if you actively do fs on a trolley i would love you to answer this question.
if you don't but know publishers that do can you ask them please.. are you told not to approach anyone unless they approach you as part of your trolley training?.
thanks kate xx.
This is very telling about how urgent this work really is.
I wonder if a big city found out that the water was not safe to drink, would they set up a trolley with flyers and make a rule to not approach anybody unless they came to the trolley first?
You can really tell how unimportant it is whether or not these books make it to the general public. From the ORG's perspective these have already been paid for, so for all they care, you can make a bonfire with them.
in sorting insurances out updating , i just mentioned to my wife who is 'in' that in the event you have to claim "dont give any of it to anyone else".. there was a pause i didnt like.. comments by others on this site indicated the wts has been beating the drum for $$ i fear what she may have agreed to.. to those who have insurance it is not.. not to go, not a cent to the wts as they have belittled anyone taking out insurance or retirement benefits.. my insurance has been created to keep her and our handicapped offspring not the gb on a building spree..
When an individual dies they are no longer legally married so a spouse has no claim to a policy not in their name.
What?? You are not legally married yes, but you were before you were DEAD.
in the USA, if you live in a state where there is community property, your spouse automatically gets half of everything you have. You can leave your half to whoever you want to.
In some other states, it's different. The spouse doesn't get half automatically, but is entitled to a portion of what you own, but has to seek this via the court system. In these states without community property, if you have a trust and your spouse is not the beneficiary, she is not entitled to anything, BUT
unless you have received written agreement from her to be excluded, she can seek and often get at least a portion of that money as well.
sometimes this sounds good...but....forever?
forever in a jw idea of perfection?
does this mean no sports, or detective tv shows, or bad neighborhoods?
And who will do all the drudge jobs? Cleaning sewers, digging holes, lifting heavy things etc?
Forget that. That's something that JWs can probably do. Now, think electricity. Who's going to run nuclear powerplants and maintain them? Know any laborers and window washers that can do it? You want to go visit family in europe? Who's flying the planes and who's managing air traffic control?
Need gas for your tractor? Better forget that, because no one will be operating the refineries. So go right ahead and bring out the old shovel, because there are no supermarkets either, so you better get used to potatoes, onions and not much else, because all of the pineaples, and bananas are in South America where they belong and there are no distributing companies. What was that? Steak dinner? Nope, no more of that either. All of the cows are playing with lions in your front yard, and you can't touch them.
So after a long hard day of working the fields trying to grow some spinash and onions to eat, time to eat them and sit back and relax, watch your favorite show on Tv. Oh right! The people that ran TV stations and produced shows and wrote interesting books were all killed. I guess it's back to the pile of Washtowell magazines for yet another night of reading of how great Jehoober is for taking away everything you had before.
Luckily tomorrow is Sunday, so you get to spend your day on the front porch watching sheep and leopards dance around together. Then perhaps a barbeque where you will grill zuchinni and garlic, and gather around with friends singing from the kingdom melodies book until the wee-hours of the evening. Tomorrow is another early day of digging and shoveling the fields, and then try to build a new chair for the kitchen - boy i miss those Ikea stores.
do you beleive our spirit lives on in other dimensions or are we really just dead?
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Even if , let's say you believe in God, the idea of a spirit detached from a body makes little sense. When God created Adam, why would he design him in a way to have a separate spirit from his body? He was supposed to live forever as a physical being; why create a separate spirit?
Then when Adam sinned and God punished him with death, where did his spirit go? Hell? for eating a piece of fruit? Does this make sense?
Did his spirit go to heaven instead? Then how was that punishment?
Let's say you believe in evolution. How does this make any sense either? Since we evolved from other species of animals, at what point did we start getting fitted with spirits? By who?
Anyway you cut it, this is makes little sense.
do you beleive our spirit lives on in other dimensions or are we really just dead?
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The human brain is a master conjurer, there is way more evidence for coincidence delusion, trickery, than REAL evidence of after life.
If you want to believe in afterlife so be it , but lets have EVIDENCE as opposed to wishful thinking.
Exactly, and the key issue is that humans, traditionally have had an incredible hard time accepting that this short period of time of 70 - 80 years in a plannet called Earth is really all there is. It is just a short moment of existence, but nobody wants to accept this. Everybody believes that they are way too important to exist for only a short amount of time. Guess what? The world will go on without you. And in due time, time itself will go on without the world.
