I was once "blessed" to be invited to attend an operational committee meeting for a remodel of our local KH. 4 hours! It was 4 hours long. The biggest sticking point? We had a local brother who had a wallpaper business. He wanted the hall to be wallpapered. Now, one of the reasons for the remodel was the 'baby room' and in other areas the old wall paper was peeling for various reasons. Many of the brothers wanted to get ride of it and just have dry wall throughout the Hall.This pompous ass of a brother went on for hours....hours, browbeating everyone until he got his way. I actually sat there appalled at his attitude. And I couldn't believe the other brothers gave into him. He wore them down. So they spent nearly 1/2 their remodeling budget on new wallpaper and shelved the new HVAC system (which WAS needed)! I asked one brother who I was close with after if that brother is always that pompous? He said no, he usually is way worse.
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Notes From an Elders Meeting
by WinstonSmith inso in this past week i came across a stash of my old elder stuff.
i've scanned a bunch of notes and agendas, and public talk outlines.. check out an agenda and my notes from the meeting here: https://imgur.com/gallery/qqmyczn.
i’ve put an explanatory note on each image in imgur.
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The Simpson's APU is now NOT politically correct...
by The Fall Guy in...so he's being cut from the the programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51158261.
the world is going bonkers!
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What Do We Know for Certain?? Experts, Authorities, Scientists are often Dead WRONG
by Terry indo i know anything for certain?yes!when so-called "authority" predict the future - they are wrong.and yet - we always believe them.
examples:________.
2912 mayan calendar apocalypse1910 : halley's cometa worldwide panic ensued, stoked by the media and such newspaper headlines as “comet may kill all earth life, says scientist.”1831 the great disappointmentwilliam miller began preaching in 1831 that the end of the world as we know it would occur with the second coming of jesus christ in 1843. he attracted as many as 100,000 followers who believed that they would be carried off to heaven when the date arrived.
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@ Cofy...at first I was going to argue your statement, but you know? You're right. A lot of those statements were supported by scientific facts. Still are in most cases. The problem was there wasn't a complete picture of the problems. Not enough study to formulate a proper conclusion. Just one side was researched and pushed to the extreme.
I see this same failed agenda today pushing global climate change caused by man-made CO2 emissions. See, I don't deny climate change. What I deny is the influence man has on it.
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2019--S--44--Form!
by Atlantis in2019 s-44 form.
monthly kingdom hall operating committee accounts report.
https://docdro.id/pamkvfm.
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I noticed the signature at the bottom is for the 'Account Servant". If my memory serves me correctly, it used to say 'Elder". So, does that mean an Account Servant is now in charge of the operation committees expenses? If so, that is a fairly big change imo.
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What Do We Know for Certain?? Experts, Authorities, Scientists are often Dead WRONG
by Terry indo i know anything for certain?yes!when so-called "authority" predict the future - they are wrong.and yet - we always believe them.
examples:________.
2912 mayan calendar apocalypse1910 : halley's cometa worldwide panic ensued, stoked by the media and such newspaper headlines as “comet may kill all earth life, says scientist.”1831 the great disappointmentwilliam miller began preaching in 1831 that the end of the world as we know it would occur with the second coming of jesus christ in 1843. he attracted as many as 100,000 followers who believed that they would be carried off to heaven when the date arrived.
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2019...global climate change?
I always say, "follow the money" . It's all the same old, same old thing.
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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?
by minimus inshe certainly is passionate about climate change.
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Jesus to rule for 1000 yrs yet he started in 1914?
by krismalone ini believe when we were in the jw cult, our brains and thoughts were hijacked by the governing body.
i truly believe the gb thinks all members are stupid and they laugh at them in their wednesday morning secret meetings.. one such teaching that i never heard anyone bring out or question yet the absurdity and contradiction is blatantly obvious is: revelation chapter 20 says that christ will reign for 1000 years.
it doesn't say he will reign more than a thousand yrs but only 1000 yrs.
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Easy...it's an overlapping 1000 years. Problem solved, hahahaha
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'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??
by punkofnice inat one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.
however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.
i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.
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OMG! I thought I was the only one. I had to give an experience at an Assembly some 13 years ago. By the time the Circus Overseer 'changed' a few things to make it more 'appropriate' for us locally, it only superficially resembled what actually happened. In fact, the made up version that the friends saw now became the true version. Why do I say this? Because I had more than a few people who knew the real situation ask me why I didn't tell them all of this made up crap originally. Worse part, we were 'instructed' to not tell anyone that the CO changed the experience! So we basically had to now lie to everyone that this made up version was always the truth.
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What Do You Think About Banning Plastic Bags?
by minimus inwe need to save the planet so we have to stop using plastic bags!
in massachusetts, the new law will be going into effect soon.
if you go food shopping, you only cat get paper bags.. what is your opinion of the state banning plastic bags?
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I use plastic shopping bags for everything. They are my waste bags in the house like some have previously stated, I use them for "organizers" in my truck, and anything else I can think of. I have even made cheap kites out of them in the springtime for fun.
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Unique JW Phrases 101
by Solzhenitsyn inwhat unique to jws phrases do you remember?
something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.
there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.
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Kingdom Hall....like seriously the worse thing to call your church I can think of.
The Good News....the only good news I wanted to hear was that the meeting was cancelled.
Torture Stake.....seriously, like what the fudge!
Talk....Brother Stick in the Mud will now give the talk on....Sermon Dude! It's a flippen sermon.
A Spiritual brother/sister....This is one who has his nose really deep in the Circuit Overseers ass so far, he knows what he ate for dinner last night.