i have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .
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They could easily come up with some new wacky explanation incorporating their idea about 'this generation'.
It could go something like this - since the number was going down until 2007 we can see this would have been the first and second overlapping group of anointed but now that it is rising from 2007 this must be the third overlapping group. So we know that Armageddon must be coming very soon because the number of the second group would naturally still be going down.
i found this.
http://jwvictims.org/2014/02/05/seriously-why-cant-jehovahs-witness-women-wear-pants/.
seriously, why cant jehovahs witness women wear pants?.
been away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!
(pixel, thank you!
) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.
Many of the speakers don't talk about the expansion of people, they just mention expansion of the building activity.
Regarding the maintenance of the buildings, they are being very clever here. They are going to have a detailed manual and provide training to ensure the congregations have a scheduled program of maintenance. Rather than let the building run down to a stage that it requires a number of updating at the one time (and therefore would be considered a major renovation for which the Society would have to pay) they will, no doubt, require modifications at a certain point in time. That might be repainting in Year 3, replacing carpets in Year 4, servicing electrical items in Year 2 and so on. Doing it this way means that the Society will not fork out the money but expect the congregations to finance these.
They are going to train the brothers in the congregations to carry out work such as Electrical and Plumbing. I don't know about the US laws but here in Australia qualified and registered Tradesmen can only carry out these duties.
I love the way that they give very little explanations as to why the commercial building type was more desirous than previous designs, yet they expect everyone to support the idea because the GB said so. They even pretend that there was some sort of democratic process to decide on the design.
only have a few minutes to spare so thought i would throw this together.. been in for about 30 years.
questions and doubts gathered over that time.
i have a keen interest in the legal and financial matters of the watchtower.. came across this site about 5 years ago.
Welcome OzGirl, I live in WA but don't hold that against me.
A suggestion is to start a new thread as the points you bring up aren't reflected in you thread title and it is an important that you appear to have done your own research on.
They made a lot of money when they were charging for publications. Now that it is on a donation basis we have seen the frequency and number of pages being reduced in the magazines and there are less books being published. Nothing is hard bound these days except for the bible. I remember asking for payment of the publications from the householder and saying that it was only to cover the cost of printing, what a lie that was.
Now they have had to find new means of making money which is pretty normal for any religion but the problem is that they are so secretive about how they go about this and resort to some questionable means.
There hasn't been a lot of discussion about it here but the Org. set up a new website to take bookings for Hotels, unfortunately you need a password to get into the website but I think it would be another source of commission.
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i talked with my pusher, puller i mean, she's really pissed off i opened up a twitter account she's threatening to drive her car over my frame if i misbehave and more, so much for my point of view.
after much deliberation, we decided she could count her field service minutes only if people see my pretty logo (jw.org), finally she took me off the roof-rack and returned me to my right place, passenger side.
in the passenger's seat of our car, i smile at the homeless people walking the streets, "can we pull over and talk to them, can you buy them something to eat?
jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
alert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
This prank call was so funny. Had Cedars asked a serious question Tony would not have answered him. That is obvious because he already tried to fob him off by telling him to discuss the tight pants issue with the Branch Committee. How ridiculous is that? Why would Tony tell him to talk to the Branch Committee about a tight pants issue? I bet Tony says that all the time so that he doesn't have to deal with anything personally.
This leader can go on and on about the most stupid issues and cause so much damage in other people's lives and he does not have the character to defend himself is appalling.
i just started to watch the february broadcast when i noticed a metallic rattle over the drone of sam's voice.
(does that man speak with a mouth full of chowin' tobacco or is he choking on the rubbish he reads off the autocue?).
yep it's his rolex.
Tie pins seem to be all the rage amongst them as well.
I gather it was a GB helper sitting next to him, he was wearing a pinky ring also.
pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.
1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.
2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.
1. Was Jesus’ 2nd coming in 1914?
No it was his presence
2. Is Jesus’ 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his ‘coming?’
No
3. Is the doctrine of the ‘faithful and discreet slave’ still regarded as a prophecy instead of a parable?
I'm not sure on their view regarding this but I think It's considered to be a parable that relates to the last days and not a prophecy.
4. Were the FDS appointed over ‘all His belongings’ in 1919?
No.
5. Did the Gentile Times end in 1914, or is that yet to come at a future date?
Yes it ended in 1914.
6. Is the ‘great tribulation’ in the past, the present, or yet to come in the future?
In the future.
7. Did Jesus die in order to save the ‘Great Crowd’?
No it was for the anointed only.
8. If the Bible was only written for the anointed, why should non-anointed bother to read it?
So that they know what was written to the anointed.
9. Was Charles Taze Russell a member of the anointed 144,000? If so, since what date?
Yes but I do not know the date.
i am a big tennis fan and today i watched serena williams win the australian open, one of the four tournaments which make up the pinnacle of achievement in the tennis world, the grand slam.
in her victory speech the first thing she said was that she thanked her god jehovah for the victory.
now i know that rumours have circulated for a long time as to whether she is a baptised witness or not, but she is definitely associated with witnesses .
What does it say for the loser? That God does not love them or answer their prayers.
