there are several confirmed announcements in some congregations around the city regarding the sale of the assembly kingdom hall.
one of the reasons why it will be sold is that expenses are not covered by donations.
the hall was dedicated in 2009. actually, in some congregations the elders have not given the announcement for the publisher's reaction... .
Not sure I follow.
Won't the branch just charge the 60 pesos a head plus a fee for the rental of the "worldly" facility?
No, unless they change their policy (which isn't out of the question). Currently, circuits that rent outside facilities for circuit assemblies pay the rental cost directly to the management. Usually a lot cheaper than an assembly hall.
there are several confirmed announcements in some congregations around the city regarding the sale of the assembly kingdom hall.
one of the reasons why it will be sold is that expenses are not covered by donations.
the hall was dedicated in 2009. actually, in some congregations the elders have not given the announcement for the publisher's reaction... .
That assembly hall is used only by the Mexico (now officially called Central America) Branch. JW's from the USA don't go there. There's a similar situation in the Rio Grande Valley, with 2 assembly halls almost literally across the border from each other (La Feria TX / Reynosa MX).
Assembly halls are big money makers for the WTS in Mexico. The current assembly hall rental fee (required 'donation') to use these paid-for facilities is 60 pesos per publisher, which is the equivalent of about USD$3.50. However, many Mexican families, especially among JW's, are poorer than their US counterparts.
When many JW families in Mexico are taking home about 150 pesos a day, a family with 3 kids as publishers are expected to pay up 300 pesos.
And for many assembly halls in Mexico, these are NOT suggested donations. Some circuits charge each congregation for their required donation, and in turn the elders charge each family for their part. I know of some congregations where the elders will go to your house and expect you to cough up your required donation before each assembly.
If you think the WTS grubs for money in the US, it's even worse in Mexico. Evidently, they weren't getting their expected profits in Juarez, so they'll just sell the building and pocket the profits.
In the end, this will be a better deal for the Juarez JW's. It will be a lot cheaper to pay a 'worldly' company to rent a building than to rent an assembly hall from the JW Corporation.
i dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.
but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.
in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.
In the USA, this has been going on for decades in the congs. The parents do it under the guise of shielding their innocent children from the 'wicked system'. Of course, these parents usually enroll their children in some cheap Witness internet homeschool like "Pear Blossom". After graduating from this joke of a school, these adolescents are equipped for wonderful careers such as regular pioneering, burger flipping, and window washing. Some graduates are even accepted to prestigious universities such as Pioneer Service School.
I know firsthand of parents who are high school dropouts themselves that decide to homeschool their children. They leave their adolescent son/daughter home alone to "do their schoolwork" online while both parents leave to work all day. Their 'innocent' JW child spends all day playing videogames, watching porn, and playing with themselves; little schoolwork gets done.
The official line from the Tower Slave International home office is that homeschool is neither promoted nor discouraged; it is a family decision. However, the powers that be have given a wink and a nod to homeschooling. Not once has it been criticized in the publications (how many things can we say that about?) The leaders of this organization know that homeschool (at least the way it's done by JW's) keeps JW kids that much more enslaved, dependent on the org, and less likely to think for themselves. Besides, the more educational & financial options that young people have, the less likely they are to stay in the religion.
Ironically, many homeschooled kids in my area turn 18, get a low-paying fast-food-type job, quickly find a 'worldly' boyfriend or girlfriend, and then fade or are DF'ed, never to set foot in a Kingdom Hell ever again.
how often are jws trying to cover a given territory nowadays?.
logically, they should be trying to cover the territory more and more often the closer armageddon gets, but it seems to me i see them out far less often than i used to..
Their goal is to cover all territories at least once a year. Congregations that can't do this can get assistance from the home office or surrounding congregations to cover their territories.
Of course, what they call 'cover' the territory is a lot different than it used to be. Lots of publishers knock so quietly that nobody would ever know they were there. Is there a No Trespassing sign anywhere on the premises? Skip the house! Nobody at home? Leave a tract and forget about it!
A lot of territory coverage (maybe 30 to 40%?) consists of Memorial/Convention invitation canvassing, where no real message is conveyed. Gone are the days when JW's prepared, rehearsed, and delivered a 4-5 minute sermon at the door which actually included Bible scriptures.
This generation of JW's seems more interested in making an appearance on Saturday morning, working a few houses, then hightailing it to McDonald's/Starbucks/Panera Bread for a lengthy break.
it's from 3 weeks ago.
my mum told me about it.
but is this real or fake?
There really was a Pope Hilarius I; he served for 7 years in the Fifth century.
which magazine is now the most widely circulated in the world?.
before responding, keep in mind that certain parameters (such as content and page count) ought to be met before any printed material intended for mass distribution can be categorized as a “magazine”.
for example, the absolute minimum range for any publication to be considered a magazine is typically around 32 to 48 pages while the highest page counts are usually around 128 to 160, with some popular women’s fashion magazines coming in quite a bit higher than that.. so with that said, which is now the world’s most widely circulated magazine?.
