to all congregations in the united states branch territory .
re: jw congregation support .
dear brothers: .
I am wondering for what there is the need for this company?
Jehovah is the almighty grand lord of creation, setting in motion trillions of nuclear fusion reactors in billions of galaxies across billions of light years of time & space.....
Yet he needs to make sure that on one rock orbiting one of those stars, the proper legal documents are filed so that he doesn't pay any taxes.
i hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.
waste of a whole morning.
isolated.
45 years (dare I say it? a whole generation) have passed since 1975.
Armageddon does not appear any closer to anyone not immersed in Kingdom Hall culture 24/7.
Boring meetings presented by untrained speakers who have nothing interesting or educational to say.
Who could possibly have "zeal"?
2019 december brd newsletter.
https://docdro.id/odvxhqr.
2019-s-1-e-congregation field service and meeting attendance report.
I just looked at that "WTResource" website.
They're selling a (literally) 21 year old 4-cylinder Mitsubishi SUV for 2800 pounds, about $US 3600.
That seems awfully high for a car built last.....century.
at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.
been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?
and what he has accomplished ?.
"The last days" have become "the last centuries".
asking 4 a friend.
I do know someone.
For what it's worth, I do believe he is really disabled. He's a complete mess, healthwise.
On the other hand, if you can go out in service daily, sometimes at 7 AM, couldn't you find some sort of work to do?
i never was a jw.
my question is pretty simple.
this watchtower is for january.
Look at the front cover of the magazine - it says "Study Articles for March 2 - April 5, 2020".
The first article will be studied during the week of March 2 (actual date will be March 8 for 99% of JWs who have their meetings on Sundays), the 2nd article the week of March 9 (actually March 15), etc.
Study article 5 will be studied (for 99%) on April 5, just before the Memorial.
i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.
back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.
those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.
It's been on a couple of their monthly broadcasts - or maybe one of their Gilead graduation talks or an annual meeting talk. Not in print.
i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.
back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.
those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.
I doubt they would ever explicitly state a date, but I'm sure they have been tempted to at least "hint" at one.
So far they've resisted the urge.
However, they have explicitly stated, and more than once, that the GT must come before the current crop of GBers die off. The only one under age 60 is Sanderson, but his obesity will shorten his life unless he starts taking significant action soon. The other guys are in their 60's & 70's with Herd in his mid-80's. So the implication is that the end "must come" within 15-20 years....so 2034-2039.
Hmmm...come to think of it, maybe they are "hinting" at a date after all.
the old creation book had a lot to say about the fossil record.
if i remember correctly it was some lie about all the fossils ever found would fit on a single table.
the reality is that there is an embarrassment of riches illustrating the evolution of life.
7.77 million species of animals
Noah, upon reading this: "I'm gonna need a bigger boat"
2019-11-25-boe.
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Also, in the USA most charities send out requests for donations at this time of the year.
Obviously, in virtually no sense of the word is Watchtower a "charity", but they are considered as such for tax purposes.
The Watchtower always makes a pitch for donations in November, just before the end of the year, trying to snare donations from the handful of wealthy JWs around who want to increase their charitable giving before the end of the year so as to get a tax break.
Most JWs of course live paycheck to paycheck and certainly don't itemize their deductions, but what few "big time" donors there are, are mostly living in the USA. So every year they send out the reminder "give us money so you can have a slightly smaller tax bill" directed primarily at that elite group.
