new kindumb halls in a neighborhood near you.
notes and highlights from todays meeting.
opening statement about this meeting being a historic event, over 100k elders under the us branch together live from nyc..
Having seen a few congregation mergers/closures in the past few years I believe the wt has a master plan in place to screw/rob members of their money. They shift boundaries around and move people in and out of areas so that congregations are set up to fail. Then the Kingdom Hall is sold and money sent to headquarters.
Shortly there is a need for a new building and the locals are guilted into giving once again. Ive seen this happen more than once.
new kindumb halls in a neighborhood near you.
notes and highlights from todays meeting.
opening statement about this meeting being a historic event, over 100k elders under the us branch together live from nyc..
So it is business as usual. Sell off the residential style Kingdom Halls, pocket the money, and guilt the publishers into donating for the new commercial style buildings.
Lather, bend over, rinse, repeat
elders in wealthy lands may find it difficult to encourage baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to do more in the congregation.
ex- perienced elders in about 20 lands told us why they believe that some young brothers do not do more in the congregation.
most of them said that when some brothers were young, their parents did not encour- age them to set goals in jehovahs ser- vice.
Elders in wealthy lands may find it difficult to encourage baptized brothers in their 20’s or 30’s to do more in the congregation. Ex- perienced elders in about 20 lands told us why they believe that some young brothers do not do more in the congregation. Most of them said that when some brothers were young, their parents did not encour- age them to set goals in Jehovah’s ser- vice. And when some young brothers wanted to do more, their parents en- couraged them to set goals involving higher education or a career in the world! So service to God never came first in their lives.—Matthew 10:24.
interesting court case whereby the entire will was declared void because the father was racist.. would that not also apply to jw's who disinherit their non-jw family?.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/29/judge-rejects-ontario-mans-racist-will-that-disinherited-daughter-for-having-bastard-white-son/.
as an elder, i used to find a legitimate reason to wander.
@cappytan
Then just turned the phone up briefly to see if anyone was disfellowshipped/reinstated or if there were any letters read.
Bet you'd spit out your coffee if your name was read
i am a former jw, 14 years removed.
i moved out of state away from my jw family for 10 years, and currently moved back to my home town 2 years ago.
it was a great healing process for me, especially being away from all of the confusing and controversial influences i was raised with.
my mom called me yesterday to ask how i was doing.
i hadn't seen her in a while, so it was nice to hear her voice.
we went through the motions of jw small talk and then she started telling me about her co visit from last week.
You may have some valid points Juan.
In days past in rural areas small congregations would work very hard to have their own Kingdom Hall. It was their pride and joy.
I guess it just doesn't fit into the corporate strategy anymore. I hope these new changes wake up some folks.
i've been deeply following jw "culture" the last 2 years and i am getting the impression that the leadership is currently split in two different directions.
on one hand you get this sense of a happy, joyful and less strict religion and on the other hand there is still this strict, harsh religion of the past.
let me explain more.. there have been a lot of video's lately that show dancing in kingdom halls, bethel dancing to the "happy" song, jw.org downplaying their beliefs and making it sound like daisies.
The public watchtower study watchtower split is where the two sides of the watchtower really became noticeable IMHO. What I see now is the jw website is a complete 180 from how the religion is really practiced.
The website says we don't shun former believers, we don't gain salvation by our preaching work and we can let our conscience guide us when we choose entertainment.
the truthtm about generations.. .
"the length of time is indicated by him when he said, "truly i say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.
" (matt.
i have noticed something even long before even looking into ttatt, something about morris bothered me.
i am personally very attuned to body language, facial expressions and general subtleties in human interaction.
there was something about his face that really bothered me, and i will explain it.
