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  2015-10-26 BOE Re: Video Equipment in Kingdom Halls

  by wifibandit in

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  pdf.

  the date of the letter is october but it was just released today, 2015-12-22..

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  NotBlind

  What ticks me off about the letter the most is that the local congregation just spent well over a thousand bucks almost exactly a year ago getting the projector and screen installed at the front of the hall, per the order of the RBC -- just about the same time as most of the congs in the USA installed their equipment, so they could watch TightPants Tony go on his hour-long rant.

  Now, a year later, they want the R&F to foot the bill for getting the screen & projector moved from very spot they wanted it in the first place.

  Talk about a group of high-control freaks!

  I hope the LDC moves faster on approving video systems than they do building KH's. Because otherwise there might be 3 video systems approved for installation NATIONWIDE over the course of a year.
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  JW's correlation to franchise business

  by jeremiah18:5-10 in

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  i operate a 31 restaurant franchise.

  it is no small task.

  the franchise is a well known american company and a rapidly growing one.

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  Interesting comparison, and quite true.

  My guess is that you're in the pizza business, if half of your orders are online. Papa John's most likely...
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  Oldest Kingdom Song

  by Bereano in

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  which kingdom song (used today by jw) is the oldest one?

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  NotBlind

  Notblind, would you please provide documentation for this? I'm not doubting but I'd really love to have the source so that I can share it with others.

  Sure:

  Proclaimers book page 241:

  Although singing in local congregations was largely dispensed with in about 1938, it was revived again in 1944 and continues to be a significant feature of the congregation meetings and convention programs of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  Oldest Kingdom Song

  by Bereano in

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  which kingdom song (used today by jw) is the oldest one?

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  NotBlind

  As mentioned above, I think the answer is "Jehovah Is My Shepherd", used continuously since the late 20's.

  Honorable mention goes to "Let Your Light Shine" which has been virtually unchanged since the 1944 red songbook. I think it was called "Fidelity" in the 1944 and 1950 books, but the lyrics & melody are nearly identical.

  Of course, "continuous" is a bit relative, since Booze Rutherford cancelled all songs and singing at the meetings in 1938, because it took too much time away from the preaching, in his opinion. Knorr had his numerous faults, but at least he did re-institute music at the meetings in 1944.
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  Br. Jackson Illustration: "Run, Idiot, Run!"

  by respectful_observer in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm not sure if this has already been posted and i just haven't seen it, but here's an email i received recently that gave me a chuckle.... ...................... run, idiot, run.

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  jackson of the governing body concluding a talk @ la district convention had this neat illustration at the very end of the convention.

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  NotBlind

  Wacko Jacko failed to mention that these are overlapping football fields, so the one-inch line is actually just the beginning of another 100 yards (years?) of false prophecies & false hopes.
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  KM - another evidence for the leaked letter

  by fastJehu in

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  the december kingdom ministry (km) is online.

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  no schedule for the first week in january 2016 - as in previous december kms.. so another evidence, that beginning with january 2016 the org will change the mid-week-meeting.. -----> download link: http://download.jw.org/files/media_publickm/72/km_e_201512.pdf.

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  NotBlind

  How appropriate that the last page of the last Kingdom Ministry ever is half-blank. Much like a store that's going out of business. The place is half empty and they're liquidating everything that's not nailed down - and some of the things that are nailed down.

  The Kingdom Misery literally ran out of things to say. They simply quit trying, they have given up, and they just turned the last 15 minutes of the last Service Meeting ever into a Local Needs part - as if to say "Will the last Witness please turn the lights out before you sign the deed over to us?"

  They don't even pretend to say anything of import anymore.
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  If you could name the theme of an assembly what would it be???

  by karter in

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  divine boredom.

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  NotBlind

  1984 - Kingdom Decrease
  

  1985 - Integrity Sleepers

  1986 - Divine Sleaze

  1987 - Trust in the BORG

  1988 - Divine Injustice - The Judicial Committee Way!

  1991 - Lovers of Slavery
  

  1992 - Bearers of Darkness

  1993 - Repetitive Teaching

  1997 - Faith in Tightpants Tony's Word

  1999 - Crazy Freddie's Prophetic Word

  2003 - Give The Governing Body Glory

  2005 - Organizational Obedience

  2006 - Deliverance at Hand Since 1874!

  2007 - Follow the Splane!

  2008 - Guided by the Spirit of a Fart in the Wind in the GB Conference Room

  2009 - Keep on the (16,000-dollar Apple) Watch!

  2010 - Remain Close to the Contribution Box!

  2013 - Tightpants Tony's Word is Truth!

  2015 - Imitate the Biggest Contributor in Your Kingdom Hall!
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  A Balanced View of Money. Sept Awake.

  by ToesUp in

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  how do you view money?.

  a self-examination might alert you to the need to acquire a balanced view of money.

  for example, ask yourself the following questions.. am i attracted to get-rich-quick schemes?.

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  Am I attracted to get-rich-quick schemes?

  You mean schemes like forcing over 110,000 congregations to empty their bank accounts to send them to 'Mother'?
  

  Do I find it difficult to be generous with my money?

  You mean a so-called religious organization that spends ZERO funds caring for its aged or poor R&F members?
  

  Do I resort to lying or to other unethical practices in order to make money?

  Such as claiming that thousands of new Kingdom Halls need to built in the USA within four years, and 9 months later we see SQUAT?
  

  Does money make me feel important?

  Such as wearing a $16,000 Gold Apple Watch Edition, or wearing a shiny Rolex on your monthly internet TV show, while thousands of your members in the developing world have to scrape together piggy bank coins, forgo ice cream cones, and stage bake sales to fund new Assembly Halls and Kingdom Halls?
  

  Am I always thinking about money?

  You mean, like not letting a month go by without telling the R&F they need to be sending more and MORE money to fund your pet projects?
  All excellent advice from the Awake magazine! It sounds like the GB need to read this article and apply it in their own lives.
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  WE NEED MORE MONEY! (Letter sent to Mexico re: JW Broadcasting of May 2015).

  by avaddohn94 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know if they're making similar arrangements in other parts of the world but below you will find the letter (and the translation attempt) they're sending to all the congregations in mexico and central america asking them to modify their september 21 and september 28 service meeting programs.. after watching jackson's gold apple watch and lett's pinky ring one can only assume they are a bunch of brazen, shameless and greedy bastards!.

  the letter has already been uploaded at the spanish forum and you can find it if you click here or see the attached picture.. the translation "attempt" is as follows:.

  august 1, 2015. to all congregations.

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  And now that the value of the Mexican peso has dropped against the US dollar by almost 20% in recent months, the 'friends' need to be reminded to increase their donations proportionally, so their contributions can buy just as many athletic facilities, Warwick swimming pools, Rolexes, and Gold Apple Watches as before!
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  What Kingdom Halls do you know of that have been closed down recently?

  by 4thgen in

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  recently, we drove by the kingdom hall in galena, il, the sign was removed and it was closed down.

  a while back, the hall in taylor mo was also closed.

  one congregation in peoria, il was dissolved last year.

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  A few years ago 3 congs in southern IL were merged into one - both Carbondale and Anna IL were simultaneously shut down due to lack of interest and sent to the hall in Murfreesboro IL. Even that cong is now struggling I hear. I know of lots of others that were closed in the past few years - East Prairie MO, Shawneetown IL, and Flora IL all closed due to lack of interest.

  Many, if not most English congs in rural America are teetering on the brink. Most of them are just a few families away from being shut down. Expect more to be closed as the money dries up.