recently shared this with me.. they compared the tiredness they felt after attending an assembly and meetings, and noted how much worse it was than actually working and studying hard for hours for their secular employment!
why were they so exhausted after an assembly/meeting?
no, it wasn't satan.
You guys never had to endure Frederick Franz reading a Spanish outline at less than half the normal speech rate for well over 1 hour and then coming back at the end of the DC to give his final 'snore-fest' closing talk just before the "We Thank You Jay Hoover" song that woke everyone up at the end...
I did !!!
I should get a medal...
2016 years text.. hebrews 13:1, let your brotherly love continue.. wtf!
your thought please.
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any takers?
we can pick a date and pull the plug?
lol .
i've seen references to baptism annulment on a few websites, does anyone know if there has ever been a successful annulment of a baptism?.
eg.
a minor claims they didn't understand a key wtbts teaching prior to baptism, is there any realistic chance of annulment?
last circuit assembly there was 700+ present and 1 baptized.. recently there was a foreign language assemble of over 500 and 1 baptized.. in the last 5-10 years i haven't been to one assembly where there has been more than a handful baptized.
at the memorial all i see are the same old faces that have been coming since the flood.. the hall complex i attend has 6 congregation and several groups-there is negative growth.
when you factor in the demographically aging folk and the many who have already passed away, i don't know where they get the 8 million.. i know that most of the growth is from the developing countries, but still i think they are fudging their numbers.
i've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.
it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.
that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.
Here is the Service Department's procedure for mailed-in inquiries:
Your letter will NOT be read carefully and the letter you receive from them will be totally irrelevant. This will be just another exercise in futility.
i have put up previous posts about this in the past, but i just thought that it was worth mentioning again.
it has to be of concern to them with how quickly information is getting leaked.
hell it even surprises at just how slowly information spreads by offical means.
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
there have been several discussions about the wts and their selling off properties in brooklyn and moving headquarters out of nyc.
the best of... wts finances.
why the wts is selling their assets.
Lady Lee... 9 years later and we now have a clearer picture of what's going on...
absolutely nothing.... has anyone dared ask what they need this place for?
think about a few things.
in bethels hay day, there was a shit ton of literature being printed, they even need a giant factory with elevators a truck could fit in.
