Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

announce was made this week that the assembly halls in london, ohio and indianapolis indiana will be sold and a new 3000 seat assembly hall will be built in southwest ohio.

the assembly hall in london ohio was built in the 70's and is in fine shape - nothing wrong with it.

the new one will cost around 8-9 million.

I heard recently that the Indianopolis Assembly Hall was sold <finally>. I believe the buyer was a megachurch. The London assembly hall is being used as it always has, if it is for sale or not I don't know.

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666 or 616? Do we have to choose a number or could it be both?

by fulltimestudent in

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i'm sure that most longer term readers on this list know that the use of the number in the revelation was a 'code' using the jewish concept that assigned number values to the letters of the hebrew alphabet.. a promoter of modern judaism ( dr. eliyahu lizorkin-eyzeneberg) explains:.

today gematria is well-known as a jewish interpretive method that assigns numerical values of hebrew letters to words, phrases and/or sentences.

then, by adding them together, seeks to determine their deeper meaning.

dropoffyourkeylee

I always thought the WT explanation has an inherent anachonism also. They always included the explanation that it was the number 6 repeated three times. But it wasn't, it was the number six hundred sixty-six. The way to 'do math' back then was with Roman numerals, which is not the number 6 repeated three times. The invention of representing larger numerals placing 10's in the second digit from the right, 100's in the third digit from the right, etc., as well as the concept of zero, came into use later. I think that was an Arabic invention.

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So, how did the 'beard article' go over yesterday at your congregation?

by neat blue dog in

at mine the conductor was somewhat awkward and minimal and there were nervous chuckles from the audience.

two people, including an elder, gave reasonable comments that it's okay as long as it's not extreme styles, etc.

but then another one of the elders commented that nothing has changed and they still aren't proper locally.

dropoffyourkeylee

At the recent SAD day in London Ohio USA this past weekend, they covered the beard issue in the WT 'summary'. The speaker made it plain that if the good-example brothers pictured in the WT magazine were shown with beards, it would be 'accepted locally', but until that happens, beards would not be acceptable. Anyone with a beard would 'bring into question their privileges'. They didn't leave much room for doubt.

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Some recent baptism figures in the UK - is there a "bounce back"?

by freddo in

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well, round my way (south of the uk) all the way up to and including the regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low.

but i have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher.

(all have been across the last three weekends at a uk assembly hall in october).

dropoffyourkeylee

London, Ohio, USA, 11/12/16 S.A.D.

900+ attendance, 2 baptized

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Leonard Cohen - In Flanders Fields - Remembrance Day - Veterans Day

by berrygerry in

for those who've never heard, and for those who have served, and for those who have lost:.

https://youtu.be/ckojvhcmlfc.

dropoffyourkeylee

Excellent. I have a book of WW1 poems which I like a lot. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, lots of others. Most of them died either in the war or in hospital later.

It says here that John McCrae 'died in Base Hospital, 1918'

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Amazon Charity

by mikeypants in

boring post below, fyi.. i was with extended family this weekend and the conversation drifted to contributions and donations.

they said amazon will donate a percentage of your purchase to a charity of choice.

i guess someone put in jdumbs and it went through.

dropoffyourkeylee

I was involved with a non-profit for a while, and we signed up our 501 c3 with smile.amazon. It didn't really catch on with our membership, but if enough people participated, it could add up to quite a donation. Basically, Amazon donates fifty cents for every $100 purchased (0.50%) to the buyers selected charity. The money is transferred electronicallly to our non-profit's bank account.

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Circuit Overseers are putting their resume on LinkedIn? This is new?!

by dropoffyourkeylee in

i am a bit surprised to see what appears to be current and in-good-standing circuit overseers putting their resumes on linkedin.

www.linkedin.com/title/circuit-overseer.

do you know any of these, and are they legit?.

dropoffyourkeylee

I am a bit surprised to see what appears to be current and in-good-standing circuit overseers putting their resumes on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/title/circuit-overseer

Do you know any of these, and are they legit?

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So I just watched Jackson's ARC interview...

by schnell in

thank you, everybody here, for introducing me to this.

no, no i had not heard of this.

child abuse issues have been roundly dismissed as apostate attacks in the congregations i've attended in the last decade.

dropoffyourkeylee

Bowditch comes across as so stupid that it would be laughable if it were not so serious. To think that a dimwit like him would be on a judicial committee regarding abuse victims is a travesty.