i just heard this a few minutes ago by a jw friend who is still an elder in my old hall.
the kingdom hall i used to attend and my mom still attends was paid off many years ago and serves about 6 congregations.
one of the english congregations has a lot of financially well of members.
Wow. Wow wow wow!
Amazing story JOHN AQUILA.
Wow, the society really has some strategy going there. . . .
First, make sure nobody goes to college so your entire membership is broke.
Then, in the congregations where there actually is some money and the people take pride in their hall - so much so that they re-raise the funds needed to remodel it - the society takes their money and then shoves it up their asses with a bigger monthly payment.
BTW - I think this is a fantastic strategy! 😎😜😈👍
i have just finished listening to this man jackson.
i remember him well.
he is twisting things around as much as he is allowed.
I only got to watch about 45 minutes or so of the feed last night. They were grilling an elder with grey hair and wearing a broadly striped tie. Is this guy the "Jackson" you're talking about? Or was GB member Jackson there and I missed it?
Also I got the impression that he had no counsel of any kind with him. . . My wife made the comment that it looks like they hung him out to dry.
the royal commission hearing starting on monday, july 27, 2015 - australian day and date - (and it could go on until august 7th depending on how many witnesses testify) regarding jehovah's witnesses handling of child abuse is supposed to be streamed.. it could be that the hearing will only be audio not video although we were informed it will be streamed.
we'll find out in a few hours.. i live in the central time zone of the us and right now here it is sunday, 3: 45 pm.
in sydney, australia, it is 15 hours ahead of us.
Fascinating.
Thanks for the live stream link.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/jimmy-carter-says-jesus-would-not-support-abortion-revealing-only-conflict-between-his-politics-and-christian-faith-141881/.
carter said that as a young man he used to be a jehovah's witness before he was a baptist christian.. .
"it's hard to grow up with such a foundational system and just let it go.
PROLOGOS - don't quote me on this, I'm certainly not an expert. . . but it seems that Carter was involved in some kind of proselytizing work with the Southern Baptists. . . . Really, all this information does is blow a huge hole in the idea that JWs are the ONLY ONES preaching the "good news."
I'm sure they'd be disappointed to learn they aren't.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/jimmy-carter-says-jesus-would-not-support-abortion-revealing-only-conflict-between-his-politics-and-christian-faith-141881/.
carter said that as a young man he used to be a jehovah's witness before he was a baptist christian.. .
"it's hard to grow up with such a foundational system and just let it go.
The above mentioned article is misquoting this NYTimes article:
Jacqeline Woodson is the one who was a witness and said "being a witness was too closed an experience"
Carter only admitted to doing proselytizing and said nothing about being a JW.
The writers from Christian Post should learn how to read a NY Times article.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs.
the report about child abuse and jehovah's witnesses is now live.. jehovah's witnesses handle child abuse cases.
jehovah's witnesses and child sexual abuse, the report - bbc radio 4 .
I thought it was good how they used the Bible quotes from the Society's own recordings: "don't reveal a confidential matter" (in American accent) sounds pretty sinister.
Yes! I thought exactly the same. Very cult-y sounding.
a young sister in my husband's congregation who is the daughter of an elder has been reinstated in a matter of months.
whereas another sister in the same congregation has been disfellowshipped now for nearly two years!.
seems like it's who you know..
Confessed pedophile df'd for 8 months; in business with 5 elders.
Ex-wife of elder df'd for 8 YEARS, adultery is worse than pedophilia I guess.
Evidently, the sister had a wicked heart.
it's getting to the point where cnn should start announcing "breaking news" if there *hasn't* been a mass shooting !.
it's crazy.. i was watching the 70's documentary they are running and that's the point when media hype about mass serial killers seemed to begin the danger-gun-solution hype cycle.
sure, people had guns before then but nowhere near like it is now.. when will it end?
Well, I suppose it depends on how you define "mass shooting."
If you consider 8 people shot and two dead (gunman included) at a movie theater in Louisiana a "mass shooting," well then it is.
We Americans would simply consider it a really bad movie.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0612hjs.
the report about child abuse and jehovah's witnesses is now live.. jehovah's witnesses handle child abuse cases.
jehovah's witnesses and child sexual abuse, the report - bbc radio 4 .
i recently heard angelo catanzaro, a rather prominent figure in the organization .. a long-time district overseer and a favorite of knorr's, died recently.
there was some indication that he and his wife figured out ttatt in their latter years and turned "apostate"... .
does anyone out there know what happened to them?
For what it's worth, this thread from 5 years ago mentions Catanzaro giving the opening prayer at the 2010 AM:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/200462/some-light-reading-from-october-2-2010
