Wing commander your post is excellent sir. I'm also a big time lifter. I hated convention days. No mid morning snack. I needed my Greek yogurt and fruit at 10:30 am.
kneehighmiah
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Atlanta Int Convention 2014:The Big Party. Does this look like WT believes Armageddon is coming "soon"?
by AndDontCallMeShirley inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=potrr2qxhue.
.. if armageddon is "imminent", why is wt focused on sight-seeing, entertainment, travel, etc.
instead of preaching and saving people??.
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Atlanta Int Convention 2014:The Big Party. Does this look like WT believes Armageddon is coming "soon"?
by AndDontCallMeShirley inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=potrr2qxhue.
.. if armageddon is "imminent", why is wt focused on sight-seeing, entertainment, travel, etc.
instead of preaching and saving people??.
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kneehighmiah
wow! These guys don't believe the end is coming. But they do love controlling people and wasting their gas. I guess the direction to drive all the way to the other side of the city to take the Marta is the direction that is "unsound from a strategic standpoint." All the good JWs will believe they're pleasing Jehovah. I'm embarrassed to at one time have been under the influence of such brainwashing.
im also a minority. I dont want to turn this into a racial thing. I'll just say that im not surprised the video featured minorities prominently. As usual they're the ones told to obey and be blessesed. Guess what color the friends were who told the GB they were not going to the Detroit convention, which necessitated the propaganda video? Yes white. The white friends are usually the "rebels" and apostates because they are usually better educated and independent. As the org becomes more cult like it reminds me of how some cults like Jim jones are more attractive to minorities. i just got creeped out by a bunch of black brothers and a Hispanic family talking about how to please and obey the nearly all white governing body, with their creepy picture included.
also a further rewrite of JW history. So apparently the JWs had a governing body in 1919. As Dwight from The Office would say "False!" They are determined to work the governing body teaching in.
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COBE cannot be 80 or more
by fader77 ina new letter no longer allows an elder to be cobe if hes 80 or more.
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kneehighmiah
The WTS iS not run by the GB. Thry are mascots. Would anyone want Anthony Morris or Lett running their business. after they booted Franz and Milton G, the show has been run by the corporations. Of course these letters come from the "governing body" but it's not their ideas. I think this change is to prevent old geezers from messing things up. Better to get a younger ambitious company man to serve as COBE. They apparently don't view grey headedness as a crown of beauty. Firing old people and kicking them out of the circuit work. I guess old people are a liability.
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OMG the Watchtower IS toast!
by kneehighmiah inthe waters are drying up!
a congregation of 110+ publishers will be contributing only $200 a month to the society in the new kingdom hall construction arrangement.
that's less than $2 a publisher!
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kneehighmiah
They are getting rid of the RBC arrangement as well.
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OMG the Watchtower IS toast!
by kneehighmiah inthe waters are drying up!
a congregation of 110+ publishers will be contributing only $200 a month to the society in the new kingdom hall construction arrangement.
that's less than $2 a publisher!
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kneehighmiah
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php
the facts are not on your side friendaroonie
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OMG the Watchtower IS toast!
by kneehighmiah inthe waters are drying up!
a congregation of 110+ publishers will be contributing only $200 a month to the society in the new kingdom hall construction arrangement.
that's less than $2 a publisher!
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kneehighmiah
Hey friendaroonie, how are JWs going to surpass Mormons when their froth rate is already decLining? I try to deal with facts here. According to their own numbers the peak memorial attendance was in 2011. They have yet to match that number again in 3 years. Yea real explosive growth. The membership is aging and they cannot recruit. they will linger for years to come, but their heyday is passed unless they come up with a new message, or a new global disaster happens.
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OMG the Watchtower IS toast!
by kneehighmiah inthe waters are drying up!
a congregation of 110+ publishers will be contributing only $200 a month to the society in the new kingdom hall construction arrangement.
that's less than $2 a publisher!
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kneehighmiah
The waters are drying up! A congregation of 110+ publishers will be contributing only $200 a month to the Society in the new Kingdom Hall construction arrangement. That's less than $2 a publisher! as I posted a couple of weeks ago, even JWs in the united states are not wealthy, and cannot contribute. This may just reflect my area, but it is highly unlikely that congregations will be sending off large sums. We are told that the work is rapidly expanding. However a growth rate of only 2% on addition to widespread branch closings and cutbacks in personnel (DOs), assemblies, and literature show the opposite. Two circuits will be dissolved in my area starting in September. Remember all the fuss JWs made when the catholic churches were closed and diocese were combimed? When the same thing happens to JWs it's still construed as rapid growth and the nations streaming in. Yeah thaTS why only 2 people were baptized at our assembly, the lowest I remember. Watchtower letters are starting to sound like propaganda from Baghdad Bob.
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End shunning or lose tax free status
by kneehighmiah inwhich would the watchtower choose if it came down to this in the united states or europe?
losing tax free status would mean losing millions of dollars.
ending shunning means people would leave by the boatloads.
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kneehighmiah
I still think you're making generalization old goat. I'm an active witness still "qualified" to serve. I disagree with the WT on doctrinal and moral grounds. I also disagree with how people are Disfellowshipped even if they are repentant. If a guy fingered his girlfriend twice in a year, he would be disfellowshipped. Perhaps he went to the elders because he felt guilty. He should have just kept his mouth shut And continued fingering her, he would have been better off. Disfellowshipping people for self reported sins is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous to shun someone for fingering their girlfriend. Paul only told the Corinthians to expel a man who was practicing wickedness not even heard among the nations. Child molestation and similar things would qualify someone as wicked. Struggling with an alcohol probkem, nit so much. Especially if that person is seeking help. However warcthower policy leaves no room for a relapse, which many people have.
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What is this new Announcement to take place in August?
by Quarterback injust heard from an elder.
he told me that there is another change to be announced in august.
he didn't know more about it.. any other info?.
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kneehighmiah
1914 has already been un officially dropped as the beginning of Christ's presence. It is now the ambiguous birth of the kingdom. There is no scriptural basis for an invisible presence lasting 100 years. No doubt many in the upper ranks no longer believe in the invisible presence. The convention this year will be propaganda to reinforce the teaching of the kingdoms birth In 1914. No mention at the convention will be made of the invisible presence. It's dead and may receive a formal burial within the next year.
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Why has the watchtower never written a commentary on the Greek scriptures?
by kneehighmiah inthey have writes hundreds of other repetitive books, but no bible commentary.
is it because an actually commentary would destroy their doctrine and prevent them from being able to cherry pick scriptures?.
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kneehighmiah
Paul's letters would destroy JW theology. No wonder they haven't covered those.