korah and the faithful and discreet slave go hand in hand.
korah and sparlock.
if you do a search for the word, "korah" in the wt lib, the wt barely goes a month without showing into a wt or magazine about rebellious korah and applying it to themselves as being moses and if you question the authority of the gb, you'll be destroyed.
I always wondered about the fate of Korah... the scripture says they all went alive down to Sheol. Hence in dub speak they were not subject to Gehenna but are worthy of a resurrection since Sheol is mankind's common grave.
I've showed a few dubs that over the years and they are dumbstruck. They just don't have an explanation and I've never seen a comment from the Tower on this.
three months ago i had to stop driving my car.
it wouldn't pass inspection and it would cost about $3k to get it up to par.. well, it's a 98 honda accord with about 179 thousand miles on it, what did i expect?.
.. i decided i would switch to riding a bicycle instead.. it has worked out fairly well.. i put about 10 miles a day on it.
Sorry about your loss. In addition to pawn shops, check scrap yards. Someone may have scrapped it for the $2.00 worth of metal, not knowing the real value. Happened to us.
from the detroit free press.
"for the two jehovahs witnesses conventions, each brought about 45,000 people to detroit, the bureau got $300,000 in state money to help with the cost of hosting the groups.".
http://www.freep.com/article/20140827/col06/308270055/tom-walsh-michigan-economic-development.
Safeathome: In essence - yes. The ecomonic bureaus in many cities contribute in some way to draw in conventions not just the dubs. I'm not sure how this is done, whether a direct payment to the Watchtower or in reduced / free rental of facilities. This has been going on for some time now.Of course this is never mentioned to the rank and file who blithely run on dumping their bucks into the contribution boxes.
Don't forget the parkling lot scams. I remember a few years ago going to Daytona Beach, Fl and being unable to find a parking place in the facility lot. I had 3 paid for parking tickets in my posession, one for each of our cars and another I brought for someone else. We simply turned around and came home, never went back for that convention at all.
When will the blind eyes open to this mess?
i have written before about my jw friend that plays hookie with me on sundays.
we skip the meeting and go straight to lunch and margaritas.
she converted later in life and has been a jw for over 25 years.. she is in her late 70's and has had heart problems.
Not to mention that if she goes she will be personally liable for any damages, injuries, lawsuits that result from the placement of the dub carts. As always the Org will disavow any knowledge of their activities as these folks were doing a "personal ministry" not in any way connected with the Watchtower.
from the detroit free press.
"for the two jehovahs witnesses conventions, each brought about 45,000 people to detroit, the bureau got $300,000 in state money to help with the cost of hosting the groups.".
http://www.freep.com/article/20140827/col06/308270055/tom-walsh-michigan-economic-development.
From the Detroit free press
"For the two Jehovah’s Witnesses conventions, each brought about 45,000 people to Detroit, the bureau got $300,000 in state money to help with the cost of hosting the groups."
http://www.freep.com/article/20140827/COL06/308270055/tom-walsh-Michigan-Economic-Development
So if the Economic Development Corp. received $300,000 from the state to "help" with the cost, how much were they actually paid?
More and more it becomes quite evident that the real reason the dibs hold conventions is $$$$$.
i checked jw.org earlier today.
the october 1 wt was up, but the pdf function did not work-still you could read the articles.
the october g was up too, no pdf but you could read the articles.. oddly, after the article on belize it had an item about not missing the upcoming 2014 memorial of jesus' death.
Just downloaded pdf of Oct study edition, no problems. (6:25PM eastern)
Maybe they had a little glitch earlier.
we have been told this week that all in the elder and ms body will be read a letter from the gb about "make this the greatest month of activity ever"..... has anyone else had such a letter read out in their cong / servant body?.
i presume it will be all about "recommending strongly/insisting" that all these men should pioneer for the month?.
Reminds me of car dealers advertising the biggest sale ever - never to be repeated, until of course, the next biggest sale ever.
jws look down on others for saying, "bless you" if someone sneezes.
it has something to do with the demons.
another example is that it is considered satanic if a man took his hat off for a lady!
Denim clothing at the dumHall
brother lett was giving the last talk of the day about what they supposedly accomplished in 100 years.
i was just waking up so im paraphrasing alittle(i was dosing off all day) anyways in his introduction he said.
"there is more evidence to prove gods kingdom on the earth is a reality than wind,electricity and gravity is a reality on the earth".
Oh yes... and "we just love this teaching". Lett's famous line from the annual lie fest. Very Pentecostal.
as much as i hate the wt for lying (the writing commite knows it is a lie) there is one good thing they did in the 70's 80's.
to read.. the nwt 1984 audio is very easy to listen to.
(now the nt text is s**t but it is a good reading.).
Bob Mackey from Tampa, Florida did a great deal of the reading, Brian Trevor Forbes (sic?) is the British sounding voice (maybe from Guatemala - time fades the memory), Acts was done by U. V. Glass - long time Gilead instructor, now deceased and a voice in many dramas. Until his passing Glass directed most of the dramas that are recorded. He was great to work with, very kind and unassuming. The Ray Franz reading was later replaced by Forbes I believe.
There was an Awake article some years ago about Mackey's swimming/diving accident that left him injured for life. I looked in my old index but could not find the reference. Mackey, though not a Bethelite, was a darling of the Bethel heavies.
