read it if you can bear it — it's heart-wrenching.. anybody who has any association with the roman catholic church has no self-respect.. the sex abuse of deaf orphans in pope francis’ backyard....
There are now 5 Justices on the SCOTUS who are Catholic. I don’t know if they are liberal or conservative. If a case involving the Catholic Church and child sex abuse reaches their court it will be something to watch. These are the legal minds that shape a nation and by extension a lot of the globe. They aren’t walking away.
Yes, I admit, I’ve got SCOTUS on the brain. Lol
sorry guys,.
the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..
sorry guys,.
the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..
Paradise Earth: Why invisible?
Really? That didn’t do it for you?
sorry guys,.
the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..
Poe’s Law
sorry guys,.
the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5619696985440256/annual-meeting-live
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4r_DRFVyKno
At -1:40:35 or first 3 minutes of video
sorry guys,.
the gorby satire fake report of the annual meeting with the coincidence about russia, is used for real in john cedars yt channel.. please concider it for well prepared satire.. and not much more.. g..
This is the very thing WT points to when it tells it’s masses that apostates are liars.
C’mon Cedars. Verify.
A correction and clarification is in order.
the 2014/2015 international conventions have been announced, and will be held in the following cities.... melbourne, australia october 2014london, england august 2014quito, ecuador january 2015frankfurt, germany july 2014athens, greece june 2014seoul, korea september 2014mexico city, mexico november 2014harare, zimbabwe august 2014as always there is a long list of requirements for those wealthy enough to attend - including the requirement to keep your "exemplary status" right up to the day of departure or lose all your money.. there is also a curious paragraph that seems to indicate an element of subterfuge.... special rooming: confidentially, we will be asking the host branch office to poll local brothers to determine if some might be able to provide limited rooming provisions in private homes.
this information is not to be made known to the applicants in general.
however, if the elders are aware of a longtime, faithful servant, perhaps with many years of full-time service, who is not able to fully finance such a trip, he could be encouraged to apply and the secretary can check the box on the electronic jw.org application that this delegate qualifies for the special rooming provision, if available.. basically, watchtower is admitting that it is possible to attend an international convention even if you can't afford the hotel, but they don't want everyone to know because they want as many full-paying delegates as possible.. my article on this can be found on the link below.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/watchtower-announces-new-international-conventions-while-downsizing-district-conventions-for-2014.
If the search for private home accommodations was not done “confidentially” you’d have a bunch of people upset they are paying full price.
Seems like a good reason to keep it hushed.
Even that might be a stretch because I personally know individuals that not only paid for their trip in full but also covered the costs for several other elderly couples, who could not afford it, to go with them. Maybe they were never made aware that reduced cost or no cost housing may be available to them, but even then, I’m not sure they would have taken advantage of it or wanted the hassles and complications it might have presented.
Barring those with health issues is interesting. I can hardly see why that would be needed. It’s a lot of effort to travel internationally in the best of health. Maybe there were problems in the past that shaped the policy.
Its nit picky. There are a hundred other issues that could serve for a blog entry or whatever.
Even as JWs we knew WT was always thinking of their bottom line and what would put the most contributions in the box. Think of the hotel discount and booking issues we had to deal with each year. Spend months on the phone trying to get a hotel to save $30 a night and then feel compelled to drop your savings in the contribution box.
So much easier to make one phone call and book a room wherever the hell you wanted.
i spent a considerable length of time living and working in america (would love to imigrate one day).. almost everyone i worked with and made friends with carried a concealed firearm of somesort.
i found this pretty interesting and as an avid firearm fan even more so.. so to our american members here... .
as a jw did you or did you know any practising dubs who carried or if not had firearms for home defence?
Growing up JW and into my late 20s I spent time in a number of states from NY, FL, CA and a handful between them. JWs in cities and along coastlines didn’t have guns and usually were adamant that guns were a no no for JWs. In every rural area even in CA and FL there were some JWs that had guns like rifles and shotguns. A few had handguns but they were secretive and low profile about them.
I live in a very anti gun, gun control state. Still I know to this day active JWs that have guns even here. They are tight lipped about it.
I have never known any JW with a CCL. But it would not surprise me.
I wish there were more CCL people in general in my state. I would feel safer in public.
i am an elementary school teacher of the fourth grade.
in times past, students would start learning cursive handwriting in third grade and by fourth should be transitioning to writing in cursive at all times.
as you might be aware, this has all but been taken out of the curriculum.
The way I approached this with my kids is to teach them at home. They did not learn handwriting or how to read an anolog clock from school. They learned how to be really quick on a keyboard but they did not learn proper form and will never type at professional speed because of it.
I encourage “the arts” because so much of it has been stripped from public schools. One dances, one is in the community theatre, one has learned the base, guitar, piano. None of which were offered in school anymore.
More to your point,
Handwriting is an art. A practical one. We should hold onto it. I would also push some instruction for calligraphy.
We are losing a lot of skills because of the advancement of technology. Skills that will be missed if we find ourselves without that technology.
... that this forum, which is such an amazing resource for those needing support for their journey from watchtower's clutches has an increasingly present representation of unreasoning politically charged loudmouths..
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The mob has spoken.
