Book underlining and question and answer meetings are left overs from the Bible Student movement days where every congregation was called a class and studied Russell's books. They are the trappings of what JW's think is "studying".
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Missing the point?! Is this what Jesus had in mind??
by Deltawave inis this what jesus had in mind?
to be a spiritual person you must:.
underline your books.
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outside consulting firm used for JW building site , to be complete in 2019.
by brandnew incrofton wins key role on jehovah's witnesses campus.
6 may 2015 | by yoosof farah.
engineer lands role on scheme that will predominantly be designed and constructed by volunteers.
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It's a big project but definitely not worth the amount of money grabbing from the collection of congregation bank accounts and the sale of many KH's, Circuit Assembly Halls, and the Brooklyn properties. Add to that the scam of forgiving loans but not forgetting a monthly contribution of equal or higher amount than the loan used to be. The letting go of so many older bethelites, CO's over 70 and all the DO's, whose medical insurance they no longer are responsible for.
This is a pricey project but there's way too much money left over in the bag, so they're planning for more. But more of what?
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G Losch: child baptised at 5, reg pioneer since!
by fifth.column inat the end of april, there was a zone visit in france, with tv broadcast in all kh.. g. losch told he received a letter from a girl, 10 years old, baptised at 5, reg pioneer since 4 years !
what a fine example, he said....... let s imagine the faces of the parents in the kh!
i was happy to see i was not the only one to find it crazy.. if you have a child, you know how mature he is at 5. how can a child preach 2.5hours/day after 7hours of school and homework to do??
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around these parts we have some high-hour home-schoolers which are often dropped off at the KH and put on a car-group many times, often during the summer, without a parent to accompany them. -
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Why doe New light tick me off???? Next 2 weeks WT Studies
by zophar inif you have been a jw for 20+ years you may remember that the wt went into great detail on different illustrations that jesus used and the "type/anti-type" ridiculous explanations.
remember the revelation book and how those obscure jw conventions of the past pictured big things in heaven and the opening of seals?
anyway, the wt lessons for the next two weeks do two big things for me.
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And to makes matters even worse if you point out that the WT suppositions and speculations prove they can't be trusted you get branded an "Apostate!"
Just daring to think about the obvious lack of confidence the GB inspires with their nonsensical explanations is also brazen enough reason to throw one aside as "mentally diseased" and get DF'ed!
As Oubliette continues to point out:
"It's a cult!"
What else could we expect from a cult?
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so back to thee days a week at the KH
by oppostate inso now with the saturday viewing of videos at the kh there's pressure to be at the kh to see the gb do their thing.
this week's thing of course is beg for more money.
also they are meeting to practice singing the new songs when no new videos are out.
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One one hand, around these parts, viewing the videos seems quite heavily promoted by the R&F to get together at the KH than the amount of times it has been encouraged on the broadcasts..
On the other hand the WT has more heavily promoted the "family worship" arrangement yet that doesn't seem to motivate as much interest.
Conclusion, it's easier and more enjoyable to go watch a "Theocratic" movie than prepare and conduct a family educational program that's often boring and conducted by the "Dad." Kids will sit down and watch a movie rather than sit through their parents attempts to conduct yet another boring meeting.
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so back to thee days a week at the KH
by oppostate inso now with the saturday viewing of videos at the kh there's pressure to be at the kh to see the gb do their thing.
this week's thing of course is beg for more money.
also they are meeting to practice singing the new songs when no new videos are out.
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So now with the Saturday viewing of videos at the KH there's pressure to be at the KH to see the GB do their thing. This week's thing of course is beg for more money.
Also they are meeting to practice singing the new songs when no new videos are out. There are some very excited publishers who don't seem to mind giving up entire weekends.
I've been invited several times to the Saturday get-togethers (which aren't called meetings, but that's what they end up being). I just claim to have gone to the video site and say allergies are bothering my raspy throat, which is true, but there's no way I'm spending anymore time at the KH each week, enough is enough, well actually any time spent there seems way too much wasted time!
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Specific Comments By R&F About May Broadcast
by freemindfade ini know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!
but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.
i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).
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after the May video we can conclude that Gov' Body (GB) stands synonymous with "Greedy Busterds"
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WT cash flow speculation
by campaign of hate inso it was reported that the wt made $60,000,000 in canada last year (?).
working on the assumption that this figure is from not only donations, but from property revenues and other ventures from the branch, we get a figure of $528 per publisher, per year.
the calculation: 60,000,000 / 113,617 (2014 av pubs) = $528 a year per publisher.
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The call for more money is something else not related to running the corporation. It has nothing to do with lawsuits. It's something outside the box of what we are assuming.
They've been claiming to want KH builds according to their new flat roofed design plans (as if that made sense in New England). But I've already heard about two Cong's not getting a new build. Instead they will get minimal renovations like adding a carport at the entrance and putting in wired smoke alarms instead of battery powered ones.
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It's a "lose / lose" situation!
by stuckinarut2 inso the org is on a big "beg for money" drive right?.
so either they are running out of money and will eventually cease to have as much influence, or, it is evidence of a lack of backing from "god", so they will eventually fade away?.
either way, it's a "lose / lose" situation for the org!.
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IMHO the GB is asking out of their greedy want not the Org's needs
They manufacture a perceived reason like loan forgiveness when clearly they've requested never ending payback to those loans. Bunch of greedy money grabbers that they are!
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Specific Comments By R&F About May Broadcast
by freemindfade ini know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!
but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.
i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).
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not a peep about contrib's
but one comment about how "animated" bro. Lett is.