A few years ago, a Bethelite walked up to me before the TMS, grabbed me by the lapels and slap me. Two other Bethelites witnessed this but said nothing. To this day I have no idea why he did this or why I didn't beat him silly. I guess it must have been Holy Spirit. Last year one challenged me to fight. I liked him so I didn't take him up on it.
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Really Downsizing? Then Howcome....
by CaptainSchmideo in.
at tonight's service meeting (u.s.), another one of those "thank you for your continued contributions (hint hint, beg beg)" letters was read.. in the text, they talked about needing funds to renovate/remodel the squibb and 107 (i think that's the right number) in an effort to bring them up to building guidelines that match the other branch facilities.
this doesn't sound like shutting down in ny and retiring to patterson, as i saw in an earlier thread.. anybody in the know want to add some insight to this?.
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If I'm remembering correctly the Squibb building is 25 Columbia Heights, which is the location of the GB offices. 107 is a residence building. This would still account for printing being moved out of the city from Furman and Adams Sts.
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To: Lurking Elders or Former Elders
by somebody inif the watch tower society prints information such as this, claiming that they a legal instrument used by jws, .
watchtower 98 3/15 18 .
living up to christian dedication in freedom .
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Some thoughts. Since recommendations are made at the time of the CO's visit and he has to sign off on it the connection to the Society remains intact. There are many elders who go on personal opinion and will "screw up" If someone did that on their secular job the company's not hiring counsel for you. The WT does have insurance. It paid out on a case of a kid who fell on a crack in the sidewalk outside the KH. They may not have insurance in cases of abuse.
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Spirituality ??
by Blueblades inwhy do the elders always equate meeting attendance and field service with the level of ones spirituality?i keep hearing them repeating,"we hate to see you lose your spirituality",by not attending the meetings and going out into the field service.the 1973 comprehensive concordance points to jude 19 as the only reference to the word spirituality.however in the 1985 ed.of the kingdom interlinear of the greek scriptures the actual word at jude19 is spirit not spirituality.jude19 remarks that one can lose god's spirit if one became " ungodly".the society deliberately transposes the word spirit to spirituality from the greek into the english new world translation.the reason i bring this subject up is because that's all i ever hear when you miss meetings and field service.not once has an elder used the scriptures to support that viewpoint or interpertation with me.since circumstances differ with all of us, how in the world can they make a such a blanket statement and a wrong one at that!?
your thoughts please,blueblades.
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The elders have to make an accounting to the Circuit Overseer every six months. Upon his arrival he checks the congregation's numbers to see the spirit of the congregation. If the numbers are down, this equates to a possible lack of spirituality. If they are up then the congregation has a fine spirit. Hebrews 10:23, 24 are always used to encourage meeting attendance. Faith without works are dead if you're not counting enough field service time. For them the numbers tell the whole story.
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jackass
by Adam ina local kid here recently lit himself on fire.
people are already screaming that the jackass movie should be pulled from theaters.
those people sure piss me off!
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But they did stop Bevis & Butt-head. They had to stop saying lighting things and shouting "fire." All fire references were pulled from the show. Maybe if society wasn't so litigious people would put the blame where it belongs.
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How About a Little Wager?
by metatron inhere's some fun!
next time you meet some vacuum skulled witness that believes.
armageddon is "soon", challenge them to define "soon".. is "soon" 6 months?
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When they ask when I'm returning to the meetings I'll tell them soon, very soon. I'll define soon when they define what they mean by soon.
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Falling Away
by Blueblades ini understand that between 1970 and 1995, one-third of the jehovah's witnesses worldwide left the organization.
the figure is 55% for those in the u.s.a.these figures would seem to mean that there are a lot of dissatisfied jw's!
if you were to ask a jw's,why so many would want to leave if there is such a wonderful atmosphere of love among the witnesses, could they give you a good reason?
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You might here that they were only serving for a particular date. They were overreached by Satan's designs or they failed to keep pace with Jehovah's progressive organization (questioned new, newer, newest light).
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? re door to door JWs
by truthsetsfree ini am not a witness or ex-witness but rather a 35 year old mom engaging in a dialogue with witnesses who are coming to my door.
(i may not change their minds but i'd like to plant seeds of doubt!
) i am trying to figure out what is behind a strategy (?
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They are there to:
1. Count time
2. Count literature placed
3. Count a Bible study
4. They will keep coming in one form or another until you tell them not to.
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Aren't the annointed in heaven bored?
by SpannerintheWorks inthey must be just sitting there waiting for armageddon to happen.
boring!.
i tell you what, i'd much rather be down here having a good time!
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I'm sure they're involved in directing a never to be repeated work that will be finished in the 20th, er 21st Century.
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Have you ever been fired from a job?
by DanTheMan indantheman is a stupid f*cking loser who may be losing his job tomorrow due to a very f*cking stupid loser thing he did at work.. i am so disgusted with myself right now.
my image in the mirror makes me nauseous.. have you ever been fired from a job?
how did it affect your employment from that point forward?
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It does sound as if the more you dwell on the issue the worse it seems to you. At this point you shouldn't make any more statements to anyone. There will probably be something put in your employment record for future reference. And never, ever send an interoffice e-mail without the expectation that it may/can/will be read by management.
All the best.