Posts by Barrold Bonds

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Do the GB go to meetings?
by zound in
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2. friends
to those in the know, what congregation do the governing body go to?.

is it in bethel?.

are they all bethelites that attend or 'outsiders' also?.
Barrold Bonds

I will try to answer these to the best of my ability from my time there at Bethel.
1. They are in different congregations. Some go to The Heights cong. Some go to other halls. The older frail ones would all go to 107 since it was easiest.
2. The congregations they go to all have 'regular' pubs including the Heights cong.
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No, but during the summer they all get sent out to conventions all the time so I guess they miss meetings then.
6. Yes
7. Yes. No idea if they donate. At Bethel we were encouraged to donate, which makes no sense whatsoever.
8. They do serve as elders. I don't know if any handle much in the congregation. I do know some of them would conduct the WT study. My guess is they'd be too 'busy' to do stuff like PO or Service Overseer.
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DC Drama stirs up drama of it's own!!!
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
remember the drama about persecution,suffering, that a modern-day job experiences?

the jw's under ban in a " landmark ruling", our faithful brother conversing with job in the new world, it' all too wonderful!

especially job wearing pants and a tunic style shirt!
Barrold Bonds

Yeah they very obviously tap danced around Job's wife. I was waiting for her to show up and then I figured they didn't want to commit themselves to answering the 'will my spouse and I be together in the resurrection' question.
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Chess ban is still a current teaching
by zound in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
goatshapeddemons mention of chess being banned by jw's at one time was a new one to me.

it got me thinking.

they never corrected that did they?
Barrold Bonds

Something funny about him....
He's known for sunbathing in a speedo on the roof of the Bethel Home. Strange considering that sisters aren't supposed to wear revealing bathing suits. Go go sexist double standard.
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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!
by goatshapeddemon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
Barrold Bonds

Here's the link
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/253227/1/Gods-Word-is-Truth-District-Convention-of-Jehovahs-Witnesses-2013-FRIDAY-AUDIO
6 points:
1.god will accept me as i am
2. it's unnatural to remain morally chaste
3. Revenge is sweet
4. right or wrong is determined by what you feel is right or wrong
5.You have to look out for yourself
6. save a lot of money
I would love you help you get the audio from that. If you want to PM I will do whatever I can. We all want this :)
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Chess ban is still a current teaching
by zound in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
goatshapeddemons mention of chess being banned by jw's at one time was a new one to me.

it got me thinking.

they never corrected that did they?
Barrold Bonds

Yup. Around here everyone is reallllllllly into college and pro football.
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Chess ban is still a current teaching
by zound in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
goatshapeddemons mention of chess being banned by jw's at one time was a new one to me.

it got me thinking.

they never corrected that did they?
Barrold Bonds

Oh man back when we studied the Keep Yourself In God's Love book, there's a section where it basically says don't watch violent sports. The conductor, a huge college football fan, asks after reading the lines, "What sport does this sound like?" Someone said football. He quickly replied, "What about hockey?"

This was hilarious because it was clearly talking about football. It's amazing how elders (and anyone really) can give themselves a free pass while judging what others like or do.
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WTS admits U.S. pubs. # not keeping up w/U.S. population #
by Gayle in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the worldwide service reports show:.

2010 pubs were 1/259 population.

so there it shows pubs "not" keeping up with population!
Barrold Bonds

The only growth for JWs at all is in the third world. For first world countries, the only growth is in foreign language groups and communities.
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Couple other interesting DC tidbits...
by goatshapeddemon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1) they're going to stop producing the wt publications index "because its hard to maintain and translate".

so they're going to create a digital-only research tool on jw.org .

it's like, how convenient and smart.
Barrold Bonds

They actually are going to continute making the index but they'll have an online one too.
As for the food thing, this is nothing new. When they negotiate deals for convention facilities, WT gets a lower rate by not using the concession stands and workers. In many facilities the food is operated by a separate company. For example in many sports facilities Aramark is the one commonly used. By not having to use them, the facility costs less. However, the facility owners don't want people (for any event) to get food from anywhere else like an outside restaurant so they have to buy there. To appease the owners, WT promises that the JWs won't go out for food but bring their own lunches. When JWs go out for lunch they're breaking the agreement.
Is it dumb? Yes. I'm just posting the reasoning. Personally, I wouldn't mind having a fresh hot pretzel or some nachos from the concession stand on my lunch break :)
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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!
by goatshapeddemon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
Barrold Bonds

This is weird. There's a thread here for audio of the convention talks. I just listened to the recording of this talk and the six points are different. Was this talk not a manuscript talk? Most of them are now.
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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!
by goatshapeddemon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
Barrold Bonds

We need audio of this talk ASAP. That's a huge bold statement to make and we need to hear it.