just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
"Brother Russell stated: “‘Zion’s Watch Tower’ has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support."
Watchtower's reply to this:
Russell who?
Oh, that guy. But you see, he wasn't the FDS, so what the hell do we care what he said?
new guidelines for field service coming this summer.
new publication to be released giving new ways of counting time, conducting studies, group activities, etc..
Hmmm. . . . sounds kind of like a new reasoning book.
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
In summary:
Now Jehovahs Witnesses believe in the Rapture. . . . but they don't call it the Rapture
And they believe in tithing. . . . . but they don't call it tithing.
As a side note, I told my wife about this letter and she is very impressed with my predictive "powers." Over a year ago I told her I thought they might implement some sort of tithing arrangement, and she thought that was impossible. Looking at it from a business perspective though (which no JW does) it only makes sense as your base shrinks in developed nations and is expanding in poor uneducated countries.
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
One of the elders would be assigned the duty of sitting down with each family head and go over the family tax forms for the past year
They try that and both my wife and I will tell them to go to fucking hell.
They want to kick us out for refusing a tithing arangement, then so be it.
That would define the end for me.
two jws came to my door today and i dropped a few truths bombs on them.
i thought i'd share my account of how the conversation went.. .
i was in the yard doing some weeding when two gentlemen walked through the gate.
Excellent!
been wanting to talk about this for a while... three years ago on this forum my friend cedars brought this up.
let's do it!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sykaxxpyos.
I don't see this as impossible at all. It's an incredible story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wmz3nvlek.
Very slick!
Yes, substitute Mormon loaded language and you have a Mormon propaganda video.
letter to be read at next weeks service meeting.
Know about the DO thing,
but has anything officially been said about the mandatory 70 year old retirement DOs/COs?
Just curious.
well, i saw it.
you better get ready for everyone's talk about it.. it was 25 % biblical, 75 % fantasy.. noah was mean as a character, his family was great.
methusala, was an old fart..
"If it is not too rainy, I plan to see it this weekend."
Chuckled when I read this. . . .
And I second BOTR as far as seeing anything in IMAX or 3D. . . . instant migraine for me.
it was a pleasure to interview our own katewild about her experiences and her recent audio recording with the elders.
the link is below:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_uwfkdfmdq.
Hmmm, I missed this somehow. Will check it out
