i'm just curious if any body knows or can give an example of a kingdom hall that needed renovating/repairing after the kh bank accounts were stripped.
People may not leave over these kinds of things, but they don't forget either. They will vote with their pocketbooks and the Watchtower will eventually run out of income streams to tap into, you cannot get blood out of a turnip.
The more desperate the Watchtower gets and the more harsh the shake down becomes, the more people will be turned off and deaf to the demands. I stopped contributing years before I left, I am sure other will do the same.
disputes between residents of resumed property in china, often become dramatic, as in these two cases.. .
these problems are not unique to china, but can arise in any society when the community (government) wants to use the land on which a house stands for somethings different (e.g.
a new school, roads, railways, etc).
We had a weird situation in our little town. The city used state redevelopment funds to start building a joint retail/low income rental property. The property was to be managed by a company previously owned by a city manager. The whole deal fell apart when the City manager got sick. An interim city manager realized the former city manager never sold the business, it was supposedly owned by his daughters, who were in college, but he was running it and gave himself a sweetheart deal. Then the recession hit, the state redevelopment money dried up and the City didn't have the money to complete it. The building was finally sold at a considerable loss, to a developer, but they then realized they had never secured egress rights from the adjacent home owners association, which they needed to complete the sale. The neighbor hoa was still upset the project had gone from two to three stories, dwarfing the adjacent homes, with no buy in from them and simply refused to grant right of way. Eventually the city pursued eminent domain and five years later the property is finally being finished.
according to a jw contact, one of the speakers at the regional conventiontm stated that "for evolution to be true, two of the same kind would have had to evolve at the same time; one would have to be male and the other would have to be female, and then they would have to find each other".
apparently the crowd had a good laugh over how evolutionists overlook such a simple "fact".. i mentioned that bacteria and viruses use asexual reproduction, and that many sea creatures / fish, etc.
are hermaphrodite and do not require a sexual partner to produce offspring.. oddly enough, the conversation stopped there.
This is similar to the argument they make about the eyeball, that half an eyeball is useless, so how could eyes have evolved? It's a straw man argument, saying evolution teaches eyes evolved as they are in humans and all at once then calling it impossible, so then everyone nods their head and think how much smarter they are than silly scientists.
The reality is there are organisms that live in the ocean with a very crude version of an eye ball that simply sees the difference between light and dark. This gives them an advantage over organisms with no sight as they can see that a predator is approaching. From that point on anything that improved sight was an advantage to survival and would get passed on.
Sexual reproduction is no different. Early versions of sexual reproduction was very simple, but gave an advantage because mixing DNA was an advantage over non sexual reproduction. It gradually become more complex as organisms became more complex.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/serena-williams-secret-weapon-jehovah-god_55a06ed9e4b0ecec71bc445b?.
a huffington post link to an article where serena williams 'secret weapon' is you know who..... interesting read .
Interesting article about Serena and her faith in the Washington Post. I can't copy it, but it said that her faith is at odds with her profession and that she was chastised by the elders for supposedly threatening a line judge who disqualified her.
Yet she says her faith is very important to her. It's a contradiction.
according to a jw contact, one of the speakers at the regional conventiontm stated that "for evolution to be true, two of the same kind would have had to evolve at the same time; one would have to be male and the other would have to be female, and then they would have to find each other".
apparently the crowd had a good laugh over how evolutionists overlook such a simple "fact".. i mentioned that bacteria and viruses use asexual reproduction, and that many sea creatures / fish, etc.
are hermaphrodite and do not require a sexual partner to produce offspring.. oddly enough, the conversation stopped there.
Although bacteria simply multiply by dividing into two, they also often exchange genetic material, usually by releasing small fragments called plasmids which can be absorbed by nearby bacteria. In this way, beneficial mutations are shared. This might arguably be considered to be the earliest form of sex.
After the appearance of plants and animals in the oceans around 600 million years ago, the only practical way for these new multi-celled sea-creatures to reproduce was by releasing seeds or eggs, whose cells would then begin dividing, sticking together, and changing each time they divided, until finally forming a new adult.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/serena-williams-secret-weapon-jehovah-god_55a06ed9e4b0ecec71bc445b?.
a huffington post link to an article where serena williams 'secret weapon' is you know who..... interesting read .
It's hilarious that they thank Jehovah for their victories while they very obviously live a lifestyle completely opposite to what the Jehovah's Witnesses believe. They either have no real knowledge of what they teach or just don't care.
It must drive the boys in brooklyn crazy, as they can't disfellowship them and if they say anything negative about them it would make them look bad in the media. If tight pants tony hates yoga pants the outfits these two wear probably give him a heart attack.
i hope everyone is having a good saturday.
i've visited this many times in the past month or so, joined yesterday and finally got the nerve to post!
needless to say, i'm super nervous, being new to this whole experience.
Welcome, so glad you came over to the dark side, lol.
I am glad you gave into your desire to research. Truth will always hold up to scrutiny, so any organization that discourages that has something to hide.
I look forward to hearing your story.
our youngest son and his wife (matt and star) welcomed a baby boy yesterday at 7:04 p.m. ivan tomas, 7 lbs.
11 oz., 20 1/4" long.
he is their second child.
i commented on this on another thread- but i believe this has enough importance to create a thread about this situation in and of itself.
at the current district convention as you know the wt society released a " sophie & caleb " video allegedly warning parents about the dangers of child abuse.
they don't really use the words " child abuse " in the video - but just say if " someone tries to touch you in a manner you aren't comfortable with " and portray it as a cartoon !
It's really counter productive to show the molester as being some scary monsterish thing because the reality is most molesters look quite ordinary and may seem quite nice, which is how they get away with it. People are in a state of denial, they just can't believe someone they know and like could do such horrible things, that's why children are often not believed, people tend to go with their gut, which is telling them it couldn't be true.
Another reason elders are ill equipped to deal with such things.
just recently i've been thinking about trying to talk about ttatt to my father.
i'm just trying to find an opportunity.
i know he will never leave it - or i would be surprised if he did.
Ask questions. Most JWs will become defensive if confronted with anything not pro Watchtower, but if you are just asking questions it doesn't seem as confrontational and you may get your point across without getting called on it. It's hard to do and may depend on your father and your relationship with him and how well you can say things with a straight face.
You could say you don't understand the overlapping generation thing and ask him to explain it.
You could say you saw a news report about Candace Conti and wondered if he knows anything about it.
