http://www.jw-media.org/aboutjw/article23.htm.
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I'm calling BULLSHIT!
Written policies be damned, the Society has a giant implied rule trump card that overrides any written regulation.
Plus we all know the elderberries have a set of unwritten guidelines that they are supposed to follow come hell or high water.
i noticed the june 2012 our kingdom ministry question box, which asks, "what should be kept in mind if we want some or all of our assets to go to jehovah's organization upon our death?".
the article recommends preparing a will so as to potentially distribute "some or all...to jehovah's organization" and gives this concluding advice to trustees of said will:.
"a trustee or executor should be aware that whether the estate is large or small, liberties should not be taken with the assets.
They have these parts/articles at least once a year and it both angers and sickens me.
I generally try to get out of going to meat-ings, but there are some I just refuse to attend and the evening these beg-fests happen I do not go.
let's be honest, brothers, and apply to ourselves what we write in our publications:.
awake!, september 8, 1987, pages 10 and 11: future prospects for protestantismand for you!.
if your church fails to act, will you?.
my mom told me this as it was related to her.. a witness is suddenly carjacked!
the man tells the sister he is there to steal her car!
she begs him not to take the car as it is the one she uses to take her elderly mom to the doctors.
What a doosie!
Is there no contrived experience they won't believe?
SHEESH!
i wonder..
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, so if it's a stupid prideful stubborn horse it's going to die of thirst.
The same is true with devout pious witlesses, you can show/lead them to truth but you can't make them listen or believe; so if they are stupid, prideful and stubborn, well.....
have searched but if someone can explain it in simple terms that would be great.. thank you.
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A COBE basically just makes sure the elders keep their shit together.
He's like a floor manager at a department store; in the scheme of things he's just an insignificant speck but because he is technically management he can bark orders and yell at everyone below him without being fired.
From their attitude you wouldn't know it but a COBE is the bottom rung of WTBT$ middle management.
i was looking over the upcoming september 15 watchtower study article where it says that in 1919, something woke (the anointed) up!
jesus had come to inspect all those who called themselves christians.
some of the anointed did not pass this inspection.. but as many of us know, none of the anointed would have passed an inspection of the 48 teachings that are mentioned in chapter 3 of captives of a concept.. for example: according to the proclaimers book, none of the anointed woke up to jesus invisible presence beginning in 1914 until 1943 - 24 years after jesus inspection was over.
this week the assigned reading is lamentation chapters 3-5.. here's what the nwt says at lam.
13because of the sins of her prophets, the errors of her priests,.
there were in the midst of her those pouring out the blood of righteous ones.. 14they have wandered about as blind in the streets.
That's hella cool and I'm gonna steal it, well that is if I can't weasel out of going to the meat-ing tomorrow.
I mean hell, if I gotta be there anyway why not screw with 'em a little bit?
So thanks.
Oh yes they're that nutso.
I'm alone with men, at my job, at stores, in waiting rooms, in parking lots and many other places too, and guess what? Nothing happens! No bad touching or sexual feelings, nada.
But apparently in witless land, if a man and a woman are alone, our pants will spontaneously combust and we'll be doing the nasty before you can say the word chaperone.
i was just surprised by that term being used by jim mccabe when he said "jonathan kendrick was not a leader or a pastor, he was just a rank-and-file member.".
i thought that was only an apostate term and also what a put down to us lowly members.
we are just a rank-and-file person.
I noticed it and thought, gee you just lost a massive case against you, now is the time to look squeaky clean and be super nice but no, you insult your clients followers; well I guess now we all know were we really stand.