few people outside of publishers will ever read a jw yearbook,.
so the society is able to be more honest about their true feelings.
as published in them.. a case in point: the latest yearbook and what it says about 9-11.. here's some quotes:.
From my recent convention notes:
70 people were helped and given whatever they needed as they came across the Brooklyn Bridge. In the days afterward all kinds of goods were supplied to Ground 0 and as you know several of the Firefighters who died were Jehovah's Witnesses.
(Strange-this was the first I heard about non-JW's being helped and materials being donated.)
imho, definitely not!
we are the chappies who keep the congregations clean!
take the un debacle.
Re: Englishman
Yes I agree with you. In addition to the examples you noted consider the 12/02 KM. There is an article entitled, "Do You Contribute To An Accurate Report?" This article encourages meticulous counting of field service time. I feel that its a direct reaction to all of the posts made concerning what a malaise this counting of time has really turned into.
a tremendous push has been made to help the inactive in our cong.
there is now an official list assigned to each book-study conductor which they must follow up on.
to me the obvious intent is to jump start the inactive or to label them as bad apples.
A tremendous push has been made to help the inactive in our cong. There is now an official list assigned to each book-study conductor which they must follow up on. To me the obvious intent is to jump start the inactive or to label them as bad apples. More and more of these are reporting 1 hour per-month just to keep the elders at bay. I also notice the same thing happening with irregular publishers. At the end of each month all the Book Study Conductors make a concerted push to get everyone to report their time, if anyone fails to turn in time the book study conductor is questioned and pressured. Its amazing how many 1-3 hour per-month publishers we now have. That coupled with the new 15 minute publishers has resulted in a big increase in our congregation's publisher count. No wonder there was a 3% increase reported for the United States for the past service year. As stated before, this entire method of reporting hourly statistics has proved to be very dubious and coerced. When visited, many of the inactive mention ill health, hard times, depression, etc. They politely listen and give the brush off. This tends to confuse the blood-hounds and effectively loses the whole thing in the middle.
jehovah-god is going to destroy ,annihilate all the wicked.
that includes us, people!
6,000,000,000 people.
Yes, I do believe in a Creator. The arguments presented concerning how we go here by chance to me are not plausible. I do not at all believe that God will destroy all who are not affiliated with Jehovah's Witnesses as I know far too many "Wordly" people who are honarable, caring, and kind. By contrast I know too many Jehovah's Witnesses who aren't. As to just who God is and who he chooses to include we all including myself have alot to learn.
here are some choice phrases quoted from the letter (dated oct. 28) sent to congregations about changes in printing:.
"saved us millions of dollars" , "additional savings" , "consolidated savings of money.
and manpower", "less personel and more savings".
Dear Met: What you said about the possibility of being steered to an outside firm to purchase bound volumes and CDs seems to be a very real possibility. A WBTS Representative recently told us that he can't remember the last congregation he was in whose contributions were equivalent to the literature received, and this is at the prices given 11 years ago prior to the voluntary donation arrangement! He added that "We're not getting free subscriptions anymore and maybe that's the reason." He then proceeded to comment about how best to use our material resources and ended it by saying, "But the Society will never beg for money."
during a recent talk our district overseer made this statement:.
"for some lying becomes habitual, for others its coerced.
very very few individuals are truthful under any circumstances.
Re: Mulan
This is an exact word for word quote! That's what's scary!
during a recent talk our district overseer made this statement:.
"for some lying becomes habitual, for others its coerced.
very very few individuals are truthful under any circumstances.
During a recent talk our District Overseer made this statement:
"For some lying becomes habitual, for others its coerced. Very very few individuals are truthful under any circumstances. As Jehovah's people we are always truthful, we don't lie under any circumstances especially toward those who are entitled to know the truth."
moral reform of the organization is nearly impossible because of the stubborn,.
and cold hearted men who wield power.
pleading, protesting, and threatening have.
I think there's an entire faction of elders and brothers in position who have very serious doubts such as questioning the blood isue, certain prophetic dates, the political heirarchy, etc. Quite a few believe the Society goes beyond the things written. The organization at present is stagnating because of this. Many are going through the motions, something like a charade.
witness teenagers are subjected to unrealistic standards and demands.
cut off from family association by watchtower extremism, at a time when guidance is.
sorely needed.. such young people are frequently set on a course of personal disaster because of.
The policy of encouraging children (teenagers) to be baptized is one in which a young person is made to feel forced in order to be socially accepted within the Witness frame work. A 15 year old is un-baptized and is asked questions like, "Why Not?" "Haven't you made the truth your own yet?" "There must be something wrong with you, can I help?" "Look at all your friends-this one was baptized at age 11, this one at age 13, and your best friend so and so was baptized at age 12, so what's wrong with you?"
Here he's never been on his own, has up to this point lived a sheltered existence, for the most part only knows what he's been taught by his parents and is somehow made to feel pressured into this critical, binding decision. At the assemblies most who are being baptized are children Unfortunately this has alot to do with unhealthy types of pressure.
it's that time again!
time for the watchtower to beg for contributions!.
the nov. 1 wt has the usual article with a great big grey box covering two pages.
The scriptures dealing with the Israelites giving a tenth have been referred to quite a bit lately by the WBTS. Although this probably won't be made into a hard fast rule these scriptures dealing with tithing have definitely been used to apply more pressure to contribute. What's interesting is that when Moses needed money for the Tabernacle and when Solomon needed contributions for the Temple they never had to resort to such disturbing tactics-there was more than enough given.
