Posts by Jourles

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Public talk will be reduced to 30 minutes

by martinjw7 in

have you heard about a letter for all congregations announced next new change in wts politics?.

in letter is information that the time for the public talk will be reduced to 30 minutes.. does anyone have a copy?

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Jourles

This will help them accomodate the reduction in kigdom halls. with this arrangement there is the ability to have 4 meetings a day on sunday

As was "foretold" years ago, once the WTS feels the cash crunch, they will have to start selling KH's to stay afloat(this isn't just a guess - it is going to happen eventually). It could be that this announcement is primarily for larger cities where there are several congregations colocated in a reachable geographic area. In other words, if a city(including suburbs) has 10 congregations and 5 KH's, the WTS can sell at least 2 KH's and force the congregations to merge or share the remaining KH's. Four congregations per hall is about the maximum. I used to attend a KH in El Cajon, CA where the first Sunday meeting started at 10:00am and the last meeting of the day started at 7:00pm(1 hour in between each). But it wouldn't surprise me to see or hear reports of KH's being sold more frequently. I would also assume that the WTS will try to keep it fairly quiet.

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Anyone here from N. San Diego

by Surfrusty in

anyone here from san diego north county?

surfrusty

Jourles

Grew up and lived in Alpine from about 1980-1992. Went to El Cajon Valley and Alpine congs.

Still have a bunch of family in the San Diego area(luckily none are jw's). I'm still tentatively planning to come out there late this summer or fall. My grandmother is getting old and I really need to see her before she passes on.

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Just finished seeing Michael Moore's SiCKO

by Jourles in

i just got home from bellaire, mi where the first us premiere screeing of sicko took place.

mm has shown the film to a few private groups, but he specifically said that we were the first "paying group" to see it.

there were two showings - i got to see the first showing at 1:00.. first let me say that this film is not political in any way.

Jourles

So has anyone else seen the film yet? What did you think of it?

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Will The New Watchtower Kill Off The Awake?

by metatron in

jw
friends

i don't know if any of you have considered this but is the new watchtower arrangement partly intended.

to permit the end of the awake magazine?.

it is a financially difficult thing for a religion the size of the "truth" to publish one - much less two .

Jourles

However, they run into one problem with that... The d2d ministry will suffer greatly. How many dubs do you know "bury" the Watchtower underneath the Awake while going d2d just to make an easier placement?

I still say it's going to be tracts...

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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

by Black Man in

jw
friends

i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

Jourles

Terry Lafferty ---- My m-i-l rents a house of his in Manvel, TX. She lives right between his family. His dad died just recently.

I'll spell out these names differently so they do not come up in a search:

Jason L!em(brooklyn), Jake Schm!dt(brooklyn), Jeff & Kim Ahler$(patterson), Wes Patters0n(WTF when it first opened, then Brooklyn), Pa$ha R0manowski(brooklyn)

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Alzheimer's cure may be available in a few years... one shot in the arm.

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

that's all it'll take: one shot in the arm and you are cured... forever.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=463811&in_page_id=1770&ct=5.

a jab to halt alzheimer's could be available within a few years.

by fiona macrae.

Jourles

Maybe my f-i-l could get this. He's in the early stages of Alz. He's also a test patient for Baylor University. I'll have to forward this on, but I'm sure the docs at Baylor have heard of this already.

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Baptism at age 11 next Saturday

by Fatfreek in

i just learned that one of my grandsons (whom i've never met) will be baptized on saturday.

he will be twelve in november.

what's happening within the publishing company to inspire this sort of thing?

Jourles

Illustrative of their experiences is that of one young man from El Salvador who, at the age of ten, submitted to baptism

That made me laugh. Here we have a "young man" all of ten years of age. I would like to see the WTS's definition of when a male child becomes a young man. A 10 year old kid is just that - a freakin' kid!

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Just finished seeing Michael Moore's SiCKO

by Jourles in

i just got home from bellaire, mi where the first us premiere screeing of sicko took place.

mm has shown the film to a few private groups, but he specifically said that we were the first "paying group" to see it.

there were two showings - i got to see the first showing at 1:00.. first let me say that this film is not political in any way.

Jourles

jourles, how did you score a private viewing?

I bought a ticket in advance. The only thing is, it cost me $40 and the proceeds went to the Antrim County Democrats. But I think it was worth it anyways.

I just read this on the Christian Science Monitor:

If a Republican president is elected in 2008, reform will be "relatively timorous," says Aaron, possibly involving deductions for health insurance premiums on income and payroll taxes. Changes will probably most benefit the well-to-do, he says, and not much will be done to cover the 47 million Americans without health insurance.
If a Democrat is elected president, reform could be more ambitious. The "implicit taboo" on a large-scale health plan that followed Hillary Clinton's failed effort in 1993 is gone, says Aaron. But no Democratic candidate is advocating a national health insurance plan, a move that would substantially redistribute national income and impact strong health-industry interest groups.
...
So far, such Democratic presidential candidates as John Edwards and Barack Obama are advocating plans that keep the private health insurance industry intact.

So who is sponsoring a national health care plan?? Anyone? Bueller?

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Just finished seeing Michael Moore's SiCKO

by Jourles in

i just got home from bellaire, mi where the first us premiere screeing of sicko took place.

mm has shown the film to a few private groups, but he specifically said that we were the first "paying group" to see it.

there were two showings - i got to see the first showing at 1:00.. first let me say that this film is not political in any way.

Jourles

Heh, check out this link. In it, the article says:

Moore, 53, has been vocal in his support of downloading pirated movies as long as movie pirates don't profit.

If that doesn't sound like an invitation to me, I don't know what does! Plus, it backs up what MM said at the Bellaire premiere about not caring if people download it or not. He's not going to press charges against anyone for downloading it and watching it.

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Just finished seeing Michael Moore's SiCKO

by Jourles in

i just got home from bellaire, mi where the first us premiere screeing of sicko took place.

mm has shown the film to a few private groups, but he specifically said that we were the first "paying group" to see it.

there were two showings - i got to see the first showing at 1:00.. first let me say that this film is not political in any way.

Jourles

I agree that if we spent the money we spent on Iraq on the American people, we'd be much better off. Maybe someone should tell Bush that people have oil in their veins?

Tony Benn(former member of the British parliament) said in the film:

"If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people."

I think that is the most insightful comment in the entire film, hands down.