Posts by JustVisting

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

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.

JustVisting

Nugget,

I agree, this is quite disturbing. If this new arrangement is in fact put in effect, the congos will be indefinetely on the hook for the pledged amount in lieu

of their monthly mortgage payment. One can just imagine that they have studied the possibility of some congos "defaulting" on their pledges, so I am

sure that they have contingencies. It is my understanding that remodels are all mandated by the RBCs and more so now that they have a centralized "RBC" arrangement. Sounds like Communism to me.

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I Heard A Longtime Elder, Recently Deleted, Announced To Congregation That He Was Publicly Disassociating Himself!

by minimus in

jw
friends

i heard that it happened a couple of days ago.

he's in his 60's, was a prominent bethelite from a long line of bible student/jw family.. another one bites the dust..

JustVisting

Prologos, a well-seasoned public talk-giver would easily overcome the sound being turned down b/c he would have

mastered counsel point #17 "use of microphones"

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Im new and need help!

by Batman89 in

hello everybody, before i begin i just wanna say that i have really found alot of great posts on here that have been helpful forme , theres definitely alot of brilliant people here!.

i am a born in jw(24 years old) ive been baptized for 7 years and was a ministerial servant for 4 years(i am no longer one).

recently me and my parents have have woken up to ttatt(about 2 months ago).

JustVisting

Welcome,

I can not add any more insight to what has already been said here. I think Searcher's post is above is the most

realistic and staigtforward. I'm sorry there's no way to eat your cake and have it too-she has told you to take a break, so do it.

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Need an Life-How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation book

by donny in

a friend of mine, an evolutionist, is asking me to acquire an lifehow did it get here?

by evolution or by creation book.

the edition is not important and the newer condition the better.

JustVisting

I am one of the uneducated people that had to "consume" this publication, but

I always thought there was something not right with it. I wondered about the qualifications

of the writers and why they would try to print a creaton/science book.

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Elderettes?

by mellojello in

hey everyone i'm new here.

i'm not baptised but i've been qoute on qoute 'studying' for the past 4-5 years.

i'm almost 20. i've been lurking and i've seen a lot of posts about elderettes.

JustVisting

MelloJello, welcome.

Elderette is a battleax that will boss around the poor young brother or push-over MS

during the field service meeting, like change the car group arrangements or what territory the

group will work.

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What Watchtower Belief/View Never Sat Right With You?

by minimus in

but their views on blood are just plain weird!

meat has blood in it even if it's bled.

still eating meat means consuming blood.

JustVisting

Watching the Wizard of Oz is bad b/c it has a "wizard" in it.

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The most watchtarded WT study yet....?!?!?

by DATA-DOG in

if you went to the meeting yesterday, did you notice how utterly watchtarded it was??

it seemed to me that everyone in my kh has accepted the fact that they will die.

that's all they kept saying, even the wt conducting eldumb said, " we have to teach the next generation because we won't be here forever.." wth?!???

JustVisting

Londo,

That's b/c study conductor's routinely harp on the photos by asking the audience to pick out the learning points.

Like I the Jeremiah book where they show a young sister with punk hairdo/clothes being counseled by the elders. She's looking away from them with a F.U. attitude (photo 1).

(photo 2): show her looking at a field service photo of her in her goody JW days, while she sits in her run-down apt., baby in the crib, dead-beat boytoy past out drunk on the sofa.

Photo 3: she sees the error of her ways, cleans herself up, sheds a few tears of genuine repentance and is welcomed back to the congo with open arms, her daughter in tow.

moral of the photo montage: listen, obey, be bleesed.

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Its Official - DO arrangment has been done away with

by Justnowout in

letter to be read at next weeks service meeting.

JustVisting

And then there is the "isn't that a loving provision" to assign them to a local congregation?

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The Scriptural Meeting JW's Don't Have

by metatron in

jw
friends

do you ever read in your bible about a "service meeting"?

how about the "theocratic ministry school"?.

the society has to reach back into the ot to justify its assemblies and conventions, as with national holidays in ancient israel.. yet, there is no official modern-day version of this:.

I'll never forget the time we hosted a local elder and his family, and promptly after we ate they said they needed to leave because a group was going to the movies. We weren't invited to the movies, however. Thanks so much...not.

Let me guess, was this clown a substitute CO in training? Sounds like something they would do.

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The Scriptural Meeting JW's Don't Have

by metatron in

jw
friends

do you ever read in your bible about a "service meeting"?

how about the "theocratic ministry school"?.

the society has to reach back into the ot to justify its assemblies and conventions, as with national holidays in ancient israel.. yet, there is no official modern-day version of this:.

JustVisting

Heaven forbid that they should even crack open the Bible and discuss among themselves.