if memory serves there have been discussions about:.
pressure to donate to cover convention expenses far beyond actual expenses.
obtaining venue subsidies and or sponsorships but not passing on the savings to the flock.
picking on them for making a good business deal makes little sense.
While I agree with that staement, they should be using that good business deal to make things easier on their members not to add cash to their pockets. I have yet to see those comped rooms used to help the less fortunate at the KH.
...and no, it is not justin bieber peeing his initials in the snow.. .
Anyone watch the Michal Moore documentary, Columbine, where he went door to door in Canda opening the front door to peoples houses just to prove nobody there even bothers to lock their doors.
Is that true? Or was he in a good neigborhood?
just a rumour but i guess it makes sense - i've a friend on a circuit committee ( he knows it's not "the truth" but for family & work reasons he stays in ) & he says that the wtbts have told them not to book a swimming pool for next years one day assemblies as the plan is to have only one baptism a year at the main regional ( what they used to call "district" ) convention.. with the drop off in baptisms so that sometimes there isn't anyone baptised or just a handful , i guess this is inevitable.
i remember going to a baptism a few years ago - we had hired a municipal 25 metre swimming pool and only one person ( a rather confused and scared middle aged lady who hadn't been in a swimming pool since her youth ) was being baptised - it was all something of a farce with the "worldly" staff looking on very puzzled at such an elaborate & expensive ceremony for one person.
) also with both assemblies being one day with just short morning & afternoon sessions , i suppose it is sensible to ditch the baptism talk - it tends to be something of a snoozefest anyway at the end of the morning session.
folk getting quite panicky that they havent been dipped and the end is "just around the corner"
Good point, one would assume that there should be a rush to get all on board that ark, especially since this might just be the last memorial. Or is it caluclated? They may use that panick to rush people into making a decision. If this is the last memorial maybe they are pusing this DO as the last chance to get on the ark before the door closes.
Carla also seems to be reading my mind, the disappointment of missing the once yearly opportunity might give someone enough time to cool off and wake up.
The baptism questions are really just a test to see if you can read a question from a book and answer that question by reading the paragraph that follows it. I remember going over my questions with another candidate and half of my answers were “what she said”. If there was anything spirtiual about it there is no way they would have let me get baptised. I only know of one person they made wait because they weren't ready.
if memory serves there have been discussions about:.
pressure to donate to cover convention expenses far beyond actual expenses.
obtaining venue subsidies and or sponsorships but not passing on the savings to the flock.
They need to have a list of aproved hotels even if it does not benefit them. There are some pretty sketchy places and one would hope, at least part of the reason, is to vet out the sketchy ones. That being said my dad always got a better price through his credit card than the dubs were getting through the borg.
I'd be intrested to know how the prices match up compared to the online sites. I bet it isn't that much different, the hotels have pretty much pefected the art of pricing their rooms. Some of the online sites buy a block of rooms at a discount and them sell them for a profit. I wonder if that is what the borg is doing? That would explain why it is so important to only book using the JW secret code.
...and no, it is not justin bieber peeing his initials in the snow.. .
Two things I have against the Candians this year.
Justin Bieber, as was previously mentioned, and I really wish you would keep your damn cold air in your own country.
Us Americans want to wear shorts sometime before August too.
As far as Vandalism this was pretty much all I could find:
they insist you must wear you and whats more it must be placed in clear view for everyone else to see.. i have been challenged before now " sister!
are you wearing your badge!?
" it made me wonder why?
if I saw someone do that, I KNOW they would be a drag on my fun and avoid them like norovirus.
It's funny because it's true
here's the link : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/pope-cazzo-francis-says-f-word_n_4890328.html.
funny but not a news story.
He does seem like a good pope though.
we had an elderly pioneer/ms in our hall and he used to like to rattle the elders.
he liked using the "n" word in his comments.
he one time started to comment about the "ni##er pool" that he would observe among the poorer blacks.
I had one that claimed the bread of laziness was the bread you bought at the store. You should be making it yourself.
And if I remember correctly he said something about putting a woman over your knee and giving her a spanking (and not in the fun way)
In his defense he was old school and one of the few people that lived what he believed.
Now that I think about it, he is pretty much the only JW I have any respect for.
I know he will get whatever reward is out there for the faithful.
how much would a well-off witness be expected to donate?
my wife has just withdrawn a few hundred pounds from her account and refuses to tell me why so i suspect she plans to donate it as she hasn't donated for a while because she knows i don't want our money going to the organisation.
is it likely that she is feeling under pressure to make a large donation?.
I do think you should know where the money is going. I was just picturing the the conversation that would be going on in a JWs head. As you pointed out if you are not a JW there's no trust and everything you do is suspect.
They do preach that the wife should be even more obedient to the husband to win him over. Maybe you could use that to get the the elders to back you up. It might be worth a shot. Use the sneaking around to make them feel guilty.
It’s eye opening to see the other side of the conversation for a change. Makes me wonder what the truth was behind all those evil husband stories I used to hear when I was in. To think I actually believed that being a dub made for better families even when one was an unbeliever.
The birthday comment was more wishful thinking.
how much would a well-off witness be expected to donate?
my wife has just withdrawn a few hundred pounds from her account and refuses to tell me why so i suspect she plans to donate it as she hasn't donated for a while because she knows i don't want our money going to the organisation.
is it likely that she is feeling under pressure to make a large donation?.
Putting on my therapists hat here: It sounds like you need to have a discussion with her on how much is OK. It is just a fact of life that she is going to want to donate. Better if she tells you how much so you can make compromises than if she sneaks around and gives even more.
Saying "I have told her she doesn't see any more of my money until she tells me what she is using her money for" sounds like something a controling person would say. That will never wake her up to TTATT. It will only make her did her heels in deeper.
And who knows maybe she is out buying you a big fat birtday present with the money.
