i don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.
both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.
i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.
Clarity
The 2010 DC was when I stopped at once to attend the meetings and except for comments made by my still active wife I have no contact with any JWs...so I have no idea how the new light affected the morale of the troops. All I know is that what woke me up.
Jgnat
I was in my mid fifties when I woke up to the fact that I will grow old and die. With time I came to realize that I'm more at peace knowing I will die than the uncertainty of ever qualifying for an elusive everlasting life...
i don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.
both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.
i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.
Great post. The last meeting I attended was the DC in 2010 where I watched the bobbing gray heads at the ice level senior section as old timers listened to the talk on the new definition of the generation. Amongst them was a couple who served our circuit when I was just married and now they were old and childless. I couldn't help but feel sad for them as they were being told in covered words that there's a good chance they will die before the end of this system. At that moment I realized that in 10 years most of the ones sitting in that section would be gone and that my wife and I would be sitting in their place, listening to the same bull crap or even worse, to new light that makes no sense what so ever. I decided right then that I would never sit in that section and that I no longer had a minute of my life to waste in this cult. Today I make the best of every day to do what makes me happy.
As they get older children grow out from believing in Santa...as they grow older JWs believe each day that passes brings them one day closer to Armaggedon...it took me 50 years to realize it isn't coming!
i have been told that the cost to build a new kingdom hall is $500k +.
i have a background in commercial construction and this seems pretty high to me, considering all the free labor.
that is just the cost of the building, excluding the lot price.
Snare and Racket
I am not surprised...when my COBOE brother told me the RBC allowed them to benefit from negotiated pricing I had a hard time not to ask "negotiated for who's benefit". The only say the local congregation has is to chose one of two colouroptions and to pay the loan to the KH fund.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectid=398787&partid=1&searchtext=vase+athletes&page=1.
comparez avec la page 29 de watchtower 01/octobre /2002.
fideles dans les petites choses ...oui pas en publiant des images truquees comme celle-ci.
George
Posting guidelines are in English...a language foreign to Marcial...
Merci
i have been told that the cost to build a new kingdom hall is $500k +.
i have a background in commercial construction and this seems pretty high to me, considering all the free labor.
that is just the cost of the building, excluding the lot price.
My brother's congregation is doing a remodeling including a small addition and he tells me the RBC takes care of everything. The local congregation just pay the bill. Purchasing and accounting is done by the RBC...that's quite different from back when I was involved in building our hall. Everything was purchased locally by the local elders and we knew exactly how much everything cost...where we saved money over the estimated cost enabled us to upgrade the seating and pave the parking lot...with this new process I wouldn't be surprised if any savings or a defined % of the cost is sent to the WTS...
this is yet another baby step in my exit from the watchtowers control over my life.
in the us the mega-millions jackpot is up to 587 million $.
tickets are a dollar.
Good luck. I won 50k with a free ticket from McD when I was still in and a MS. I did some research in the publications to get "Jéhovah's" view on the matter. The oldest articles stated that it was left to your conscience to accept or not since technically you hadn't wagered any money to acquire the ticket. The most recent article reversed "Jehovah's" view by saying the money was raised through a disaproved activity and accepting the prize money would be like accepting diamonds as a gift knowing they were stolen. I seriously considered not claiming the prize not to lose my service privilèges. This got me thinking ot the situation where it is OK to accept blood fractions acquired through blood donation...an activity disaproved by God...
One year after I found TTATT and left the cult and I occasionally buy tickets...you never know what may happen.
i received a parcel at work from my daughter and her boyfriend.
it contained a birthday card in the shape of a motorcycle leather jacket and a book on rides you can take using the back roads in my part of the world!
my eyes filled with tears as i was reading the card.
Great idea NSupply. She wants a new tablet...so it will be a Samsung Note 10.1 for Christmas!
i received a parcel at work from my daughter and her boyfriend.
it contained a birthday card in the shape of a motorcycle leather jacket and a book on rides you can take using the back roads in my part of the world!
my eyes filled with tears as i was reading the card.
Thanks Jake...I'm am few years older than you and I no feel the need for speed...of course you have little control on how others drive...this is why I love the back roads.
i received a parcel at work from my daughter and her boyfriend.
it contained a birthday card in the shape of a motorcycle leather jacket and a book on rides you can take using the back roads in my part of the world!
my eyes filled with tears as i was reading the card.
My b day was yesterday....12-12
