ok group, we have learned:.
a. working more to provide for ones family is tantamount to worshipping false gods!.
b. do'nt have children because one day you might have to eat them!.
....and if you are offered a scholarship for a university education at age 15 don't accept it. But become a missionary instead in some remote island, then you can translate some of the society's publications. (page 108 par12)
If you are a parent make sure that your kids do worse than you did. A parent should not say"I want my child to have an easier life". if a parent wishes his child a better life than it would demonstrate that he/she is seeking "great things". (pag 109 par 13)
brother of the hawk, newly enlightened & gojira, recorded an elder's meeting on 5/7/03.
both does a great job of defending me and making the elders look foolish!.
thank you raypublisher/jj and jwstruggle for the awesome job you did on it.. follow up story was not recorded but we will post it here hopefully over the weekend.. enjoy, it's pretty hilarious how they try to control us and come after me on a work of fiction!.
I enjoyed the video very much. The elders are such embecils. They apply Matt 18 when it suits them.
What is the title of the book, id love to purchase it.
how emphasized was it to go to the congregation that you lived in the territory of?
how many did so?.
It depends on what station one holds in the pecking order. Elders, pioneers and ministerial servants are often found outside their territory boundaries. Generally these are asked to "jump over to Macedonia" if a neighboring congregation is in greater need.
The rank and file are generally strongly encouraged to stay where they are assigned. If someone chooses to disobey and go to a congregation other than their assigned one, then that person is considered rebellious because theocratic order is put aside. Often priviledges such as carrying mikes, prayer etc. are withheld.
i was thinking this weekend of a brother i first met when i was a teenager.. not yet an elder, this brother was very outspoken, and was viewed a kind of hero to the r&f.. an inexperienced teen, i also believed ( influenced by others) that this guy was a godsend.. looking back, with the eyes of a more mature person, i now consider him an arrogant self opinionated bully.. he later became an elder and i might add that he also had an imposing physical appearance .
but he had no education.
no schooling.
Growing up in the borg, I too was brainwashed to think that jehovah's witnesses were always a notch above everybody else. After all we had divine education while everybody else had satan's education. And if one read the awake for 6 months , it was the equivalent of a college education.
in another thread, mouthy said she was "not well" and mentioned "kicking the bucket.
i believe she needs some encouragement and well wishes.. mouthy, you don't need to respond to this thread if you don't feel up to it.
just consider it an exceptionally long get-well card..
Hugs and kisses
i finally graduated with my bachelor's degree last saturday.
i really wish i hadn't taken as long as i did.
my high school graduation was 30 years ago.
Congratulations! What a wonderful sense of accomplishment.
jw leaks has just published the financial records for watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania for the years 1995 through 1998 in pdf.. these form just some of the records that were required to be lodged in britain as part of the legal requirements relating to the establishment of an overseas branch of the watch tower society in britain in 1993.. also published by jw leaks are a copy of the original 8 page "certificate of registration of an oversea company" and application lodged with the registrar of companies for england and wales for the registration of "watch tower bible and tract society" in britain.. on november 1, 1999, watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania closed their overseas branch in britain.
a copy of the "closure form" has also been published.
this closure was done following the registration of "watch tower bible and tract society of britain" a few weeks earlier.. documents relating to the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania can be download at:.
......and that is only the Pennsylvania corporation.....
At presentt he quota is 70 hours. But not many of these hours are genuinely arrived at. Most have devised creative way of counting time.
I started out pioneering when the quota was 100 hours for regular pioneers and 75 for auxillary pioneering (previously known as vacation pioneering)
This is what my yearly schedule looked like since the age of 14:
age 14- vacationed pioneered 3 months.
age 15- vacationed pioneered 3 months.
age 16 -vacationed pioneered 3 months.
age 16- vacationed pioneered 3 months
age 17- vacationed pioneered 3 months
age18-32 -regulared pioneered, 100 hours in the early years and then 90.
What a waste- I think I'm going to a corner and cry.
just saw a post by splash on the commision transcript thread: (pasted below).
we had a talk at our hall recently, basically saying that there have been lots of letters written to the uk branch, questioning and complaining about a new change introduced for the baptisms at the sad and ca.. the talk did not try to reason, it did not try to explain.. the talk was "do as you are told, don't question what you are told".. we were told to do as the song instructs us "listen, obey and be blessed".. we were told that this change was from jehovah so keep up with his chariot.. i think this talk was given in quite a few locations around the country.. what was that all about please?.
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I dont' understand----are they going to dunk in private. ----perhaps in another location.
Inquiring minds need to know :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hsoolwac4.
Tastefully done.
