do you have experience as an elder and the contribution arrangement for assemblies or conventions?
an upcoming watchtower comments video will be exposing the resolution arrangement that makes this a cash-cow for the society.. i am particularly interested in recent experience, including countries other than the us.. let's get our facts straight and explain the ever-present "deficit" once and for all.. v. [email protected] .
here's a link to Canadian Assembly hall's tax returns, compare some to each other. I know Norval, Ontario( 90% sure :) ) and Onoway, Alberta ( 100% sure ) don't have any kingdom halls in them and are strictly used for assemblies. I don't know why more didn't appear as I know there is one in Calgary that has 5 kingdom halls in it which is also used as an assembly hall.
I tried it twice. The link didn't work. Is there another way you can show the content? I'm curious.
do you have experience as an elder and the contribution arrangement for assemblies or conventions?
an upcoming watchtower comments video will be exposing the resolution arrangement that makes this a cash-cow for the society.. i am particularly interested in recent experience, including countries other than the us.. let's get our facts straight and explain the ever-present "deficit" once and for all.. v. [email protected] .
I believe the Branch manual contains written instructions regarding how that works. http://elsewhereishere.com/jw/branch_organization_manual_bo-e.pdf |
Elsewhere, that is an excellent scan!! Did you have that manual professionally scanned? Just curious.
i have been collecting the public talk outlines.
i have almost all of them but there are a few missing.
i have tiles for some but just numbers for others.
Propbably the same outlines with the appropriate minutes of extra material crossed out. LOL!
the wt society pointed to 1975 as the date for the end of the world.
when the date came and went they changed their publications to remove themselves from the fiasco.
need proof?
The WTS is very sneaky with their sneaky revisions. I've seen others show scans of changes even though they didn't openly come out with a "revision" edition.
Some here have software that tracks the changes the WTS do at their websites! LOL
Say, has anyone come up with a list of before and after coverups? I've seen them posted from time to time so some have this research.
i remember my old man being the po used to give talks all the time out of cong and city.
at first i was excited, i was 17 (horny) and wanted to meet some girls, but my excitement soon wained and i would tell my family that i was just going to the local hall whenever they went out of town or another cong in town.
the reason?
It depends on the demographics of your area. If you live in a mostly retirement area, that's mostly what you're going to get.
When my Bible study conductor was promoted to elder I got to go with him on some of his talks. I got to meet quite a few babes in and around my area. I guess some places had better babe populations than others.
But sometimes it may work for your benefit. I met a nice sister in one of those mostly old populated congregations. While you get sisters that can get quite rebellious and sassy living in a predominantly mature area, on the other hand you get a few sisters that are pretty well grounded, intelligent, and refreshingly old-fashioned and sweet.
Just my two cents.
i went to sunday's talk and watchtower meeting.
sorry to report..............nothing has changed!.
i walked in and as usual elders are talking with fellow elders.
R&R, you're right. I went to a meeting this past January and it was just the same - just as you explained. The Watchtower study had no surprises.
The speaker was just awful! I was truly embarrassed for the JWs there who brought any guests to hear this. He used generalities, tons of JW-speak cliché, used and reused about 80 words in his vast vocabulary. You'd hate to figure how this life-long member of the Theocratic Ministry School must have sounded like before he enrolled!
I'm sorry but if people are going to give you 45 minutes of their time, the least you should do is speak your best with art, pride, and enthusiasm in what you have to say!
Perhaps this is the reason why meeting attendance is getting worse -- the JWs are simply run out of gas and they have empty speeches to offer once they get there.
Simply awful! I was really shocked. I wonder how it must be at the larger assemblies.
need scan of awake!
1971 october 8 which contains a diagram of human history representing millenial reign..
The "End" came 34 years ago. We can all start breathing again.
http://watchtower.org/e/20080501a/article_01.htm.
of course, they fail to mention adding word like [other], [union] and the name jehovah to the inspired text.. tut, tut, more intellectual dishonest from the "faithful and discreet" slave who never runs ahead of jehovah..
Of course, they fail to mention adding word like [other], [union] and the name Jehovah to the inspired text.
Tut, tut, more intellectual dishonest from the "faithful and discreet" slave who never runs ahead of Jehovah.
Sometimes they do make sense.
After all, if there is no quesiton that the name of God appears in the Old Testament then one has to wonder why quotes of that same Old Testament verses in the New Testament substitutes the same name of God to a title.
unwittingly the germans, during wwii, they experimented with many, many ways for killing people, efficiently and quickly.
their records show that when a person is suspended with their hands over their head, as they would be on the jw "torture stake," they can survive for approximately one hour.
if their feet are tied down, as well, the time is reduced to about 15 minutes.. .
I recommend the rent of this documentary: http://www.blockbuster.com/movies/how-jesus-died-the-final-18-hours.html
I've often seen it for free on the History Channel. They do forensic re-creation of what happened to Jesus in the last 18 hours. Short of actually killing a human being the forensic investigation is quite interesting and convincing.
Any way you look at it, Roman crucifiction was a terrible method of execution.
You also have to consider that the Romans executed the crucifiction in different postures and affixed the victims using a variety of means. Bored Romans were not beyond sport when it came to the way they handled their victims. So obviously the way in which the victim was crucified would have an impact on their duration to death.
Same would be true how the Nazis attached their victims in their morbid re-creations of crucifications. And since I'm sure their victims were in poor physical shape to begin with. That would certainly skew the results.
to any jehovahs witness reading this i ask....do you really "abstain from blood?
" the bible makes a clear statement at acts 15 doesn't it?
yet today hemophiliac jehovahs witnesses can use "worldly" blood for their clotting treatments which may use 10 bags per treatment.
They will say you can't accept whole blood but, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details. When they start detailing what is it in blood you can and can't take is where the big mess comes in.
This should have been a personal conscience issue and left at that.
