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  Guidelines For Proper Uses For Sold Kingdom Halls

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how does the watchtower dispose of kingdom halls no longer usable because of poor attendance and or merging with another kingdom hall.the rank and file contributed lots of money to keep it active.. then they tell us their not using it anymore.where does the money for that hall go.

  and what they do with the money they get for the sale of that property.

  they certainly don't give the rank and file anything.. and what use will the new owners use it for.

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  Lost in the fog

  Well this is what's happening with one while the new property developer owner waits for planning.

  http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/105496418/hospice-popup-store-set-to-open-in-waitara
  
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  Things to do when im at the new 2018 convention

  by Akid48 in

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  2. suggestions

  well, its that time where i have to go to the boring convention.

  so, i wanted to know if anyone had any good ideas on how too pass the time (i cant just try and listen i fall will asleep and i cant let that happen).. (only got a few weeks before i have to go its going too kill me but i got too do it).

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  Volunteer as an attendant. Then you can join the others who will be wandering around unable to take notes, and not being able to listen to the program. Better still volunteer for car parking duty and you can be outside of the venue, miles away from where you could even hear anything.
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  This Week CLM Meeting

  by zophar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, this week on the clm there was an interesting comment at our kh.. under the "apply yourself to the field ministry" portion this week, there was the bible study assignment based on the publication: who are doing jehovah’s will today?

  published in 2016. the material was from lesson 28 "what can be found on our website?

  there is a footnote at the bottom that reads: .

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  Lost in the fog

  I remember a circuit overseer saying that if someone answered up in a part of the meeting to do with the history of the organisation and said anything that isn't consistent with current understanding that would be the same as teaching apostasy.

  So if you said the famous ADV talk to advertise the Kingdom, of course they mistakenly believed that the kingdom was established in 1874, then as far as that C.O. was concerned you were out!
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  Nothing in life is stable as a Jehovah's Witness...

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  at least in hindsight it would appear so.

  i remember as a small kid not making friends because ultimately they were going to die.

  i never saved anything because money would be useless in the new world.

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  Lost in the fog

  It has always been like the Orwellian 1984 world where "big brother is watching you." In the org all the brothers and sisters are watching each other and especially are the elders watching you. Not in case you are in need of assistance but in case you slip up and 3 of them can whack you about the head under the threat of disclosure of this private court.

  I remember being told by a circuit servant in September 1975 that all us kids in the congregation could give all of our belongings and toys etc away to our school friends because in October of that year we would be in the new world. Good job none of us wanted to part with our goods! cause we'd have been destitute in the following month (sadly as some adults in our locality were!!)
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  Canadian Donations

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i stumbled upon this charitable status page for canada and thought that i would look for the watchtower society of canada.

  as they say the report is incomplete because it lacks the normal auditors process details.

  but donations received $64.4 canadian dollars!

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  Lost in the fog

  I stumbled upon this charitable status page for Canada and thought that I would look for the Watchtower Society of Canada.

  As they say the report is incomplete because it lacks the normal auditors process details. But donations received $64.4 Canadian Dollars! forwarded on as is usual. That is a huge amount of money.

  https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/40-watch-tower-and-tract-society-of-canada
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  WOODSTOCK

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s starting to filter in, the truth about why the grumpy buzzards wanted to move to warwick.

  lol.

  they are unhappy that their best time in life was moved to bethel and are hoping to relive woodstock in the place it should have been 49 years ago next month.

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  Giant Blunderers

  Geriatric Bullshiters
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  Female JW parking "attendants"

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was shocked recently to see on social media a couple pictures of jw sisters at a convention working as parking "attendants".

  i put that title in quotation marks because they still don't get the official attendant badge like the male parking attendants do, only the reflective vest.

  has anybody else heard of this .

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  Lost in the fog

  They've been doing it in the UK for years. And are more amenable than the brothers who were more likely to park you in a pothole or so close to the car next to yours that your car party had to exit via the sunroof!
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  Holy spirit

  by mrssauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the difference (if any) between being guided by holy spirit and being inspired by holy spirit?

  is it just semantics?.

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  Semantic or Semitic.
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  But it's not about the Money

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  money was the motivator.. .

  money.

  again, money was the motivator.. .

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  Lost in the fog

  Have you seen crime dramas on TV. They try to follow the money trail only to discover multiple shell corporations preventing the investigators getting to the actual dollars....

  Similarly the Watchtower Organisation has a whole list of different corporations under headings like IBSA, Christian Congregation, WTB&TS, etc etc. You have to ask yourself why?

  Follow the money trail.
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  Relative rates of mental illness

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a report produced 50 years ago by a psychiatrist at a west australian mental health facility ("asylum"l reported that the mental illness rate among jws was 3 times the norm of society.

  other similar studies at the time concluded the rate was much higher.. i wrote to the psychiatrist at the time, asking whether the wts attracted people who were already susceptible to mental illness or if the situation was created after the person became a jw.

  he responded that they did not know.. being myopically focused on the wts at the time, but more importantly belonging to an alternative eschatological apocalyptic body at the time, i did not think more broadly.. i think that today i would like to know:.

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  Lost in the fog

  I know that approximately two thirds of the congregation I used to attend were getting antidepressants or actively seeing a mental health professional, including a few of the elders.

  I myself suffered from a period of severe clinical depression and it was the way I was ignored and treated by my "loving caring brothers" which started my journey out as my health improved.