although we are in 2006, often i think we are in 1996. i'm 10 years off.
my mom showed me something that she bought, and she wrote the date on the box.
i looked at it and it was written january 1995. i told my mom, it's only 1 year old.
yikes, you make me feel O-L-D.
I graduated HS in '96. Since then, I've:
- got my BS/MS in Computer Science (4 years -- most people take 6)
-now am preparing for my thesis proposal for my doctorate. (3rd year -- could graduate in 1 more year).
I've been in school 7 of the last 10 years (spent 3 years working in between).
Sometimes I feel life is a tad compressed...
thanks to an anonymous source we are now able to see two of the talk outlines for this years deliverance at hand district convention.. talk no.
8: deliverance from painful distress.
talk no.
oh wait, I think the manual is no longer "meat in due season". Blondie is right again. But, does anyone remember here WHY there was "New Light" about the parking tickets? If I remember correctly, it was due to the Tacoma Dome scandal. And the instigator is none other than "Mulan's" husband, who broke the story to the authorities.
-silent
thanks to an anonymous source we are now able to see two of the talk outlines for this years deliverance at hand district convention.. talk no.
8: deliverance from painful distress.
talk no.
The congregations should be instructed to send their
check to the convention headquarters address shown on the order form. Any convention
letter should use the word "contribution" when referring to the amount for each parking
ticket. Since parking tickets are available for a specific contribution, they should be secured
as if they were money.
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Wow. I guess little changed from the Tacoma Dome incident... :-)
-silent
this week at the book study, at all congregations in the u.s., a letter was read saying if you go to a house or property with a "no trespassing" sign, you must not enter, or knock on the door.
you have to leave immediately.
a sign saying "no solicitors" is too ambiguous, and they are to use their own judgment, and don't have to knock.
hey danny,
you really should put a bookbag in the guys hand on the No-tresspassing sign.
-silent
in oklahoma city, back in the buildup to 1975 (lets say about 68 or 69), there were four very special older jw ladies who had a great influence on my life.
i would like to say something nice about each one.. starting with lois & marie...(lois vandoren & marie salyer for those old enough to remember).
lois & marie were probably the most kind and faithful jw ladies i have ever met.
I think there were many such really good people around back in the 50's and 60's but the extremist ways of the WTS now has either ruined or run of most of these kind of people today.
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my mom says that too (She's in her late 50's, but was raised a witness). She says the change started around '75. huh. most of the older ones in my hall were sincerely decent people too.
-silent
i came downstairs last night, cause i kept hearing loud banging noises.
so, as i'm coming down the steps, i see a male figure standing by the computer.
i said hello, heard nothing in return.
hmmm, do you have any smurf dolls?
lol
-silent
i had a long conversation last night with an old jw friend whose sister and brother-in-law are bethelites since the 1970s.
she is an artist, and he runs a small but important department there.. we were talking about the bethel downsizing (my friend was well aware of it), and i told him i figured his sister and b-i-l would be safe due to the fact that they are now in their 60s and have something close to 4 decades seniority.
but he said no, that they were worried that they would be asked to leave as well, sent into the circuit work or as special pioneers sent where the "need is great.".
looking_glass,
basically, the scam was to call bethelites volunteers of a religious order, which makes the WT exempt from paying WC for these workers. While bethelites recieived no salary, many of their duties (running printing presses, shipping books, etc.) is NOT what NY state has in mind for the designation ''voluneteers of a religious order''. In other words, not recieving a salary is NOT necessarily equal to being a volunteer, and it depends on the nature of the assigned duties.
That was the core of the WT defense. The court ruled otherwise. I'm surprised they let the case go to trial, because if the designation of ALL workers is changed retroactively, the WT could open itself up to prior claims that have not expired.
There have not been more lawsuits like this because many ex-bethelites land quite well in local congregations, provided they keep their mouths shut. Usually, a well-off local brother has a company and will give the ex-bethel heavy a cushy job. I've seen it happen many times (in upstate NY). That's usually how Jah provides. LOL.
i had a long conversation last night with an old jw friend whose sister and brother-in-law are bethelites since the 1970s.
she is an artist, and he runs a small but important department there.. we were talking about the bethel downsizing (my friend was well aware of it), and i told him i figured his sister and b-i-l would be safe due to the fact that they are now in their 60s and have something close to 4 decades seniority.
but he said no, that they were worried that they would be asked to leave as well, sent into the circuit work or as special pioneers sent where the "need is great.".
and they are apparently agreeing to cover workers now,
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or send them packing.... :-) yeah, but remember, the WT is a publishing company with the religion as a front, so it's not really an apple to apples comparision :-)
-silent
i had a long conversation last night with an old jw friend whose sister and brother-in-law are bethelites since the 1970s.
she is an artist, and he runs a small but important department there.. we were talking about the bethel downsizing (my friend was well aware of it), and i told him i figured his sister and b-i-l would be safe due to the fact that they are now in their 60s and have something close to 4 decades seniority.
but he said no, that they were worried that they would be asked to leave as well, sent into the circuit work or as special pioneers sent where the "need is great.".
To be accurate, the workman's comp thingy appears to be another example of the WT Re-insurance scam. Apparently, NY State may allow organizations to 'opt-out' of the state plan, and not pay the state premiums for Workman's comp insurance (a few dollars per month per bethelite). It means that the organization (in this case the WT) is on the hook if the worker gets injured on the job.
Thus, because they went the 'el-cheapo' route, they need to have the layoffs to escape legal liability.
-silent
i had a long conversation last night with an old jw friend whose sister and brother-in-law are bethelites since the 1970s.
she is an artist, and he runs a small but important department there.. we were talking about the bethel downsizing (my friend was well aware of it), and i told him i figured his sister and b-i-l would be safe due to the fact that they are now in their 60s and have something close to 4 decades seniority.
but he said no, that they were worried that they would be asked to leave as well, sent into the circuit work or as special pioneers sent where the "need is great.".
it was WC action.
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yeah, and that's why THIS IS BIGGER NEWS, even than the Blood article or the pedophilia.
those cases involve PRIVATE individuals taking legal action against the WT. Workman compensation violations involve New York State, THE GOVERNMENT.
Seems the WT could be on the hook for back Workman's comp insurance too. To the tune of several million. And NY State prosecutes workman's comp violations quite aggresively....
can't beleive more haven't picked up on this. I guess unless you've lived in NY State, and dealt with NY State as a small business (my family owns a farm) then you don't appreciate how much of a threat to the WT pocket book this is...
-silent
