Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

a few words like the above pronounced at the beginning of the study would be far more beneficial than to occupy the same time in singing songs, which often express much that is out of harmony with the truth of and concerning god's kingdom.watchtower/1938/may/1st/pg.139 .

back then, they had what was called: order of study, and this is what every overseer was instructed to say to the audience.. .

dropoffyourkeylee

One factor that has developed in recent years, at least in the US, is that of copyright and royalties to songwriters. There are organizations which specialize in collecting royalties on behalf of the songwriters or copyright holders, which threaten lawsuits unless paid. I know of some churches which have to pay a sum every year so they can use their hymnbooks, even though they had been using the same hymns for years before without paying. The WT has changed their songs so that none of the tunes or words are the same or even resemble any existing hymn.

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Request----Federal Post Office Inspector!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

atlantis:.

do you have a copy of a letter that was sent out by a congregation overseer, with a complaint from the federal post office inspector, concerning letters being sent out by jw's?.

yes, i have it, but very few people show any interest in the letters anymore.

dropoffyourkeylee

Thanks, I was able to view the document in the first of the two links.

I don't doubt the veracity of the letter, but I do question whether it was truly the Postal Inspection Service which made a complaint. I worked for the USPS for almost twenty years, and they don't use the name Federal PO Inspector, nor do they use the acronym FPOI. The Inspection Service doesn't get involved much in routine complaints, they have bigger fish to fry; mail fraud, theft of the mails, etc. I think it more likely that a local supervisor had received complaints and made a call to the elder.

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"We're In The Last Days Of The Last Days!"... So Say's Old Rubberface

by pale.emperor in

have you seen this on jworg?.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.

2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.

dropoffyourkeylee

LOL I just found out where Lett gets his face gestures. He must have been a fan of the Davy Crockett show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTavIPmTFYs

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Request----Federal Post Office Inspector!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

atlantis:.

do you have a copy of a letter that was sent out by a congregation overseer, with a complaint from the federal post office inspector, concerning letters being sent out by jw's?.

yes, i have it, but very few people show any interest in the letters anymore.

dropoffyourkeylee

I would like to see it, if you can post it with any personal names omitted.

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JWN poster/forum member Jada known as 'serenitynow' passed away...

by Joliette in

found out on fb friday .

not sure if anyone else found out, but i take long breaks from the exjws movement.

had to do a serious search for her name, because she wasnt as active on jwn anymore...not sure how she passed but her sister said (according to another ex jws) that she had been sick for a while.. i met her once here in milwaukee, had a great time hanging out with her.

dropoffyourkeylee

RIP

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False members numbers

by asp59 in

is watchtower faking there member numbers?

i live in europe.

for the last 15 year's probably 25 person i knew or more were df, pimo, left by own will, inactive.

dropoffyourkeylee

Ditto Dreary,

The count of JWs is defined as the ones who are active publishers, which is in turn defined as those who have reported at least once in the previous 6 months. They have lowered the bar a bit in recent years to allow less than an hour to be reported (as little as 15 minutes, I think), but other than that the way they count has essentially stayed the same for years.

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King Richard

by Rattigan350 in

there is this new movie out called "king richard" staring will smith playing serena and venus williams father.

i don't know much about this, but i heard that they were raised by jw parents.

how does that factor into the movie and their growing up aspiring tennis stars?.

dropoffyourkeylee

I had read that the mother was a JW but the father was not.