for a year now, i have been handling the accounts.
we have 6 elders and 7 ms, and none of them ( i am not serving), want to do the accounts, so they asked me to do it.
here is what i have noticed.. 4 elderly sisters cover the whole congregation in donations monthly!
I think meeting attendance is down everywhere.
Repetitive items, poor teachers, q&a where the answers are already written for you, and the two messages of "do more" and "armageddon's real close".
Not hard to see why the flock is tired and the figures are down.
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i know atlatis will bring this letter to the forum.
i just wanted to paste it here and bold the most hilarious, weird thing fro the letter.
the bold part that i added made me lol.. .
A lot of Witnesses have difficulty walking and chewing gum at the same time.
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when i was an elder, most of the elders were pretty independent 40 to 80 year olds.
they had no issue speaking up to the circuit overseer.
i wonder what the average elder is like now.
+1 to SJ
They have been stripped of any serious decision making - their instructions are more detailed and they are more scrutinised.
I see few young (sub 50) elders these days, we have just one in our cong. I see many older (75+) elders who increasingly struggle to understand the new light, fail to keep up with changed procedures, teach coherently or keep good health.
Many are sacrificing their relationships with their wives and children in the continual push to keep doing more.
Today is not a pleasant time to be an elder.
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what would change the process for the better in a judicial committee meeting?.
what is the single worst policy in need of improvement?.
What do I think of that question?
I think it's well put together and concise.
Well done.
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so i tt mom and dad via skype last weekend (they live on the other part of the county) and the topic of abuse came up.
of course they went ahead and blasted catholics for their coverups.
i mentioned gonzalo campos, now mom and dad know this guy he went to their hall for several years in san diego.
Ask if they have two witnesses.
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i am keeping this short because i have little time but... here are my favorite lampoons of the buzzwords:.
watchtower - washtowel.
conventions - con-ventions... i would invent con-men-showns.
PLEASE don't encourage wtwizard to add to this thread, it will be enormous!
Second thoughts, maybe if he lists all his substitute and made up words I'll have a chance at being able to understand what he's posting about!
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could someone plz post a pdf of the new october 2013 kom?.
thank you.
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I just checked and the Oct KM has not been uploaded to the JW website yet.
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i remember when i was active, i would constantly get nightmares regarding armageddon.. used to wake up so many times at night watch my window, pray hard and try to go to sleep.
now i wonder that this organization was really succcessful in making people scared to death about 'current system of things', but why would anyone do that?
why would anyone want to bring division in families, make hate speeches, scare people to death, etc?
As a child I was always fearful when there was a big thunderstorm, thinking it must be armageddon.
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so i recently learned that my ex-wife (who is still an active jaydub) forged my signature on govt.
documents in order to receive my share of small settlement i was going to get.
i haven't even seen her in about 6 years.
When the case is settled pay to put it in her local paper.
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so tonight finally had to make a decision about the dc.
we missed saturday and sunday of the one we were assigned to.
i was going to convieniently try to forget (been working most saturdays last few months) but she persisted tonight.
It's not corrupt, but neither is it transparent.
And to coerce the publishers to use these hotels often at increased prices and distant locations, is far from loving or considerate.
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