I don't know about Canada, but in the US over the past decade or so they have made movements to get the deeds of KH properties written so the property belongs to the WT, and not to the local congregation. The result ultimately is that the WT entity 'RBC', Regional Building Committee or something like that, can arbitrarily sell a KH and make the congregation double up use of a KH. Years ago each KH was built, financed, owned and managed by the local congregation with little or no reference to the WT corporation nationally. Now it is different and they (RBC) are using sale of volunteer-built KHs as a money raising scheme.
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Unnoticed 2018 merger in Qubec
by Corney inthree years ago, on september 1 - 4, 2018, watch tower society of quebec (la tour de garde, société de bibles et de traités du québec), finalised its merger ("voluntary amlgamation") with "123 incorporated congregations of jehovah's witnesses in quebec," with kingdom halls owned by these incorporated congregations (total book value - ca$114,390,856, or 92 million usd) becoming assets of the society.
quebec congregations continue to exist as unincorporated associations and registered charities, while wt quebec only "manages, maintains and constructs" khs ("in cooperation with" wt canada and jw congregation support (formerly regional building committee)) and appoints certain elders to officiate marriages in the province.. sources: .
https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplybscsrch .
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Juneteenth
by minimus inare you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I think it is just after eleventy-first day of the June
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Attitudes of People 👎
by minimus ini have to share.
i went to the supermarket last night and got one item.
i placed the 10 dollar bill on the item.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I certainly agree that sales clerks are rude sometimes and they shouldn't be, but I am wondering a bit about the OP. Stores have to deal a lot with problems like counterfeit money, shoplifters, even armed robberies, and they probably have instructions on such things. Clever thieves have ways of distracting the staff, for instance placing paper money on the counter and letting it fall onto the floor, and while the staff is bending down to pick it up the thief pockets something, or his accomplice does so. So there might have been something else going on in the OP.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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dropoffyourkeylee
Ray Franz in one of his books speaks at some length about the deathbed scene at Beth Sarim. I believe it was Knorr, Covington, and Fred Franz who were there and Rutherford kind of passes the torch (mantle) to them, or so they claimed.
Also, Knorr did very little writing; Fred Franz most likely wrote the book referred to.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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dropoffyourkeylee
Here is the video of Rutherford at Beth Sarim.
This is edited and slowed down in spots, unfortunately, but it is essentially the same I had seen before:
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Awake is back! India used in every illustration???
by JWTom inas someone else noted.
why is the new awake a setting in india in every illustration?.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I heard that Andre is back and is running the Awake magazine now.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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dropoffyourkeylee
There is a video out there somewhere that shows Rutherford drinking from a glass, and it sure looks like he is inebriated. Maybe someone can provide a link to it.
I don't think Rutherford was any more or less a charlatan than Russell, Franz or any of the others, but I do think that he a shocking disregard for his followers. He instituted doctrines and practices that hurt people, and he didn't seem to care. I believe he intentionally provoked a lot of the legal issues in the '30's and into the '40's just so he could get court cases on the books to establish precedents. Likewise, his deliberate provocation of Hitler in the '30s was a terrible action, ultimately causing the death or incarceration of many of the Bible Students.
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JWD oldtimers
by Gorb inhi friends,.
are here still some oldtimers from the earlier jwd time?
gorby .
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dropoffyourkeylee
I have been on for 10 years, read every day or so. Posted 1600 times, which seems like a lot, can't believe it is that many.
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Dante's Inferno 1911 film
by dropoffyourkeylee ini just watched a 1911 silent film of dante's inferno, with recently (2016) added soundtrack.
the film was produced in italy, but the captions in this copy are in english.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brukyhvsvfg.
rather disturbing, to say the least.. curiously, very little of dante's depiction of hell is hot hellfire.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I just watched a 1911 silent film of Dante's Inferno, with recently (2016) added soundtrack.
The film was produced in Italy, but the captions in this copy are in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRUkyHvsvfg
Rather disturbing, to say the least.
Curiously, very little of Dante's depiction of hell is hot hellfire. In fact in the closing scene, it is a pit of ice. I'm not sure where Dante got that; I don't think it is Catholic doctrine.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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dropoffyourkeylee
Concerning the current WT cemetery at Wallkill, the burials are accessible online:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2403939/memorial-search?page=1#sr-86507218
Rutherford is not listed there, I don't think this graveyard existed in the '40's. The oldest burial I see is AH MacMillan in '66. Curiously, there are entries for a number of people who haven't died yet, maybe they have gravestones there in advance for some reason. Hmmm.
There have been threads on this site before about Rutherford's burial. If I remember correctly, they wanted to bury him at Beth Shan or Beth Sarim, but the zoning authorities wouldn't allow it. Where he ended up I don't know, but other websites suggest the WT had a cemetery on Staten Island where he was buried.