so it occurred to me how crazy the wts is and has been.. if i am 25 years old and my parents had me when they were 25, my grandparents were 25 when they had my parents, and their parents were 25 and so on and we were witnesses, what would we think?.
my point?.
my great, great, great grandparents were around 25 years old when the judge was promoting the end of times in the 1870s.
I get the intent you are stating TTWSFY.
You raise a good question as to what we tell our own young people.
I guess we can learn from the past and at the very least not repeat the mistakes of our loved ones who went before us.
Thanks for your thought provoking post!
i was 19 and being considered for ms. i went out of town to see my jw girlfriend during co visit and he was so butthurt he decided i wasn't ready!.
i thought jehovah decided?.
go figure.
Hold on folks!
If Herelgo is still inside, he may not be considered eligible for marriage unless he is an M.S. according to what Anthony Morris said. Remember?
Get appointed, get the girl, step aside? Is that even a plan?
Sad, all the jockying for position that this religion creates.
What kind of plan is it really?
september 21, 2016 to all congregations re: global assistance arrangement for the 2017 service year.
ps to bodies of elders:.
this postscript should not be read to the congregation, and this letter should not be placed on the noticeboard.
StephaneLaliberte
wow DwainBowman and millie210 I didn't know that the watchtower could be coercive at such a strong level. I'm not even being sarcastic here. I just didn't know they'd go that far.
I wouldnt have thought so either.....at one time - in the past.
Now when I read about the California Halls closing down as well as others in various areas combined with closing branches and the Bethelites that worked in them being sent home.....
its stunning quite frankly.
hello.
does anyone know what the campaign in october is going to be about?.
i was just thinking back to some parts i conducted.
when other publishers were involved in the part, its success often depended on how well rehearsed the participants were.
timing, proper interplay of dialogue, dramatic impact, etc.. as the one giving the part or as one drafted to do a demo, did your elders require rehearsals?.
Yes. Rehearsals. Yawn.
Like CoCo said...as if we didnt have enough to do!
i may not have put this in the correct spot, but i do think it's scandalous the way time gets counted now.
i've seen a cart at the edge of our farmer's market, never anyone close enough to talk.
yesterday was a drizzly day and there were two carts set up, covered in plastic, "witnessing" on their own.
yes..
the C.O.s refer to your time in service as being like your vital signs.
No service? No pulse.
i may not have put this in the correct spot, but i do think it's scandalous the way time gets counted now.
i've seen a cart at the edge of our farmer's market, never anyone close enough to talk.
yesterday was a drizzly day and there were two carts set up, covered in plastic, "witnessing" on their own.
Oh my gosh Emma....
that picture is truly worth a 1000 words!
i am still in and was assigned to collect the contribution after the meeting.
i checked the boxes with another brother and there was nothing inside.
no contributions were made that day.
Interesting Simon T.
Since every ying has a yang and every coin has a flip side...
in the above scenario who is on the opposite side from the "cheapskates"
I wonder?
In the elders mind?
Could it be the gratuitous money grabbers?
pure speculation here but i'm wondering if - with the numbers flat-lining - that the gb will stop giving country by country stats, or perhaps at least some of the statistics.. we used to get a monthly stat in the km - then that was "simplified" to "highlights".
only the "good" stuff.
then with the new clam workbook, no stats at all.. i wonder if the yearbook will soon only contain "positive" spun stats.
Thank you Gayle and Sir82.
Your answers make sense.
New question is in my head now...since the Spanish rates are keeping things afloat how long can this last?
I had heard rumblings that the Spanish are getting more and more disenchanted and not staying as "in the lines" as the more
Anglo/Puritan based/Protestant derived, U.S. brothers (this would include the GB).
hi, my name is jason.
i was born in 1987 in nsw, australia into a jehovahs witness household (my parents were baptised mere months before i was born) with 2 older siblings (brother and sister) and in time a younger brother.
i had a pretty happy childhood, we moved to north brisbane by the time i was 5 years old.
Welcome and keep writing!
