this isn’t a usa question.
is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.
Hi Smiddy,
yes it is mostly an urban phenomenon, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. But those house prices aren’t going up any more, and a lot of people (particularly foreigners) have been burnt on those silly inner city apartments. There a lot of people out there trying to service a $1 million dollar + mortgage, including “investors” relying on negative gearing.
At least you don’t have that stress to deal with.
this isn’t a usa question.
is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.
Just curious if overall, in whatever country we live in, are we doing better, worse or the same. I don’t think Trump being President is going to help someone’s finances in AustralIa
I am from Australia. Personally doing better. Aust economy has been growing at about 3% for quite some time. I think Aust now has the world record for the longest run of uninterrupted growth.
We are lucky. Our conservatives concentrate on boring but important stuff like trying to balance the budget.
The biggest economic problem in Aust at the moment is that our banks have been borrowing overseas heavily, to lend to Australians, so that they can buy and sell property to each other with property prices continually ratcheted up. This has been going on for decades, but I don’t think it can last much longer, and some people are going to lose money.
came across this little gem while my wife was "digging for bible gems" in her weekly meeting preparation.
nothing new but i gently pointed it out to her as a reminder that bible reading can be hazardous to your mental health!.
do 2 (or 3, or 4) wrongs, make a right?
That was Arthur Caldwell, who was leader of the Labor opposition (and never became prime minister of Aust). One of the great successes of Gough Whitlam was to completely rid his party of that backward xenophobic protectionist anti-immigration rhetoric. So much so, that these days most people associate such views and the “white Australia policy” with the LNP, not Labor.
quite regularly at meetings jws mocked worldly people and apostates(anyone who had left the "truth") for saying the bible contradicts itself when it is in complete harmony from beginning to end apparently.
can anyone point out some of the contradictions they know of?
they used to laugh at the fact people on the doors would say the bible contradicts itself and when they asked the householder to show them where, they couldn't..
This is an amusing video on bible contradictions:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3g6mXLEKk
Gives a pretty good list, too.
i am planning on revisiting my (academic) research into the banning of jws in australia in 1941, and was wondering if anyone would have contacts i could interview?
this is obviously a long shot (and it may be children/grandchildren) but i thought it may be worth a shot!.
i am an ex-jw and academic historian, you can see my former published work on jws here: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/shir/our-research/research-journals/fjhp/2008.cfm.
In case you do not have a copy, here is a link to the 1943 High Court case where they applied to have the relevant regulations held unconstitutional, on religious freedom grounds.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1943/12.html?context=1;query=jehovahs%20witnesses;mask_path=au/cases/cth/HCA
It is quite a complicated case; a few parts of some regulations were held unconstitutional. I think that for practical purposes, though, the Borg lost.
Good luck with your research project.
in late may 2017, i told my parents how i really felt about the religion they had raised me in, and by early june i was out of their house.
i've done a lot since then.
i let my hair and beard grow out a bit.
Brilliant!
Good to hear, Holden.
Been pretty flat out myself, but doing fine.
elon musk has called one of the thai cave rescue divers a 'paedo' on twitter.. this could prove to be a very costly post should the diver sue him for defamation.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter.
Elon Musk was born in South Africa and moved to Canada when he was a teenager.
Reading between the lines, it seems he is coming under extreme financial pressure, and while this has been happening, he has been saying some strange things to journalists. I am pretty sure where this is all heading.
attendance on sunday averaged about 5600...32 baptized.
(about 0.57% or .0057).
Thanks for update. Do you know how the attendance compared to previous years?
i've posted this here so all visitors to this site can see info relating to the great expansion.. the kealba kingdom hall in st albans will be sold.
perhaps worth around au1.4 million dollars.
on two blocks of suburban land with off street parking.
Gerry, this is from 3 years ago, but here are five more for you.
Three (3) Kingdom Halls in the suburbs of Adelaide SA sold, plus two (2) more closed, as referred to in the following article:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-09/sale-of-jehovah-witnesses-halls-an-expansion-plan/6533544
I love the beginning of the article:
Adelaide's Jehovah's Witness community says the sale of three places of worship is not in response to dwindling attendances but is instead part of an expansion plan.
The two being closed down are in Ceduna and Cummins. Because of location, those ones would have had negligible land value.
Separately, I have a suspicion (but I don't know), that another rural congregation, Katanning WA, may have closed. There is probably an easy way to check, but I don't know how.
EDIT: Gerry, I see you beat me to it.
