Posts by Quarterback

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Saturday morning field service is a joke

by hoser in

i havent been going door to door saturday mornings for since i can't remember when.

i have been putting in regular reports to the congregation but the last time i actually went on a door was probably six months ago or so and it has been at least 2 years since i did a saturday morning.

9:30 we showed up to the group arrangement, we waited outside because we were not sure that it was the right place.

Quarterback

But are the people really not at home? I heard this experience about one JW who was knocking on the doors in a neighborhood. After 1 hr of writing down "Not at Homes" on a slip of paper, a car alarm in the neighborhood went off. Then, to his surprise, everyone that was marked down as not home, looked out of their doors to investigate if it was their car alarm. When he saw that, he just crumpled the paper, threw it away, and considered that everyone was home and the Territory was worked.

The RVs are home. They just are playing Hide and Seek.

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Cable vs the Antenae tower

by Quarterback in

jw
friends

i kind of wanted to know if some have made this transition from escaping the satellite/cable monopoly to the large antenaes that require no monthly bills.

does it work?

is there a good quality such as hi def?

Quarterback

Thanks for your comments, guys

11

Street Work is hard! Take a look.

by Wasanelder Once in

jw
friends

remember how we were told to engage people on the street, that standing and holding the magazines was not countable time?

those days are gone.

they have been reduced to the status of those guys on the street who hold huge "little ceaser" pizza signs and "homes for sale".

Quarterback

Ha, ha... Good capture of their thoughts

21

More WTS cash-grabbing: "Funds on Deposit" program for Circuits

by sir82 in

jw
friends

at a recent circuit assembly "business meeting" for elders, a new program was announced: "funds on deposit".. here's how it works:.

each circuit determines a "floor" and a "ceiling" for an amount to hold in their circuit checking account.

when the "ceiling" amount is exceeded, the amount above the threshold is wired to the wts and held by them.. if the circuit checking account drops below the "floor" amount, the circuit can send a request to the wts to request that some of their "funds on deposit" be returned to them so that their checking account resumes a "safe" level.. as explained by the elder explaining the program,, "in other words, the branch is acting exactly like a bank - the circuit will make deposits and withdrawals as needed.

Quarterback

Well the current arrangement is no better. What happens now, is the surplus funds gets donated to the WW Work of JW's. Then this creates a deficit for the assembly expenses, and we make up the difference and create a new surplus. Next Elders meeting...."hey Guys we now have another surplus, let's give it away to the Society". Guess what happens close to the end of the Assembly, an announcement..."Duh...we have another deficit....you know what to do"

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Cable vs the Antenae tower

by Quarterback in

jw
friends

i kind of wanted to know if some have made this transition from escaping the satellite/cable monopoly to the large antenaes that require no monthly bills.

does it work?

is there a good quality such as hi def?

Quarterback

I kind of wanted to know if some have made this transition from escaping the Satellite/Cable monopoly to the large antenaes that require no monthly bills. Does it work? Is there a good quality such as Hi Def? How many channels do you get, and are there ways to replace the PVR?

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Saturday morning field service is a joke

by hoser in

i havent been going door to door saturday mornings for since i can't remember when.

i have been putting in regular reports to the congregation but the last time i actually went on a door was probably six months ago or so and it has been at least 2 years since i did a saturday morning.

9:30 we showed up to the group arrangement, we waited outside because we were not sure that it was the right place.

Quarterback

My sat morning is not much better. I am the Car Captain. My SUV sucks on gas at $1.28 a litre. I have this little fat punk kid that his parents give him $5.00 ($2.00 for a drink, $3.00 to give the Car Captain for gas exp's) He just pockets it. He doesn't use it on breaks. What mom doesn't know won't hurt him I guess. I don't care about the money, but he does have a good scam that he's working. He's ahead by $20.00 a month. That little weasel will be rich when he gets to his adult years. Maybe I should just keep a running tab. I could give it to him by the time he turns 21. By then he will owe the Car Captain about $2,000.

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NEW 'Bible Teach' book... to be released at Annual Meeting?

by Calebs Airplane in

not sure if this has been mentioned on this board yet, but i just heard from a fairly reliable source that the annual meeting will discuss, among other things, major changes in the 'bible teach' book.

has anyone else heard this??.

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Quarterback

It's like buying a new car. Every year there is a new model, because the older one has depreciated. This religion depreciates.

10

Married to jws, give me stength

by marriedtoajw in

jw
friends

my 23 year old son gave his first talk last year.

he met a catholic girl shortly after that, his girlfriend now, and got a part time job and stopped going to meetings.

hasn't been to one in almost a year.

Quarterback

Wait till you are discharged from Bankruptcy, and then sell your home and move to a place within your means. Whether you are a JW or not, you can't force people to want to work. But you also shouldn't be carrying the whole load. Let your married son live his own lif

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Watchtower Takes in $2 Million Conditional Loan and Won't Return the Loan, Is it True?

by BucketShopBill in

i heard several stories of the watchtower taking in loans and donations given by rich witnesses who have fallen on to hard times and asked for the money back and the watchtower won't return the money.

have you ever heard of the watchtower only paying the money back on "conditional loans" once legal experts get invovled?

one of the stories that is around is a family donated a large chunk of their nest-egg to the watchtower and the husband got sick and the branch refused to contact him when he asked for his conditional donation back, would the watchtower screw people out of their money?

Quarterback

When we built our KH over 30 yrs ago, some publishers gave out interest free loans to the project. After a few years, we had built up our account, and we had the funds to repay these publishers. Funny though some of the Elders thought that we should just leave the funds in our account. I argued that we borrowed the funds to build the KH and now we have no longer any need for these funds so let's just pay these brother and sisters back. The BOE decided not to. Thenwhen the acct's were read, I invited these friends to request their money personally. I wasn't popular with the BOE at that time.

We even had a publisher approach us for a repayment 0f $20,000 loan. The problem though is we had no paper work, no knowledge, no witnesses, no transaction of this going through our acct. Just a verbal transaction of him giving this amt to an Elder who got deleted and moved out over 10 yrs ago. We had to pay that publisher back on good faith over his story. What a mess.

Want some advice? Don't get involved monetarily with the society.

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Did You Ever Communicate With Disfellowshipped Persons?

by minimus in

jw
friends

we were supposed to treat them as dead!

did you follow this direction?

.

Quarterback

It depends. I wouldn't shun a family member, and I wouldn't withold assistance/help towards them if they needed it. I realize that it would cast me into bad status within the congregation for doing so, but, that wouldn't stop me either.

That being said, there are some in my cong that have been DF'd for smoking crack, and if you were to show them any invitation of kindness they would abuse that. They do get a smile now and then, and a coin is tossed into their cup when I see them downtown.