in my area the general sense is bleak.
many are in survival mode.
even at the convention the appearance of the majority was unhappy and tired.
This Saturday there was two cars in the parking lot in a congregation of 80 or so publishers. I really have no idea how we are supposedly all getting an average of 9 hours a month. I don’t even know how the pioneers are doing it. I know one has leached on to someone unemployed loser and they just hang out all day. I think the ones with children are just using family study night as a write off.
To the single and childless people in the cong, man it has to be tough.
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
So
An Elder in my cong. test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub. I don't know if he had to enter to was just
automatically enter for taking a test drive. They just annouced his name on the radio.
Man that is funny. The gambling elder.
Not really sure what is going to happen next.
so talking with my wife last night...i was explaining to her about a conversation i had with a person at work about end times.
he has a strange belief that some scriptures in isaiah perdict something huge is going to happen in september of 2015. she then states that no one can predict the future only the father knows and he is in a cult.
lol on the inside.. i then stated "what about 1914 and the dubs perdiction and what it means today" she said no there was never any predictions.
I was studying with an elder and when he tried to explain to the 1914 prophecy and I was like
So failed prophecy actually means “ a marked year “.
The dream in Daniel 4 about the tree and the seven times of Nebuchadnezzar madness is actually a prophecy about the end times ??? How ??
In the book of Luke of Jerusalem actually means “ Heaven “ ??
Gentile times actually means “ Satanic worldy rule “.
And the generation that won’t pass away now means two life times in a row ?
Where is the day for a year rule in the bible ?
And you just noticed all this after the event you said that would happen didn’t happen??
Why doesn’t anyone else claim 607 is the fall of Jerusalem ??
Really ??
I don’t know if anything I said got though. I like to think I showed him anyone with a little imagination could right this crap if up actually meant down and 2 plus 2 actually was equal to 7 , so on and so on.
the watchtower has always praised witnesses who are on welfare and decided to pioneer.
many in my congregation, including my mom, were given kudos, praise and assembly parts because they took advantage of jehovah's provision through the government....did you notice this, or was it obvious to me because i was raised in the inner city and many people recieved government help?.
Since all goverments of the world are controlled by Satan, isn't it kind of like collecting a paycheck from Satan. LoL
It is kind of like the sob story about the brothers in South Korean jails , then you ask " How many Dubs are there in North Korea ??? ".
In the words of Nelson Muntz " I hope the Irony isn't lost on you, HA HA " .
having been recently introduced to governing body member lett's "unique" speaking style, i found another video on youtube (and also on jw.org) of bro lett visiting the international convention in israel.
apparently his buffonery is not only reserved for video intro's to dramas, but also in real life as well.. i used to think those ol' time pentacostal and baptist ministers in tents would overdue it......i was wrong.
this guy has them all beat.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltvx_e4xe4e.
It just blows me away that anyone in Israel could actually be a Jehovah Witness. The whole religion seems to be rooted in Antisemitism where the JWs or the 144 or whatever have replaced Israel. Not really sure what they teach this week.
It must be strange to see people get all excited taking a trip to the holy land ( Brooklyn New York ) while living in the land of the bible. It something I found strange in Canada, must even be extra weird in Israel.
was that important for you?
most people, i believe, forced themselves to give an answer.
i knew many elders and servants over the years being counseled because they rarely answered.. funny thing....my mom who is 88 cries if she doesn't give a comment.
witnesses are supposed to be the "most honest people in the world".
most jws i know of do not put business deals in writing.
they simply "trust their brother".
I was building a house beside an Elder and he had some left over material. He said he would sell it to me for half price of retail to save him the hassle of taking back to the store. I told him, I need it so I will pay you retail.
It turns out he charged me double of what he actually paid. I told him he must have made a mistake and he owns me 300 dollars. He told me he made a mistake but for some reason he never comes by anymore. Never talks to my wife at the hall ( I don’t hardly attend ). I could push the issue but I think it is the best 300 dollars I have ever lost.
i know the society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations i attended had good careers.
in fact most had their own businesses.
thinking back of the boe when i was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the po), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board.
My in congregation we have these young elders who work as electrician helpers. I asked you are apprenticed, getting your hours in. They are like no. It would look bad to the rest of the congregation.
Considering there is already three journeymen electrician in the congregation, it would make you a horrible worldy person to go to school for eight weeks for four years. Why make 40 dollars an hour when you can make 12 the rest of your life.
Stupid.
Would you actually have to step down as an elder because you want to tech school for eight weeks ??
what was the experience like?
i lived with my brother and then sister-in-law in an apartment building owned by a brother and his wife.. besides the fact that they would constantly enter the place while we were out, without any kind of advance notification, they would procrastinate whenever there was maintenance work that needed to be done.
sometimes it would take months before they would get to it.
I knew a young catholic couple who were given basically half price on their rent , provided they studied with the elder who owned the house they were renting. Once they got to the point about killing your children over blood transfusions, it was basically “ wow, we really have to stop renting and buy a house, any house. “
So they did.
Study ended.