Posts by jonahstourguide

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Upcoming Regional Conventions - GB talks & GB Helper talks

by OwnAccord in

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photo from jw talk.

jonahstourguide

@ Julia Orwell

International in oz october 17 I hear that the Red Skelton lookalike

Letts is flying in and the other places in oz will get the link for the rockstars

jtg

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what is the current book study ("Congregation bible study") book?

by grumblecakes in

jonahstourguide

Hi there, You might notice the referenced footnote in para 1 chap 6 on

Josephus' speculative guess regarding the numbers drowned.

"Why do we print a speculative guess from some dude that lived

1500 yrs after the event?" Why don't we then print from the same

referenced publication that moses married an ethiopian princess

and some of the other stuff he ( Josephus) dreamed up?

I thought the bible was the divinely inspired eye witness account,

Moses was there, was Josephus perhaps inspired also???

jtg

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2014-03-29 BOE CONFIDENTIALS PDF Adjustment to financing Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall construction worldwide

by WatchTower87 in

2014-03-29 adjustment to financing kingdom hall and assembly hall construction worldwide.

pdf version: http://adf.ly/juxnc.

instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

jonahstourguide

@ Listener. Where I attend there are 3 boxes. Local Congregation Expenses,

Worldwide Work, Kingdom Hall Construction Worldwide.

The Worldwide Work box includes literature as I have been told. That is where

I have been told to drop money for literature obtained. Another cong I attended

had a box for Car park Re-surfacing. Another cong had a box for Kingdom Hall Roof.

Its the Worldwide Kingdom Hall Construction box and any of the other local use examples

I listed above that will go. There should then only be 2 boxes. Local Congregation Expenses

and Worldwide Work. And it's the funds collected in any local boxes listed above

and sitting in bank accounts that the wtbts is chasing. Sad really.

I also wonder what old light there is to dread in the December 7 2009 Letter.

Was that the year the Worldwide Kingdom Hall Construction box made its debut ???

And yes Listener excellent points that don't require convoluted reasoning

at verses 20 and 21. If only,,,,,,

jtg

P.S Where I attend they have no outstanding loan but I dunno who owns the joint.

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THE GRAND APOSTATE "WALKOUT" - January 1, 2015

by RagingBull in

jw
friends

after knowing ttatt for many years now...i had made up my mind long ago that after 2014, i would no-longer subject myself to the boredom, pain, and frustration of following this cult...the wt...the borg.. so...i made up my mind that since the wtbts/gb makes such a big deal as to the "significance" of the year 1914 and this year 2014, there can be no greater time for me to leave it all behind.

i daydreamed of how awesome and telling it would be if everyone that could ( because i do know that some have personal circumstances of their own, as i did too) would just .... walkout...never to attend/step foot in a kingdom hall from that moment on.. independence day of sorts?

there is too much evidence, too many videos, blogs, books, news reports and lawsuits for me to keep lying to myself.

jonahstourguide

@ Rebel8,, Mmm AGM is on oct 5 2014.

That'll knock the attendance figure around.

jtg

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Teenage Jehovah's Witness loses court bid to refuse life-saving blood transfusion

by Sapphy in

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-27/jehovahs-witness-loses-bid-to-refuse-blood/4985476.

interesting verdict, that despite the judge "...noting he was highly intelligent, a "mature minor" and devoted to his faith, the judge also found the boy had been "cocooned in that faith" for his entire life.".

the young man is 18 in 5 months and will be able to refuse treatment after that.

jonahstourguide

Thanks for the update,

any cancer can be a b*st*rd to deal with.

jtg

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Teenage Jehovah's Witness loses court bid to refuse life-saving blood transfusion

by Sapphy in

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-27/jehovahs-witness-loses-bid-to-refuse-blood/4985476.

interesting verdict, that despite the judge "...noting he was highly intelligent, a "mature minor" and devoted to his faith, the judge also found the boy had been "cocooned in that faith" for his entire life.".

the young man is 18 in 5 months and will be able to refuse treatment after that.

jonahstourguide

Hopefully, he is doing well.

jtg

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So Spill the Beans, Brothers: Were There More or Fewer At this Year's Bore-Fest

by steve2 in

the jw date-worshipped memorial has just completed its bleak worldwide commemoration.

that wasn't a dust cloud you saw; it was a millionfold hearts limply beating themselves into another round of great tribulation expectations.

i was knocked into a deep, deep sleep by the imagined experience of being at several thousand consecutive kingdom halls as the platformed drones spat forth the predictable sludge that, once released, hits and stains white clothing and bleach is useless.. we know that memorial attendance worldwide has dipped for two consecutive years since 2011 when it reached a high of 19,374,737 and for the promised land, obama's usa, the all time memorial attendance high was also 2011 when it hit over 2.5million (2,563,518) but shrunk in shame back to 2,502,055 in 2012 and spluttered upwards a handful or two to 2,504,114 last year.. so, what was attendance at the date-obsessed bore-fest this year in your neck of the woods?

jonahstourguide

I think, Crazyguy, that the attendance count at meetings includes

all those who can comprehend whats going on. I'll have to check that.

So I'm pretty sure the same method is used for the Memorial. If ya there

with ya eyes open ya gets counted ! E.g. cong of 100 publishers baptised or not

get an attendance at meetings of between 70 and 100 and had

173 at memorial.

jtg

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So Spill the Beans, Brothers: Were There More or Fewer At this Year's Bore-Fest

by steve2 in

the jw date-worshipped memorial has just completed its bleak worldwide commemoration.

that wasn't a dust cloud you saw; it was a millionfold hearts limply beating themselves into another round of great tribulation expectations.

i was knocked into a deep, deep sleep by the imagined experience of being at several thousand consecutive kingdom halls as the platformed drones spat forth the predictable sludge that, once released, hits and stains white clothing and bleach is useless.. we know that memorial attendance worldwide has dipped for two consecutive years since 2011 when it reached a high of 19,374,737 and for the promised land, obama's usa, the all time memorial attendance high was also 2011 when it hit over 2.5million (2,563,518) but shrunk in shame back to 2,502,055 in 2012 and spluttered upwards a handful or two to 2,504,114 last year.. so, what was attendance at the date-obsessed bore-fest this year in your neck of the woods?