anyone on here an ex accounts servant?
i’d be interested in a projection of what percentage of contributions come from elderly jw’s.
i.e, money that will be diminishing over next 5 or 10 years as these ones pass on.. i estimate that in one of my previous congs 50% of the contribution totals of approximately £400 each month were being made by the over 70’s demographic.. within the other 50% were pioneers and low paid workers who put in regular but small amounts.. i guess when the accountants ring the alarm bells you start cutting the biggest costs; full time servants, buildings, printed literature.
I am not so sure. The young ones get older and then they start contributing.
There is also another phenomenon. I was an accountant and noticed the strange thing that when a «heavy» contributor moved out (like myself) or died, it didn’t affect the total contributions. Like someone else picked up the baton. Maybe it was a coincident for my old cong.
i would never want to see that happen but i’m surprised it has not occurred at this point.
there are many disgruntled people who have had bad experiences with the witnesses..
Security is expensive by money and man hours. It’s an excellent excuse for the Society to merge more congregations and sell surplus halls.
so, he received a letter that i am wondering if it is one of those open letters that are out there to denote time given.
it starts out with the name of the person sending it, then goes into the spiel...do you know our god's name?
when i was shown what it is, i kind of got upset.
Sorry, when I read EndOfMysteries' contrubution, I unintenionaly pushed the dislike button. I then tried to push again to remove the first, but it only got another "dislike". Then I tried to neutralize it with a push on Like, but then it just got several likes Anyway, I liked it very much I thought it was a automatic that didn't allow several clicks
with no guarantees as to performance, i'm going to attempt to regularly address in memoir form some of the issues that i think about as a born in that has faded.
i will try to do so on a (semi) regular basis.
like proust and his madelienes, i've noticed that certain experiences trigger memories about the cult that just won't go away.
And what is a "RN"?
april 17, 2016 to selected bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: arrangements for electronic donations to local congregations.
(attachment 1) 2016 04-18-e scong--arrangements for electronic donations to local congregations.
(attachment 2) credit card donation arrangement instructions.
please post your favorites too.
my favorite quotations:.
you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.
air baths are good for preventing colds.
what you do is strip naked mornings and evenings and then bob up and down for a while.
golden-age feb 1926 pg 310. color and physiognomy.....a man whose nose upturns can no more be expected to administer justice than a pug dog can be expected to act as a shepherd.. golden age jan 19 1921 pg.
air baths are good for preventing colds.
what you do is strip naked mornings and evenings and then bob up and down for a while.
golden-age feb 1926 pg 310. color and physiognomy.....a man whose nose upturns can no more be expected to administer justice than a pug dog can be expected to act as a shepherd.. golden age jan 19 1921 pg.
pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.
1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.
2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.
am i going nuts or am i just pissed off?
there are so many posters who use abbreviations in their posts and so many of us have been out for years.
the borg constantly changes everything from beliefs to organizational tactics, so those like me don't have a clue to what you are referring to.
