do you plan to apply in your life?.
the world book encyclopedia: a man and woman.
jw parents are allowed to request a bride price for their daughters..... .
dgp, too funny, I guess you didn't end up with the sister? Personally, I didn't get married for spiritual reasons, but I can just imagine the iceberg in the relationship when your given a fam book to study.
Interesting what Witnesses study for. In addition to "studying" to become married, ms's will study to become an elder. "Where's your husband", wife, "he's studying to become an elder". Oh, right. He's looking at porn.
just noticed on another thread that a letter was sent out telling elders to keep their mouths shut after the wt lost the case?.
anybody got this???.
hb.
Personally, I think wt should send a letter every month telling the elders to shut their mouths. Confidentiality may axe.
do you plan to apply in your life?.
the world book encyclopedia: a man and woman.
jw parents are allowed to request a bride price for their daughters..... .
Did anyone ever hear of a couple wanting to get married studying the Family Happiness book with an elder?
remodeling is being done on the kh in my area.. friends have come to me inquiring about the remodeling.. it,s been two months.
first they ask , why no windows.. i told them some kh have windows.
soon after windows.
"This could be due to the fact that they built in a subdivision that has restrictions and may have been forced to put them in."
This is a valid point. Quick build standardized plans do not come with windows. I'm alittle rusty on this, but the local elders (congregation) have to ask for them. In one city in Texas the brothers took the standardized quick build plans to the city to get a building permit. The city denied the permit, said the congregation must hire an architect, structural engineer, and comply with building code. Architecturally the code reads that every x number of feet there will be a column, corner, window, or other architectual feature. The city further told RBC, "your not building an ugly box in this city".
Of course the QB brothers were arrogant and difficult trying to push the matter, but the city won. Cities now have master planners and are trying to build more aesthetically pleasing buildings in the community. I can see their frustration. What if someone wanted to build an ugly house next to yours?
In rural areas the standardized plans are just built with little regard to building a beautiful building. David and Solomon would be ashamed.
it is commonly a human tendency to see your enemies/opponents as somehow bestial, subhuman, stupid and the like.
so, i hesitate to simply 'write off' the governing body as utter fools, senile, drunk, arrogant beyond logic, or lost in 2012 as the representatives of a 19th century religion.. nonetheless, it's simply hard to believe that they can fail to notice the intensifying confluence of negative trends and decline that surrounds them.
food service?
There does appear to be an unwinding of the organization.
From the looks of her description, it looks like she did see you.
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i am armageddon messenger, the one that jesus said he would send to tell "you" the things coming.-john 16:12-14. .
as it should be expected, the governing body of jw's are not willing and will not accept me as a "prophet" because according to them, jehovah only communicates trough them.... .
My family has been strung along since 1918 about the end. I could care less when armageddon comes; don't you get it, god said that is his business not ours.
apologies if there is another recent thread on this, but i have heard from 4 different people in 3 different geographic areas (including someone who does advance work for the dcs), that beginning in 2013 the three day dc program will be replaced by a second two-day circuit assembly.
some people were passing the info along like a secret, others seemed to think that everyone already knew.. if everyone in j-dub land is already talking about this, how is it not all over this forum??.
anyway, can anyone confirm or deny?.
I had heard from one quick build worker that they were finishing up the remods on the halls this year. Attention was then to be turned to building assembly halls.
Many jw's will split the assemblies and conventions up now into sessions or days.
As far as the money jw's bring into the convention cities is debateable. Other than hotels, many still don't spend much money while at a convention.
Perhaps they will start having to pay for parking to wt at the assembly halls. Wt has always been upset about how much revenue the parking lots get. Recently, around here they moved the convention at the last minute because the parking lots wanted $2 or $3 more per car for the 3 day convention. Wt moved the convention and the rank and file drove another 45 minutes to some other cheap place.
who is the governing body?.
put simply, the governing body purports to be a small group of anointed men (currently numbering 7) who represent a much larger group (numbering the thousands) of anointed individuals living on earth today.
in nearly every reference to their position of oversight over the worldwide brotherhood, the governing body refer to themselves as being representatives.... .
It used to irritate me that brothers would pray for holy spirit on the governing body when they meet on Wednesday. If God were with them on Wednesday they should have a glowing face like Moses had after talking to God.
if i understand it correctly, strollers are not allowed at us conventions.. in sweden, a letter was written to the congregation, introducing this new rule.
however, quite a few families wrote letters to the society,.
asking if they wanted families with children to attend the assemblies or not... it was stated that they would not go unless strollers were allowed.. the society pulled back, allowing strollers in designated areas.. in norway, they didn t even bother to introduce the rule in the first place... .
Since stollers are not welcome and having the experience of holding an infant for 3 days in the entrance way of a sports stadium, my thought is:
Option 1: "Screw the assembly, stay at a hotel that is kid friendly (preferrably not on the list of Motel 6's), must have a pool (age appropriate), send husband over to pick up releases. Go shopping and tell the husband you expect a dinner at a high class restuarant, and hire a baby sitter for an hour and a half.
Option 2: Rent a motorhome and stay in it during the sessions with the kids and listen to the program on 98.3 FM while watching Veggie Tales and enjoying the AC, refrigerated drinks, and lack of lines for the restroom. Return to 5 star Hotel room, tell the husband you expect a dinner at a high class resturant (you deserve it) hire a baby sitter for an hour and a half. Oh, don't wear the damn convention badge.
Option 3: Just book a hotel on Hotels.com even if it is in the city you live and not in the city of the convention, forget the assembly, take a break, enjoy your family communicating together, go to the aquarium, zoo, pool, beach, children's discovery, enjoy 5:00 p.m. drinks, dinner at 7:00, orchestra, and breakfast etc. Sleep in late, have room service, Return home on Sunday-Monday, and feel the spirit giving you renewed strength. Comment at the convention review part that it was the best convention you have attended, but there were too many good points to recall just one. (If you have children they will believe you)
Bingo; any beautiful "sisters" with kids want to go to an assembly with me "my style". I do have more ideas.:)
Just saying...
