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  What happens to bethel members who get sick?

  by JimmyYoung in

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  so i am sure if you are at bethel and have the flu you just get time or what ever to recover, but what about serious sickness.

  say you get cancer or some possible terminal illness?

  what happens?.

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  pontoon

  JW_Researcher...Sounds like Dr. Carlton.
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  De Niro Wants To See A Bag of Sh*t On Trump’s Face

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  has this guy lost it?

  who thinks like that?.

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  pontoon

  So he plays "make believe" for a living. He must think that qualifies him to make morally obcene judgements about the POTUS. At least some of the characters he has played are more civil and have more class than he does.
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  Question from yesterdays persecution article...

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
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  what are you resolved to do if under ban?.

  i wonder how many people were thinking about how that would be a great excuse to leave!

  finally, a good out, you were just too afraid of the persecution.

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  My only question about persecution since the other sheep are not even Christ's brothers according to Watchtower, they only benefit from association and support of the anointed, why aren't anointed and especially (at least some) of the GB moving to places (Russia) to bear the brunt of the persecution? The GB should shoulder their responsibility and leave their digs at the Place On the Lake and go to wherever persecution is and do whatever they can to relieve the lowly other sheep from persecution that Jesus foretold they (his brothers) would have to endure. Maybe GB has no backbone, or do they not mind others enduring what they should be. Bunch of con men..
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  Reporting Live From Orangeburg Assembly Hall

  by HiddenPimo in

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  2. experiences

  2,259 in attendance .

  9 baptized.

  $21,000 to operate one day assembly.

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  And the money grab goes on.....how many circuit assemblies, special days, whatever they call them now, each weekend, in hundreds if not thousands of assembly halls in the US alone. This is one huge money making scam raking in millions of $$$$$$ week after week just from assembly halls. Just think-- your circuit is done, next weekend another circuit is in, another $$ grab for what? oh, the same thing as your circuit, maintenance upkeep, repairs, utilities and so it goes, Assembly hall near me has something going on just about every weekend. Starting late spring or early summer it is used for district assemblies. Give them credit, they know how to rake it in.
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  Assembly Hall caretakers

  by pontoon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone know, do all of the society owned assembly halls in the us have bethelites assigned as caretakers or assembly hall overseers?.

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  pontoon

  Does anyone know, do all of the Society owned assembly halls in the US have Bethelites assigned as caretakers or assembly hall overseers?
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  What is the current pulse in the organization with the reductions?

  by SouthCentral in

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  i have not seen jehovah’s witnesses in my neighborhood for several years now.

  it appears that the cart witnessing has taken over.

  congregations are being consolidated and witnesses are being forced to travel a greater distance than before.the burdens/privileges of elders seem to be ever increasing!.

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  At a local Dunkin Donut shop i see two sisters with a cart just about every day, even when it is not much above 0 degrees F, there they are freezing their asses off. In two years I've never seen them talking to anyone, not once. Sad waste of time. Where they stand and set up their cart is away from the door of DD and is not even real noticeable to the DD customers, after they first showed up in that spot I saw them for about two weeks before I even realized who they were. I go to DD with a lady from work and she has never commented anything like what the hell are they standing there for day after day, what they are doing is so insignificant.. Doesn't seem to be much old fashioned field service around here anymore, but maybe the locals have made me a 'not to call' on person , I don't know. Pontoon in the Hudson Valley, about 25 miles from Watchtower Farm.
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  Crazy ass cart witnessing!

  by Crazyguy in

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  i know i know we have all read about it but my mom goes out in service to this crazy cart witnessing crap.

  so they go sit by the cart for a half hour then they get back into the car to warm up and the next two sisters take over for a half hours etc.

  but then there is at least one brother siting in his car to watch and over see the sisters so he can be like their security.

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  I'm seeing more and more cart witnesses. See one in the same spot every day outside local Dunk'n Donuts. Never have seen anyone talking to the two women standing there, not even one time since they have been using that spot, about a year now.
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  why the watchtower is so short of money

  by pepperheart in

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  2. bible

  the watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.

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  Why do so many not understand the corp begging for money??? It's so simple, they beg and the money pours in. It is just one of their income streams along with their rental KH properties, AH properties, real estate business, selling bible promise of everlasting life. Begging is part of their business model. Simple.
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  Birthday

  by charonsdog in

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  by the time i finish this post, i will have turned 50 years old.

  i spent over 40 years of my life not celebrating my birthday, and it never seemed like a big deal to me.

  three years ago, i received a cake and some friends sang "happy birthday" to me at a dinner party that was for a different event.

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  pontoon

  For my 65th my girlfriend gave me a new Henry

  Golden Boy .22 WMR. Beautiful. Smooth, smooth action. Accurate. I just love it. They actually are not too easy to find. If you know what this is, well you know what this is.

  Happy birthday chraronsdog
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  Craziest Speculations You’ve heard about the end and paradise

  by Addison0998 in

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  we’ve all heard them all our life.

  my two biggest stupidest ones i think are, “ we can really tell the end is almost here with the way people drive on the highway.” and a girl who said she wants to hurry up and marry her boyfriend because she’s scared if the end comes before their married, she’ll have to wait 1000 years to marry him.

  oh and also a poor old lady saying that she hopes jehovah wipes away the memory of her disfellowshipped sons that he will have to destroy.

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  pontoon

  Uriah is going to want to talk David