heard 4th-hand, but from a full-on believer, so not likely to be an "apostate lie":.
apparently, at bethel's morning worship this morning, it was announced that all worldwide wts construction is "suspended" for an indefinite time, except for the new world headquarters at warwick.. also, the "relocation" of remote translating teams is also suspended.. finally, there will be a "worldwide" reduction in bethel personnel.. all this came to me in a non-english language, and,as noted, 4th-hand.
so it is possible something may have been lost in translation and/or in the multiple steps between bethel morning worship & me.. but if true, it would be quite stunning.
WT 1879
"'Zion's Watch Tower' has, we believe, JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg norpetition men for support. When He who says: 'All the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,' fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication."
Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
BluesBrother:
The midweek meeting - What no School? If they really dispense with it where are the future speakers going to come from? We only got to be able to give public talks because of it.
Er, you are assuming that the public talks will continue to be given by local elders. They will be video presentations from Bethel or fecking Caleb and Sophia cartoons in case anything else is too intellectual.
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
Spot on Tech49.
The TMS is the only thing that actually gave me something useful. I learnt how to speak publicly, formulate a presentation and have the confidence to present myself.
Now it's all top down, centralised and formulaic. There is no need for presentation skills when you stand like a moron at the top of the exit from a tube station with a pile of Awakes (as I witnessed in central London this week) or rest on a bench with your coffee whilst dozens of people pass by your redundant trolley. Why learn how to reason when all you do is show someone at the door a video on your tablet before pressing a leaflet telling them to go to jw.org so someone can contact them into their unwilling hand.
The best education in the world? Thank feck all the scientists, doctors and engineers of this world aren't taught this way.
heard 4th-hand, but from a full-on believer, so not likely to be an "apostate lie":.
apparently, at bethel's morning worship this morning, it was announced that all worldwide wts construction is "suspended" for an indefinite time, except for the new world headquarters at warwick.. also, the "relocation" of remote translating teams is also suspended.. finally, there will be a "worldwide" reduction in bethel personnel.. all this came to me in a non-english language, and,as noted, 4th-hand.
so it is possible something may have been lost in translation and/or in the multiple steps between bethel morning worship & me.. but if true, it would be quite stunning.
Actually the meltdown of the clueless, head in the arse dub has started already over on our favourite dub friendly site...
Wow, exciting times indeed, I cannot wait til the letter is read and also for the Annual Meeting. Jehovah is certainly speeding up the work. And to think with all my worries and financial problems I was thinking of stepping down from Pioneering. But this has awakened me even more, I will deal with my problems and preach, preach preach.
All this conversation reminds me of the new morning worship by AMIII. Obeying will result in blessings. He specifically mentioned directions from the GB and branch committees. He did not seem very happy and now we can imagine why.
So because we help out with BRD, or the British branch relocation, we get to link up to morning worship in London bethel. The brother hosting that day says they've got a special announcement letter to read from the governing body. (I can't remember exact words so if anyone else was there maybe they can corroborate?)
It basically said further to the broadcast about helping contribute more money as it won't last forever, they are postponing, cancelling or majorly reducing all construction work, worldwide. This includes reducing bethel family drastically, and reducing the services they get while on bethel, like getting more to do their own laundry and housecleaning. All those that have to leave will be assigned to the field, in most cases as regular pioneers. It said that the governing body loves you very much and just to trust in Jehovah and make it a matter of prayer. They will follow with more information in the next weeks and months.
The reaction was mixed but the atmosphere was very subdued after this announcement as you can imagine.
But we started talking about it, and it's interesting that the governing body want to send more out in the field, maybe a last final big push before the great tribulation? Obviously the more in the field, the more will come into the truth, hence the need for more Kingdom Halls, but with most of the construction work either stopping or being reduced greatly does this mean that the governing body aren't thinking long term? I think this shows how close we are to the end, it's imminent! The stress now is on getting as many people in the truth as possible before the end!
There is also at least one person laying really strong hints that there is more to come and obviously is aware of the content of the the leaked letter...
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
Of course! Bigger halls are needed for all the Bethelites being chucked out.
There's the increase in the final part of the days...
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
october 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
If this is true then there is no 2nd school. Which means no need for the space for extra classrooms. Which means more space for a main hall. Which means more space for larger, combined congregations.
I know some halls have foreign language groups but not all. Perhaps the hiatus on KH building is so they can re-jig some of the designs and get more people in one building.
Cue yet more hall closures and enforced moves as congregations are merged...
heard 4th-hand, but from a full-on believer, so not likely to be an "apostate lie":.
apparently, at bethel's morning worship this morning, it was announced that all worldwide wts construction is "suspended" for an indefinite time, except for the new world headquarters at warwick.. also, the "relocation" of remote translating teams is also suspended.. finally, there will be a "worldwide" reduction in bethel personnel.. all this came to me in a non-english language, and,as noted, 4th-hand.
so it is possible something may have been lost in translation and/or in the multiple steps between bethel morning worship & me.. but if true, it would be quite stunning.
Assuming the AGM letter is genuine then there is no better time to announce bad news. You just generate something else that interests people more.
Week 1 - tell the Bethel family some of them are toast and the construction work is on hold.
Week 2 - Just as the news is filtering down then make a big announcement about the meetings and magazines.
Week 3 - Watch as the JW global spin machine goes into meltdown about the chariot going supersonic and the end being so close. Cue up those memes for @jw_instagram_bollocks.
Week 4 - Check the bank account to make sure the outgoings are no where near the income.
wow a lot here, hell of a scoop by cedars if true.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/theocratic-ministry-school-gone-as-2015-annual-meeting-announcements-leaked-in-advance.
i just texted a very good remote worker friend, said i heard that there is a reduction in force coming at bethel and i hoped he wouldn't be affected.
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he said its true, its not a rumor.
The scary thing is that it's so well written it could be real...
Good job!
