while our attentions has been drawn many times to kingdom halls being used as distribution centres (often distributing government supplied relief goods), during a local disaster.
i can't remember reading or hearing of, kingdom halls being opened to house displaced witnesses during these times.. can any one else?.
Most all halls are ill equipped for that. No kitchen, inadequate restrooms, bolted down chairs, no storage for emergency supplies or cots. (Inadequate chaperones?)
But put on your necktie and offer an old tract to people trying to sweep mud from their home.
are the governing body really in charge or are they just a figurehead with the real power being behind the curtain .
Hoser
Note that we are getting older and infirmer too. We can't see at night, travel is further in worse traffic, thanks to sharing meetings are at 3 or 4 every third year. Covid amplified the loving isolation. (Elders here don't even know some of us are now in hospice). Meetings are still snooze fests.
i would like to know if ex's and formers who are not church christians, believe that many of jws' doctrines and bible interpretations are correct, or do you feel that they aren't?
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Elderberry. I will disagree on a great way of life. Too many petty rules; education, overtime, music, etc.
Good ol boys club
Avoid anything " worldly" often just for the controversy
i would like to know if ex's and formers who are not church christians, believe that many of jws' doctrines and bible interpretations are correct, or do you feel that they aren't?
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Morality comes down to logic. (Thanks spock)
Religion comes from a need for hope.
Like many pimo's I am becoming an agnostic
if not, what's in it for the gb?.
but seriously, how is it supposed to work?
pictures of jws in paradise show them raising crops, wearing clothes and building houses.
Is there going to be a new system?
Money ( except tge fiat currency used now) represents a tangible asset, be it gold, grain, cattle, etc., so there is a need for documentation and record keeping.
breaking news | highlights of 2023 worldwide service year report.
on november 15, 2023, the service committee of the governing body shared highlights of the 2023 worldwide service year report with the bethel family.
the following exciting increases were announced: baptisms: during the 2023 service year, 269,517 persons were baptized.
Local KH accounts tells only monies in, expenditures, and remaining balance, which had not be too large. No breakdown on utilities, required payoffs, etc.
Years ago I detailed every expense so the congregation knew where things were spent
this is just one of several sore subjects for me concerning growing up in the toxic cult known as jehovah's witnesses.
health care.
specifically, dentistry.
Look at the teeth of the speakers used in videos. No Hollywood smiles
found this on fb from the recent losch talk.
time for a new business model?.
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Is it likely he would bless those who are stingy greedy?
perhaps this has been printed here before...but still it gave me a few laughs...so here it is again.. the apostates' handy jw glossary.
by doug checketts.
"anointed" - an experience that, unfortunately, no "anointed" one has ever been able to explain.
Needs alphabetized. Did it have shepherding call? See spiritual encouragement
what evidence suggests to you that the wt f&ds is actually more like the es of matthew 24?.
45¶who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?.
46blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.. .
The loans were with interest. Seems ran afoul of banking/ loan laws. They changed to a monthly donation which had to be equal or greater. At the same time titles were signed over.
Any monies over 3 months operating expense are " "voluntarily" donated
The slave flat out said they can never turn evil. Hang on!
