Topics Started by Lostandfound

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What would you do or say?
by Butyoucanneverleave in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a brother who is not baptized ( so there's still hope for him ) had a sister recently run into him at a store.

show wanted to know if he's going to the kingdom hall.

she asked him to write a letter for her to give to his mother ( who's deceased) in the paradise explaining why he didn't make it.
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I sent off my application to study Palaeobiology (MSc) at Bristol uni and ...
by LoveUniHateExams in
1. jw
2. friends
... they've accepted me!

finance is already sorted - they're waiting for me to give them my new student number so that they can start paying me.

just need to formally accept bristol's offer and sort out accommodation.. accommodation should be ok - i've been told priority is given to new students, plus i'm enrolling onto a program for a real degree as a postgraduate - i won't be studying gender studies or some crap like that.
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KH Hall doors to remain locked during meetings?
by StarTrekAngel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my mother in law told us this morning that they read a letter in her cong last night.

from now on kh doors will be locked after 15 min of meeting start.

only the fire exit (one way door) will remain unlocked.
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why the watchtower is so short of money
by pepperheart in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the watchtower is so short of money because they have to pay for all the upkeep of so many branch offices around the world.because so many of the branch offices are in very poor countries and they are not balancing the budgets.
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Congregation Reassignments in Ohio?
by My Name is of No Consequence in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
from what i understand, a letter was read this past week in regards to congregation reassignments and that the elders want to meet with people at their homes to tell them where they have been reassigned.

obviously, this would be due to the merging and dissolution of congregations.

can anyone confirm this?.
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Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.
by Lostandfound in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.
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"Daddy, is the the scale model of the new UK Bethel?"
by Fay Dehr in
1. social
2. humour
.

...are we having financial issues watchtower?.
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So What Drastic Money Change is Next?
by OnTheWayOut in
1. jw
2. friends
okay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.

they reduced printing of mags.

they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.
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Motherly Love, that "Unbreakable Bond"
by Simon in
1. jw
2. experiences
my father died a couple of months ago.

he'd been ill for some time and had many health scares and heart troubles over the years but always managed to keep on going.

then one time he didn't.. i'm glad i got to know him again and spend some more time with him after so many years missed because of the wts but those years will always be lost forever.
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"I am so excited to hear the Sunday morning talks at this summer's convention"
by Sour Grapes in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i have a super uber jdub relative who lives several states away.

he is always trying to encourage me since he knows that i stopped going to the kingdom haul.

anyhow, he sends me a copy of the program for the summer regional convention and pointed out the sunday morning talks.