no matter if you are tired, sick, worked late, trudging through heavy snow, or any other reason, you were never to miss the meetings.
missing meetings is frowned upon.. i once went to a 2 day assembly with 2 wisdom teeth pulled the day before.
my gums were still bleeding.
I gave a Sunday talk when my child was seriously ill and would possibly need to be hospitalized. Blood transfusion would be an issue. Doctors had us monitoring the temperature and if it rose to a certain point, we were to immediately get to the hospital.
I was a new elder then and it had been impressed upon me that you didn’t miss important outgoing talks such as this. I was so stressed that I began crying on the closing prayer! That’s right i even stayed for the WT Study!
i just read that watchtower pennsylvania and bmg music ave agreed to a confidential settlement .
about "listen,obey and be blessed" by aled jones ?
anybody have more information ?
What if we are being played? What if the settlement was actually in favor of BMG? If it was in favor of WT, I would think that they would want it known that they will not tolerate copyright infringement. Something about this doesn't pass the smell test.
i just read that watchtower pennsylvania and bmg music ave agreed to a confidential settlement .
about "listen,obey and be blessed" by aled jones ?
anybody have more information ?
It was mentioned on the Lloyd Evans video, about the leaked convention song, that a settlement has taken place. But no details because of the confidentiality agreement.
i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.
i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.
anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.
I guess WT won't need that new video studio in upstate New York. No need to donate towards that!
This could slow down donations. The Big 8 will probably come out with an announcement to keep sending in your spiritual offerings to further the World Wide Work and not try to put a date on the "End of Times". That's their job.
kingdom hall vaccine center.. .
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atlantis!.
Thanks Atlantis!
Yes, I think there is some type of remuneration. Check this F.E.M.A. website out. It mentions all that FEMA pays for, facilities are one of the items. https://www.fema.gov/disasters/coronavirus/vaccine-support/vaccine-center
i'm doing a little background research for a novel.
what is the craziest thing you heard a witness say was demonized, and what did they do about it?.
Check out Kevin McFree's Dubtown on YouTube, Season 1 episodes 26 & 27 are about demons. They are hilarious but so true. I miss Kevin's videos!
in a recent turn of events, i found myself at a jw social gathering on zoom (supporting my pimi wife, while among mostly jws whom i don't know and a handful of old friends who don't know i'm inactive) that just so happened to also be joined by garrett losche and his wife.
sorry to disappoint but i had absolutely no interaction with him and have nothing interesting to report about it.
i'm just sharing this because i can't believe i even got that close to maybe chatting with him, despite being a closeted apostate.. there were about 300 people in the zoom meeting, all having been directly invited.
When Gerrit Lösch visited Texas in the 90's he was wearing $300 Bruno Magli shoes (O. J. Simpson wore them too) and expensive designer sunglasses! So G.B. dresses to the nines for a long time. They dress like stars Don't believe the WT from a year or two ago that said they want to be treated like the average Witness. The GB wants your adulation and admiration! They wrote a song about it. I think it's song #25 or 26. "A Special Possession"
i'm doing a little background research for a novel.
what is the craziest thing you heard a witness say was demonized, and what did they do about it?.
A sister in Illinois pulled the hood latch while driving on the interstate, thinking it was the emergency brake. The hood popped up and broke the windshield and bent the hood. Her father who was an elder, blamed it on Satan and the demons!
Sounds in the attic were attributed to demons. Turns out it was cats running around and making sounds like a crying baby!
One sister had chronic back problems. A couple of "elderettes" went by to do really what amounted to an exorcism. The two "elderettes" were sure that it must be demons. The problem persisted so a couple of elders went by to pray with the sister. It turned out that the cushion/discs between her vertebra were bulging.
It's interesting that JW's say to call on Jehovah to expel demons. In the Bible, Jesus disciples expelled them in the name of Jesus. I told a sister that when one of her Bible students supposedly was having trouble with demons, and she looked at me like I was crazy.
i overheard mrs eyeslice listening to '2021 governing body update 3' yesterday.
apparently, they have started ditching foreign language groups and congregations as these weren't exactly roping anyone in.
of course there is a positive spin on all this - '4,000 plus elders freed up to serve in local language congregations' and of course there has been immensely positive feedback from various branches about the benefits of this.. i suspect though there will be an awful lot of elders who were serving as king pins in these congregations who are going to have their noses put out by going back to local language congregations where they will barely be used.
It’s because many elders are getting up in age and some, like myself are stepping aside(resigning). The elders have as much congregation business/financial/legal to handle as they do spiritual. I know several elders in my area who are awake, PIMO, but can’t make a clean break right now because of the shunning policy.
For some foreign language was a way to get away. Now they are needed back in their old congregations because of shrinking numbers in the elder ranks
jehovah can't be your father in this life.
'they [jw members] address him prospectively as "our father.
jesus is not your mediator:.
I am a born in, third generation J W, elder for 25 + years, and i didn’t know J W teaching or belief that Jesus is not my Mediator until two years ago. It was while preparing the Memorial talk that I discovered this, and i had given the Memorial talk five or six times before. It’s not something that JW’s will tell you straightforwardly. Most don’t even know.
