i would get home from work,eat dinner,shower and put on jeans,a shirt and gym shoes to the book study.
then,one day a letter was read where men would need to wear a suit and tie and the woman would have to wear dresses.
it was stated in a letter that the change was due to, '' giving a better witness to anyone who would watch us walking into our local congregation or a neighbor's house.''.
UK - large town with half a dozen congregations.
I attended book study from 60's until it ended.
Brothers always wore a tie and never jeans.
Hot summer (UK - 25 degrees C and above) dress shirt, tie, meeting trousers.
Cold winter (UK zero and below) suit or sports jacket, sometimes a sweater. Always a tie.
Sisters always had skirts or dresses.
Exceptions - snow on ground, unable to drive and so might walk in jeans, walking boots. Sisters too.
there has been many threads from various posters around the world about recent bethel layoffs.. so far i remember threads about:.
south africa.
united states.
why did the gb direct the expansion of printing facilities if their literature is already online?.
It is/was a "Vanity" project. The GB retirement home and lakeside villa.
i started a post to inquire about it, then my post disappeared.
will this one disappear too?
dd.
If your meetings are a Saturday it will likely be read later in the week at the service meeting. If a Sunday probably after the Watchtower. If you are USA.
i don't know if this is already posted so sorry people if it is.
cedars site has had a request to take down the leaked letter regarding changes to the theocratic ministry school and other issues.. the reason given by wt is that it is a "copyright" issue.
of course this validates the letters authenticity even more.. have a good day or night people.
Question:
If a DMCA notice is sent then can you "reasonably" be allowed a little time to A) see it and B) Act upon it?
E.g. It's sent on Oct 1st at 10.00 am. You don't open it until the next day Oct 2nd "because you're busy and asked your wife to open your emails" and because "you were on your way for a weekend break in an area with poor internet access for a couple of days" you couldn't take it down until you got back, sort of thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3mxy3t/circuit_overseers_giving_anti_royal_commission/.
@vidqun
It was certainly spectacular but in a spectacular "failure" kind of way.
attached to a letter of disgust.
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what would happen if the corporation got inundated with such letters or phone calls, would it add to the uneasiness of things at bethel?.
We could send these in from all over the world! One to your branch and one to USA.
"I am a Jehovah's Witness. Because of your disfellowshipping policy I have decided to remain in the congregation. I know all about your child abuse cover ups and the Royal Australian Commission and I am telling all my brothers and sisters about it.
Find attached (Fake zero dollar bill with Morris's head on it) a contribution to your pedophile defense fund to pay your lawyers and court costs to ensure you pay no money to victims.
By the way, if your Branch has been screwed over for the money and is cut back or closing please forward this to the Governing Body in Brooklyn.
Warmest Love
Ted Jaracz (or other much loved GB member)"
here in france we received instruction to stand back from the cart.. so you can see "angels" witnessing with a cart by its own, no one around, and no one cares, i stayed a while, did my shopping, and half an hour later the "poor angel" was still there on his own.... i guess wherever is the publisher, he s hard working counting his hours..
And if god doesn't want anyone to die then he should have sorted out it long ago. Every year that goes by and earth's population increases at about 1000 X the amount jw's increase.
That's more dying every day god holds off the big A.
does anyone know if this new freeze on all construction projects includes the new headquarters being built in warwick?.
if it does apply to it, then this really makes no sense whatsoever.
the society is poised to make hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps even a billion) by selling the properties they currently occupy in brooklyn.
when the gb cuts loose 1600 volunteers, what makes them think they can continue telling them how they will spend their time?
i've read on many of these threads that the 1600 will be reassigned.
what, are they still under some sort of contract?.
In my area in the UK I know for certain of two bethelite couples and two single brothers - all the men being MS or elders who chose to leave on their own accord within the last year. There was no scandal and they have all retained their titles.
One couple (elder and pio) and one MS have remained as regular pioneers and found jobs - the MS tells me he couldn't cope "with all the politics" and has got himself an office job working as a computer network administrator.
The other elder single brother has privately told me "the place (bethel) was driving me crazy" and he has left to go self employed as a tradesman but is still an elder.
The other couple - he is still an elder and he and his wife aren't pioneering - have set themselves up with a small catering business - are still solid jw's but they also said "bethel isn't the place we joined" and they had both been there over ten years each. "We're in our early 40's and we need to earn a living." He said to me.
So these guys and gals left before this latest set of cuts and they tell me their friends in bethel they have kept contact with are panicking like crazy over the latest announcement.
