So if the congregation wants their money back they will get it, but who earns the interest of that big pot of money in those CD's? Sounds like a crafty way for the borg to earn money off the congregations' funds. I was still attending when that letter was first read. Thought it smelled fishy back then and was hoping our body would not do it.
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Contributions ,how the Society CONTROLS the funds of a congragation
by raymond frantz ini'm not sure if anyone has started a post about contributions recently ,but if there is an accounts servant here please free to correct me or shed some more light .what i'm about to say is 100% accurate and applies to congragations in britain (don't ask me how just ...join the dots).
the society controls all the funds that are coming in the kingdom hall all of the time .the way this works out is as follows :you put any money in any of the contribution boxes and in the end all money are added to together and deposited to the congragation's bank account .the worldwide donations leave the account as a direct debit to the society every week and the rest stays in the account .now comes the interesting bit :once the account goes over 5000 we are instructed to send the rest to the society as a cheque and is held in their account for as long as the congragation doesn't needed back .this way all but 5000 are held in the society's account .any other experiences ?.
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About what one thing do you find yourself being a real SNOB?
by Terry inyou know, to fit in....to be a part of our own family or group and not be a total nerd or contrarian.. we hold our tongue.
we smile and nod.. but, then....there is at least one thing we just can't go along with because it is too important.. why?
because we are a total snob.
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Omelettes. When I order a veggi or western omelette I want a omelette, NOT a wrap.
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Disfellowshipped for reading "apostate literature"?
by Vanderhoven7 inis reading apostate literature a disfellowshipping offense?.
do you know of people being disfellowshipped for this or for receiving apostate literature?.
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Might come under their new catch-all of "brazen behaviour," depends a lot on the body I think.
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beliefs, doctrine, teaching that you never could handle
by pontoon in1) jehovah telling abraham to murder his son.
my reply; kill me now, i won't do it.
2) the bear killing i think 21 wise ass children.
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Thanks, but still not OK with any of them.
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Never, never was 100% in
by pontoon inover 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.
but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.
no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.
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Botzwana; My hat is off to you for being all in and yet still able to reason and change.
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Never, never was 100% in
by pontoon inover 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.
but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.
no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.
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LongHairGirl:
I stepped down serving as an elder in 2005, against the wishes of the rest of the body and the circuit overseer. From that time on I was treated like a leper. Really was not very close to anyone in the congregation when I left. I just got to a point when I just couldn't sit through another meeting and just stopped going. Period. That was it.
And, how long is your hair?
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beliefs, doctrine, teaching that you never could handle
by pontoon in1) jehovah telling abraham to murder his son.
my reply; kill me now, i won't do it.
2) the bear killing i think 21 wise ass children.
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1) Jehovah telling Abraham to murder his son. My reply; kill me now, I won't do it
2) The bear killing I think 21 wise ass children. Geeze, they were just children
3) The murderer and adulterer David got to live but his family paid. Wonder what Uziah will have to say to David in the resurection
4) Jehovah is humble and we have free will. But he'll murder you if you don't worship him
5) An old blood arguement that a transfusion=eating blood. Even as a dumb kid I thought that was stupid and wrong reasoning. We don't
digest and matabolize our blood
That's my short list. Never Ok with these from the first day I learned of them.
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good for a chuckle
by pontoon inoften we have threads about stars that are or have jw backrounds.
danielle from american pickers.
grew up in a "strict jehovah's witness family.
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Often we have threads about stars that are or have JW backrounds. Here's another. Danielle from American Pickers. Grew up in a "strict Jehovah's Witness family." Doesn't say whether or not she was actually a witness. The chuckle part is she own a burlesqe troupe and is part of the show. Fame from American Pickers blew her marriage apart and she moved back home??? to that strict JW family???http://starcasm.net/archives/75584
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Never, never was 100% in
by pontoon inover 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.
but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.
no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.
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Sorry for double posting. Enjoying good replies. Another thing for me was that I never felt that "this life" was so bad as taught by Wat., even though I felt I was missing out on things I would have enjoyed. Some have more legitimate problems and issues than others for sure, but life is also a lot of what you make it, and for me it was good so it was hard to buy into the doom and gloom of this old system. Through all that I've had some "worldly" friends as close to me as my brothers and sister, I knew worldy people could be as good and moral or bad and unmoral as anyone in the truth.
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Never, never was 100% in
by pontoon inover 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.
but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.
no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.
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Over 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that I put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know. But through it all I never bought the whole truth idea 100%. No matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, I just COULDN'T wait for it to END. Always felt bored to death, let me out of here, I got things to do. One thing I'm proud of, I was never guilted into pioneering, just doing the bare minimum field service I could get away with. One month a long long time ago I did pioneer hours unofficially but only because of the pioneer sister I got to work with each day. It wasn't worth it. How many felt that way? How many still in feel that way? Thing is for so many years I believed it was my fault I didn't appreciate the truth like I should and everyone else did, so at times I really tried, but it all just never worked for me, I'm sure if it wasn't for family I would have never been a JW.