i read not long ago that the wts rakes in some big bucks every year from sales of printed materials.
can someone please help me understand who pays for their materials.
in the country where i live, it seems they distribute their literature free of charge.
If the "contributions" dont match the value of the material listed on the shipping invoice, the congregation secratary "contributes" the difference out of the congregations local donation arrangement for that month.
Headquarters ALWAYS get their cash for whatever is sent out to the congregations ALWAYS.
since there isn't an "other" forum.. my hubby is a die-hard regular razor kinda guy.
i want to buy him a nice electric (or cordless) shaver for christmas (help cut his shave time in half).
i went to consumer reports to see what they said - and they haven't reviewed it.. does anyone have any recommendations?.
buy a Braun
i just read this article in the chicago sun times.
when i started reading the parents were religious and then saw home-schooling, i had a gut feeling they were jw's.
i read on and found out i was right.
This sounds eerily familiar to my homelife as a JW. My parents love was the motivation behind many a beating. How grateful I am that they did not spare the rod. I really had it coming. My room was often a mess and Oh how disrespectful I was.
Now that I am grown, I show my appreciation for my strict JW upbringing by not talking to my parents. Its a really nice relationship. As I put myself through college and raise a family of my own, it only seems appropriate that I pay them back for all the "help" they gave me. It just seems appropriate that they havnt been in my new home. I think the prevelence of peace and happiness I enjoy at my home would make them feel uncomfortable anyway.
ok all you ex's, be honest.
do you ever have that little voice pop in your head and say "what if - just what if they're right?".
it happens to me on occasion and i've been totally out for years.
What do you mean boring? At my old hall we threw out the Theo-Ministry school and had Karokee Thursdays. Sat morns we would break into foursoms and have a weekly golf invitational(for Jehovah) instead of service. In the mid-ninetees the sound dept got a turn-table and used to mix their own kingdom-melodies. I used to mope around the house when it wasnt a "meeting night". The Org has so much to offer kids. Why they leave is beyond me. What I really miss are the WT sponsered canoe trips for ALL the kids at the hall if a kid was too poor it didnt matter cause the WT paid for them to have a good time. What memories!
yep, here we go again --- yet another article about a .
witness surviving nazi persecution (awake dec.22, 01).
the society seems obsessed with nazis - i would think.
Didn't the Nazis persecute homosexuals as well? What does that prove? The Witnesses should be thanking guys like my grandpa who fought(and risked his own life) and helped defeat Hitler.
Bitter- I too am a huge Weezer fan. Do you have their latest album? It's one of my favorites.
a response to an inquiry about gaining access to u.n. libraries:.
dear mr. brewer,.
in answer to your questions:.
So the WT did not need to sign on as an NGO to gain access? They could have simply requested a pass? So they are either really dumb or lying? Astonishing!
ok all you ex's, be honest.
do you ever have that little voice pop in your head and say "what if - just what if they're right?".
it happens to me on occasion and i've been totally out for years.
Plotting your death is a full time job for God. He will hold you responsible for an eternity based on what you do with your 70-80 living years on earth. Celebrating a birthday makes his job really easy.
my question is,if it is true that only j.w's will survive then surely everybody on the planet should at least get the option of becoming a witness,but there are people living in remote parts of the world who rarely come into contact with civilisation,im pretty sure there are still small tribes of people living in some rainforest who haven't even been discovered yet,where do theses people fit in,do they just perish like the rest of us?.
sorry if this is a daft question,been on the guinness all night!
yep-God is indiscriminating when it comes to slaughtering people. Those indiginous people living in the trees of Brazil should should know that God wants them wearing neckties and swinging from hut to hut for him.
* http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=15355&site=3.
in the above thread i referred to my parents as 'jackasses' and even 'nitwits'.. i was taken to task by a dear friend who read my words and was hurt by them!.
so i will attempt to explain myself without making any apologies, because he was right--i should not have referred to them in that manner.. gozz, your words to me were on target.
I tried to send it to you, did you get it?
