2014-06-09 adjusted approval and financing process to accelerate kingdom hall and assembly hall construction.
to all bodies of elders.
the congregation secretary should arrange for this letter to be retained in the congregation permanent file of policy letters.
Sounds like the New Kingdom Hall Time Share. YOU buy the place, then each year YOU pay a maintenance fee. Oh, by the way, Hurricane Ivan hit the island and the condo, I mean Kingdom Hall, needs repairs, YOU cough up more money, oh, and by the way, while on vacation, YOU get to help fix the place up.
Wait, was I talking about time shares or Kingdom Halls? I forgot.
Snakes (of the "shaking his head in disgust" Sheep Class)
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
The story is either fiction or a conglomeration of real stories. I was on a CA program once and asked to relate my experience about MTS.
During rehearsals, the CO keot trying to enhance (i.e., make $hit up.) what I said. I got him back. During the actual CA! I downplayed so much that it was dull. LOL.
A friend said to me "you never used the pronoun 'I.'" That's because it was not really MY experience.
I remember one SAD when the CO had to import a couple from another circuit to relate their experience because no one on either side of our circuit had an experience to match what the part called for. The sheeples ate it up.
My disillusionment was nearly complete. MTS opened the curtain on the Wizard of Oz...
I mean the GB.
Snakes..(of the not into making $hit up Sheep Class)
all classes, all questions, all anwers, all 9 subject!
all leaked for do in spanish!.
http://www.hildeydesa.blogspot.com/2014/06/escuela-de-entrenamiento-ministerial.html.
I went through the damn course in english in 02. Recently burned my notebooks. You are not missing anything. Pioneer school on steroids.
Snakes
i had a recent conversation with an elder from my mother's congregation.
he with another elder was at my mom's house.
my mother has all the bound volumes for both the awake and watchtower plus most of the older books.
Please rip the covers off the hardcovers and recycle instead of landfills.
WT should quit printing everything and go all digital. Issue WTFire tablets that the dubs can download everything. Then, when "New Light" expires and becomes "Old Light", WT can just sync their WT approved tablet and "update" to "New Light 17.4" and remove "Old Light 17.3."
Just a thought.
Snakes (Rich)
here's my experience in the last 15 minutes.
it's about 6 p.m and i'm home alone watching tv when someone knocks loudly on the door.
i open and there, like an apparation, stand two of j smith's disciples -smart looking , well dressed ( they used to wear black ties only a few years ago) clean cut.. i inform them that i'm an ex-j witness and they are quiet for a moment.
my friend's daughter, who was baptized at 14, has decided to leave the witnesses.
she's in her early 20's.
she's stopped going to meeting a while ago and moved in with her father who is disfellowshipped.
I put the word out that if my name was ever mentioned from the platform dfing me without stating the real reason (that jw/WT is a cult and i left) i would sue individual elders for slander and defamation of chsracter, and that WTBTS would not represent them in court, they would have to pay for it themselves.
Guess who hasn't bothered me? ANY elders.
I only care because it would break my 70 yr old jw mom's heart if i was officially DF.
Snakes ()
i knew this was coming but to actually see it was another thing.. i am a huge dave ramsey follower where he hates debt and charging on credit cards.
he totally feels everyone should be out of debt and pay cash only.
that everyone needs to do plastic plastic surgery to cut up their credit cards.
First time i seen cc machines was while a delegate to an International CONvention in Hamburg Germany back in 2006. That was probably one more thing to add to my growing list of concerns regarding the Organization. I was removed as an elder a few months later, and completely jumped ship summer of 07. Sooooo glad I dont have to deal with that anymore. I am with Dave Ramsey... nomore cc. I get mine paid off....no more. How about,that financial AND religious freedom?
hey!
long time since i have been here.
lots and lots of new posters.
Bump... i ran across dave ramsey recently. Despite my aversion to all things religious now that i am out of the JW cult, and even though ramsey is an Evangelical, i rather like his system. Wonder if the original posters stayed with dave ramsey system? And now he is streaming his radio show in HD video...
Snakes
http://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.
despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.
it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.
Marked
just wanted to say hi.
i understand how you may feel.
i remember lurking here years ago cause i didn't want to tell the elders on myself and have a judicial committee if i could figure a way out of it.
Hi cogac...long time no see. I have been out since 2007, but lurked here ss an elder....
So long ago
Snakes...typing poorly on a tablet
