Posts by breakfast of champions

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Additional BOE Letter: Please Be Advised that Further Direction Will Soon be Sent to the Bodies of Elders...

by TTATTelder in

dear brothers:.

we are writing as a follow-up to the letters dated january 24, 2014, and march 29, 2014,. to all congregations regarding the adjustments now underway to accelerate construction of king-.

dom halls and assembly halls.. .

breakfast of champions

I sure bet they're worried when they hear that people think their loan has been forgiven and they no longer have to pay it. - ONE EYED JOE

Well they should worry because that's what they said one page one of their letter! Serves them right. Liars.

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How did HQ handle the increase of new JWs leading up to 1975?

by Zoos in

this new donation arrangement under the pretense that so many new halls are needed to accommodate the worldwide increase has me wondering.

the numbers in the current annual reports don't show anywhere near the increase as there was leading up to the 1975 debacle.

so how did the gb of the time handle a genuine need for more kingdom halls?.

breakfast of champions

This is a great question.

Just checked jwfacts.com, and publisher growth was 15% before 1975. Even in the 1980s growth was above 5%.

Now here we are in 2014 with publisher growth somewhere between 1-3%, and yet there's this UNPRECEDENTED, EPIC NEED to build more shit.

That doesn't add up, but not to worry!

Watchtower has disabled everyone's critical thinking skills.

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Scientists create synthetic base pairs that can replicate in a living cell

by cantleave in

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so we now have the ability to create new codons, insert them in a living cell and watch them replicate - amazing stuff.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleno/39913/title/augmenting-the-genetic-alphabet/.

living organisms have two sets of dna base pairsadenine paired with thymine and cytosine paired with guaninethat together encode the 20 amino acids used to make proteins in the cell.

That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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leaving the university with my degree!.

exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!

The Big Mistake: celebrating 100 year of Kingdom Rule (1914)

by Gorbatchov in

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the watchtower society has announced the celebration of 100 year of kingdom rule since 1914.. in recent history, more dictorial regimes has celebrated their years of rule.. i see the society's celebration as the big mistake.

it's a boomerang, a double edged sword.. during and in the aftermath of the celebration there is a change that the institution, the watchtower system, will breakdown.. just like the german demoratic republic, celebrating their 40 years of rule!

in a few month's time the gdr was gone.. gorby.

breakfast of champions

Interesting parallel there, GORBY

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"They've made us debt FREE !!!"

by gingerbread in

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so proclaimed the brother that read the wt letter tonight that explained the new kingdom hall funding arrangement.. everyone in the hall claps .... well, like it was the last talk on the district convention.. he says 'what bank would wipe out a debt of $200,000 ???

only jehovah's organization!

isn't this wonderful !!!".

breakfast of champions

The LEGAL DEPT must have gotten involved and decided they needed evidence that the $$$ was NOT related to a payback of loans - DOC

I think you're onto something there. However, by just mentioning that the kind of money they were expecting was on par with at least the same amount as the mortgage payment, the elders are already primed with the notion of how much to kick in.

HOWEVER, the congregation has NO IDEA what page 2 says, and will donate accordingly, i.e., not much.

Their two levels of information may come back to bite them in the ass.

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"They've made us debt FREE !!!"

by gingerbread in

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so proclaimed the brother that read the wt letter tonight that explained the new kingdom hall funding arrangement.. everyone in the hall claps .... well, like it was the last talk on the district convention.. he says 'what bank would wipe out a debt of $200,000 ???

only jehovah's organization!

isn't this wonderful !!!".

breakfast of champions

ANNOMALY - I think that's exactly what will happen. Even my wife said Who is going to continue to contribute big bucks when it was just read from the stage that there is no more loan repayment?

I mean, we're talking JWs here, the cheapest (and brokest) people on earth.

I'm sure there will be "adjustments."

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Yoga

by FL_Panthers in

one elder in my cong told me that this is a df offense?

is this true?

can yoga be practised?.

breakfast of champions

My favorite Star Wars character.

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Comstock Sign Systems!

by Atlantis in

comstock sign systems .

http://www.comstocksigns.com/files/kingdom-hall-signs.pdf .

.. petra.

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Thanks for the insight on the sign biz and prices, INDIAN LARRY.

I know when my local KH needed a new PA amplifier, the RBC directed the congregation to a "brother".

He wanted to sell them a TOA mixer/amplifier for literally twice as much as you could get it for at Sam Ash - yet the brothers followed the "direction" of the RBC.

Have also heard brothers experinced in commercial construction remark on how expensive RBC building materials are - all sourced by our fine "brothers".

What a scam!

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Embarrassed by Aggressive Apostates

by ShempLives in

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xjw protests & videos.

.. i am disturbed by some of the more aggressive apostates posting videos on youtube,like "a jw memorial to remember" where a drunk man goes to a memorial and downs the whole glass of wine as a sort of protest.

this video and others like it received positive comments from aawa members.

breakfast of champions

I second what FOUND SHEEP said.

"Six Screens" ( whatever in the hell that means ) was my first internet run-in with apostates, and it lived up to all of the watchtower's propaganda.