Posts by wallsofjericho

I miss 60% of meetings or more easily each month, and no one bothers me about it. I have never experienced this in my life. My memories of "spiritually weak" times in my life were a very real and tangible shunning from families in the cong. Sure they would be freindly at the Hall but I would never get invited out to anything social.

Now i am very active socially and nobody... ever, questions me about my "service" or why I am not an MS.

I have numerous friends in their 40's none of which are MS's or elders. This was unheard when/where I grew up. I remember even as a child having this conditioning present, that is if a brother was in his 40's or older and wasn't serving I would assume they were weak. they must be of course otherwise why wouldn't they be?

I definitely feel like people don't care that much anymore

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Two Year Delay in Building New KHs - What Is the Real Impact?

by committeechairman in

where are all these kingdom halls that were going to start being built?

the rbc arrangement was officially announced as an arrangement that was ending in the united states branch territory in a letter on january 24, 2014 (although this letter is no longer listed on jw.org).

this means that 23 months have passed since the announcement of the ldc taking over and "acceleration" of kingdom hall builds.. what has happened in the meantime with kh construction?

wallsofjericho

I suppose the transfer of mortgage and ownership in whole to the WTS and the instituting mortgage sized donations by all congregations not only increases cash flow but would like allow the WTS more control of how the funds are allocated

bundling those mortgages to some sort of an investment management company could allow them to make credit payments significantly lower than their monthly cash inflow

instead of obligatory payments to credit coffers the WTS has created an enormous income stream from which to build their Armageddon bunker

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Legalized marijuana. It's coming to canada and I want to try it.

by hoser in

jw
friends

as a good jw i never smoked a joint or nibbled on some brownies.

wallsofjericho

I know the temptation. I tried it too

but drugs are no good

just avoid them at all cost

some people are fine with the odd toke and some let drugs destroy their life

not worth the risk

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Have the Governing Body caught themselves out in a lie?

by slimboyfat in

all sorts of suspected deception going on surrounding the cutbacks and the reasons for them.

but hard to pin down a direct falsehood.

sure, they initially said they were reducing the magazines so the brothers had less to read, then later said it was to save money.

wallsofjericho

SBF

every KH I am aware of donates more than what their mortgage was

i know of a KH that was built just after this change and the donations committed by numerous surrounding congs were still collected by the WTS even after the arrangement was in effect

over a million in donations as I understood

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YMCA ? Are we allowed to go there or not?

by Quarterback in

half of our congregation goes there to work out because of the good pool facilities and prices, and the other half think that it's wrong due to it's old charter.

but no one is enforcing the wrong or right of it.

i'd be interested in knowing how this is being applied worldwide.