my mother has the c.o staying and told her the new zealand bethel is about to be closed and the land and buildings sold.. .
karter..
Billy the ex....... I think I have to disagree. I think it's because they have financial planners, economists, and educated people on board they are making changes, closing branches, selling property.........
Also, I might add, I doubt the GB are even much involve in this. We know it's the lawyers, accountants and business office that runs Wat. Corp.
i was thinking this as i was reading through a foreign language wt yesterday afternoon.
the wt needs so many translators to translate their crap into 200 or whatever languages.
can you imagine the mental gymnastics these people need to do in order to translate stuff like the "generation" teaching into another language?
I'll try again. Don't believe anything about being able to translate more. I think 95% more or less of the Wat. is just all rehashed already translated same old stuff.
i was thinking this as i was reading through a foreign language wt yesterday afternoon.
the wt needs so many translators to translate their crap into 200 or whatever languages.
can you imagine the mental gymnastics these people need to do in order to translate stuff like the "generation" teaching into another language?
Don't believe anything about this more tr
They still say they have five. bk study, school & service meeting all in one night, then the public talk and Wat. But just think how all of them have been cut back in time and material.
tootired---what they won't allow is a regular (weekly) study group. They are OK with the occasional widow or "fatherless boy" showing up at your family study. What they don't want is to have two or three THINKING MEN put their minds together in a less than formal situation.
Probably a number of reasons as mentioned all contributed to the end of private home book studies. What we know for a fact is that they will never tell the truth, so much of what comes out of the society now is all "spin"
In the congregation I used to go to two or three families and some others decided to continue to meet once a week for study and fellowship. The group included at least two elders and some MS's. The rest of the body ?? it, wrote to the society, the group was promptly shut down. Borg is afraid of splinter groups starting up. Imagine that, in Watchtower Land it's wrong to meet for bible discussion and fellowship unless it is scantioned by the Org.
there has been a lot of talk about the new watchtower internet strategy.
it appears that the watchtower is trying to improve their internet presence.
this could be true, but i think there are good reasons to think that the opposite might be the case.. i suspect that this new internet announcement was primarily designed to draw attention away from the announcement that they are cutting down on the printing of the magazines again.. they are basically dropping two of their websites and redesigning a website on a url that has the lowest rating of the three.
But I think if you saw the construction going on in Wallkill, proposed construction for Patterson, future development in Walden, and had a look at their bank accounts you wouldn't think they were going out of business. They got money to burn, what's different is they are burning more of it on themselves (headquarters).
there has been a lot of talk about the new watchtower internet strategy.
it appears that the watchtower is trying to improve their internet presence.
this could be true, but i think there are good reasons to think that the opposite might be the case.. i suspect that this new internet announcement was primarily designed to draw attention away from the announcement that they are cutting down on the printing of the magazines again.. they are basically dropping two of their websites and redesigning a website on a url that has the lowest rating of the three.
DT, what you say sounds possible. One thing to remember, the Org doesn't tell the truth, when they make changes they always "spin" as to the reason why. The main objective of the Org is a balancing act of staying different from the world but not so different they appear crazy. Nothing to do with truth or spiritual enlightenment. An example is their stand on blood. If the Org were being praised for a rock solid stand on no blood, that would still be the policy. As it is now, the Org looks a little more acceptable with their easing on blood issues, but still different. Don't expect any changes on tolerating any who voice any opinions of their own, they are to scared of being torn down from the inside out. It's a church survival tactic, appeal to enough people to stay in business without losing their own identify, not unlike Catholics dropping their fish Fridays and turning a blind eye to birth control. Don't know their reasoning, but whatever decisions they are making are being made for their future survival, nothing to do with spreading the word or saving lives. Just my opinion.
there is a very pretty lady friend of mine that likes guns and to watch scary movies very often.
she emailed me yesterday to ask me how i am doing.
i know she likes me and she is probably waiting for me to ask her out.
Don't go out with her. How about hooking her up with me? I love guns, shoot often and nothing scares me except the thought of going back to the hall.
