the gilead letter was read last night at the meeting, i had to listen in as they have reinstated my phone line, whatever.. so anywho the service overseer gave the part and he said that jehovah's organization is moving so fast that even what they have printed just a few months ago is now old and they just received a letter from the fs that was to be read tonight from the fs!.
the way he read it, he made it very exciting and like jehovah's chosen religion is moving so fast that it can hardly keep up and the letter was just proof.
the way this elder read the letter it made it sound like the married couples school is going to be so wonderful that it would suppress gilead in wonderfulness.. the elder doing the part then went on and on about how our educational programs are so much, much better than anything out in satan's world.
Ok I haven't been following all the latest goings ons, can someone fill me in on what was printed a few months ago and what was in the letter? I had heard that Gilead was no longer going to be training missionaries, but instead new students would be those already serving as elders, pioneers, etc and would be used after graduating as "troubleshooters". And that there was some new school for Married Couples, not sure what the purpose of this school was.
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this kingdom hall was built in the 1960's and they still meet there.
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Not to derail this thread, but I recently got to revisit my home town's former Kingdom Hall. After it was replaced in the late 70's with a new Hall, it was converted into a house, I've always been curious about how they remodeled it into a house. So it was a little surreal walking into a building I had not been inside of since I was a kid.
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http://www.670kboi.com/rssitem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29671679.
new york) -- harold camping is "mystified" and "a little bewildered" that the rapture did not go as he predicted, an associate of the california preacher told abc news.. .
tom evans, a board member of camping's family radio international, said that camping's wife told him her husband is at their home in oakland and has no intention to speak or issue any statement on sunday or monday.. .
Yeah I haven't heard of Camping DFing anyone who changed their mind about following him. So that puts him at least one step above the Watchtower.
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whats the most depressing song you have ever heard?
i would go with either johnny cash - hurt or gary jules-mad world.
Gotta go with Alone Again, Naturally. I've always said that's like the most depressing song ever.
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the worldwide recruiting attempt of jehovah’s witnesses to bring their religious message to the deaf using sign language can be viewed as something of a mixed bag.
while they strive to communicate it using the right methods, they convey an illusionary message that is detrimental in countless ways.[1].
jehovah’s witnesses international “deaf ministry” as directed by the watch tower bible and tract society, inc., is no small feat because there are over 200 distinct sign languages in the world.
By and large, the methods for hunting down deaf people is a waste of time. You will literally spend hours driving around, knocking on doors, harassing businesses and writing letters to schools with nothing to show for. Not to mention how much gas you have wasted driving all over.
And this is different from the regular field ministry how?
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i saw this episode when i was a little kid and it has stuck with me since and will so until i die.
i highly recommend taking the 42 minutes out of your life to watch it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5djw1kzcki.
-sab.
The Inner Light may be the greatest episode of Star Trek ever produced. I remember the first time I saw it being completely blown every time they came back from a commercial and Picard had aged another 10-15 years. I was like WTF?!?!!!
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...they were adolescents and they were just touched.
his writing is eerily reminiscent of jw apologists.. .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2fc%2fa%2f2011%2f04%2f12%2fddue1iuco1.dtl.
I saw this in the news, this Donohue guy sounds despicable.
Its infuriating to see how they can minimize and condone truly vile and abhorrent acts, and somehow paint the perpetrators as victims!
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so the society have a hedge fund, some(50%) shares in a usa company who specsialise in weapons delivery systems , has a shares portfolio that includes cigerettes.it buys up real estate in one of the worlds most lucerative locations ny,uses free labour to refurbish these properties along with its tax free status and then sells them on at a profit.it further extends it real estate portfolio by lending money at intrest ,for the building of more kh, again built with free labour and tax breaks, which are never owned by the cong,s who built them, but belong wts.
i am not an economist,though i would be hard pressed to come up with a better economic model than this, also it purports to be politically nuetral, so hopes to operate globally without restrictions, infact the (workers) have to pay the society ,by way of mag sales and donations, in order to give their free labour, no trade union protection or minimum wage.
g--gle, p--si,ya-oo, micro---t, would kill to have these advantages in the market place..
the building of more KH, again built with free labour and tax breaks, which are never owned by the Cong,s who built them, but belong WTS.
For the last time,
local congregations hold the deed to their Kingdom Hall, not the Watchtower Society!!
Posting untrue allegations just makes ex-JWs look either misinformed or intentionally deceptive.
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http://chbook.stores.yahoo.net/2006items.html.
Back in the day I made some awesome laminated bookmarks with the book study schedule printed on them, I could've been selling them instead of just handing them out to everyone in the book study group!
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i rarely look at any wt publications anymore, but under watching the world, april 2011 awake quotes a newspaper article that blames the covering of sexual abuse on the misguided loyalty to the absolute authority of the catholic church.
i couldn't help thinking of the many cases of child abuse amongst jws that have been swept under the rug for the exact same reason - the absolute authority of the fds!
they have no shame pointing their finger at others when in fact they are as bad...if not worse in mistreating the victims of abuse.
They still have the nerve to print stuff condemning the Catholics over their sex abuse scandal???? Unbelievable!!
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