i was baptized in 1968. last meeting 2010. i have to say i was never 100% in.
there were times i absolutely believed, but i never really gave it my all.
never liked service, assemblies, meetings.
At some points in my life i was 150% in and never asked why. After some major life changing events i started looking at things differently that’s when i started being just a number for the WTS.
I am still in, but definitely not 100% and don’t think i will bounce back to 100%.
who else thinks something is afoot with this?
is the gb deciding to go back to pre-1971 times with perhaps the cobe as the man in charge and the rest just ministerial servants.
so for this reason they want younger men in those postitions?
Our COBE is non English speaking and he was couples school graduate.
I think they only people who follow the big boss (CO) and do what they are asked. No more we have done this for 40 years and we are not changing how we have done it!
following from cedars blog.. based on what an elder told me, new congregations in uk are not eligible anymore for charitable status.
i am a member of such new congregation and they dont have charitable status.
i have searched on http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/ and couldnt find it.
I dont contribute at all.
But i was wondering if the above is true, then wondering what are the implications on the other congregations.
following from cedars blog.. based on what an elder told me, new congregations in uk are not eligible anymore for charitable status.
i am a member of such new congregation and they dont have charitable status.
i have searched on http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/ and couldnt find it.
Following from Cedars blog.
Based on what an elder told me, new congregations in UK are not eligible anymore for charitable status. I am a member of such new congregation and they don’t have charitable status. I have searched on http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/ and couldn’t find it. Other Congregations including foreign were there.
I was wondering if anyone knows or can shed more insight into this.
my mom has not been to any meetings or participated in field service since august 2013. she cannot walk due to all her medical conditions.
she is either in bed or sitting in a wheel chair.. our family hired a caretaker monday - friday to help her eat, take her to the bathroom and sit with her in case she needs anything.
in the evenings and weekends, we have family members take care of her.
It is all about numbers and looking good.
They are have asked me to hand in 1 study, 4 return visits and 4 hours for studying with my child - told him politely i am not doing it . Teaching my child (whatever that would be) is my responsibility and not statistics to inflate the numbers!
Didn’t take it nicely, so this elder every month reminds me about and recently sent me the KM reference on why is should do this.
i was wondering if anyone is aware of any recordings of the convention as of yet?
i know its relatively early, so i may just have to wait.
just curious if anyone had a copy yet.. thanks!.
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if you look closely at the picture on page 15 there seem to be several weird faces!
is this the art dept.
illustrating what jehovah really looks like?
What is the source of the picture? I doubt someone drew it.
we had our co visit and on his second talk he mentioned we need to be a pillar and support of the truth.
we can do this by accepting and working with all the changes, refinements and the speed of jehovahs organisation moving forward.. he listed the refinements and changes that occurred in the last couple of years:.
1- study edition of wt - allows the society to use more meaty articles and not worry about non jws understanding them.. 2- public edition of wt and awake.
WTS/GB is run as a corporate. Managers should be young but it does not matter for the Board!
something i ponder about now and again.
i don't shave that much, maybe twice a week so it's not even a big deal, but i saw someone at the health club using an electric shaver and that got me pondering all over again.. .
i've been using mach iii recently and fairly happy with that.
I used to shave using Braun electric shavers. I also used to do it twice a week. found out that wet shaving is quicker and better. The electric one gets hot on the skin and starts irritating.
The downside of wet shaving you don’t get the smooth fell of electric ones!
more questions from an uninformed ubm: do co visits all happen at the same time each year?
is now co visit season?
what does this mean in terms of harrassing inactive memebers to come to meetings?
Unfortunately, it will take her sometime. The CO visit is like a motivational speaker seminar. Will get you all pumped up and sets targets and show you what great things you are missing and privately will ask elders to link a pioneer with your wife to help her out in ministry - in addition to love bombing.
This is purely mind control and if she is not careful she will get dragged back in.
Although i am still active (learned how not to listen), since i stopped caring what happens and never get bothered what others say, we stopped fighting at home and relationship is much better. Wife is slightly dedicated but she is noticing the better person!
