Hellva good point, nowwhat.
Also, as other have noted already, this isnt new. Its been going on for years and years, this khaa or whatever name they call it now.
i have seen a few comments about this week's meeting.. was there actually a part that specified an actual per-publisher amount that should be donated regularly?.
can this be confirmed please?.
i truly cant believe just how brazen the society seems to be getting - and how desperate they are!.
Hellva good point, nowwhat.
Also, as other have noted already, this isnt new. Its been going on for years and years, this khaa or whatever name they call it now.
wt state that the global flood that wiped everything away happened in 2370 bce.. there's been a wealth of evidence from many quarters which prove that life continued as normal for civilizations during that time period.. now scotland adds to that body of evidence as detailed in this bbc report:.
neolithic orkney - new study.
key dates indicated by the study.
One absolutely cannot win an argument with a true believer. A true believer will never consider evidence contrary to the bible and therefore never see reason.
perhaps the one scripture most often quoted by jws is matthew 24:14: "this good news of the kingdomwill be preached in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come.
" even after decades away from the kingdom hall, i can still rattle off that verse.
i daresay all 8-plus million "active" jws can also recite it, plus the untold millions who have left or become inactive across the decades.. it is among the top cornerstone texts used in jw communications.. but now there's a significant shift in the use of that text: jws often focused heavily on the part of the scripture about the end coming.
I only left two years ago and i dont recognize it.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Goddamn right sparky. They have someone escort you from the df’ing meeting to your room. You are given time to oack whatever you can carry and then handed a buss ticket to whereverville. Theu ship the rest of your shit to you later
my sister recently wrote a short piece on the impact of our parents' becoming jehovah's witnesses in the 1950s.
she was a teenager at the time.
what is so striking and disturbing is that the same predicament faces so many teenagers to this day.
What a moving story!
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Ironically i too had a bill when i left that i didnt pay.... you know what they did? They sent a letter to my PO lol.... no i never paid it and he even laughed (it was small, 20 bucks or so). His words were “put it in the contribution box when you get a job”. Bastards.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Again, my point is made by his own words. He took it from the commissary knowing he had to pay for it. Making a video to complain about them being petty is even more petty then they were in the first place. He KNEW it wasnt free. He knew it from the first day he walked into the commissary.
There is so much wrong at bethel, so much wrong with how they treat people, that to cry over shopping in a commissary when he KNEW he had to pay is ridiculous and only fuels the idea that apostates are disgruntled and unreasonable.
New boy has been sharing a very real and accurate picture of life at bethel and all of its brutality and heartlessness. Vary more valuable than nonsense over fruit.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Slim, i see you trying and i dont fault you for looking for the reasonable explanation here, but again, the commissary is cash and carry. Everyone at bethel knows it from day one. There is a cashier for god sake. Every bethelite knows that if you dont want to eat then you simply carry food away for later. They even have a stupid ass bethel word for it (lifted from the bible that i refuse to type). There is no just reason or cause for this man to believe that he didnt have to pay for food from the commissary. Its an exaggerated story to make bethel look bad which dosent need exaggerated stories to look bad.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
If it was a commissary situation he has zero right to complain. From day one you know the commissary is cash and cary. Just because you were asked to leave dosent entitle you to be able to take things from the commissary without paying. Thats exactly what i mean by exaggerating facts. They didnt ask him to pay for food because he was leaving, they asked him to pay for something he stole. We do no favour for the exjw community to with that sort of nonsense.
have the bethelites started cooking and doing their own washing yet?
how are they coping?.
paul.
Yes it was two weeks to organize your affairs and arrange to get out. “Fair” by the worlds standards of terminating employment but definitely unloving for “gods people” to do to someone who has volunteered for a year or more at great personal expense.
If someone took me wrong and thinks im somehow defending the orgs hq, please understand bethel fucked me over for a year and i have zero love for them or the org as whole. I couldnt leave fast enough and its one of the reasons i eventually was able to leave, seeing what hq was really like... if someone just dosent like me calling bullshit on something that is clearly bullshit then feel free to continue allowing your hate to make you gullible. Bethel dosent charge for food. The only exception that someone mentioned was the commissary which is possible but i didnt include it that because the commisary was cash and carry when i was there, they didnt bill for it. That may have changed.
My philosophy remains: there is far more than enough to hang them for without making things up or exaggerating the facts.