to those who were disfellowshipped/disassociated – how did your still-in parents handle it?.
i don’t want to fade, so i am thinking about disassociating soon – i don’t care if i’m playing by the org’s rules, i just want out.. however, i am concerned about how my parents will react.
i don’t want them to become super depressed or whatever due to me leaving the org.. i don’t want them to be hurt by my decision to leave the org, but i feel like there is no way of avoiding this..
To those who were disfellowshipped/disassociated – how did your still-in parents handle it?
I don’t want to fade, so I am thinking about disassociating soon – I don’t care if I’m playing by the org’s rules, I just want out.
However, I am concerned about how my parents will react. I don’t want them to become super depressed or whatever due to me leaving the org.
I don’t want them to be hurt by my decision to leave the org, but I feel like there is no way of avoiding this.
watchtower telephone booksdownload1999https://we.tl/2wddq7vcwv2015https://we.tl/pfhhniienc2017https://we.tl/pjxyjtvbrx.
petra!.
Thank you so much for this! I remember the phone book when I was in Wallkill a number of years ago! If you look under Brooklyn, you'll find all the heavies and their departments - e.g. on page 53 of the 2015 PDF you can see the members of the Teaching and Service committees, and page 54 has the Writing committee and Writing Department members.
They are, actually! At least in the 1999 and 2015 edition. The 2017 version is odd though, it is missing the GB.ttdt
Noticed the GB are not in there.
Now, if you want to know who is really pulling the strings in the organization - in the 1999 version (I also remember it in the 2010 version), look for Brooklyn's Executive Offices (page 33 of the PDF). These are the real men behind the curtain. For some reason they removed this section in the 2015 version, perhaps due to the ongoing move to Warwick.
I remember when I was in Wallkill looking at this list. I remember looking up the names and department on Bethel's intranet directory where you could see their portraits to put a face to the names (they were listed under Administration or something like that)
The 1999 version lists the following people:
Adams, Don
Borroto, Yan
Cox, Brett
Crane, Brion
Dellinger, Joel
Ellison, Todd
Henschel, Milton
Jackson, Harold
Jaracz, Theodore
Jones, Jack
Losch, Gerrit
Mainers, Lloyd
Malenfant, William
Mavor, Christopher
Mercante, David
Perla, Baltasar
Rittenbach, Rick
Schroeder, Albert
Siebenlist, Philip
Sinclair, David
Wallen, Robert
These are the top of the top. Obviously the current list would be drastically different. But those were the guys running the org and would know everything that goes on.
a peace offering to those recently questioning if i'm undercover, though new conspiracies may surface.
;) please excuse the ongoing construction of the site and enjoy!.
http://thebrokenkite.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dwelling-together-in-unity.pdf.
Yes! Thanks! I've been looking for this for years!
i hated the rules that are set by jws.. like video games they say all the time ''we are not saying give up all video games''etc.but from all they list as a game you cant play you might as well stop playing.. when it comes to movies i get really mad im a big fan of stephen king's it but oh no cant see that.but i hear later that some other jws talk about how good the movie was and they saw it.. im so done.
i heard rumors that the jws are seeking to sell that assembly hall, is this possible?
anyone has wind of it?
i heard this once from someone a few month back and now, again, from mike and kim.
It would be insane to close that assembly hall, that's the only one in the region. The next closest assembly hall is the one in Montreal I think, which is 2+ hours away. And there were 3 assemblies there in September and more late this month/November, so it gets a lot of use. It would make no sense to sell it.
It was designed by Douglas Cardinal so it could probably be sold for a couple million.
There were rumours of it being renovated shortly before the RBC was renamed to the LDC, since then I have heard nothing.
from this post on reddit.com/r/exjw, damon wayans was at the 2017 annual meeting.
the wayans were raised as jw's but i don't think any of them stated.. strange to see him here.
this is the same man who defended bill cosby from all the sex abuse allegations..
From this post on reddit.com/r/exjw, Damon Wayans was at the 2017 Annual Meeting.
The Wayans were raised as JW's but I don't think any of them stated.
Strange to see him here. This is the same man who defended Bill Cosby from all the sex abuse allegations.
a letter was just read at my midweek meeting that georgetown (canada bethel) will have renovations done on it beginning spring 2017. the letter asked for publishers who are electricians/plumbers/etc.
and in good standing to apply to help out.
those helping out will be considered "part-time commuters" and will only be at the property for about 3 days a week and must reside outside of bethel and pay for all their own expenses.
Anyone have anymore details on this? I completely forgot about this and I haven't heard a peep about it.
the congregation i attend had it's watchtower study on thursday night because of l.d.c work this week-end, and another congregation i have some not very spiritual friends in had their watchtower study on wednesday.
from what i have delicately prised out of people, the congregations loved the watchtower study this week, saying it was so encouraging and all the usual stuff, with no-one seeming to realise the g.b.
said they're not inspired, so the spirit int he past has moved them to teach wrong things, and all the other ideas excellently summed up on reddit.. today's watchtower will wash over the heads of most j.w's like it never even happened, the all remaining as loyal as ever, and it makes me so, so sad..
Canada just had it's "headquarters representative meeting" this past weekend (zone meeting) and all of Canada was tied in over the weekend by video (and I assume some only by audio). Graham Pratt of the branch committee gave the WT summary. I was eagerly awaiting what he would say about that paragraph...
and he skips over the entire first half of the paragraph. He didn't say anything about the GB being infallible. He spent like 30 seconds on the paragraph, just talking about whatever the end of it says, and then he moved on.
Think about it - a member of a country's branch committee refused to even talk about that subject. I just shook my head - if a branch committee member would gloss over that paragraph, then most congregations will as well. The branch representative was some Dutch/Belgian old guy.
i saw this on reddit:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.
overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).
Assuming I did the math right, memorial partakers increased by 18.69% from 2015 (15,177 in 2015, 18,013 in 2016). This is the largest increase since 2008 when the memorial partakers increased by 9.68% (9,105 in 2007, 9,986 in 2008). Let's see if there'll be another article ranting about how members are mentally and emotionally challenged.
a circuit overseer friend of mine serving in latin america called me today to say hi.
i asked him what's new and he dropped the news that they have received notification that the branch in mexico will be closing!!
this branch also called the central american branch (although located in mexico) oversees all of mexico's 800,000+ publishers plus all 7 countries of central america of over 100,000 publishers.
