anyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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"Hmm, yeah, 2013 - 2015 is DECADES"
Read what I said once more. You also whould try to have two thoughts in your head at the same time. First thought: Zone visits have taken place for decades. Second thought: For the last couple of years they have been piped.
Clearer now?
anyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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"2013 was the annual meeting, not a zone visit. There certainly wasn't the same level of hooplah about anything in 2010-2012 as there is now."
Totally wrong. You must remember one little thing: USA is not the World. Over here in Europe zone visits have been piped for years. What you have done in the US is your "thing", but you must remember that things take place outside of your little pond as well
anyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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"The Old Hippie, these "zone visits" have never been piped in to every KH in the zone and hyped for months on end as some sort of "special meeting" ever before. I have been in the JW community for DECADES too and I could not tell you one thing about what a "zone visit" entails. Why is 2014 different? I think that is the point of this thread, isn't it?"
They HAVE been piped to every KH in the zone. We had it piped last year - 2013 - and this year - 2014 - and it has been announced recently that it will be piped in March 2015 as well. And before that, it was transferred thru telephone lines both in 2010 and 2011 and 2012. So there is absolutely NOTHING new about it.
anyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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How long have some of you guys been connected to the JW community? These zone visits have taken place for DECADES.
on oct. 22, eight brothers were released from prison in turkmenistan by presidential amnesty.
(see 2014 yearbook, p. 31) the ninth brother is still imprisoned, but it is hoped that he will be released shortly.
some were already in prison for three or more years and had been severely mistreated.
"Hours spent in ministry this year = 2 billion
Baptised = 275,000
Therefore it is taking 7,000 hours (or 10 months of witnessing hours) to make each disciple."
Except that then you take it for granted that none of the baptised were witnessed to last year ............................
i agree with the witnesses about almost nothing, but i do think they have the right idea when it concerns the 'soul'.
it is my belief that there is no such entity as a 'soul' that resides in a human being.
the idea originated in ancient, pre-scientific eras.
So good that I've finally found the one who KNOWS, when the rest of us are stumbling around in the darkness.
i agree with the witnesses about almost nothing, but i do think they have the right idea when it concerns the 'soul'.
it is my belief that there is no such entity as a 'soul' that resides in a human being.
the idea originated in ancient, pre-scientific eras.
"Even if that were possible, the "resurrected" one is not the original, but is A CLONE !!!!"
One can get around it thru the knowledge that there really is no "original" you, because your celles are renewed constantly, and so who you are in five years from now on the cell or molecular level is someone totally different from the one you are today. Still, it is you somehow.
on oct. 22, eight brothers were released from prison in turkmenistan by presidential amnesty.
(see 2014 yearbook, p. 31) the ninth brother is still imprisoned, but it is hoped that he will be released shortly.
some were already in prison for three or more years and had been severely mistreated.
"Since 2000, 3.8 million have been baptised.
The increase since 2000 is 2.1 million.
Where have the other 1.7 million gone?"
Well, close to one million have died (1% each year). And as stated repeatedly, one cannot compare the number of baptised and the growth, that is like comparing apples and oranges, because one does not have to be baptised to be a publisher.
have i missed a previous posting on this?
sorry if this is old news.. just heard from someone whose meeting is on a tuesday evening; basically, 3 per publisher is to be levied to "replace" the kh insurance payment.
the money will be used for damage, vandalism, & disasters, but also to protect any of the societies' entities.. .
No levy is forced on anybody. But the annual insurance that the congregation pays for the damages you mention, is when divided on each baptised publisher so and so much. No forced payment, but an indication on how much the congregation pays per capita.
ok so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much.
she asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off.
he thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... a little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger.
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