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  Expanding number of DC/RC's

  by DwainBowman in

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  according to my elder in law, by next year the number of dc/rc's will increase by 143. the size of conventions will get smaller.

  the elder in law says the goal is to make them all have around 2,000 or so at each.

  they are going to make more manuals detailing each job and it's responsibilities.

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  blondie, believe it or not, they have started pushing bodies of eldubs to start training more younger ones to try and become ms's and eldub's, in the last couple of years, and co's are pressing the issue. In years past, many times the old el-fart's in charge saw younger ones as a threat to their power, and would seldom bestow anything on anyone, unless it just became a have to. I have been in many cong's, and have see it both ways, but by far, the seldom appointing newer ones was the most often thing done!!!!!!
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  Expanding number of DC/RC's

  by DwainBowman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to my elder in law, by next year the number of dc/rc's will increase by 143. the size of conventions will get smaller.

  the elder in law says the goal is to make them all have around 2,000 or so at each.

  they are going to make more manuals detailing each job and it's responsibilities.

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  According to my elder in law, by next year the number of DC/RC's will increase by 143. The size of conventions will get smaller. The elder in law says the goal is to make them all have around 2,000 or so at each. They are going to make more manuals detailing each job and it's responsibilities. Already this year many of the RC's had almost all new top dogs running the show. My elder in law says that they want to make it easy to change people in any position, without even having had training! At the one I had to go to, already had almost all new and younger brothers, in every major role in almost every department!

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  Breaking news: Subcontracted logistics in US and Canada, more layoffs coming...

  by sp74bb in

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  more changes in us and canada operations.. new "arrangements" in jw.org to get more benefits and less costs.

  logistics in canada and the united states will be managed by a new arrangement.. confidential: a famous supermarket and logistics company will take care of sending literature, keep an eye not getting your wt supplies together with a butter cream pot.. read well: wal **** logistics .... more layoffs.... headquarters in canada of this famous company only at 37 km away from watchtower canada..

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  WoW!
  
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  Jehovah's Witness Recovery is no more...

  by TimeBandit in

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  i just tried to go to the site and there is a goodbye message.

  i was a member there since 2010. i was really surprised.

  i had just started posting there again after being away for a while.

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  I was very saddened when I tried to log on this morning! Due to health problems, I haven't been around much at all! I do hope more find their way here!

  I would like to give a big Thank You, to everyone that made JWR happen!

  I also want to give a bug Thank You, out to all the wonderful friends, I made there! And to so many willing to reach out with open harts and arms, to so many, crushed ones!

  Dwain !
  
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  My brother died last night

  by LisaRose in

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  i found out this morning that my brother died last night, he was also an ex jw, 73 years old and died of heart disease and kidney failure.

  it was not totally unexpected, as he had been in poor health, but it's a blow, especially as i just lost another brother two years ago.

  there were six of us, now only four.

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  I am so very sorry : (

  Dwain
  
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  Kingdom Hall Built on Site of Former Slave Market

  by Wild_Thing in

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  in mississippi, there is a historical site called forks of the road.

  before the civil war, it was one of the most active slave trading markets in the south.

  it was a triangular piece of land formed by ... you guessed it ... a fork in the road.

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  I have been to Natchez Mississippi, many times back when I lived in Mississippi. When I stopped and read the signs, a deep sadness just ran though me. The things man has done to his follow man, is just unbelievable!!!!

  Dwain
  

  
  
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  Memorial attendance

  by punkofnice in

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  my spies seem a bit confused.

  here, in this neck of the woods 3 congregations had 3 separate sittings.

  the attendance seemed to be swelling.

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  The cong I was in last year, was down for the 4th straight year in a row! Four years ago it was 221, this year it was 176, that's a pretty good drop over a four year time span! They didn't even need the extra chairs that they rented!! It could be due to the really sad cheap plastic chairs they normally rent!!!!
  
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  "New light"?

  by winstonchurchill in

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  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-june-2016/man-with-inkhorn/.

  so i guess baptism is no longer the "mark for survival".. as a matter of fact, that key aspect of the 'old light' is not even acknowledged in this article.. they are just publishing new understanding without even bothering to explain the full extent of the change, hoping nobody will remember how it was... and they may be right about that..

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  During my lifetime, baptism was never the mark for survival! That was jyst a sign that was supposed to show your giving your life to god, to do his will. Baptism is just a sign that you claim something. The other sign, is proof that god says, you really, do his will and get his promised reward!

  That sign was always a part of the man with the ink horn! And isn't a type antitype thing!

  Dwain
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  Got in a bad wreck.....uuugh

  by brandnew in

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  just happy to be alive....can barely move ☺.. a girl who just got her license , and a new suv....thought it might be cool to pass the person in front of her....at a curve......on a two way road!!!!!😠😠😠.

  very mad puppy.

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  Wow! I am so glad you're OK!
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  My cat died suddenly!

  by Fisherman in

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  i did not realize that they were symptoms that something was wrong with my cat -but i did notice that my cat was breathing a little differently for a period of about a few days.

  i also noticed prior and after to that, that on occasion, my cat would cry at the litter box, but that was a very seldom event.. anyway, about a week ago i noticed the symptom that my very loved cat was breathing heavy.

  so i called a taxi and i was going to rush him to emergency room for cats.

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  It's amazing how deeply connected we can become with these incredible critters! I remember each and everyone of my kitties and, their names. I still miss them! My first was a tough cat, named, Tiger, he was a yellow tiger tabby, that was in who knows how many fights. Sadly we lost him in the big earthquake in 1964. I always believed he like so many, pets just got lost, and took up with another family, just like he adopted ours!

  My older sister had a cat that lived 23 years. During those years her health slowly went from ruff to rea2bad. Her baby, just seemed to know and understand. Anytime she was in bad shape, he would not leave her side for days, except for, have to moments. He died a few weeks before she did. The bond between them was incredible. Sadly I will always believe, his passing, was such a loss to her, that her will to live, what little she had left ended, with his passing!

  Dwain