he sold his bicycle.
malachi, an elder who lives in burundi, earned his living by farming and by transporting loads on his bicycle.
in order to support their kingdom hall construction project, malachi decided to be at the construction site every day.
Malachi is one smart guy. He figured out that with the skills he could learn on the construction job he'd be able to make a big step forward in life, so he figured out what it would take to care for his family in his absence, figured out how much of a bribe it would take to get himself a spot on the construction crew, and went for it.
Good going Malachi!
in the u.s. there are fewer venues this year, but they will be held in larger facilities.
as long as i can remember my family travelled no more than 2 hours to attend and in the last few years the dc was local (within a few minutes travel).
this year my family is driving 6 hours to a major u.s. city.
...doubling up on families in hotel rooms...
What??? They don't even want people getting too close out in service and now they want publishers to share a bedroom???
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/15/what-is-graphene-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-a-material-that-could-be-the-next-silicon/.
suppose someone invented a new substance that seems to come straight out of a science fiction novel - a sort of saran wrap that is 300 times stronger than steel.
suppose they thought up new and astounding uses for it seemingly every month in field after field.. it could change nearly everything and few people are noticing.... metatron.
few people are noticing...
Well, aren't you special!
need to put it in writing.
i think of it every day.
i know so many of us have gone through this, but it sure hurts.
When someone, even close a close family member, won't have anything to do with you, don't look at it as a hardship, rather as a relief for you.
You may love that person but if they're willing to turn against you then it's a good thing that there will be less of a relationship.
If and when the time comes that the person has a change in outlook, then you can cautiously reunite, if you decide that's what you want.
You may find that time away lets you see things from a differrent perspective, and that the person you care so much about wasn't really heart to heart with you even before the separation.
From life experience,
AB
you guessed it.... .
http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=201304&output=html&pub=g&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.
cedars.
sd-7 wrote:
If you were coming down the same street every day and got beat up by someone, even if they didn't leave any marks, you might decide, if you could, to just take a different route home, or maybe call the cops, or something else rational. But you come home and get beat every day
Isn't this a description of bullying? Of the interaction between bullies and their victims?
Is the implication here that WT/JW's sets up its adherents to submit to bullying without recourse?
i was in the truth for two years and an elder approached me and said i couldn't get anymore literature until he spoke to me about something so six weeks went by and then i confronted him aa to when that meeting would be for i had a study that was waiting for her bt book.
he said he wasn't finished gathering his information but that it would be soon so i waited.
and i waited.
FYI on the cost of producing a book...it's miniscule. Several years ago I worked for an educational book publisher; you know, the ones who put out those heavy, thick college textbooks that cost upwards of $150. Cost to print? $.51. Fifty one cents USD. When a mistake was made and a wrong or damaged book shipped out, the company didn't even want it returned because the postage was far more than the raw cost of the book!
That was a publishing company that paid wages and benefits. WTBTS doesn't even have those expenses, so why should they browbeat the congregation into making budget-breaking donations for literature?
I do remember that WT sent out a letter saying that orders for deluxe Bibles and premium publications such as the Insight books and bound volumes went up when the pricing arrangement changed, and that donations had gone down. Their solution? Withhold extra literature from the congregations until contributions matched the level of literature ordered. That was in 1991 or 1992. I remember it because I was approached and told that my literature orders were not going to be filled until my contributions increased. I was stunned, because I contributed $100 at a time. The elders claimed that no such contributions were ever made in that KH. I didn't know what to think or say back then but now I wonder if the person emptying the contribution box was pocketing the money.
When I figured out TTATT I threw away the literature...so the whole thing was an exercise in futility anyway.
i hated peas.
my mom would say, "the kids in china are starving.
eat your peas.
"Eat it or wear it!"
I had the healthiest hair in the family!
hello, lately in our local newspaper i've noticed a weekly column that is written by a current elder.
when i left 6 years ago he was the po.
and for some added background info , if he saw someone who was df'ed or "spiritually weak" he would go out of his way, and do his best to avoid them.
Methinks the writer wants to prove that he could write a weekly column. (I'd read it!)
Forbearance is a word that sums up the poem.
there is much frustration from jws who attended other kingdom halls because the jws were not friendly and actually smug!
social experiments on jw good manners and the "love that identifies the true christians" did you find it?.
it does not exist because they do not love each other unless they are authorized to from the wts..
The worst thing I ever saw was in Burbank, California. For some unfathomable reason I decided to attend a meeting there, walked in early, and the first people I saw were a Gilead couple, home on vacation from their assignment on another continent. I had known them years before they were even married; never expected to see them in CA.
There were about 30 people already in the KH, talking in their little groups. No one even noticed that I had come in, much less greeted me. Worse, the wife of the Gilead couple (a really lovely young woman, always liked her!) was perched on the armrest of an aisle seat completely across the Hall from the locals...alone! No one paid a bit of attention to her! The husband, who had family in that congregation, was likewise alone, standing at the back of the hall.
Of course I went up to the sister immediately and her face lit up when she saw me. She brought me over to her husband and he was glad to see me as well because no one was talking to him either! Remember, these were Gileadites, and wonderful people as well, visiting their "home" congregation!
The sister and I talked right up to the minute the meeting started, and then we sat together. Not a soul in the Hall had spoken to either one of us. Her husband gave a little pep talk during the Service Meeting which was greeted with a yawn.
I didn't stick around too long after the meeting, but during the time that I was there, no one approached me or them, not one single soul.
I am still shocked and this happened a good ten years ago.
