brought forth to support both it and many subordinate dependencies of understanding. These, to borrow a phrase, have been considerably "rehashed" elsewhere, as have opposing or alternative views. In fact, despite the ridiculing, battering, dissecting, and all but obliterating of what is commonly held by Jehovah's Witnesses on this matter, no one has yet come up with a simple alternative statement of belief that makes any real sense. Is this too much to ask??? (And no prizes to anyone just repeating the statements in a negative form!!)

That is good to change your teaching when you realise it is wrong. (Although we are a little quicker off the mark in this).
e.g. Take this notion that unbaptised children who die go somewhere on the fringes of "hell" called "Limbo" to receive [whatever] for their unredeemed, inherited ("Original") sin.
"It may therefore be correctly affirmed, that such infants as quit the body without being baptized will be involved in the mildest condemnation of all." Augustine (4th Century)  "St. Augustine and the African Fathers believed that unbaptized infants share in the common positive misery of the damned," Catholic Encyclopedia (21st Century) Catholic Encyclopedia entry on "Limbo": (21st Century) "the permanent place or state of those unbaptized children and others who, dying without grievous personal sin, are excluded from the beatific vision on account of original sin alone (the "limbus infantium" or "puerorum")" In a long-awaited document, “The Hope of Salvation for Infants who Die Without Being Baptized”, the Church’s International Theological Commission said "limbo" reflected an “unduly restrictive view of salvation”. The document states (in contrast to the view of Augustine and the Catholic Encyclopedia): "Our conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved and enjoy the Beatific Vision."  (20th Century) There is a bit of incoherence in the chronological sequencing of these changes, but ...hey ho...I suppose it's a bit like turning a supertanker.
PS. Jehovah's Witnesses haven't changed their views on this whole paticular piece of nonsense by the way. They still hold to the view expressed at Ecc 9:5 "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all". (11th Century BCE!)

Seems you do not know much about freedom of speech and association. Check USA precedents.
They thought Jesus was criminal and immoral too. Read  the scripture below.
(Matthew 11:18, 19) . . .’ 19 The Son of man did come eating and drinking, but people say, ‘Look! A man who is a glutton and is given to drinking wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ All the same, wisdom is proved righteous by its works.”
JWs can't please everyone in Satan's world, they are just trying to please God and his Son.
It was prophesied that he would be put to death as a criminal and it happened. He said his disciples would not be greater than he was. They would be viewed in a similar way. See below.
(Isaiah 53:9)  9 And he was given a burial place with the wicked, And with the rich in his death, Although he had done no wrong And there was no deception in his mouth.
(Isaiah 53:12) 12 For that reason I will assign him a portion among the many, And he will apportion the spoil with the mighty, Because he poured out his life even to death And was counted among the transgressors; He carried the sin of many people, And he interceded for the transgressors.
A slave is not greater than his master.
 

That's interesting. Where did you hear that? Do you have the reference?
Yes indeed. Revelation 22:18-19.
I wonder if the Catholic Church has noted that text as well?

There is some sort of contradiction in this phrase...can't quite put my finger on it????
Anyway, it's good to remember that not all Catholics followed their leaders over the years. Many good folk in the Catholic Church have tried to live as Christians despite their actions. 

Bit overstated. It only really matters what Jehovah thinks we are, does it not?"
1Sam.16:7: "For the way man sees is not the way God sees, because mere man sees what appears to the eyes, but Jehovah sees into the heart.” 

