listener on here started a cool thread about the april 2017 wt which can be found here.... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4881380162928640/watchtower-april-2017-overview.
it got me to look at it closer and in the opening study they use terminology i've never heard used before namely, "vow of obedience and poverty".... 19 currently, there are some 67,000 members of the worldwide order of special full-time servants of jehovah’s witnesses.
some perform bethel service, others engage in construction or in circuit work, serve as field instructors or special pioneers or missionaries or as assembly hall or bible school facility servants.
I remember somewhere about a brother at Bethel who made cheese for 30 years. After they moved him to a different department he said "great" because he never really liked making cheese.
I wonder how many of these type of guys are even left around anymore. Probably not many.
great article with charts showing how the world is getting better, despite the attempts of the news and certain religious groups to say it ain't so (or try and make it not).. https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts/.
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A Believer - let me be a prophet. If you continue here long enough, you will leave the JW religion. Trust me. Why? because facts will show you what it's really like and you will see from the experiences of others that it's not this rosy picture the WT makes it out to be. No, the JW religion is really sick from it's own sickness.
As you have just seen from the facts presented here on how the world is becoming a better place in many respects. Yes there is still war, but there has always been war, from the very beginning.
Trust me, just stick around, just stick around.
l don't visit very often now , but l wanted to drop in to wish all you folks a merry christmas and happy new year .
as l cannot find a thread already started for this l have started one !
in the immortal words of chuck berry ( l think ) " come on everybody " join in wishing your fellow posters a merry christmas , happy holidays etc .
I said Merry Christmas today at my job to some customers. The first time in 25 years. I don't feel a bit ashamed either.
you guys do know that if you just leave and never go back you wont be disfellowshiped right?
i know people who have done exactly this.
you have to commit a sin and you or someone else has to tell a elder.
A believer is a hypocrite. He/she thinks can do all the JW things and defend them, but goes completely against the governing body's direction and comments on this apostate web site.
as someone who has tried to fade on various occasions, i always end up attending meetings!
why is this the case you may ask?.
if i was single, i would have kissed this high control american religion goodbye many years ago.
A believer - I take it you are a young person, probably less than 30 years old. Please, go ahead and soak in the many comments from the people here. I guarantee you will learn things.
jared kushner closes on another dumbo heights property.
jared kushner has another jehovah’s witnesses site in his company’s development pocket.on tuesday, the former kushner companies (now called simply “kushner”), along with asher abehsera’s livwrk and the cim group, closed on a $345 million purchase of 85 jay st. in the same dumbo neighborhood as the jehovah’s witnesses’ watchtower real estate.bob knakal acted as a consultant to watchtower’s in-house group.now a parking lot, the full block can host an as-of-right 1.1-million- square-foot mixed-use development.“this site has tremendous upside, and we’re looking forward to developing a project that will further enhance the area and help strengthen connections between the dumbo heights campus and the waterfront,” said laurent morali, president of kushner..
To really know what is in their bank ledger, that would really be awesome.
periódico-28 nov. 2016. los testigos de jehová investigan internamente los casos de pederastia a través de las autodenominadas audiencias judiciales que forman .... australia, contra los testigos de jehová por la pederastiael periódico de aragón-28 nov. 2016. .
testigos de jehová dedican su jornada anual a la lealtadmeganoticias (comunicado de prensa)-28 nov. 2016. .
la justicia paralela de los testigos de jehovácompleto-el país-27 nov. 2016. .
Good. Let it rain down. And hopefully the victims get some sort of justice.
I had to read it twice, too much to drink. No too much to think. Awesome.
latest article to appear in spain - december 15, 2016.
ignasi jorro @ignasijorro.
las víctimas de abusos de los testigos de jehová piden amparo al gobierno.
Right on Vidiot.
http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/12/11/gb-jehovahs-witnesses-agrees-churches-mmm-warns-ponzi-schemes/.
the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses, the central organ that controls the international body of the organisation has warned her members against the growing ponzi schemes promising a quick fix, at least with this warning jehavah’s witnesses now have a common ground with other churches as notable clergies in nigeria have equally warned members against the scheme.. the governing body warned not just nigerian adherents, but also all members worldwide.
the letter conveying the message was read out to members at this sunday’s meetings.. some of the key points of the letter are: .
It just goes to show that down deep inside, even for Witnesses, they want the money. $$$ If no one is looking they will go after it, bottom line. Sad.
