Individuals don’t own them, but if somebody falls over a cart and gets injured, the bro or sis manning the cart is the one that will be sued for compensation. At least that is the case in the European country I live in where you are individually liable while manning the cart. The cong and the org accept no liability!
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Literature Carts
by NotFormer inwhenever i see a photo of a literature cart, they all look the same to me.
are they a standard design?
who makes them?
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Has anybody ever heard of this in their local area
by joe134cd ini heard of a jw wedding that:.
(a)wasn’t done in a kh, and was performed by an elder.
(b)the ceremony was done on a sunday.. i find this surprising for 2 reasons.
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Possibly off topic but a close JW relative died recently and had asked for me to give the funeral talk as an ex-elder but said relative was adamant that they didn’t want a KH funeral as that would be an infomercial. I did the talk at a hotel after the pretty much non JW burial. Talk went down really as it was all about the deceased and even non JW relatives said they would like such a personal eulogy when they handed in their dinner pail.
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Sagely advice of a CO
by Vidqun in“a circuit overseer started out by saying that on this last round of the circuit, the one thing he noticed the most...is that everyone is physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually drained...and that cuts across all barriers and demographics within the truth.
he then said that the one common thread that ran among nearly everyone was this: we feel guilty for feeling bad.
he said because we are told to endure with joy, our minds can cause us to feel enormous guilt over feeling this way...and then, my dear brothers and sisters...he proceeded to blow our collective minds.. he asked us to turn to daniel 8:27….
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On a similar note, when our congregation changed meeting times from days that suited the particular working patterns in our country to days that were completely unsuitable and would cause huge problems for working JWs, the coordinator of the body of elders (a special pioneer with no idea of what happens in the real world) told a brother who protested that “this is a test of your faith, brother.” As any UK readers here will appreciate, he was what Del Boy would say was ‘a right plonker.’
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JW Businessmen
by NotFormer ini was never a jw, but came across a few in my travels.
one jw businessman i dealt with seemed to be honest, trustworthy and reputable 👍👌.
another i knew was the kind of bloke who, if he told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, i'd watch sunrise and sunset just to make sure.
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I have found they are a mixture of good and bad. Some straight and honest, everything in order. Others were not downright blatantly dishonest, but fudged on taxes and didn’t give receipts for work done. One elder did a job in my house and never issued a receipt. It didn’t work but I didn’t chase him as it didn’t cost very much. When I got somebody else (non Witness) to clean up his mess they were laughing at how badly he had done the job, basically inferring that he was a cowboy! Another elder employed a lot of bros and sis and subtly used this to try to influence both the body of elders and the cong to do things his way in the congregation. Some people were afraid to disagree with him in case it affected their job prospects.
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a pet peeve of mine
by enoughisenough inputting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.
it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.
there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.
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This is a superb thread. I too have always been annoyed at the “window washer” references. I was at one time in that line of work. I did it partly to spend time ministering as an elder in my JW congregation. Way out of my depth on many occasions as I did not have mental health training. But glad to see that many posters are stressing that that form of work (window cleaning) is honorable in itself. Now I am a teacher, in a super stressful job, and sometimes I wish I was back in the much less stressful job of cleaning windows! But on the plus side, I am no longer an elder!
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Regional Convention Attendance
by XBEHERE inelder friend of mine texted me asking what my rc attendance was 2 weeks ago (family and i streamed it since wife is not well).
he told me that his rc in the jersey city assembly hall last weekend was low.
co told them that around 2600 were the total from 16+ congs that were assigned.
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If you look it up on YouTube with the correct convention name for the year it may pop up (a generic one).
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Charles the Third and the Two-Headed Beast
by Anony Mous ini was reading an article about the pomp and circumstance around the first coronation in nearly a century.. made me think of the revelation book (the red one, not the bible) and the picture of the two headed beast with a sword and if i have some time today i will see if i can’t find it and age it a bit, it seems the sword is a bit dull and the two heads are now both octogenarians with severe dementia, kind of funny to see that instead of “swift judgment” we’ve come to internal decay.. what do you canadians, english, scots, irish and australians think about your new leadership?.
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By Irish I assume you mean Northern Irish? The Republic of Ireland has been around for 100 years, nothing to do with the British monarchy!
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New blood card
by ExBethelitenowPIMA inall elders just got letters about this new blood card system .
“language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.
my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.
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Guys, can you stop the references to janitors, as if they were some lower life form? There is nothing wrong with being a janitor. I was one in a previous life. I now work in education but I despair at the cheap shots at people who do this type of work. I get the fact that the inference is that people who work as janitors are apparently not in a position to decide on medical matters for others but the constant jibes at this form of work just make you seem somehow prejudiced and narrow minded.
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No Private Beliefs Allowed!
by BereanThinker7 inlooking for references that talk about witnesses not being able to hold any private interpretation or belief that isn't in line with official doctrine.
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i know i've seen them before but of course now i can't find any of the more in your face statements..
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BereanThinker7a day ago
Can people not read?
Please be grateful that people post replies to your requests. Saying “Can people not read?” is very rude!
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander inthis has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
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Fisherman, you’ve got a right to your opinion and so do I. I was really an elder and I am relating my own experience. You are brilliant at insulting people on this board. You question my honesty by questioning whether I was ever an elder or JW.. You also infer that people I “slighted” would now get their own back by making comments about me now that I am on the same level. Insults all round. Well done!