do cos (and dos) have a cushy life in comparison with other jws, or others in fulltime service?.
it could be said that they do, since they have an apartment provided for them, meals out, green handshakes, and invites to social gatherings.
it could also be said that they do not, since they may have to live in a different house every week, accept whatever food they're given, and they have a lot more meetings than the average jw.. .
Circuit overseers wives are renowned for being 'delicate'. I know probably about 12 COWs, and only 2 are healthy mentally and physically - in my opinion.
I think it's a horrible life. No permenant home. 'Ministry' being the focus of your life. Having to listen to your husband give the three same talks about 20 times each. - Can you imagine the brain numbing, soul crushing boredom?
its the co visit in my parents cong this week.
i saw them early this morning just as they were getting ready to go out in field service and my mother said ''we really should have gotten a hair cut before this visit'' .
mum was dolled up to the nines to go out on service.
I find lately though that people aren't willing or able to have the CO and COW stay with them for the visit.
there may not be any specific plan to end the "preaching work" but that doesn't mean that things can't evolve into such an outcome.
indeed, i now wonder if such a thing is probable!.
first, if (and it's a very big if) various nations develop case law that includes liability for volunteers, this will put the watchtower in a bind.
If there was another busy work that would benefit the society more, then the preaching would be simplified.
Simplified in the society's meaning = abolished
by "shadow elder".
before i express my opinion to the readers and contributors to this website (www.ex-jw.com), i would like to explain who i am and to present my bona fides as someone qualified to comment on this website and jehovah's witnesses in general.. first of all, i am an active jehovah's witness living just outside of new york city.
being a large metropolis, new york has many kingdom halls located within the city and several more in surrounding boroughs, counties, and suburbs.
Yep, it sounds like he is where quite a few of us were when we started doubting thinking.
It also sounds like he is annoyed with everyone: witnesses who can't argue or write coherently, the governing body for overstepping their authoritah, and snarky apostates who he finds 'not funny'.
I wonder if he'll realise he's just unhappy with his own situation.
EDIT - Also Agree with James Woods. It sounds like the Elder thinks he has some unique insights. Aw bless
i told my son that the society is reducing the size of their public edition from 32 pages to 16 pages.
he asked if they will now call it "half awake!".
of course, it could be "half asleep!
It's cut in half, surely it should be the AWA! magazine, along with the new reduced Watchtower (WA?)
Good morning, nice to find you at home, we're just offering the new WAAWA magazines.
Makes as much sense as anything else.
i've published part one of a three part series about the menlo park kh scandal.
http://ex-jw.com/menlo-park-elder-tells-all-1.
this has been a tough one for me.. the original federal case was dismissed in january.
"It's hard to imagine, but some of the GB members and Branch officers (worldwide) see just about everyone under CO level to be suspect. "
LOL, looks like Ted Jarez's boy learned well from their master!
heard a new rumor that:.
the borg is going to phase out big district assemblies - so they can fit 'em in assembly halls.. they will reduce the size of circuits.
they will synchronize c.o.
I wonder if they've considered going for mid-week district conventions. It would be unpopular, but hey it's only 3 days a year right? Surely the rank and file can be guilted into showing appreciation for spirtual things mid week, once a year right?
Here the society charges circuits about £3/4k per day to use an assembly hall at the weekend. If they could use it all week long there would be a huge uptick in profitability.
As soon as the district conventions become loss making they'll be rationalised / simplifed / abolished.
hey, i left when i was 19 about 21 years ago over evolution.
dad encouraged me to look up the references in _life: how did it get here?
by creation or evolution?_.
Well, clearly, he has been very busy: directing the society how to tack into a storm, setting up then closing down Gilead, starting various magazines and then simplifying them, setting up arrangements for food at assemblies and then simplifying it, explaining, re-explaining and explaining again exactly what he meant by 'generation' - evidently the great teacher has lost some teaching skills or the governing body has been a bit slow on the uptake...
forgive me for creating this thread but i believe there are aspects of watchtower downsizing that have not been fully understood or 'fleshed out'.. for example: you have a publishing company whose main source of revenues are book and magazine production and sales.
their international presence is supported by the profits they make on these.
so far, so good.... overtime, their products fail to sell.
McDonalds is a real estate company with a sideline in burgers.
The WBT Society is a real estate company with a sideline in religion.
If suddenly McNuggets stop being profitable, McDs would end that line. The Watchtower and Awake have become unprofitable so the society is cutting production. Unfortunately they cant stop production because they believe they are a religion first.
song 92 "preach the word" has got to be the most sickening song in the new song book.
we have had two years to reflect and get used to the new songs so the first flush of outrage and disgust is past.. now those of us who are still stuck in have to stand and mouth these travesties of an excuse for music.
i love singing and can even enjoy singing stuff i don't have much time for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vPc070FWgE
Ugh, preach the word with disordered syntax "though preaching may out of season seem..."
