In the US, it means that if you sign the vow you can't have another job. As an example, a Bethelite wouldn't be allowed to have a night job at a McDonalds or something like that. The only way to earn extra money would be to use a vacation day to do a side odd job. I'm guessing it's similar in other countries.
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What is the vow of poverty
by Jafox ini was told by someone that in 2007 two members of the branch committee in greece were removed because they breached the vow of poverty.
the matter was over a small amount, in the range of a few hundred euro.
is there a copy of this vow available and how would this be applied here?
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Williams sister got engaged to some guy from Reddit
by wozza inso is he a witness or if not what are gb going to do about it since she identifies with the watchtower society?.
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Wozza, the Williams sisters have never been baptized. They are inactive unbaptized publishers at best... in other words they are nothing as far as the org is concerned. What is the org supposed to do with them?
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AND STILL NO RELEASE OF THE 2017 JW YEARBOOK
by steve2 inhere we are on the cusp of the new year, and the 2017 yearbook of jws has still not been released.
jw.org continues to feature the 2016 yearbook in its list of main publications.
in previous years, the upcoming yearbook's annual report on jws was released in november for the january 1st then the feb 1st watchtower, then earlier in december when it was only featured in the yearbook, then more recently with a couple of days of december 25th.
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Yeah they've had to come up with a lot of excuses. First it was "these new partakers are filling the slots taken by people who were anointed but stopped being JWs. That didn't fly because man, that's a LOT of old anointed dudes leaving the org.
Then they spun it into 'a lot of the partakers are crazy.' that is even worse because what does that say for the org when there's THAT many crazy dudes.
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2 questions about Warwick
by Gorbatchov ini have two questions about warwick.
see the picture included.
1) at the other side of the lake you see other buildings.
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I could see them dumping Wallkill. There's less and less printing and shipping so it would be easy to shift that to another branch.
They'd probably have to add on to Warwick if they sold Patterson though. They've got quite a few departments there plus the schools and stuff.
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2 questions about Warwick
by Gorbatchov ini have two questions about warwick.
see the picture included.
1) at the other side of the lake you see other buildings.
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Spiral, from a fiscal standpoint the move makes sense.
They were able to make a killing from flipping all the property in the Heights.
It's also very expensive to operate in Brooklyn. The number has probably gone up, but when I was at Bethel 15 years ago, it costs twice as much to 'take care' of a Bethelite in Brooklyn than in the Farms or Patterson. Getting out made sense.
That said, I'm still not sure why they bought MORE property. They have a TON of unused land in Wallkill and Patterson.
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Wow what do you think true story
by poopie inthis is an actual case.
a jw was recently disfellowshipped heres the reason.
he was and elder and regular pioneer at the time baprized 40 years he decides to rent a room from a women who rents rooms out to singles ,he moves in and there's another guy there also renting a room he happens to be disfellowshipped .
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poopie has a history of posting really weird shit
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Do you believe that Jehovah is using the Organization today?
by Iamallcool inany elder has never asked me that question so far but i want to be prepared to answer that question if any of them ask me that question in the future.
i hope that they will never ask me that question.
any suggestions on how to answer that question would be very much appreciated.
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Pull a Geoffrey Jackson: "It would be presumptuous for us to assume that."
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Beatles poster was "Demonized". We had to take it down. How about you?
by Wasanelder Once inin 1967 richard avedon published a poster of his portraits of the beatles.
my jw aunt attacked it for being spiritualistic!
the "third" eye on george's palm was spiritualistic!
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So I'm a big fuckin nerd and love(d) Star Wars. In the early 90's, the new CO came into town and told my dad that Star Wars is demonic. My dad was trying to become an elder so he had to suck his dick and he made my brother and I get rid of all our Star Wars stuff. Toys, games, books, everything. Strangely enough when that CO left it was Ok to have that stuff again. Lol.
my parents became JWs via a bible study. they had a really big record collection. complete discographies, original pressings, shit that would make a hipster drool. the person who studied with them was a hard-ass elder. he told them that all that music is wordly and evil and they had to get rid of it all. they did.
looking back my parents are pretty fucking stupid and it explains all my issues today.
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Poopie has a thought what do you think child molestation
by poopie inso here's my thought what should be done to an elder that is accused of molesting a child and there no 2 witnesses ?
1. the elder should immediately step down or be removed.2.
the child should be protected.
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someone is off their meds again
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WELL BEARDS ARE STILL A NO NO!!!!!!
by DwainBowman inwell beards are still a no no!!!!!!.
in a new letter from the branch/gb nut's, beards are not acceptable in the us branch area!!!!!!.
my eldub brother in law, shared this today.
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If Sir82 says it's not in the letters section, I'm calling bullshit. There's no reason to make that letter super secret or just give it to the CO's.