back in the late 80s i can remember my local cong.
pass around a paper that had a place for head of house hold name and how much they can afford to give every month for one year.
but i remember the elders said they needed to know what they can bank on to know what they can afford to borrow to remodel ect.
Many congregation members feather spat over this.
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Anna Marina I've never heard that one before?! What does it mean please?š
MBCI thought it was standard practice these days. Tithing by the back door so to speak....doesn't every Cong have to pledge what they can afford to donate "on a monthly basis or whatever" as ANTMO would say.
spillane, mickey spillane.
he pulled no punches and his pen was as fast as his gun.
after all, it took almost three whole weeks for mickey to type his first novel.
......any relation to David Spillane?
i have never heard of this but i doubt its never been done.
i sell some older jw books on etsy and have always been a bit afraid that some jws are buying them to destroy.
if you have heard of this let me know.
Immediately after I told the elder that I have (or had) some Rutherford books and read them, the elder angrily asked me where I obtained them.
This and many other similar experiences with angry JWs, including Randall's tale of the bonfire, leads me to believe that there are many witnesses fully acquainted with old literature. Yet they don't leave. Why? Position, prestige and business. Witnesses are not always witnesses because they wish to serve God and truth. A minority have other motives.
i have never heard of this but i doubt its never been done.
i sell some older jw books on etsy and have always been a bit afraid that some jws are buying them to destroy.
if you have heard of this let me know.
Just be careful with any particularly rare books, or notorious books ...such as the Watchtower with all the (now deceased) class of 1914, that '7shall not pass away'. Or the 1969 AWAKE! with the infamous "stay Alive 'till 75" announcement.
I think anything like that perhaps you should offer to collectors on here or Reddit, to Kimmy, Lloyd, Rick Fearon or Atlantis etc etc People you know are buying to preserve etc
any other fans of norm macdonald here?
i think this is the only time where i actually felt a celebrity death.
what a loss.
used to think he was an interesting guy until I heard him tell a story about how he had slept with his best friends wife while his friend was outside mowing the lawn. He figured as long as he could hear the lawn mower running he, would be safe.
I didn't like him as much after hearing that.
Pete I don't know if you're being serious!
I don't know this guy at all, but after watching him for just 5 mins I can tell that's one of his jokes!
i just washed all my summer quilts and put them away for the season.
i brought out the thicker and heavier winter quilts and put them on the beds.. i love patchwork quilts and have a couple of heirloom ones actually made out of the scraps of old family clothes.
my mom can point to a fabric and say," oh, that was a dress of mine when i was little," or, "that was my mother's apron.".
I'd love to see a photo of your quilts great teacher!
I've been thinking of making one each for my boys.
just a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission now recognizes that the sex hormone levels are a much more relevant factor in determining sex/gender for sport's competitions, than the sex chromosomes. In regards to that note the following from the article.
Fully agree. However this makes the case against even stronger.
The two major points in time humans receive those hormones are in the womb at around 9 weeks and then another "wash"āŗļøduring puberty.
Hence the salient point is whether you experienced a male puberty and this is what makes you male. All the faffing about in the world afterward is not going to mitigate the massive physical advantage such males have.
This includes those intersex "girls" whose genitals are unclear at birth, so are assigned female in developing countries, yet have (usually undescended) testes.
some news outlets are saying that biden is "prepping the battle field for an attack on american soil.
they have seen several hundred migrants armed, entering the united states and since there are thousands, the border patrol doesn't have the resources to confront them and stop them.
biden has blocked any news media from taking pictures or reporting this to the other states.. this, along with dividing the country with vaccine mandates, lockdowns, tearing down the economy, indoctrinating the young people that the united states is evil, a military general willing to tell the enemy before hand what the usa is about to do, and now considered a hero, trying to de-fund the police in all states.. what do you all think?.
a Military General willing to tell the enemy before hand what the USA is about to do, and now considered a hero
I'm absolutely gobsmacked about this incident. Isn't there an extremely heavy prison sentence for treason?
Orf to the glass 'ouse wiv 'im sarge!!!
when i was a kid we had a kh with a basement and this guy joe winestien lived in it.
he has passed away i believe.
he was about 24 and used to hang around the young boys.
N. B. Dog esq. Hmmm....was thinking same. Some progressive congregations over your way Mickš¤£
now, many years later, i remember the 1995 generation change, very well.. since early youth, hearing my father explaining in field service the 2520 years.
it was his main theme in the field.. with the change my doubts started.
with some jw friends we did not trust the organization anymore.
Slim So much so that one time it was āvindicationā described as the most important part of our message, and even that the purpose of Jesus coming to the earth was to vindicate Jehovahās name first and to save mankind second. I donāt think theyāve returned to going that far in the recent literature.
This made me hugely uncomfortable. In my gut it felt wrong.
