hey forum goers.
i'd like your opinions on constructing an email reply to this shocker below.
bit of background about the sender: she is a middle-aged, cheery uberdub whose siblings left when a schism occured in her congregation in canada way back when.
I think the email may have been inspired by this weeks CLAM regarding sinning against the holy spirit for which there is no ransom b.s. The jay dub reply would be " thank you for the email I will prayerfully consider it" Then forget it ever happened.
just my two bobs worth
jtg
2018-04-11-e-boespeaker's monitorhttps://we.tl/em7bxi5o4oatlantis!.
NewYork44M,,,,,,, was that an elder Minotaur !?
jtg
in 1991 we build a 250 seat hall and had 125 publishers so about 175 in attendance and filing fast.. just spoke to someone from my old congregation they now have 50 to 60 publishers and 100 in attendance on a good day.. very few pioneers.. seems this is happening everywhere.. karter..
Well, in Victoria Australia the eldubs and miniscule servitudes have been advised to be ready for the consolidation of congs and sale of halls. This was at their last indoctrination 'school'
jtg
p.s. mmmmm undedication ceremonies !? I love it
calling all who are still "in": i need your help!.
i’m putting together a damming video with evidence of jehovah’s witnesses “organizing” the collection of data in field service – data about when people were not at home, if a child answered the door and so on.
since a leaked letter dated 2-aug-2017, where elders were instructed to destroy all house-to-house records and not tell publishers how to collect data about people not-at-home, we know that the practise has continued.. how you can help.
Its no secret that in Melbourne Australia some uber elders request the 'personal' nh lists from individual publishers and hand them out at another meeting for fs stating that they would like help to cover 'their' not at homes.
jtg
this little nugget was found in the wt this morning, although 99.9% of people will not see it the same way i did.
"how did noah hear about jehovah?
he no doubt learned much from his relatives.
Yep I saw it,,,,,, overlapping generation of 366 years. Hilarious,,,,I turned to the regular pioneer sitting next to me and said "this is evidently what jesus meant" He just raised his eyebrows and smirked. He is also pimo waiting for the right time to pomo.
jtg
many years back, my younger brother and i were the most mischievous kids in the kingdom hall.
we would mischievously take away things like the bible , study magazines, etc from meeting attendees.
soon, they will suspect us if anything went missing.. our parents were annoyed with our conduct and behaviour.. they requested an elder to talk to us.
It seems even to this day he is missing!! and none of us had anything to do with it
jtg
p.s. its a ripper joke, great..
it's goodbye to bristol - hengrove congregation of jw's and the inmates ... err ... members, will be sent to two other bristol congregations either side of it.. i'm told by two elders from bristol, england it is being disbanded on may 1st 2018. this is the 2nd congregation in this circuit to be disbanded recently - the 1st being portishead in late 2014.. hooray!.
well folks,
For wot its worth. The word on the street in Melbourne Australia is that Williamstown, St Kilda and Kealba halls are earmarked for sale and congregants will need to travel elsewhere. There have already been some shifts with Vietnamese and other foreign groups. At the recent MS school the attendees were told to expect a reconfiguration of territories and meeting places. This was met with riotous laughter untill the speaker stated "We are not joking, be prepared". So, there you go,,, we will see.
jtg
Will keep you posted of developments. The speaker stated this would happen within the next twelve months.
will our fearless leaders the gb call a news conference and invite all the major news networks and outlets and put their asses on the line and declare "you are all doomed!
" or will they have the rank and file do all the dirty work while they sit back in their gated corporate country club?!
ask any jdub that question!.
Well, for wot its worth. in the months and years to come, they could always twist their "join us or die" message as having been a judgement message since 1914 !?. I raised this aspect with a 'pee in your ear' eldub and believe it or not he said "you know what,, you may have a point" Unbelievable!!!!!!!!
jtg
edit,,,, of course with no scriptural basis.
i know of some congregations and even circuits that have already met this fate recently.
are there any more to come for certain?.
Hey stuckinarut2, in Melbourne its starting also. Two bayside khalls are earmarked for sale and congregants will be told to go elsewhere. A foreign language group has already moved to another hall.
jtg
with hundreds, if not thousands, of letters being sent in to the society asking for answers re their child abuse policies and poorly supported doctrines, what does the watchtower decide is the most important question from readers to answer this month?
why is paul always depicted as bald apparently!.
???????
In the actual quote from wikipedia regarding the above mentioned apocryphal book. He was described as 'middling', not short. ,,,
"Paul is given a full physical description that may reflect oral tradition: in the Syriac text "he was a man of middling size, and his hair was scanty, and his legs were a little crooked, and his knees were projecting, and he had large eyes [8] and his eyebrows met, and his nose was somewhat long, and he was full of grace and mercy; at one time he seemed like a man, and at another time he seemed like an angel.""
fwiw.
jtg
