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  Your Experience with Resigning as an Elder

  by committeechairman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm considering resigning as an elder.

  i'm not planning to fade or stop as one of jehovah's witnesses, just stop serving as an elder.. i have responsibility in the congregation and in circuit, district, rbc, etc.

  and i'm completely exhausted.

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  My experience is that the BOE will of course ask if you have done anything wrong that they should know about, they seem perpetually suspicious like that.

  Then they will often to lighten the load for a while, enticing you to stay on.

  They will also ask you to reconsider and delay accepting your resignation, after all, think of the paperwork and the questions from the C.O.!

  If you stick to your story and to your guns, you will get that relief.

  The short term interrogations and pain are well worth it.

  When there's an announcement that "could the elders meet after the meeting" then I promise you will leave the hall smiling. And when you decide to have a lazy Saturday morning in bed 'without fear', you will know your life is better.

  The congregation will still respect you, and any animosity from other elders will purely be jealousy. Leave them to it.

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  Have you heard Judge Rutherford give a sermon?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the phonograph records recorded by judge rutherford have been uploaded to the internet archives.. you can stream them and listen.. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3a%28j.%20f.%20rutherford%29.

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  We are getting the 21st century version - streaming and videos of the modern day FDS.

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  kingdom hall ownership

  by alfredjones100 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that thoughout other threads and comments, some of this question could be answered but; what in countries are kingdom halls owned by the local congregations?

  here in australia, everything is already owned by the organisation..

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  Splash

  If the WT are trustees, they do not have ownership or buying/selling rights, that remains with the congregation trustees (elders).

  If the Soc has provided a loan and they are on the deeds to the Kingdom Hall, then that could be altogether different.

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  New field service rules coming this summer

  by doinmypart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new guidelines for field service coming this summer.

  new publication to be released giving new ways of counting time, conducting studies, group activities, etc..

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  I wonder if there will be a column on the new time form for the number of hours spent in Family Worship.

  This would make it easy to see who's doing it and who isn't.

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  Is this new donation arrangement for real?

  by nugget in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

  congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

  congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

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  Splash

  BTW can anyone please tell me how to start a new post? If I click on that RSS thingy it says an error occured

  click here http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/

  then select a forum and choose "new topic"
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  Is this new donation arrangement for real?

  by nugget in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

  congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

  congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

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  *** w59 5/1 p. 285 Sharing the Good News by Contributing Personally ***
  BACK in August, 1879, this magazine said: “‘Zion’s Watch Tower’ has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support. When He who says: ‘All the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication.”

  *** w62 5/1 p. 277 How May I Contribute? ***
  But because the Watch Tower Society is a charitable organization and because it does not follow the methods of Christendom’s religions, taking up money collections or tithes, there is a good deal of wonderment as to how the Society gets its money and supports itself.

  *** w13 7/1 p. 4 Can You Trust Religion Regarding Money? ***
  Jehovah’s Witnesses commonly meet in modest buildings called Kingdom Halls. How are expenses covered? They never pass collection plates, nor do they send out envelopes to solicit donations. Rather, any who appreciate the spiritual program can discreetly place a donation in a contribution box at the Kingdom Hall.

  (2 Timothy 3:1, 2)
  But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money...
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  The WT and it's views on depression.

  by quellycatface in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a few of you may remember, i suffer from bipolar.. when working at the uk home office, i was signed off by my doctor with depression and anxiety.. in the space of 11 months i was assessed by 2 home office doctors, both diagnosing me as unfit for work.

  i eventually left.. how therefore, can stupid little people in the kh say you'll be better doing fs, ministry school and being regular at meetings??.

  they have to be the most un-empathetic bunch of people on the planet.

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  Suffering with grief? Depression? Illness? Old age? Unemployment? Abuse at home? Family problems?

  The WT has a single solution to every problem: Do More!

  And if you aren't suffering at all then you should also Do More!

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  kingdom hall insurance....??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i seem to recall that there was an assistance fund set up for insurance on kingdom halls that were essentially set up as insurance.. where you were not to insure the khs by normal insurance companies.does anyone know about this and does any kh claim againt the fund i.e.

  the watchtower?.

  sounds like a scam!.

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  The personal injury payout limits are derisory.

  It's something like £2000 if you lose an arm or leg.

  If it happened to me I'd have to sue to get the rest of the compensation I was due - It might mean I could never work again so I'd need enuogh to live on for the rest of my life.

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  Classic repost from AlltimeJeff; recently completely - Free!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wanted to give this very public shout-out and congratulations to alltimejeff, who i have come to find out had turned in his letter of da, twice, then was read out at the meeting recently.

  for those not knowing, atf was a 2005 gilead graduate, bethelite, missionary.

  they mean the leadership.

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  never a jw The problem is that it all sounds like opinion without supporting evidence.

  What's to disbelieve?

  One of the wackiest statements made in that post was about Elijah and Elisha foreshadowing Rutherford and Knorr.
  But you don't need to search far to see that it's a teaching of the WT:

  *** yb73 pp. 60-61 Brazil *** BEGINNING OF THE ELISHA PERIOD
  "Just as the work of Elijah the prophet came to its close and was succeeded by the zealous activity of Elisha his successor, so also, following a period of witnessing comparable to that of Elijah, a new push seemed to be given to the activities of the brothers here in Brazil. Though the death of Brother Rutherford, the second president of the Society, came as a shock to the brothers, their heavy hearts were lightened when they learned that Nathan H. Knorr had been appointed as the new president of the Society."

  Or maybe you disagree with his comments on being mature / immature?
  Again, going to a kingdom hall will provide you with the evidence for this also.

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  Nauseating JW.org section for small children - CUTOUTS? Really?

  by BluePill2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i am not hot linking to jw borg, but they have a whole section for obviously very small children (become j's friend, with a whole array of caleb-related stuff).

  i have actually never visited the site, today was the first time, because i wanted to check a technical information about their websites architecture and came across this sh*t!.

  the way they are targeting small kids is nauseating me (i have a 5 year old, still in with her mother).

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  It shows where the WT is placing it's focus now.

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