found this interestinga week ago...recently i had a brother who does life insurance for a living call me to see if i was interested in a offering, since i was keen on taking up a insurance policy for my 1 year old daughter for her education purpose 20 years down the line i told him that he can come over,fast forward todayhe comes over with his manager (not a jdub) and we have a long chat about the various long term insurance plans... i found it very strange that a guy who believes that the world end is imminent would be so keen on selling me a policy with a tenure of 20 to 25 years .. in my mind , i'm thinking " is he serious ??
"well after i agree to buy a policy for my child and specifically stating that its for her future education to pursue whatever higher education she likes, the manager encourages me saying " that's amazing , cos of education will increase in the future so on etc "... btw i live in a developing country when education is not free...so i'm done with all the paper works and the manager leaves, so its just me and the brother ( who is a ms by the way )i asked him, doe she really think i made a good choice paying for a expensive insurance plan for 20 years with good returns considering the end was so near..he was dumbstruck i aksed the question, he took a moment and hesitated and said this !!!
!he was like "i don't ever think the world will end anytime soon "do i sense another dissenter .... perhaps a fellow man.... i'm excited :)
If you judge JWs by their actions, it is evident that none of them believe The End(TM) is really near.
DOC,
That may be true of most JWs and of the org as a whole, but there are plenty of individual JWs that I have been involved with that do act like the end is near. They put off enjoyment of life, learning an instrument, saving money, going to college, and on and on, because "the end" is near. Most were full-time servants, but some were R&F JWs.
in the article on the guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon ) mentioned in another thread, there's this quote of mark omalley, who is assigned to the public information desk at the jehovahs witness uk centre in north london.
we now have more than 165,000 [literature] carts on the streets in over 50 countries.
it gives us visibility and availability.
joe134cd - "I don't believe WT would be out sourcing someone to make these signs.."
They might not "outsource" it per se... but handing off business interests to (slightly) outside the Org?
They do allow the signs to be printed at FedEx Office or other businesses, but they have strict rules about not e-mailing the image files. The files have to be brought to the printer on a USB drive.
I guess they're afraid that someone will get a hold of the source images and modify them into something anti-JW?
in the article on the guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon ) mentioned in another thread, there's this quote of mark omalley, who is assigned to the public information desk at the jehovahs witness uk centre in north london.
we now have more than 165,000 [literature] carts on the streets in over 50 countries.
it gives us visibility and availability.
The org actually has a lot of purchasing and storage (and maybe manufacturing) happening in China. I know of some who are involved in working with the HK branch, but in mainland China. Of course they do so under other corporate names. They buy chairs, carts, and a lot of materials in bulk in China and store them in China until needed in another part of the world.
for current and former elders.. when sitting on a judicial committee, was a unanimous vote required in order to df?
if the answer to above is "no", what happened when 2 were for df and one wasn't?
what happened when 1 was for df and 2 werent?.
Vidiot,
They believe it's a theocracy... As if...
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well another big bad elder here just wanting to say sorry.. i'm sorry that so many were treated like crap, and shown that god's love is not to be found around jehovah's witnesses.
i'm sorry that inadvertently i've likely taught many to judge and as such see that racism permeates every corner of the jw world, else why else would someone be of the world, or even inactive.
i'm sorry i sat in on a jc, and voted to df.
- My child will go for higher education - per a letter written to the elders on how to do it. (when I leave, it will be just like I did)
Sorry if I'm being dense. Maybe I haven't had enough coffe this morning. I didn't understand the last part of that point. Can you or someone elaborate?
i'm curious.
what do you know from your own experience and talking to other active jws?
i know from my own informal, non-scientific survey that most jws do not watch jw.tv.
Every family that has 'family worship night' watches it regularly. Even those who don't have a regular 'family worship night' watch it as it is an easy way to assuage the guilt of not having a regular family worship.
Most of dubs in my hall watch the monthly broadcast as soon as it is released or sometime during that week. Many watch the little additional videos as well. It really has started to take the place of personal study as well.
We started to watch it before I awoke, but now I can't stomach it. It was probably one of the things that my wife noticed before I expressed my doubts to her.
we were all in our 20's the 1990's pioneers who still hoped the 1914 generation was for real.
jenny {names changed} loved peter who was younger then me and very handsome.
he wanted to go to bethel since he was a kid.
i was just a teenager and have a vivid memory of sitting in a chair doing a microphone for the sunday meeting.
everyone was commenting that it didn't mean the end was far off, and it didn't change the condition of the dead, or the 144,000, or the trinity so we should still remain faithful.
this is my first memory as a kid being just a teen that i ever had a single doubt.
I didn't give it a lot of thought at the time. I was graduating HS and dating. I remember the change, but I also remember how much they stressed that the end was still coming soon, you know because things were so bad and just getting worse. I made life altering decisions based on how much they emphasized that the end was close.
I wish I had woke up then...
its been mentioned before that warwick is a toxic dump and now the jw's are suing a former owner for compensation.
well this is huge on so many levels.
one they new it was contaminated back a few years ago so why move your headquarters there?