Obviously, all those who become eligible for Christian baptism, which is an act of faith, must have had knowledge of that requirement imparted to them at some point by someone, as no one is born understanding the need for Christian baptism. Rom.10:17 makes that clear surely:
"So faith follows the thing heard. In turn, what is heard is through the word about Christ."
As for how crucial a study conductor is to one's eventual eligibility for baptism?????
I know more than one that was baptised without going through a bible study program with a conductor in any consistent manner. I had 3 different study conductors, and with one, I actually took the study myself on a number of occasions,  as the person frequently hadn't prepared. I know one person who just got up and said yes to the questions at the assembly about 44 years ago, without having had a study conductor, and has happily served Jehovah ever since. So, in some cases perhaps, a study conductor served as a hindrance rather than a help toward baptism eligibility.
And of course there are those who have had excellent study conductors, gone through a consistent program of study with a couple or more books, got baptised and who were very soon disfellowshipped or drifted away. Were they eligible for baptism? Who knows?
Eligibility for baptism is described fairly clearly in the book of Acts: 
“Repent, and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the free gift of the holy spirit." Acts 2:38
“Repent, therefore, and turn around so as to get your sins blotted out, so that seasons of refreshing may come from Jehovah himself" Acts 3:19
The baptisms seem to have followed some kind of of instruction by someone in the know, although the time-scale differs. For example, a discourse and evidence of holy spirit was enough for some who had already quite a scriptural knowledge and way of life in the earliest days of the congregation. Acts 2:27-38;41.  Later, after Phillip spoke at some length instructing the Ethiopian eunuch, he was obviously eligible for baptism because, "when they came to a body of water, and the eunuch said: “Look! Here is water; what prevents me from getting baptized?” Acts 9:36. It seems nothing because "With that he [the eunuch] commanded the chariot to halt, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he [Philip] baptized him." Acts 9:38.
Apollos later needed assistance to understand matters more fully because "when Pris·cilʹla and Aqʹui·la heard him, they took him into their company and explained the way of God more accurately to him."  Acts18:26. Presumably, a suitable baptism followed for Apollos, because a little later, after Paul's instructing some Ephesian disciples of a similar understanding to Apollos, "they got baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." Acts 19:5.
So it would appear that eligibility for baptism depends on the individual repenting, turning around and (in harmony with the spirit of texts such as Matt.16:24, Rom.12:1, 1Pet.3:21) dedicating or setting themselves aside for a sacred purpose.
A suitably qualified study conductor may well be of great assistance in that process.

 

@Jay Witness asked:   Can you pray if you're:
[1.]not yet a Jehovah's Witness but you want to be?
[2.]Will Jehovah God listen? 
[3.]Is it respectful?
 
[1]. Yes!
[2.] Yes!
[3.] Yes!

Matthew 23:8  But you, do not you be called Rabbi, for one is your Teacher, and all of you are brothers. 9 Moreover, do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your Father, the heavenly One. 10 Neither be called leaders, for your Leader is one, the Christ. 
(see Rev 3:14  and comment above)
 

Ps 65:2:  O Hearer of prayer, even to you people of all flesh will come.
Before Cornelius' baptism
(Acts 10:1, 2) Now there was a man in Caes·a·reʹa named Cornelius, an army officer in what was called the Italian unit. 2 He was a devout man who feared God together with all his household, and he made many gifts of mercy to the people and made supplication to God continually.
(Acts 10:30, 31) Then Cornelius said: “Four days ago counting from this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour; just then a man in bright clothing stood in front of me 31 and said: ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been favorably heard, and your gifts of mercy have been remembered before God.
Prayers heard before his baptism.
At this point he and family baptized.
(Acts 10:47, 48) “Can anyone deny water to prevent these from being baptized who have received the holy spirit just as we have?” 48 With that he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they requested him to stay for some days.
 

Well, they had a go, but didn't succeed. Isaiah 40:8, 1Pet.1:25. So we're happy with what we got!

Becoming one!

Stay faithful and true
To the God who loves you.....!

Jesus explained that one:
Mark 10:29-30: "Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time—houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the coming system of things, everlasting life."

Jesus Christ
Ph. 2:9: "For this very reason, God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name"
(PS. Another no brainer...This is getting a bit silly!!)

NO!

Which people???

Just great.....
Is 11:9: "They will not cause any harm or any ruin in all my holy mountain, because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea."