hi all just curious did anyone go to the special talk????
what was so special about it.
i was supposed to go but like the memorial i accidently deliberately forgot opps :/ es
I just got home from the "special" talk. My brother gave it. He invited me so I didn't want to ungrateful. It was exactly the one Ip-Sec posted 02-Mar-05. Neo supplied a link on page 1.
What made it a "special" talk was the fact that it was the same talk given at all congregations for this date. Last week there were 98 in attendance at this hall today there were 198. Just saying.
i live in the country on a hill and i know in the country there are lots of birds but for 3 days now there have been a group of turkey buzzards flying over my house non stop.
as far as i know there is nothing dead in my yard but they constantly circle and circle around my house and getting close to the windows.
now i shower everyday so it can't be that i smell,,,,,,,,could it?.
Are they flying right to left or left to right?
for some time now i've been searching the wts' publications for a policy that i clearly remember from my time as an elder.
but i just can't find it.
it was the one which stated that if someone--even a congregation servant--came forward and confessed to wrongdoing, there would not have to be a judicial committee, nor would a servant even need to lose his privileges--if at least three years had passed and the individual had put the sin behind him/her.
I heard this 3 year thing was only mentioned at an official elders meeting, the big get together usually held at an assembly hall. The impression was that there was a shortage of elders so by coming forth now and confessing they could still retain their positions. This only aplied to elders and not the general congregation. This information was from an elder that attended. If I remember it was a few years ago.
my dear jh, my cyber chat!.
sometimes you act like a jwd brat!.
you may be fun, you may be loud.. it seems your threads can draw a crowd!.
Poor little Miss Grunt
Poor little Miss Grunt.
Woke up this morning and found she was dead,
No more tea at 4. Or tittle or tattle.
Or honey and rolls.
Ragman
When I was young he was old.
A horse a wagon a weary voice,
And a pocket full of dollars that felt like cloth.
i wanna hear the word that made you either physically nauseous or burst out in uncontrolable laughter.
please demonstrate it in a sentence as well.
mine was 'enthused' (my fingers were shaking as i typed).
+ 4 on behooves us
truth used as;
"He's in the truth but the truth is not in him."
hey current and recently stepped-down elders,.
has there been any direction from the co/do/brooklyn areas to go after the people suspected of 'fading'?
it seems that we're seeing more and more folks getting elder's visits scheduled, like an explosion recently.
Not an elder, but I just got a visit from 2 elders an hour ago. It's been 18 months since their last visit.
Just the usual please come back to the meetings.I mentioned the new OD book, and asked if that was why they were visiting today.
"Nope. We were going to build a new KH. That's changed." Same reason as been reported on this site.(lack of $$$$$$$$$$$$ )
"It's easier to consoladate congregations then build a new hall."said elder. "One congregation will be disbanded. So now we will have two congregations all mixed from the three."
Probably a push on to contact inactive ones. I personally doubt if there is a push on to DA inactive ones. The sky may be falling, but not on us.
ok, in the ever-changing world of ?new light?
who is going to be the new ?wild beast??
i was just watching the news and the un is in some pretty bad trouble, teenage prostitution scandal, oil for food scandal, ect.. it seems that they are slipping quickly into insignificance.
The internet.
there is an elder at my hall that was removed last week.. he was not df, he still is in good standing.
he did not request it.. how can an elder be removed?.
what is the process?.
just really want to know what the process is as she(wife) said they have known about the possiblity of it since the CO's visit in December. and the announcement has just been made.
Sounds like the decision might have been made by the CO and not the BOE. I know of an elder that had to step down because his daughter wasn't coming to the meetings. When the CO left the elder was re-appointed. This elder is 65, maybe the CO didn't like him. It happens.
i only have one that comes to mind.
a sister was visiting our hall from another congregation and was sitting in the back of the hall.
she raised her hand to answer a question, but only had one finger in the air.
It was a rainy night. As the meeting was about to start the brother asked everyone to take a seat. This is usually the time everyone is talking and on this night it was pretty loud. The brother asked again. Everyone kept on talking. The brother asked everyone to take their seat again. Suddenly there was a huge clap of thunder that shook the hall. Dead silence. " Now will everyone take a seat?" Everyone burst out laughing.
its time to leave.
i have had all the answers i need to make a firm decision.
thank you so much everyone for your replies, for talking to me over the last few weeks and for some of the humour.. i believe the jws are right and that they have the truth.
See ya Holly. No Matter where you go there you are.
I'm new here, and don't agree with everything I read on his forum.....however; I feel EVERYONE has a right to freely speak what's on their mind.I wasn't able to do that at the KH. I'm stll waiting for a knock on my door by two elders because I may get "caught" posting on this sight. What a joke......if that's not shades of 1984 what is?
