Posts by Lynnie

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BOE 2014-07-11 Use of ministerial servants where the number of elders is limited

by WatchTower87 in

to all bodies of elders.

the congregation secretary should arrange for this letter to be retained in the congregation permanent file of policy letters.

he may also wish to update the congregation copy of the index to lettersfor bodies of elders (s-22) at this time as well.

Lynnie

Can you copy and paste? Can't get to the download. Thanks!

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RC's and IC's: Are buses the new profit center?

by zed is dead in

locally there was a very strong push for everybody to ride the bus to the international convention.

they discouraged driving to the stadium and were not as crazy about booking rooms through the society.

my guess is that they are getting a cut of the bus fares that they organize.

Lynnie

Yes I thought that was rather curious myself about the Intl Convention in Seattle. My mom who lives in Lynnwood 15 miles

away took the rented buses all three days and was told that the parking was a 'mess' etc by the elders so that why the buses were

"required." Well they have a giant parking lot to accommodate the college football games so that could have been used.

Funny they didn't encourage people to ride buses to the Tacoma Dome when that parking scam went down and they were charging people

for parking when it wasn't required.

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Seattle Convention - any updates?

by Lynnie in

was wondering if anyone attended the seattle intl convention and what it was like?

saw some pics from instagram, seems like quite the.

big production for sure!

Lynnie

Was wondering if anyone attended the Seattle Intl Convention and what it was like? Saw some pics from Instagram, seems like quite the

big production for sure! How many were baptized and how many were children being baptized?

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Another PR / marketing website for a JW international convention - this time Seattle

by sir82 in

jw
friends

here is the link: http://seattledelegates.org/.

i would guess this is the wave of the future.

a secondary channel of business revenue for the wts - compensation for recommending restaurants, tours, etc.

Lynnie

Yes the traffic around the U-District and Lake Union should be just nuts on Friday! The traffice starts way before the

fireworks program! Perfect! Wonder how many delegates will wander over to Gasworks Park and watch the fireworks. Oh and the evening programs

is being held at Bell Harbor Conference Center or the Renassiance Hotel are not going to be cheap either.

The Renassiance is s 4 star hotel. I'm sure they could have found something cheaper and closer to Husky Stadium like

the Silver Cloud but I guess that wasn't fancy enough! And guess who pays for all this? HA!

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Another PR / marketing website for a JW international convention - this time Seattle

by sir82 in

jw
friends

here is the link: http://seattledelegates.org/.

i would guess this is the wave of the future.

a secondary channel of business revenue for the wts - compensation for recommending restaurants, tours, etc.

Lynnie

Are all conventions doing this or is it just Seattle? Seattle seems to have a rich amount of JW's to support this.

I think one of my cousins is putting together some song mix CD for the delegates which I thought was rather

strange since she's using worlding songs and not JW songs.

Is there only one convention held at Husky Stadium?

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June 1st Watchtower for the public

by Lynnie in

one of my smart ass friends gave me the public copy of the watchtower for june 1st, 2014 and the main article.

is about "god's view on smoking.

" okay it goes on and on about how we need to keep our body "clean" and.

Lynnie

One of my smart ass friends gave me the public copy of the Watchtower for June 1st, 2014 and the main article

is about "God's view on smoking." Okay it goes on and on about how we need to keep our body "clean" and

undefiled blah blah blah. Why doesn't this apply to alcohol too? Alcohol is harmful to the body or can be.

There's this line in the article that says "Jehovah wants us to be free from practices that harm our body but also from

those that corrupt our spirit, that is, our dominant mental inclination." The article goes blabs on but that sentence

could be applied to the consumpton of alcohol too! Wonder how many would leave if they decided to

ban alcohol? HA! I know there is no logic with the JW's but what the article says can apply to booze too. I guess they don't

see that!

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Disfellowshipping and reinstatement

by Lynnie in

so i was visiting my older cousin who has been out of the jw's for many years but is still favorable.

to the whole nonsense and seems to be on the fence still after 35 years and she asked me "have you ever.

thought about going back?

Lynnie

Yes I think that's the thing that bothers me the most, my cousin doesn't want to say anything

negative (about anything!) but it's obvious she doesn't want to go back all that much either. I know

she and I both hated going door to door and that is a big requirement of all JW's. Funny how

people can have blinders on for years!

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Disfellowshipping and reinstatement

by Lynnie in

so i was visiting my older cousin who has been out of the jw's for many years but is still favorable.

to the whole nonsense and seems to be on the fence still after 35 years and she asked me "have you ever.

thought about going back?

Lynnie

Yes I'm DF'd Apognophos. I was most amazed by my cousin's lack of knowledge that there is still that policy in place that

you need to sit in the back of the hall forever until the elder's decide you are worthy enough. She was trying to tell me

"things have changed so much" but couldn't really say what. Perhaps more lenient or some such? I'll have to follow

up with her to see what she meant by that. oh and I do find it interesting that she's not exactly running back herself!

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Disfellowshipping and reinstatement

by Lynnie in

so i was visiting my older cousin who has been out of the jw's for many years but is still favorable.

to the whole nonsense and seems to be on the fence still after 35 years and she asked me "have you ever.

thought about going back?

Lynnie

You are correct, LostGeneration. She met a nonbeliever and married him 3 months after

she met him to avoid any meeting with the elders (PO at that time) regarding premarital

sex I"m sure. But no one bugged her or stalked her like they did me after she got married.

I've heard of the inactive ones getting "reactivated" but wasn't really sure what that meant.

In the meantime I need to let my naive cousin know that it's just not as simple as she thinks for

me to join back up like she thinks it is. Yes she needs the TTATT badly but I don't think she would be

receptive.

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Disfellowshipping and reinstatement

by Lynnie in

so i was visiting my older cousin who has been out of the jw's for many years but is still favorable.

to the whole nonsense and seems to be on the fence still after 35 years and she asked me "have you ever.

thought about going back?

Lynnie

So I was visiting my older cousin who has been out of the JW's for many years but is still favorable

to the whole nonsense and seems to be on the fence still after 35 years and she asked me "have you ever

thought about going back?" and I told her that I was far too damaged from the treatment over the past

35 years to consider it. And I said "well if I didn't have to grovel at the elders feet for a year or more before I

was left back in that would be a consideration too. First she said that "oh you shouldn't focus on the human aspect"

Really? Then she said "oh I don't think they do that anymore (meaning having to grovel at the elder's feet)" and I'm

absolutely certain they still do no matter how long you have been out. I asked her if she was going back and of course

didn't get a definitive answer! She was the one that told me oh so many years ago that you could leave the JW's

at anytime and she did with absolutely no consequences. When I did a year after her I was stalked by elders for

2 years! Has anyone else heard of this? That you can just start right back up where you left off?