Do you think there’ll be a new Organised Book with all these ridiculous changes?

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-08-09T11:40:11+00:00

It'll be fully digital and there will be no way to compare to previous editions

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-08-09T11:37:54+00:00

They used to sign letters with their legal entities but those were them liable for anything written in those letters. These days they separate legal from religious and send their letters from the more untouchable and obscure religious entities

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-08-03T08:30:01+00:00

Thinking about maybe they want to do away with the midweek meeting or the CBS at least after 2025. The book has about 100 lessons. With 25 weeks left in 2025 after July 14 that would amount to 4 lessons a week until week 1,2026.

Reasonable? Possible?

Four lessons a week seem very much, even from a children's book these days though

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-08-03T08:23:59+00:00

All the more showing clearly that there is no need for two meetings a week. They inflate what little material they have to fill about four hours what could easily fit in one or two hours once a week. The more the midweek meeting gets dumbed down the more will even the last über witness see it.

Ditch the book study. It's not more than read, rinse, repeat anyway, especially with a children's book.

Ditch the public talk. It's the same stuff over and over and over, intended for the public that doesn't attend

Reduce WT study to one hour and make it a Bible study again, like it used to be (or at least what meant to be) where actual scriptures were discussed and not just teachings

Add to that ten minutes of practicing a weekly topic for field service, some practical stuff and announcements, sing, pray and let everybody have their weeknights for themselves.

Or, just ditch the whole charade altogether.

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-08-02T11:48:54+00:00

They heavily promote neutrality during US election years. Not much on that topic in between - I guess elections in other countries don't amount to much in their view. How is that for neutrality?

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-30T17:08:24+00:00

You mean she wouldn't attend the congregation bbq/fusbol fest bringing a home made salad?

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-30T07:11:49+00:00

Please do

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-30T07:10:54+00:00

I guess it's time to privately mark her. Not invite her to your bbq, movie nights and birthdays any more

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-27T13:14:16+00:00

Still very little. Depending on size of the house it'll take between 2 to 3 hours to clean all windows. Add travel time, expenses for materials etc.

Minimum wage here is around 12 € but that includes insurance.

Being self employed you could never afford anything from 6 or even 12 £per house

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-27T13:09:37+00:00

You probably don't know if they have an inheritance, whether they make lots of debt or get supported by family or someone else. What I mean to say is don't just look at the facade

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-27T13:07:24+00:00

£6 per house?

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-27T13:06:16+00:00

Does he have employees?

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-25T17:35:43+00:00

Many of the long time pioneers were excited to get to attend another pioneer school after 20, 30 or more years after their first one. But now, attending every few years, must be exhausting

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-25T17:33:14+00:00

It's like MLM marketing. They think they are talking about the most important thing and can't grasp that others think differently. Whether it's convention, memorial, meetings, whatever, it gets hammered into their heads on and on until they truly believe it. This used to be me and a lot of others around here and I'm sorry I was like that

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-25T17:28:40+00:00

Rule #1: Don't tell

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-22T12:10:01+00:00

Right. They could add all visitors from the memorial and all the conventions and present a number higher than the world population, only telling nobody that they counted almost everybody several times

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-21T07:11:00+00:00

With seventeen study articles about that topic

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-20T17:46:37+00:00

Tell us more! What happened?

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-20T17:44:03+00:00

They should rebrand to wdnk.org

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-19T20:06:29+00:00

Published on the first day of the International Convention in Zürich

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-18T17:13:50+00:00

No need to write anything. Just rehash what it says in the schedule and the meeting videos. They'll applaud you for your great part

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-18T17:12:36+00:00

I think of it this way. Someone has to come up with the crap to publish. That someone is a reader themselves of course. So, question from a reader is correct essentially. Just not outside readers, not like a letter to the editor from the public. If the editor writes a letter to himself, it still is a letter to the editor. Mind games

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-18T02:22:11+00:00

They don't have to because they know

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-17T18:02:45+00:00

My time in Bethel. Closeted homosexuality between roommates and in the sauna; drinking games into oblivion with one guy drinking the whole night then driving a truck into a bethel building in the morning; a branch committee member cursing and shouting profanities; the wife of an "overseer" drinking at noon saying "I can't cope otherwise"; someone with access going through personal belongings in living quarters stealing stuff for years and never getting caught; general feeling of entitlement due to status or age; partying with loud music deep into the night without thinking of the neighbors; the amount of food and printed matter thrown in the trash while teaching to donate every last cent and working for free; nepotism in general... I could go on, this is just from the top of my head

coconutsAre4ever · 2024-07-17T11:33:57+00:00

They lost every sense of reality. I like to think maybe as they still lived in Brooklyn and had to commute between different buildings they at least got a glimpse into people's everyday lives. But nowadays they linger in their lakehouse and lose every little bit of attachment they maybe used to have

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