Of course the congregation pay for the travels. In Europe it is a fixed amount per kilometer. I was never a Bethel speaker but once was invited to give the memorial talk in Spanish far away from the branch I was working at. The starting group had No qualified speaker, so we did the long trip. Got a nice dinner and about a 150 guilders as expenses (in 1989), would be a 75 euros in todays money. Makes sense to me, you can not expect a poor Bethelite cover the expenses.
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by JW_Rogue ini've noticed that some elders will insist on getting a special bethel speaker for memorials, special talks, or sometimes for no reason at all!
i believe they are trying build connections they can use later, but who pays for it?
the congregation does and as a former account servant i can tell you airfare isn't all that cheap.
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Stupid things happen - Bethelite guarantees 16-year old visitor-girls bethel-admission
by TheWonderofYou injust watching this video about a bethel member, single again - gives advice at morning worship.he tries to convince young 16 year old girls who visit bethel and eat in the cafeteria to marry him.he offers the full blessings as wife of a prince in the new world and gives arguments that speakfor a fast decision... shocking stupidy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4udiaarpay.
in another video of ex-bethelite (how women are treated) a bethel elder is mentioned who talked to brothers at the table and gave advice abouth marriage and said that it would be the best to marry a women when is as young and pretty as possible, (at 8:45) so you have the possibilty to train her and to mode her in to what you want and get her used in the roles you set for her..... other bethelits made big errors and married older women 24,25.women that would have their own concepts of what bethel or marriage should be.
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fulano
Ow Vaugn again....
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10 years on.....
by snare&racket ini was a window cleaner, i was at the time unemployed, homeless.
i had no education to be proud of (high school one a two b's rest c's) i was a jehovahs witness.
i had been a pioneer.
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fulano
Great S&R!! I wish all the best.
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Huge article(s) in Dutch media on JW child abuse
by Anders Andersen inso today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.
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other media are picking up as well.....
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Had twin babies with a married JW?!?!?!?!?!?! advice & thoughts
by Gokumonkey inbefore i begin i just wanna say, im not proud of what i did, it was wrong but it happened now im just trying to do the right thing.. ok so im a "worldly" person and i meet a jw women at my job.
i had no idea she was married due to the fact that she hid her wedding ring.
i even ask if she was in a relationship and she denied it.
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fulano
So what should we ask you? How was the sex?
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Let's talk about Don Adams.
by Ray Frankz init's interesting that the person of the president of wtbts has figured lesser and lesser since f. franz era.
i was born in the religion in the 90's and i got to know about russel, rutherford, knorr and franz; but i never knew until a couple of years ago that m. henschel was the president in that time.
the same happens with don adams now, the first wt president from the 'other sheep'.
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fulano
dubsteppedan hour ago
It's so weird for me to think back to having Adams and Ciranko as COs back in the day when I was a kid and project that to now. I don't remember them as bad guys.
Fulano:
I sure about this are you that old? Don Adams has been working at the HQ since the late fourties or so.
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Jehovah's people are not happy people
by Phoebe ini finally stopped attending the meetings about 4 months go.
i won't be going back - ever.. but i've decided the best reply to the watchtower is to be happy and i do try to be happy every day even thought i wasted my entire life on this religion.
i cherish every day, practice mindfulness and do my best to be content with the life i have.. it is only now that i see that most jws i know are deeply unhappy people.
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fulano
It is the most pathetic book in the world, evil as well as it has been the origin of so many dogma's leading to hate, wars and death.
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Anbody know...
by careful in...what david ianelli is doing these days?
he was in the writing department and known as one of the more liberal brothers there.
he gave loving, heartfelt talks.
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fulano
He has been married for 37 years.
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Anbody know...
by careful in...what david ianelli is doing these days?
he was in the writing department and known as one of the more liberal brothers there.
he gave loving, heartfelt talks.
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fulano
Careful, why would you think Beveridge would have fit better in SD? I think a year in the laundry would do him good :) he wouldnt need a tie there Anyway.
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Anbody know...
by careful in...what david ianelli is doing these days?
he was in the writing department and known as one of the more liberal brothers there.
he gave loving, heartfelt talks.
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fulano
Such a shame such a nice person stuck in this. I guess he doesnt even like the introduction as being a writer, he is not like Beveridge (we were in the same congregation, I have to admit a great Watchtower study conductor!) , a real show off with his bow-tie or appearing at morning worship without a tie at all.
By the way, the fact that he is introduced as a writer might be the mistake of the person who put the video on YouTube . But then again I have no idea where he is up to. I had a Dutch friend who was on the WD but as I am an oppostate.....:)