The reason for the front door style, the literature trolleys, is just a BS smokescreen; it is a commercial design, not a church design. How dumb are witnesses if they believe this crap? - pistoff
Thank You. My sentiments exactly.
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A few more random thoughts on the new Kingdom Hall design meeting
by sir82 inleft completely unsaid at the meeting: who is going to be the owner of the property & building when all of these new khs are built?
in the current arrangement, in most cases, a local trust is set up to hold ownership.
of course, the most likely answer is "the watchtower (or whatever shell corporations they set up) will own the land & building".
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New Kindumb Halls in a neighborhood near you
by suavojr innew kindumb halls in a neighborhood near you.
notes and highlights from todays meeting.
opening statement about this meeting being a historic event, over 100k elders under the us branch together live from nyc..
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TTATTelder
Too bad God can't make gold bars appear under the GB's bed. That would be so much easier than blessing all this worldly business stuff. Oh well. I guess he knows best.
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Some screenshots from new KH meeting!
by pixel in.
they just put up a link to watch a replay of the "new kh meeting", here some screenshots.. .
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TTATTelder
Looks like a medical clinic waiting to happen.
Also doesn't look like an elder's basement.
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Automatic disfellowshipping if "sin" is repeated?
by snugglebunny inback in the day, if someone was put on probation for an offence, rather than being disfellowshipped, if he re-offended whilst that probation was in force, disfellowshipping was automatic.
normally a probation lasted 12 months.
after the probation was finished that was it.
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TTATTelder
It depends on what the "sin" is. Where I am, if you get in trouble for fornication and then commit fornication again 6 months later, then you would be found "unrepentant" and DF'd.
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Last nights meeting...
by DATA-DOG ini know dubs are delusional.
i know dubs don't reason well.
i know dubs are a bit off, like many groups.
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I want to comment on the height of this cartoon boy compared to my personal height at various ages. I was as tall as my mom at 11-12 years of age. I know I am just one example. These cartoon characters are much shorter than their mother, and it appears their mother is average height like my mother is. For this to be a representation of myself, it would have to be ttattelder at like age 8 or 9.
Look how tiny the boy is compared to the brother baptizing him. It's obvious what the angle is. Get baptized in elementary school.
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Happy at Bethel. Can't believe what I'm seeing.
by Pubsinger inapologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.
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TTATTelder
this video was not made to promote anything. It was not made for the general public - itkh
That's what you're supposed to think.
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Happy at Bethel. Can't believe what I'm seeing.
by Pubsinger inapologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.
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TTATTelder
It's a viral video. It's marketing in 2015. It was planned.
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GB says, "Our way of worship will soon be altered."
by Separation of Powers inmy mom called me yesterday to ask how i was doing.
i hadn't seen her in a while, so it was nice to hear her voice.
we went through the motions of jw small talk and then she started telling me about her co visit from last week.
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TTATTelder
I feel a mixture of cynicism and deep, deep sadness. - steve2
I feel your pain. I have a long history of family in this thing also. What's weird to think about is actually what our grandparents joined into. It's not even close to the same religion, but people always refer to their "heritage in the truth". My original peeps weren't even called Jehovah's Witnesses. Craziness.
But back to the topic... the org is just doing the same ole game of moving the cheese.
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Is Watchtowers view & practices currently split in two? Split leadership direction?
by thedepressedsoul ini've been deeply following jw "culture" the last 2 years and i am getting the impression that the leadership is currently split in two different directions.
on one hand you get this sense of a happy, joyful and less strict religion and on the other hand there is still this strict, harsh religion of the past.
let me explain more.. there have been a lot of video's lately that show dancing in kingdom halls, bethel dancing to the "happy" song, jw.org downplaying their beliefs and making it sound like daisies.
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TTATTelder
I see at least 2 things happening at the same time:
1) Image vs Reality / PR machine - this is for recruiting, selling the followers on reform, public image for use in the courtroom, etc.
2) Typical abuse pattern within the org of building up to tear down. Give one helping warm-and-fuzzy Christianity then 3 helpings of mind control. It is intentionally confusing. That is part of the abuse and control. Most do not know about the game, even at the top, because they are being played by the game.
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GB says, "Our way of worship will soon be altered."
by Separation of Powers inmy mom called me yesterday to ask how i was doing.
i hadn't seen her in a while, so it was nice to hear her voice.
we went through the motions of jw small talk and then she started telling me about her co visit from last week.
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TTATTelder
They are always saying things to keep followers hanging on 6 more months. Gotta love the secrets. "There's something behind door number 3........ but we can't open it just yet......but soooooon we will."
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