last year saw the elimination of the district overseer...and circuit overseers now must retire at 70. how long until the circuit overseer is no more?
of course, the role might still exist, they would simply not get paid.
they would have to care for their own expenses.
there is no reason a CO can't be an elder from a local congregation. I've seen this many times.
@PoN
That's what the HQ discussed with Spanish speaking Branch reps. A sort of City Overseer / Region Overseer arrangement. The info was leaked before everything had coalesced into the current situation with letting the DO's go and making the CO's have more responsibilities.
ive been reading all these posts about bethelites and special pioneers being kicked out in the street and being forced to get a job to provide for themselves..
and im trying to put myself in their situation and feel the emotions that must be going through their mind.
what if my wife and i both dropped out of school to pioneer and got married at 18. and what if we were very faithful in listening to everything the organization says.
I know what your going to say they aren't children,
but we are all children of God at least according to the Borg.
No, Sabin, actually the WT does not say that.
w87 3/15, p. 15, par. 17 - - “These with earthly prospects are declared righteous and enjoy peace with God even now, not as sons, but as‘friends of God,’ as was Abraham.”
w12 7/15, p. 28, par. 7 - - “Although Jehovah has declared his anointed ones righteous as sons and the other sheep righteous as friends on the basis of Christ’s ransom sacrifice…”
weird/odd question, but with our family fading, and our daughter in school how or should one approach teachers with this?
our child is a little too young to understand why we are fading, but it proves challenging in school as they have been, well brainwashed, to say i shouldn't do that etc... .
i don't like explaining anything to teachers about the fade, etc.
Teachers will keep in confidence something you've shared with them privately, just make sure you've also talked to the principal and they know you have done that. Breaking confidence is a big no-no.
Just explain yourself to them and they'll back you up in your decision to "normalize" your children's experience. If you have this talk with them you may just be able to open their eyes to the harmful effects of the wt cult.
But definitely talk to the principal first and let them know that any concerns you share with them about your situation are to be considered confidential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvagg49bpm.
Kkkkkkkkkkk.
i'm reaching out here, i've known ttatt for about 3-4 years now.
sadly when i first grasped it i had a total mental breakdown as i was a hard core firm to the core pioneer and 110% believer of my faith.!
now nearly 2years on after my breakdown i still have to attend to please my jw wife.
I'm in a very similar situation, went through the stages of grieving as I learned the TTATT. My wife is still very loyal to the WT, perhaps even more so as I drew away from taking an active part in meetings. I still go to Sunday talks, Assemblies and an occasional mid-week meeting, but I find it very hard to listen to the mind numbing nonsense, the only way I've found to manage is bring my kindle or the ipad and either search online or re-read portions of CoC and ISoCF by Ray Franz, and Jim Penton's superb JW history books, also other ex-jw books I can get on amazon.com
Keeping the peace at home is important to me. My wife is a kind and very compassionate person but the cult personality imposes the judgments and "corporate-ocratic" mindset of the WT religion. I've been in for 30 yrs. so mostly those I know and feel close to are either active JW's or ex-JW's. It's a tough situtation, but it's getting easier to deal with the one's still under the mind-control, as long as I steer the conversation towards non-JW topics.
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
Remember the leak that COs were going to be a thing of the past? (Fool me once.....)
Actually the leak was correct. The GB was looking into getting rid of DO's and CO's and discussing this with foreign Branches for input. They'd talked about using brothers from the specific circuit to visit local congregations as in a City Overseer arrangement. Part-time circuit overseers would report to the local Branches, help process appointments, give special talks, etc. all from his own home base and using his own transportation as visiting speakers do now.
The DO's have been let go but the CO's remain although the CO visits have been shortened and they've been given more responsibility for appointments.
The leak was just too soon during the process as they muddled their way through the "changes" that the JW's would need to go along with although not seeming logical from a "human" point of view. So... These changes were in the works, discussed with foreign Branch rep's but too raw when the leak went out.
for people who already are bedazzled by the current stream of information about watchtower / jw.org real estate planning, renovation and the emergency stop on the building programma called out, i found today that the renovation design of the (impressive!
) toledo buildings for the watchtower real estate staff, is designed by a state of the art designer.
http://www.hudsondesign.pro.
there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.
i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.
i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.
The dark side of the force powerful with that one is.
But overcome you will young Jedi John!
2015, september 21, boe/about october 4, letter.
.. re: letter dated october 4, 2015 .
click the green download button.. http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/doguca6.
it looks like sophia is starting to wake up,.... if this video does not embed, will someone more int he know please take the url and fix it in a post below.. thanks, .
njy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmfhkzm0fm4.
