by truthseeker 43 Replies latest jw friends
In the congregation, we know the answers the elders want to hear, but are we concealing our true thoughts and feelings? (For example, do we tell the elders we enjoy going to the meetings when we really find them dead boring?)
Well, do they really expect people to speak up? Everyone is reluctant to do so, and risk going against the group mindset.
I just don't understand how they expect people to do all that stuff. 5 meetings. Personal study. Family study. A bible study. Field service.
No wonder every time I'd leave an assembly, I was disheartened. Reading the summary just brought back those feelings of never being able to get close to doing enough.
Exactly Rocketman. Makes you wonder when and where is the "payoff?" Never felt good either way, doing too much or too little, so settled for as little as would get me by.
How on earth does a one day assembly cost so much that by the afternoon they still have an $11k deficit???
Especially if they have to pay no rent on the facility they're using.
There is a misconception here that because an assembly is in an JW-owned assembly hall that there is no cost or rental charged. Each circuit that uses the facility pays a set fee designated by the elders that administer the building. A certain amount is charged for utilities as well. This money goes into a fund for regular repairs and remodeling projects over a larger time period. Then when the higher ups decide that new carpeting is needed, or roofing, etc., this fund supposedly is used to pay for it.
Blondie (nothing in life is free) but $11,000 seems high.
Thank you for posting this Truthseeker.
special request not to chew gum and thanks to all the parents who prevent their children from putting chewing gum on the seats and carpet.
In all the years I went, I've never heard an announcement like this. I used to chew gum nonstop at the assemblies, conventions, and meetings. However, I always swallowed it rather than put it under the seat. That would be disrespectful to Jehovah. I'll bet if I go and look for my old suit coat, I'll find over 100 foil balls in my pocket from all the gum I chewed.
I guess the FDS got reports about many smacking their lips at the assemblies.
So then, how many of you here had your 'real friends' walk away when you needed help and weren't smiling all the time at the Kingdom Hall?
*raises hand*
truthseeker, Thanks for the trip through nightmare alley. It's been 6 years since my last attempt to go to a meeting. Always the same stuff. How boring. But beyond boring is the crap about how to raise children !!! Love them, spend time with them going to movies that don't force you to go to the bathroom. Yeeeks
God is deadYou're an atheist? I never would have guessed. Welcome aboard.
more like the antichrist :) and thanks :)
There is a misconception here that because an assembly is in an JW-owned assembly hall that there is no cost or rental charged. Each circuit that uses the facility pays a set fee designated by the elders that administer the building. A certain amount is charged for utilities as well. This money goes into a fund for regular repairs and remodeling projects over a larger time period.
So, in fact what the WT is doing here once again is "double dipping" into the flocks pockets for what should amount to just a charge for utilities and general wear and tear of a facility for it's very sporadic use by circuits. Hell...I'd speculate that even the ancient Astrodome gets more use than that facility they've built in Rosenburg. The flock is further fleeced by having to "rent" a facility that they have already "donated" money to have built and paid for. And seeing as a circuit has literally no option but to accede to the demands of the WT organization they are a captive tenant. All of this predicated upon the pretense of paying less rent to host a S.A.D, to serve Jehovah and support the worldwide work????
Yeah-----RRRRRRIIiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhtttttt !!!!!!!!
One recalls a post a few months ago how the brothers would deliberately siphon off funds to other parts of the world wide work in order to create a deficit.Hearing this made me more convinced than ever, that the only real pupose of an assembly day is just to make money.
Thx truthseeker for the summary. and your quote above was good.
It's exactly my thoughts at the last assembly I sat through. I may have even posted that thought, I forget. But it is suspicous to me that a freakin' one day or even two day assembly costs $10,000+. Definitley a money grab.
The WTS probably isn't getting enough dough from the door-to-whore scam, and the R&F ain't ponying up enough Bennies for the WWW at the KH, so the WTS needs to fabricate reasons to grab more money from the R&F.
Oh sure, the WTS needs to put some aside to remodel the ASSembly Hall every five years, but jumpin jeezuz on a pogo stick, the WTS must be crazier than a s4!thouse rat to think that no one Q's where the hell all of the ka-ching is going.
The last SAD I was at this year I heard more than a few of my R&F friends from the congregation Q'ing:
"WTF"? Where is all of that money going to? And if we have a deficit, then why are you sending my hard earned cash to the WWW?"
The WTS should reread thier bibles:
Made the house of my father a cave of robbers
Winston, of the, "my family ain't givin' jacks4!t to the World Wide pedofile protection fund" class
