i swear you just cannot make this stuff up.
i just heard from an older sister in the hall that donald's trump son-in-law bought part of the brooklyn heights compound, i think she said the 25 building but what ever.
she than went on to say and to quote her "the donald knows it's the truth.
Next rumor in JW-land: Donald Trump is studying with JW's!
To be honest, Donald Trump would make a great GB member: he's a bully, pulls most of his ideas right out of his ass, never apologizes, lies openly, and has a bunch of clueless idiots as followers.
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the date of the letter is october but it was just released today, 2015-12-22..
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.
i operate a 31 restaurant franchise.
it is no small task.
the franchise is a well known american company and a rapidly growing one.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?.
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?
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.
