a few official instructions jw delegates are being told leading up to the international conventions.
congregation secretaries are holding conference calls and then relating the instructions to the congregation.. atlanta - do not drive to convention, parking will not be available.
take public transportation; attendants will be on all public transit and able to assist.. dallas - attendants will be on site at all hotels to make sure delegates leave the hotel at their assigned times and take their assigned route.
ooh, mugger money like at NYC Bethel. - BLONDIE
You're talking about Brooklyn Bethel 20-30 years ago.
Closest you'll come to being mugged in Brooklyn now is a hipster charging you $4 for a coffee.
Amazing how "this system" is just getting worse by the minute. . . .
i was 13yo and largely clueless to what was going on.
i think i remember hearing something about an apostate being weeded out of bethel but really couldn't have cared less.
i didn't start getting zealous until a couple of years later.. .
I think I was 10 or 11. . . . I remember a bethelite talking with glee, practically giddy with the idea that "apostates" were "rooted out" from among jehovas people like "rats from a sewer." . . .. . .
Even then I thought to myself, This guy is friggin insane!
i definitely look like a worldly person by jw standards... however i went to my old hall because they are remodelling and they are in the final p[hase.
it was not on purpose.
i had bnusiness on the street and happened to drive past.
Wow, dude. . . That was a short but powerful story.
yesterday, on the thread i started on 4/15/14, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/279088/1/essay-by-barbara-anderson-whats-in-a-name#.u1e98jao7l9 that introduces a recent article i wrote which is posted on www.watchtowerdocuments.org , i thought i made an inaccurate statement in one of my posts about wt having a sign, jw.org, on the top of one of their buildings.
i was sure i had seen a photo of such a sign but couldn't prove it until last night when proof was sent to me in an email and the proof is to be found in the form of links to photos of the sign.
i was wrong in thinking the sign was on a wt factory building.
"I wonder what Jehovah's reasoning is. He isn't a cool, sophisticated god who can hold his own in NYC."- BOTR
Evidently, Jehovah is no Hipster.
after knowing ttatt for many years now...i had made up my mind long ago that after 2014, i would no-longer subject myself to the boredom, pain, and frustration of following this cult...the wt...the borg.. so...i made up my mind that since the wtbts/gb makes such a big deal as to the "significance" of the year 1914 and this year 2014, there can be no greater time for me to leave it all behind.
i daydreamed of how awesome and telling it would be if everyone that could ( because i do know that some have personal circumstances of their own, as i did too) would just .... walkout...never to attend/step foot in a kingdom hall from that moment on.. independence day of sorts?
there is too much evidence, too many videos, blogs, books, news reports and lawsuits for me to keep lying to myself.
I like the idea of setting a date if you want to go out with a bit of a "bang."
The society has been setting dates for over a century, why not set your own!
so we had our elders meeting to discuss the 3/29 lboe...it was was many of you expressed.
below are some of the quotes from the elders:.
"we just need to keep the focus on jehovah's work, remind the friends of this".
XBEHERE - appreciate your insights from behind the door of "the back room."
i just found this video they released on their official website.
sorry if this was already posted.
(if not i thought some might have some thoughts about it).
"If you had not accepted the truth, you would to this day be hopeless and unhappy." - William Malenfent (surely a future GB candidate)
This is truly the biggest lie of all, and one of the scare tactics that keeps people in.
Black and White Thinking and Emotional Control all neatly wrapped up into one short sentence.
spent a lovely day yesterday in nyc with my lovely daughter off of school for spring break.
i like parking on the upper east side near the met.
look at art until mid afternoon or so, then catch a cab down to chinatown or lil italy for late lunch.
I know folks who are involved the "table work" in NYC, and what matters most to them is the numbers (no surprise). They might place 80 books a day and 100 magazines. This is impressive to them, they're getting the word out, at least that's what they believe.
I told them Wow, that's pretty impressive! But how many bible studies have been started that have progressed to the point of baptism in the past 2 years of your congregation doing this?
Answer: none.
So in hte end, thousands of hours have been spent, tens of thousands of pieces of literature have been placed, hundreds of conversations have occured (yes, some New Yorkers do stop and talk. But more often than not they are quite on "the fringe" if you catch my drift) and in the end, the final result is: 0.
a non jw relative who is a staunch critic of the wt attends the memorial with us every year, but just because she enjoys worshiping with her relatives.
she fought against my parents becoming witnesses before i was born.
she owns the book 30 years a wt slave and suggested i read it.
Very astute observation!
2014-03-29 adjustment to financing kingdom hall and assembly hall construction worldwide.
pdf version: http://adf.ly/juxnc.
instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.
This shall be interesting. . . .
For instance, in a nearby congregation actually needing a new hall (the place is pretty shot), an elderly brother (no family) died and left a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money to THE CONGREGATION -not THE SOCIETY.
Evidently - and yes, I am not 100% sure on this and that is why I am using that word - a couple of elders from the congregation played a role in convincing this old guy NOT to leave the money to the Society as he intended, but to give it to his local cong to cover expenses in for the new local building project. They knew that if he had donated it to the Society, the local cong would have never seen a cent.
The elder in charge of this whole thing was crowing about how "Jehovah provides. . . .. . "
But from page four of this letter, I get the impression that congregations like this, with $100k's in a local bank account are being "compelled" to simply turn that money over to the society.
I'm sure that if resistance to this wonderful "new arrangement" is detected, the CO will certainly "encourage" the elders to fork it over. Am I correct in thinking this? If so, in halls like this and others like it, I think they might have more Menlo Parks on their hands. . .