If the belief in an after life brings you comfort, then so be it. But if you are purposely not living life to the fullest, expecting to do so in some sort of after life, you are a complete fool, because this will almost certainly not happen.
for those of you who live in truly first world countries (uk, australia, canada, etc etc) you can skip this.
for those of us stuck in the usa, not a first world country at all, please feel free to read on.. i've done my best to be fiscally responsible my whole life.
i bought my first house at age 25. and because of having a little loot to protect and not wanting to end up in some overcrowded emergency room waiting hours to be seen by doogie howser, i purchased health insurance.
I find it ironic that the party that touts personal responsibility doesn't want to part with a nickel to be personally responsible about their own health needs. "I'm young and don't need health insurance." Really?
Yes in reality this was one of the main problems in the previous system. It's usually called "Adverse selection" , where individuals who think they are too healthy to have insurance stay out of the market, thus leaving only sick and expensive individuals in the insurance pool, driving up premiums for those left in the market. Then once one of these "healthy" individuals has an emergency and has no insurance, they put an extra burden on the rest who already have insurance again. How could this ever be fair?
The high deductables will keep people from running to the doctor to get antibiotics every time they get the sniffles and the insurance companies will still make money, you can be sure of that.
Absolutely. case in point: My parents recently decided to move back to their country of birth, which has nationalized healthcare. In their system everybody contributes, but out of pockets costs are close to nothing. Result? They just told me that everytime they go to the doctor's office, there is a line out of the door. Why? Because since it's practically free, people go to the doctor for just about anything. Having a deductible, whether it is for auto insurance or health insurance ensures that people are not "trigger happy" when submitting claims.
There are some things in a society that unfortunately big brother has to lead people by the hand, because people are $hit heads and have no idea how to plan their present and future - that's the sad reality. Unemployment insurance and retirement are two of them. Imagine if the goverment left it up to each person to get their own unemployment insurance! Pure disaster in the making. The time has come to add health insurance to that list, because people cannot be trusted to do the right thing on their own.
i'm just rereading crisis of conscience and was thinking if only there were others on the gb like him.
maybe things could change for the better.
for instance when he felt troubled that a woman couldn't get a divorce when her husband cheated on her with another man.. his response was this:-"the emotional upset i felt moved me to make a study of the original language terms (in greek) used in matthew, chapter nineteen, verse 9.".
I'm pretty sure that most of the GB members are conflicted with the idea that this is God's organization. When you are a R&F JW, you look at the people up the chain as if they have special insight. People look at the level above them and figure they have a special connection to God.
But i'm sure that once you make it to the GB body and you look around, and see the way business in conducted ( arguing, debating, voting), you realize that the shroud of mystery that surrounds the GB, is totally unfounded. You probably realize that there is no red phone to Jehoober. It's just another group of corporate leaders trying to plug holes as best they can just in like any other organization.
And what do you do when you realize this? Well nothing of course. Keep your mouth shut and go through the motions; lest anybody find out. The last thing you want is to lose a nice cushy easy job, where everything is paid for you till the day you die, and 7 million people think of you as a representative of God on earth. What's better than that?
i think i read somewhere, here or maybe on another forum, that somebody claimed that c.t.
russell stood on the brooklyn bridge with some others, all in white robes, in 1878, waiting for the rapture.
any truth in that?.
It wasn't the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a bridge in Pittsburgh.
so proclaimed the brother that read the wt letter tonight that explained the new kingdom hall funding arrangement.. everyone in the hall claps .... well, like it was the last talk on the district convention.. he says 'what bank would wipe out a debt of $200,000 ???
only jehovah's organization!
isn't this wonderful !!!".
I don't quite get the bottom line of this greed. Typically, someone needs to be making money on a personal level to drive this hunger for more money.
Looking at the people that lead the Org and the seemingly average resources they have, it doesn't make much sense. One could say that business needs and a cash flow problem could be driving this, but that's also hard to believe as well, because of the influx of cash from real estate sales.
ytd average.
yearly contribution.
$ 2,625.85. donation resolution .
n the Spanish version, the translating department omitted the words projects in its entirety
I'm not entirely sure if i see a difference here. If you say that you need a project for a new hall, isn't it logically implied that you need a new hall? I don't think there is an attempt to deceive here, IMO is just poor translation.
