i have been reading threads about how the rbc operates, so i sort of have a fair idea of what the answers will be.
but i would like to have a more direct answer to my questions.. where do the orders come from that a hall is in need of a remodel, or a new one to be built.. can the elders refuse a remodel or quickly built.. out side contractors are only allowed with rbc approval.
what are the consequences if say a kh needed a new roof, and secular contractor was hired.. is it a case that orders a given that a hall needs a remodel, and that the rbc will have total control, and look out for who ever gets in the way, and elders just have to simply comply.. this is the question i most want answered.
When you look at some fast growing food franchises that suddenly get cut in half or go out of business.....For some of them the reason is the high cost of improvements that some pencil pusher manager decides that everyone has to do. The one that comes to mind is "Quiznos" ....they grew like gang busters....and suddenly stopped growing....and the reason was the high cost of improvements that the FRANCHISOR was requiring.....
It sucks to be a FRANCHISEE.
i have been reading the posts on who is and or had been an elder.
it amazes me at what many have said.
perhaps i have misunderstood what they were saying.
GB is driven by self preservatiion.
and of course Narcissistic supply.
many scientists point to the fossil record as support for the idea that life emerged from a common origin.
new features appear suddenly.
would it be reasonable to assert that your preconceived idea of the movie was right because of the five frames?
Did my toe fungus come from the tree of life? Who knows??
conditions needed for a person to leave a high control group: [source].
1. courage.
a person must be very brave to leave a high control group.
I like this. We have to visualize the life that we imagine. The more specific we can visualize it. The greater chance it will come to fruitation!
Happy New Year All!
need to put it in writing.
i think of it every day.
i know so many of us have gone through this, but it sure hurts.
The only thing you have complete "UNQUESTIONABLE" control over is your thoughts. We are all a projection of our thoughts and they become our physical reality. So think good thoughts.
Happy New Year!
Whatever
cofty, i don't care what you believe. You are not me and you have not seen what i have seen. You have not walked in my shoes.
Happy New Year!
in 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.
oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.
but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.
100 Years of absolute Bullshit! That's Friggin Awesome!
What Neon Mad Man Said.
>>> When the JW comes to realize that the Watchtower's speculations are simply rubbish, they discard the whole idea of God and the Bible along with the Watchtower. I'm convinced that this is a major reason why there is so much atheism among ex-JWs<<<
YES! and they become raving hard core athiests that have to convince everyone else because of their pain.
check this out.. .
http://jwindiagift.org/index.php.
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