It's pretty pathetic when they can't even get people to take their 'magazine' for free.
which magazine is now the most widely circulated in the world?.
before responding, keep in mind that certain parameters (such as content and page count) ought to be met before any printed material intended for mass distribution can be categorized as a “magazine”.
for example, the absolute minimum range for any publication to be considered a magazine is typically around 32 to 48 pages while the highest page counts are usually around 128 to 160, with some popular women’s fashion magazines coming in quite a bit higher than that.. so with that said, which is now the world’s most widely circulated magazine?.
The Crotchtower 'magazine' is about as welcome as the flyers advertising payday loans they sometimes stick under my windshield wiper in the Walmart parking lot.
The Tower Slave International organization is 'clearly struggling', too. Even with a 140-year-old network of worldwide distribution, eager slaves willing to spend their own cash to distribute their message, a slick website, and a free 24-hour TV channel, they only average 2 to 4 people to sign on for boobtism at an average circuit assembly (and most of them are pre-pubescent children or mentally challenged).
blondie’s comments you will not hear at the march 5, 2017 wt study (january 2017) (trust jah).
excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .
bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .
Good analysis, as always.
Paragraph 17 was the most memorable for me. The elderly lady literally has no food in her refrigerator, but she sure as heII better find some dough for the Tower Slave International organization! Where are the elders and the loving pioneers and the circuit overseers then? They like to give assembly experiences of families with no money that magically found a bag of groceries on their doorstep, but when has this organization ever honestly encouraged feeding the poor/hungry? Those circuit overseers leeches have their hands outstretched for another green handshake when they have an old widow with no food in her fridge?
You literally cannot make this up!!
Somehow, they took a fairly harmless psalm about doing what is good and trusting in God and turned it into another money-grubbing session!
Paragraph 15 is a close second, with the other elderly lady who's living alone and on oxygen. She could be listening in on the phone tie-in, but NO! The all-knowing elders probably told her she didn't qualify. She better get her keister to the Kingdom Hell so she can drop some more of her dead husband's money into the contribution box.
And the young sister next to her had better wake up soon, or else she'll be even worse off in 50 years time!
march 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: update on local design/construction arrangement.
This is now the 2nd video in about 6 months that will be played at Kingdom Hells about the LDC 'arrangement.' And when I say arrangement, I mean shell game.
These people are producing more videos about LDC than the LDC is producing building projects. It's now been over 2 years since the big 3-hour online elders' assembly, and the number of KH's this great arrangement has produced in the USA is barely out of the single digits.
Meanwhile, congregation savings accounts were confiscated, circuit savings accounts were confiscated, local congregations with paid-for buildings are being told to pay an eternal rent/payment toward future construction, GB members are begging for money on TV, donated tools and machinery were sold for cold hard cash, printing of magazines has been all but shut down, hundreds of millions of dollars were gained from the sale of Brooklyn, and the few thinking JW's that are left are wondering where all the money went.
This organization is in full lockdown mode, and once Warwick is fully operational (within a few weeks), they will hunker down even more.
The LDC has existed for about 2 years, but it is already a failure. The lack of building projects (whether new construction or remodels) has not gone unnoticed by the R&F. This failed LDC idea will soon go the way of the Green Bible, the Pioneer Assist Others program, and the Trinity Brochure. Soon, the GB will declare the LDC arrangement a smashing victory, say it is no longer needed, and replace it with something else.
If anyone with half a brain questioned whether God was directing the Tower Slave International organization, observing the folly of the do-nothing LDC should remove all doubt.
and it is ... why do most at the hall prefer to sit at the back and leave front rows empty?.
If you go to any meeting and the first several rows are empty, it's a good sign that most of the attendees don't really want to be there. I've seen this at business conferences, sales meetings, and JW meetings. Deep down in their hearts, they don't want to be there. They'd rather be at home watching TV, sleeping in, anything but sitting in an ill-fitting suit or dress being lectured to for 2 hours.
If the Tower Slave International corporation actually cared enough about their slaves to make the meetings interesting, relevant, and engaging, people would want to sit 'closer to the action.' But as it is, the meetings are mandatory, and the corporate bosses have no incentive to improve the quality of these twice-a-week sales conferences.
HeII, even most of the elders don't want to be at the meetings. Most of them find an excuse to get up several times in the span of 2 hours, to go to the bathroom, fiddle with the sound department, piddle around behind the counter, talk to someone in the library, poke around at the dis-information board. I even know of one elder who made a comment during paragraph 1 of the WT, went out to lunch, and was back in time for the review box.
It's all about making a show, ya' know.
Almost none of these people really want to be there.
