latest boe letter:.
october 22, 2015. to all bodies of eldersre: use of jw stream.
dear brothers:we are writing to inform you that arrangements are being made for video recordings ofcongregation meetings, circuit assemblies, and conventions to be uploaded to jw stream (accessibleat http://stream.jw.org) in various languages.
Ohhhhh! So....
Unload the poor minimum wage Spanish immigrants from existing Halls. They can watch it on the new Spanish speaking channel. Consolidate and sell Halls and leave the higher waged Americans to go to fewer Halls and pay up. :-/
what a loving provision
What's up with video feeds? To monitor who shows up?
i heard form a reliable source that a kingdom hall consolidation is going to be happening in the us.
currently they are looking at every kingdom hall to see if they could and should sell it.
any kingdom hall that has not been updated and is in a bad location (long driveway, not in a visible location etc...) will be sold.
"lawyer called pops this morning, to recover his land, and asked him if he would like any money recovered "
Just want to make sure I'm understanding the goal. He wants the attorney to work on getting the land back only, correct?
In keeping with the big WTS grab on valuable land, is this property in an area that is increasing in value?
my wife is a stubborn stubborn woman.
when we got the internet in 1998 i slowly faded due to trying to prove apostates are lairs and scum...only to find they told nothing but "the truth.
" every qoute was checked and re-checked.
there was a post with a download opportunity that was a book of rules.
it seems like i remember it being about 128 pages long and included yoga and exercise program limitations.
could it have been a correspondence department booklet?
There was a post with a download opportunity that was a book of rules. It seems like I remember it being about 128 pages long and included yoga and exercise program limitations. Could it have been a correspondence department booklet?
I need a copy.
UPDATE: I FOUND IT AND CAN'T DELETE THIS REQUEST. IT'S CALLED THE "CORRESPONDENCE GUIDELINES".
october 2015 awake article writes:.
this experiment led jeffrey h. schwartz, a professor of anthropology, to conclude that while adaptation may help a species survive under changing circumstances, it is not creating anything new.. email response from scientist to reddit user myxomatosis_.
reddit user u/opinionmill pointed out in another thread that they've used the quote before:.
has anybody ever written bethel and just flat out asked for an accounting report on the society's finances?
we all keep batting around speculation about the wtbs and money, and actual information seems non-existent.
what would they do if somebody asked for a financial statement?
Nonjwspouse surely that can't be all the money... Is it? There'd be a whole lot of celebration but they HAVE to be pulling in way more.
I hate tax stuff. That's why I have a preparer.
Does anyone know what that document is?
so i decided yesterday to give my wife's full disclosure.
not sure it was the best decision considering she holds very firmly to the resurrection hope so we can see our babies again.. anyways she is agreeable to begin a study to find a better truth.
where is a good place to go to get some good reliable biblical info on the web that we can consider together?.
Depends on what you're looking for and its very important to know the difference. Google "word for word" (formal equivalence) and "thought for thought" (dynamic equivalence) Bibles.
The word for word translations that I prefer are the Holman Christian and ESV. They are both nice mixtures of word for word and thought for thought.
An interlinear is the best word for word but you end up missing the message through the translation.
Some paraphrased and thought for thought translations COULD come off as doctrinally biased if you've been a witness for long BUT I have had more than one Witness tell me that by reading these versions they realized that the info they were getting had to be in error and it made them do further research. The versions they read was the Good News Bible.
The NIV is a thought for thought translation
If it were me, I'd get the point of the scripture (forest) and then analyze the words (trees).
this article suggests that there are projects being halted, but chelmsford isn't one of them.
can someone from the uk tell me if this article was written by a reputable and known publisher?
plans for huge jehovah's witnesses hq continues.
Just clicked around a bit and it is a community based circulation whose police stations will either be closing or not accessible to the public soon. If the community is having financial problems, I'm sure there's a vested interest in this project continuing.
Committeechairman, you might be right. I wonder if a reduction in activity was noticed and this article written to address community concerns.
Nonetheless, a quote of interest from a "spokesman"
Spokesman Stephen Morris said: “In order to make best use of contributed funds, some construction projects worldwide will be delayed or cancelled.
this article suggests that there are projects being halted, but chelmsford isn't one of them.
can someone from the uk tell me if this article was written by a reputable and known publisher?
plans for huge jehovah's witnesses hq continues.
This article suggests that there ARE projects being halted, but Chelmsford isn't one of them.
Can someone from the UK tell me if this article was written by a reputable and known publisher?
Plans for huge Jehovah's Witnesses HQ continues
Brentwood Weekly News sounds like a small community paper.
today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.
i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.
sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.
Is it common practice to announce how much has been collected towards the end of the day? It'd be interesting to get counts of
Total Attendance
Number of Baptisms
Amount "Needed"
Amount collected by late afternoon
I've never been to one of these assemblies. I'm not a 'witness' - just an observer.
