My wife said she wanted to attend a second summer ass-embly this year to get more out of it. I said one ass-embly is enough. I hope she wakes up this year due to all the cult talks. I plan on visiting the local hotel bar daily to help relieve the stress.
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Do you really want to be told who you cannot marry, how you can earn your living, how much fun you can have?
by Xanthippe inso my daughter is coming home from uni next week for the easter hols.
if she said to me i've joined this group that says i have to put them before my family, my health, earning money for food, recreation, getting married and eating.
oh no you've joined a cult!
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Crisis of Conscience no longer available for Kindle?
by gbrn ini noticed that both of franz's books were available through amazon.com in kindle format a few months back.
that no longer seems to be the case.
anyone have any knowledge as to why they are no longer available through kindle as an ebook?.
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paladin
I ordered CoC from Amazon and have to wait untill late March or early April to get it. It's on back order and I sure hope I get a copy.
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International Conventions for 2014 - Landover, MD - What is an International Convention?
by insearchoftruth inhave been out of touch for a while, i see that there is an 'international' convention this year in landover, md (fed ex field) and there are no english conventions in either richmond or hampton, va. what is an 'international convention', is it merely a consolidation of all the other conventions meant to whip up some fervor amongst the masses?.
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paladin
It's a money maker. Last year in January we had a finacial resolution to donate money to help special delegates to travel to International Conventions world wide. The WT$ must have made at least one billion dollars from the sell off of their New York properties. It's never enough.
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New Policy on Inactive Ones?
by Cynisister inthis may have been discussed, but i just recently was told that a km this past year stated that inactive ones are now to be treated as if they are df'd.
is this so?
cynisister.
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paladin
I am fading and I am being shunned by some members for not doing enough. Very cultish religion. I am not aware of any KM stating such.
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Donations - how much is normal?
by Frazzled UBM inhow much would a well-off witness be expected to donate?
my wife has just withdrawn a few hundred pounds from her account and refuses to tell me why so i suspect she plans to donate it as she hasn't donated for a while because she knows i don't want our money going to the organisation.
is it likely that she is feeling under pressure to make a large donation?.
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paladin
My wife forks out $1200 - $1300 a year to the WT$ and receives a tax receipt. I donate $0.0.
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New congregation accounting system
by thedog1 ini'm sure i read a thread here about the new congregation accounting procedures.
i ask because i handle the accounts in our cong and in our part of the world the new accounting system has just arrived whereby local congs do not have their own account any longer, but all funds outside of basic monthly costs is forwarded to an account controlled by the org.
this is causing huge confusion in our cong as we have to work out how much we need to keep back for monthly costs and the new idea is that you send all your extra cash to the org and if you need it back you can ask for it but we don't know how easy or hard it would be to do that.
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paladin
Any extra funds you have just send it to headquarters The GB will generously invest your money. Money is evil, but dont't worry about it.
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How the WT would look if written in 1st person: SO DISGUSTING
by Antioch inhow would the watchtower of july 15th read if the watchtower was written in 1st person from the ones allegedly preparing an dispensing spiritual food (ie the watchtower)?
why is it written by a faceless 3rd person telling readers what to think about the people who are allegedly dispensing the very material i'm reading?
i was reading the july 15th article and laughed at the ridiculousness of it all.. .
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paladin
I wish the WT$ study articles were worded in 1st person. I can only imagine rank & file members getting up and walking out after. That would be a wake up call. lol
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Watching Amish Shunned on PBS...very deja vu if you are/were a JW!
by tenyearsafter inthis is a very interesting documentary...the similarities are so close, you could substitute jw for amish!
anyone else watching this?.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/shunned-introduction/.
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paladin
I watched it today. I noticed high control in their religion. I also thought about their method of transportation. Still living in the horse and buggy days.
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OMFG Dinosaurs and Noah
by konceptual99 injust fell off my chair whilst listening to the bible "highlights".
someone has actually just said that the flood account actually helps inform scientists on matters that perplex them.
for example for decades they have wondered how the dinosaurs all disappeared but if they looked at the account of the flood then they would see the answer.
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paladin
Think about it. Living in a big boat for 40 days and 40 nights cleaning up after animals. How does a person get any sleep? I could never do it. The more I think about it the crazier it gets.
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OMFG Dinosaurs and Noah
by konceptual99 injust fell off my chair whilst listening to the bible "highlights".
someone has actually just said that the flood account actually helps inform scientists on matters that perplex them.
for example for decades they have wondered how the dinosaurs all disappeared but if they looked at the account of the flood then they would see the answer.
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paladin
How could a human put up with the all the offensive odors in a confined space such as aboat full of stinking animals must have unbearable. lol. What kind of ventilation system was available at that time?