i was wondering if there is a website available that lists all of the properties the watchtower owns, as well as the current value of those properties?
if not, what would it take to establish one?
i think people would be very interested in what the watchtower holds as property or as businesses.
Hi Apostanator!
This is a great idea! A list of their real estate assets all in one place! The proclaimers book had 50 or more pages of pictures of branch offices. Imagine how much it's all worth...branch offices...kingdom halls...assembly halls....not to mention Brooklyn and Patterson. I seem to remember a property in Hawaii too that was used as a conference center...
Coffee
when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.
i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.
we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.
Hi Stilla,
Getting married at 18... nope I would not recommend that.... Nearly everyone in my congregation got married very early. My best friend was 21...and she was the last one! I was married for almost 20 years...thinking I had no choice but to remain married.
Life is good now. I still do artwork... My work has been published in a calendar two years running now. My job isn't related to art.. but it can be somewhat creative in a different way. Still, someday, I would like to concentrate more on art.
Coffee
when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.
i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.
we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.
Hi Z...
Well...I only have a couple of things on my hard drive...not a good selection....and I don't have a digital camera or a scanner any more..... I'll attach what I have though. I don't know if they will show up very well. They'll show up pretty small... Oh, and my avatar is a drawing by my son.
Coffee
when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.
i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.
we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.
When I was in High School I wanted to persue Art. I did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of College...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but I didn't persue it the way I should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that....
Within the past year, I have reconnected with a former High School classmate. We were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors. We were opposite...she was a hippie (or the closest thing I ever knew to a hippie in my sheltered jw world) I was the dutiful dub. We were not friends then.... competition kind of spoiled that... but we had a kind of respect for eachother.
We have become friends now...so many years later. She stuck with her art...and she has done sooooo well. Google her, and hundreds of pages of websites come up. I am sooooo proud of her....and it feels so good to be free to have a friendship that should have existed back then, but didn't. Take a look at her art.... Her name is Sandy Wadlington... her last name was Brown back then... and she is my friend.
and if that's not enough...google her name.... I'm soooo impressed!
Coffee
i put this page on just to know how many jws there are on this site.
i am sure that we all will be intrested to know as to who stands where.
i am only requesting if we are a jw or not, the year we got baptized and the year that we decided to leave.
baptized 1960 (age 8) Left officially 1993
Coffee
Oops... I spelled former wrong in my post above... working on my first cup of coffee...which hasn't kicked in 100% yet...
Coffee
Perhaps you don't realize that most here are fomer jws. Maybe you'd like to tell us about your take on the pagan symbol and why the society uses it. Be nice now...I'm a grandmother. And welcome...I think. By the way, Auld Soul is a good guy.... try reading some of his posts. After doing so, you may realize that you owe him an apology. He's probably the least deserving of your anger.
Coffee
that you ever remember having with an elder, ms, co, do, governing body member etc?.
there was a family that i knew growing up, when my dad died, and our family was going through some problems, the dad,an elder in the hall, was the only one that went out of his way to take me under his wing and treat me like his daughter.
really nice guy.. anyone have any good experiences?.
When my parents were sick (they died within a year of eachother) There were constant trips to the hospital, and one crisis after another. My daughter was an infant at the time...and I am an only child. My parents congregation helped sooooo much. They came and cleaned...took care of my daughter...took shifts sitting with my dad or my mom in the hospital...as I could only be with one at a time. Some of the brothers would come and bathe my father when he was at home...and they took turns taking him for dialysis...staying with him the whole time. It was amazing. My parents were well loved. Sadly, I have never seen anything like this since....That was in the late 70s...
Coffee
at least i think it might be a ghost .
here is the story: hub and i went to bowness on windermere for a holiday last week.
we had a great time.
Hi Sirona,
I tend to be very skeptical whenever the "ghost" is seen in or near glass. Sometimes images can be created just by reflections or imperfections in the glass.
For example, a few years ago, a few miles from here people flocked to a building to see the supposed image of the madonna. Turns out it was just a seal failure of the insulating glass. The silver oxide of the low-e coating started to tarnish because of exposure to oxygen and produced a milky coating between the glass. Convective loops contributed by creating a somewhat swirling pattern that produced the supposed image.
The other images that don't involve glass...just look like a double exposure to me....sorry.
Coffee (who works for a window manufacturer....can you tell?)
i wanted to ask you if you have ever studied about the "peg of shebna"?
the bible talks about 2 pegs.
the first one, shebna was the "stewart over the household of god".
The watchtower is not significant enough to be center stage in any prophecy. We care about the effects of involvement with the organization because it has effected our lives or the lives of those we love. Other than that, it's a "pimple on an elephant's behind" as my bf likes to say. Members of the wt think the world revolves around the organization. It doesn't.
Coffee
