stillajwexelder - so true.
Often at elders meetings I would comment on certain sisters and say "if they were men, they would be elders". The old crones just never got the point.
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Brooklyn Says they Need 40,000 qualified Brotheres
by drew sagan ini just mentioned this in another post but thought i would start a new thread about it.
my wife reminded me a few days ago that the bethel speaker at our convention stated that "the organization is in need of more than 40,000 qualified brothers to take the lead".
this basically means that brooklyn is saying that every congregation in the world is down 1 - 1.5 qualified brothers(?
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The clue is in the question - cell.
Let's not get to thinking we are dealing with independant living creatures here who are sacrificed in the name of science. They are simply cells.
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Mickey Spillane - JW Mystery Writer has Died
by fjtoth inassociated press and fox news:.
the writer, who became a jehovah's witness in 1951 and helped build the group's kingdom hall in murrells inlet, spent his time boating and fishing when he wasn't writing.
in the 1950s, he also worked as a circus performer, allowing himself to be shot out of a cannon and appearing in the circus film "ring of fear.".
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JW or not - he sounds a bit of a strange guy in an organization that cannot handle individualism.
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CO Meeting w/Elders ("Lazy elders", Tattoos, Auto accidents)
by doinmypart ina few points from the 2006 biannual c.o.
meeting w/elders & ms. the theme was "take a personal interest in others"...phil 2:4,5. shepherding work.
we have lives in our hands.
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It's the same old rubbish again. My conclusion is that they care about no one but themselves.
One time sincere elder and person dedicated to God - not an organization
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Stick in here mate.
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Kerry Louderback-Wood on today's BBC 'Sunday Programme'
by AnnOMaly insomebody gave me the heads up on this.. if anyone can find a way of recording it before it disappears ...?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/sunday/ select 'listen to the current programme in full' option, and the excerpt begins approx 10.37 into the stream.. or.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/realmedia/sunday/sundayauto.ram.
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AuldSoul - I loved how the WTS official spokespersons declined to comment - Yes, very interesting as to why they declined to comment. It always smacks they have something to hid.
I have just re-read the Aug 2006 Awake - far from clarifying the situation, it appears to me that this has only added more confusion.
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PO said automation and declining contributions reason for Bethel layoffs
by truthseeker inlast week at the meeting, the po, who has very close connections to bethel, said that he never thought he would see the day that bethelites were being sent home.
he said that the biggest two reasons he thought bethel were cutting back, was automation and a massive decline in contributions.
looks like you're right metatron about the contribution aspect being their achilles heel.
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The WTB&TS is, as its name suggests, a publishing organization.
All organizations today are under pressure to reduce costs. And so surely the WTB&TS is the same. With modern type setting techniques, publications like the Watchtower can be translated and electronically typeset in one location and then transferred via the internet to remote locations and printed off in relatively small runs and distributed locally. There are dozens of other ways they can save costs - afterall, wit free labor, they have been a fairly wasteful organization.
I am not surprised that they can make savings.
The issue is about how they go about it and how they handle teir people.
If they were to say we are going to save the equivalent of 1,000 manual bethel workers over the next couple years but re-invest in people trained to provide basic health care in the third world, people who will spearhead poverty and deprivation in inner cities in the developed world, etc. then I could buy into that. -
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Will there be a time when NO ONE will be able to become a JW anymore?
by JH in.
the witnesses always said that at some point in time, it will be too late to join, the doors will be closed.. do you believe that will happen, or is it just to scare the witnesses?
and what would trigger the watchtower to decide, it's too late?
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Sure, that is what THEY would like you to think. One of the features of the control that the Society has over the rank and file is the fear of being cast outside of the congregation. The idea that a time might come when people are barred from the congregation because it is "too late" backs up this idea.
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Has being a Jehova's witness totally shattered your faith?
by Silvia Plath injust because the watchtower society is wrong doesn't mean that there is no god, nor does it mean there is a god.
it would interesting to now how former members have adjusted thier cosmology, or whether they are now atheists and why.
i personally see religion as a more personal matter, rather than belonging to an organization.
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No not shattered completely. However, after a lifetime in, religious life on the outside has been hard. I am still seeking to fine a new spiritual home, whether that been in Christianity, Budhism, Hinduism or nothing. Not sure yet.
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Will your congregation exist in 50 years?
by truthseeker infifty years is a long time.. do you think your congregation that you did/are associating with will exist then?.
the probability may exist that for congs.
of elderly publishers, they will either have to merge or disband.
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I once tried to work out the average age of the publishers in our congregation (so the figure does not include children who are not unbaptised publishers). At the time, (about 5 years ago) I estimated that the average age was late 40s. Now it will be mid 50s - as very few youngs come along and the remaining ones age.
I think the trend will continue. JWs will become like many other mainstream churches where the main support are from older people, typically pensioners.
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