i just wanted to say that my dear 89 year old mom is terminally ill and will soon pass.
she is on morphine and hanging on.
she has been a devout witness for about 60 years and a wonderful mother.
Please, accept my sympathy.
I too am facing the same prospect with my mom. It makes it a little harder when those oh so "loving" brothers and sisters in her congregation have thrown her to the curb, and my dad too. Both of them a long ways away, and no company from the "friends"
It makes it a little easier knowing others are going through similar trials. Hang in there and as you said, love her.
i'll try to keep this short.
my experience at the hall is elders not really engaging in friendship building communication with anyone.
the only time they really communicate with you is to counsel you or tell you where you need to make adjustments.
does anyone have an accounting of those properties?
which properties and possible value of sale?.
sounds like that the watchtower may want to sell quickly?
So including the properties under contract at 375 million they will have sold off over 875 million in assets, confiscated the funds from all congregations coupled with tithes in perpetuity, and yet they still beg for more. . .More. . .MORE from the members who blindly followed the advice about education and work and as a result have very little to take care of their own needs, much less the greed of the Org.
Disgusting!
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
Pushing the electronic gadgets, and a "new" mid-week meeting that isn't really new at all, just shuffled the same ol' stuff around so the sheeple will ooh and aw, and spout off about how fast things are moving, when they are just sitting in one place.
First they cut the size of the public mags in half, now they cut the number in half. The oh so special "study" WT was basically cut in half already.
More use of centralized videos.
Much of the "new" crap will just push the elderly further out the back door as they try to drag in new recruits through the front door.
the culture of jws as encouraged by the watchtower is one of informing on one another, reporting to either the elders or ones designated head.
whats the wackiest thing that someone reported on you?
im not talking about a black-and-white watchtower rule that would land you in a judicial committee, but some judgmental nonsense that someone thought they should turn you in about?.
Years ago an eldurrs punk kid wanted to borrow a cowboy hat from me for something or another. He came over after a midweek meeting, and when I answered the door I didn't have a shirt on. My future wife (now ex) was there and he turned me in for being "naked".
He had the reputation in the local high school of being a practicing drunk, drug abuser, and serial fornicator. But he was an eldurrs son so it was all good!
When the eldurrs "talked" to me about my inappropriate dress in front of a woman they also brought up that my vehicle had been seen late at night in front of a nightclub and that I should park a few blocks away so as not to "stumble" anyone.
there were many addressed to me.
for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.
i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.
Seriously? Ankle bracelets on women?
Sounds like a dipshlt named Prouton. From the ASSembly platform he went on a rant about sisters wearing ankle bracelets concluding with this bit of asswiperery, "Whenever I see a sister with an ankle bracelet my first thought is 'tinkle, tinkle, here comes Jezebel!'"
i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
An older guy in the group had to pee, so he threw a whiz right there in the homeowners front yard. Mid-stream he yell out, "DAMMIT, I SHIT MY PANTS!"
Then we all got to sit in a small sub-compact vehicle with no AC and ride forty miles back to the KH in 90 degree F. weather.
day text -- saturday, september 19 - "he will certainly bring about deliverance from the assyrian."mic.
today, jehovah certainly has provided an abundance of spiritual men to shepherd his precious sheep, to strengthen his people for the future attack of the modern-day assyrian.
the most practical step that we can take to prepare for the coming attack of the assyrian is that of strengthening our faith in god and helping our brothers to do the same.
This statement from that same day text is, in my opinion, even more gag worthy:
That faithful slave (GOVERNING BODY) is the channel through which Jesus is feeding his true followers in this time of the end. It is vital that we recognize the faithful slave (GOVERNING BODY). Our spiritual health and our relationship with God depend on this channel (GOVERNING BODY).
They have directly usurped the position of God himself by these words! Imagine the presumptuousness of claiming that they, and only they, are the ones we have to depend on for a relationship with God! So did Jackson lie when he said they didn't claim to be the sole channel, or are they lying here. I know, I know, BOTH!
i am truly chocked and baffled by the number of volunteers they got for this project; especially in the states.
looking at one of their articles on the matter, they stated that a large portion of the printing work was delegated to other locations than ny, thus, they did not need as much space as they did in ny.
also, it was stated that operation cost in nyc were expensive.
@Doc said
"They can brag about it. . .they can send back photos that everyone will oooh & aaah over."
That is pretty much the entire reason for anyone going there as far as I can see. The first eldurr from this area to go went for two weeks, and when he got back they had a special picture showing on the KH big screen TV. OFS refused to go and was scolded for not supporting the brothers hard work.
The second eldurr to go had to one up the first one so went for one month. Of course everyone is all abuzz about the "privilege" of working for free they got.
a question for those still attending i guess but are all these new jw.telemuppet.org broadcasts advertised to the the rank and file or is it more of a background thing?.
i'm wondering because i just can't believe my 70 year old die-hard jw mum would ever see them if she wasn't sat down in front of a screen and someone clicked 'play' for her.
i really want her to see the wizards behind the curtain.
Promoted from the stage, and then the buzz for the rest of the week is all about, "Are you going to be at the broadcast showing?"
It is more about putting on a show of "spirituality" for men to see than anything else.
