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  $5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

  by Sour Grapes in

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  2. experiences

  a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

  it was sold a couple of years ago.

  we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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  This same thing happened with planned assembly hall for Rome Georgia. In around 2012 they were collecting fund and even had separate boxes for that, to collect funds for it. There were letters posted about how much was collected, around several million. Then in early 2013 a letter was read stating that the project was cancelled and the funds collected would go to the WWW.
  
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  Women must not instruct men, even by singing a theocratic song.

  by Ultimate Axiom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i did a quick search and this doesn’t appear to have been commented on here, but if it has been, i apologise in advance for starting an unnecessary thread.. regarding a change to a song title, the study article on page 7 paragraph 17 of november 2017 watchtower explained, “the change of the title “guard your heart” to “we guard our hearts” was most considerate.

  in the audience at our meetings, assemblies, and conventions are many new ones, interested ones, young ones, and sisters who by singing the words would be put in the awkward position of telling others what to do.

  so the title and the lyrics were modified.”.

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  I thought this was Christianity, not Paulianity. Why so much following of what Paul said?
  
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  CO's talk on loyalty

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the circuit overseer this week on tuesday gave a talk on loyalty to jehovah.

  i listed 5 points.

  i only remember 3.. one was the typical association with disfellowshipped relatives, the next was loyalty to friends over jehovah by not reporting wrongdoing to elders.

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  The Circuit Overseer this week on Tuesday gave a talk on loyalty to Jehovah. I listed 5 points. I only remember 3.

  One was the typical association with disfellowshipped relatives, the next was loyalty to friends over Jehovah by not reporting wrongdoing to elders.

  That one that I am highlighting here was when spoke of loyalty to marriage mates. He spoke of when couples had children the children splits the attention of the couple, which is true and unavoidable. He also spoke of couples going on vacations with other couples. The men would do things like going golfing and the women would go shopping which isn't good for the couples. Which he is right.
  

  But I was thinking that maybe his motive for discouraging couples vacationing together is to discouraging couples from sharing each other with the other couples and I don't mean men golfing and women shopping. He just wouldn't want to say that there may have been reports of mates sharing each other.
  
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  Silly Bible Stories we once believed

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  these bible stories are too silly to be true.

  take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.

  telling !.

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  "Earth created first and then the stars and the heavens" That's not what the Bible says.
  
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  Did You Go To Meetings in Very Inclement Weather?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  living in new england means having lots of snow and cold.

  elders were very reluctant to cancel or reschedule a meeting due to the weather.

  i lived 3 towns away from the kingdom hall and if it was icy and treacherous my vote would always be to cancel the meeting....and forget about rescheduling!.

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  I remember pioneering in inclement weather. The hope was that the people would feel sorry for us and invite us in for coffee or cocoa. Now, I can't believe I did that.
  
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  Avoiding Service Tips?

  by Kohanic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back again!.

  so as i'm still pimo and living under my parent's roof, how can i get out of service?

  cause i really don't want to go and i feel dirty just knowing i could be influencing someone into this garbage..

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  Just say that you have all your time for the month and have to get things done to prepare for next month; even if it is January 3rd.
  
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  Analysis of 2017 vs 2016 Yearbook reports for Europe

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so these countries roughly constitute europe.. here's how well they did in 2017 vs 2016:.

  2017 peak pubs.

  2016 peak pubs.

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  I noticed the decrease in congregations in the USA. We were visiting a congregation a few weeks ago that 2 years ago had 2 congregations but when we got there I learned that they were consolidated to one with publishers sent to other local congregations.

  As for publisher numbers, there may be many, such as the ones on here who turn in a field service slip (to not stand out) but don't do any real service.
  
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  Biblical incidents that bothered me.

  by EverApostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i wanted to discuss the (supposed) biblical events that disturbed me a lot when i was a jw.

  these incidents were just read and discussed in the kingdom hall as if these are normal and justified, which clearly weren't.

  perhaps this led to my awakening.

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  It was Uzzah, not Uzziah.
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by Jules Saturn in

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  2. current

  this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

  1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

  6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

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  The magazine change does not affect the study copy, just the field service public copy of the Watchtower and Awake.

  The study copies will still have 32 pages each month.
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by Jules Saturn in

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  this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

  1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

  6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

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  Yeah, how things have changed

  From the good ole days of everything in Brooklyn and wallkill and the GB with ties back to the board of directors. Barr, Barry, Booth, Ganges, Franz, Henschel, etc.

  4 - 32 page magazines a month = 1536 pages a year

  then it went to one Awake a month, and study and public watchtower for 1152 pages.

  In 2013 they dropped the public to 16 pages for 768 pages
  

  Then in 2016 it went to every other month for watchtower and Awake public for 576 pages

  Now in 2018 it is 6 issues for public and 12X32 for study for 480 pages per year.

  One quarter of what it used to be.

  But no mention of how much money they will save as the reason, which we know it is.. Same with the yearbook which people get in print.

  And they constantly mentioned that Jehovah blessed the move and location. The location is so it is less conspicuous and cheap land and the sale of the expensive NYC land.