Blondie, I once attended the Ministry School in a congregation in western Canada while visiting and my cousin's husband was the school overseer...he sat at a table set up on the platform on the opposite side of where the sister give their part. After returning home I asked him why he was sitting on the platform...and how could he see if the speaker had a good contact with the audience, facial expressions, the right posture, some of the gestures. His reply was that how it was done at the CA...In another hall the overseer sat at a table by the stairs leading to the platform so he could see the speaker at his right and the audience at his left. He gave councel from the desk and didnt go on and off the platform...that wasnt a bad idea.
Posts by NVR2L8
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11Designated elder to shadow talks at the meeting
by wannaexit ini heard that there is an elder in each congregation that follows very closely what is being said from stage to make sure everything is being said correctly.
in all my years as a jw , i don't ever remember this at the local level.
is this something new?
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Hear Ye!!!Hear Ye!! WONDERFUL GOOD NEWS!!!!
by mouthy inmy jw daughter called me this afternoon!!!!!
!i am just over the moon.
her hubby not a jw has cancer & was operated on today!!!!.
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NVR2L8
Bonsoir mon amie Mouthy,
I am really happy for you. I know how much you love your family. I hope that this is the first of many more conversations. Changes in peoples' lives often provide the opportunity to refocus on what is important...and having a relationship with your mother should be the first item on one's list...
Great to hear from you...let's have coffee soon!
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Donations aren't coming in from Western Countries: more confirmation
by Julia Orwell inin talking to sparky the elder today (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/263862/1/an-elder-called-me-hes-waking-up-and-knew-id-understand-nice-for-him-to-have-a-friend) i found out he did the accounts for our congregation for years.
he said very rarely did the congregation meet its expenses without some well-off brother chipping in a few grand here and there.
the elders would also make up the shortfall.
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I did the accounts for years and the core of the donations came from older ones with little means who wrote 12 postdated checks worth $30 or $40. A few wealthy brothers would donate $1000 to $1500 in December to get a tax receipt. These end of year donations kept us afloat during the coming months. One year our elders had the bright idea to donate $4500 of that money to the WWW and we struggled to meet our expenses for the whole year. Our contribution to the KHall general expenses was only $8 per publisher per month x 110 for each of the 2 congregstions and I can assure you only 2 of the 6 elders contributed regularly...and no one could say they anonymously put cash money in the boxes because the bulk of the contributions were checks.
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My wife is feeling uncomfortable about the NEW LIGHT
by sosoconfused inso my wife is aware that i am totally disillusioned and i am having problems with lots of things.
one day she can see the crap(such as this past watchtower question from readers about ivf... what a pile of insanity.
if someone carries me and my wifes baby i have committed porneia rofl!!!
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If IVF is so bad why did Jehovah allow his "friend" Abraham to deposit his semen in his servant Hagar so he could have a son? Then, Sarah miraculously becomes pregnant...Jehovah's blessing of course. Wouldn't in had made more sense that Jehovah made Sarah fertile in the first place so Abraham wouldn't have to fertilize Hagar?
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Is selling approved stage furniture at inflated prices one of the wt's money making schemes?
by hoser inis selling tables and lecterns for the kingdom hall stage platform part of the money making scheme of the wts?
i have heard this from two different congregations now.
the co rolls into town and says you need new furniture for the platform.
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Lending money to those who donated it in a first place to build a Kingdom Hall that will belong to the Watchtower and getting the sames donators to repay the loan is the ultimate money scheme...
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How do I get them to stop houding me?
by lostinthought ini stopped attending all meetings this summer.
i prefer not to be dfed or to da myself.
i just want to be inactive.
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NVR2L8
Tell them you know how to reach them and that you have not forgotten where the KHall is...but for now you need to be left alone. It worked for me.
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Check this out- JW Car Lot
by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat inhttp://www.circuitvehicles.com/home/.
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OTWO, you put to shame a used car salesman! lol
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What do witnesses say to you that it is a sign of great tribulation coming?
by Iamallcool inwhen i was little, some older brother told me there will be a very important annoucement from bethel.
he said it might be start of the great tribulation.
i got so worried.
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NVR2L8
More earthquakes, fewer alive from the 1914 generation, number of anointed getting smaller, preaching work is almost done, sorry...I out of ideas.
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what if the 1st century christians were "publishers of the good news?"
by nowwhat? in"good day citizen!, we see many people today are concerned that their denari just does'nt go as far as it used to at the market place.
this scroll gives us a hope for the future.
i also have this other scroll that talks about polluted cistern water.
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In the first century he only way spread any news to the population was to transmit in person. So if you wanted the whole neighbourhood to know something you had to go to their door or to a public meeting place to deliver your message. Today we have the press, radio, TV, the internet...why do JWs still believe door to door preaching is the most efficient way to spread the news is beyond me. I remember being in the territory for a whole day and only speaking to a few people because everyone else were at work and away from home...
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WT Reader
by molybdenum ini just noticed that i am the wt reader for the article " who really is the faithful .
and discreet slave" on sept 29th.. how do you stop yourself from throwing up while reading?
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When I was on my way out I remember looking at the readers' schedule to see what was the study article I was assigned to read...and a few times I switched with another reader because there was no way I could go through with reading something that I wouldn't agree with. I am not very good at keeping a straight face and I am sure everyone would see right through me. One or twice I couldn't switch and my heart started pounding as I stood up to read the paragraphs that contained the b.s. information. I swore to myself I would not ever go through this again.