bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.
it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.
Amazing how they can sing out of "both corners" of their mouths. "Worldly songs" and "Kingdom songs" together. 2 Cor 6 v 15 - Christ and Belial.
So the "High Standing" International Delegates, "Helpers", High Level HQ and Branch Big-Wigs all get to use "dedicated funds" for a party in the kingdom hall.
If I asked the elders in our hall to have congregation party in our kingdom hall for the congregation what do you think their reply would be?
i don't know how to put this up on the forum but if anyone goes to the bbc news website and clicks on wales/south east there is an interview with one of the victims of sewell who gave up her anonymity and who is decrying the cover up by elders she endured in cardiff wales.. this brave woman is interviewed for over two minutes - you can see all the watchtower bound volumes in her room.
it is dated july 3rd 2014.. i don't live in her area but typically this would have been on the local bbc news for south wales area including the capital, cardiff and so i reckon over half a million people might have seen the item broadcast.. if you can put it up on here please do.. .
I don't know how to put this up on the forum but if anyone goes to the BBC news website and clicks on Wales/South East there is an interview with one of the victims of Sewell who gave up her anonymity and who is decrying the cover up by elders she endured in Cardiff Wales.
This brave woman is interviewed for over two minutes - you can see all the Watchtower bound volumes in her room. It is dated July 3rd 2014.
I don't live in her area but typically this would have been on the local BBC news for South Wales area including the capital, Cardiff and so I reckon over half a million people might have seen the item broadcast.
If you can put it up on here please do.
my friend's daughter, who was baptized at 14, has decided to leave the witnesses.
she's in her early 20's.
she's stopped going to meeting a while ago and moved in with her father who is disfellowshipped.
If she was baptised as a minor she can claim her baptizm was invalid - if she has not been a regular pioneer since her baptism. She will need to be hardnosed about it, do it in writing and involve watchtower legal to do it.
the other night, the elder was getting us ready for our convention.
as i sat there, i was thinking, 'do you even listen to yourself?
' everything thing he said, said its going to suck.. bring a hat: its going to be sunny, prepared to get sunburned.. bring plenty of water: its going to be hot and sweaty.. parking is going to be bad: prepare to walk a mile to the site.. bring a fm radio: its going to be echoy inside.. .
@ The Searcher, who said/sang ... "Listen Obey and be Stressed"
Brilliant!
just heard from an elder.
he told me that there is another change to be announced in august.
he didn't know more about it.. any other info?.
Watchtower and Awake finally becoming one magazine?
New masthead -
The Watchtower: Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom - incorporating Awake, incorporating Golden Age incorporating articles about the amazing dung beetle and its relevance to the march of the world powers and the overlapping generation, did we say the generation that saw 1914 will not pass away? nope, not us! and by the way Watchtower library back to 1950 will be discontinued as it shows up all the false prophecies from freddy franz. Use the on line library - clean and post 2000 and far less embarrassing.
chronic fatigue syndrome refers to severe, continued tiredness that is not relieved by rest and is not directly caused by other medical conditions.. did you have many congregation members, particularly pioneers, that said they had " chronic fatigue syndrome" ?.
that's their "get-out-of-jail-free card.
" they were free to cancel anything at anytime and it was their legitimate reason for not doing anything that didn't involve field recruiting.
NHS website (UK) says 250,000 in the UK have CFS. So 1 in 250.
In my hall there are at least 4 self diagnosed/real diagnosed, so 1 in 15/20. Dozens more in the circuit.
A JW illness indeed.
Yet the majority all had "good days" when they needed to go on holiday or walk the dogs or go down the benefits office.
One woman got herself a scheduled list of help so that some dumb schmucks had a rota to cook her and her husband (another crazy) a meal every day. One sister with three kids faithfully turns up with something mid-afternoon to put in the oven for later. Said M.E. sufferer is stood on a stepladder cutting her garden hedges ... "It's one of my good days" she says.
Well get off your ass, cook a meal and tell the sister not to bother then!
Don't get me started.
this week is the "special week", co is back.. he phone called me this morning asking to meet together.. i replied "i don't refuse people who want talking to me, but my condition is that you must be alone, and we meet in public space.".
he agreed and we will meet tomorrow in a cafe.. .
this week he already met with my wife in the kh, and he told her "i believe your housband is apostate !!
It is very rare for a CO to meet up with a fader alone; they don't usually like to do their own dirty washing. 2nd witness or not he will undoubtedly ensure you are disfellowshipped if you do tell him how you feel.
Be careful out there!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614169/uk-blood-recycling-breakthrough-let-jehovahs-witnesses-major-surgery.html.
uk 'blood recycling' breakthrough will let jehovah's witnesses have major surgeryscientist created machine that recycles blood lost in operationswill allow jehovah's witnesses to have major surgery as rules out need for blood transfusions which their faith forbids gadget could save nhs millions by reducing demand for donated bloodby steven adams 26 april 2014 .
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It ain't the jw's they've made this procedure for ... it's the hoped for £10,000,000 annual saving for the NHS.
"Follow the money" doesn't just apply to the Watchtower ...
so proclaimed the brother that read the wt letter tonight that explained the new kingdom hall funding arrangement.. everyone in the hall claps .... well, like it was the last talk on the district convention.. he says 'what bank would wipe out a debt of $200,000 ???
only jehovah's organization!
isn't this wonderful !!!".
Now in USA and European cities the CO can sell cong A KH (own hall for years not sharing) and tell them to share with cong B and (maybe C)
Society make $100,000's. Cong A shares a hall with the KH of B (and maybe C)
Take a city with ten congs in 6 halls. They can make it nine congs in 4 halls, sell two.
Loadsamoney for Society/a few elders to spread about.
Elders can't say "it's our hall" so easily - after all "mother" really owns it now and the branch decides what is to be done with it.
shower room.
office.
games room.
That house at half a million pounds is nothing - a tiny house in West London costs that any day. Just one of the JW 4 bed bethel dormitory detached houses in Mill Hill would fetch over a million.
North Wales is stunning and the views are spectacular; but it rains there like it does in Ireland. The weather can be pretty miserable and the wind and rain will lash around that house much of the time. Sure it will be nice in summer some days but it will be unusual to top 75F and often a wet 60/65F at best.
From a business point of view they've got a lot of property for their money and it sits right in centre of the most Welsh-speaking part of Wales. I guess the big wigs will holiday up there on the pretext it's a "speshul vizzit" - being 250 miles from the UK branch "ice-box" will be nice.
Supporting the Welsh language is a waste of UK resources and as mentioned above if I lived there and had kids I would rather my child learned a major language instead.
