>How does that work then? That you get moved into increasingly bigger and better appartments the longer you are there. Is there some kind of unspoken 'promotion' system? I was told at the German branch that if there is a vacancy in rooms you can applie for it and your number of full-time service years go into the decision if you get it.
Watchtower Headquarters video inside/outside
by SeymourButts 21 Replies latest jw friends
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Kaput
Correct-o-mundo, GermanXJW.
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JW_Researcher
>How does that work then? That you get moved into increasingly bigger and better appartments the longer you are there. Is there some kind of unspoken 'promotion' system? I was told at the German branch that if there is a vacancy in rooms you can applie for it and your number of full-time service years go into the decision if you get it.
Yes, you "bid" on rooms based on seniority . If you don't have enough seniority to "win" a room you are simply assigned but....sometimes you can get a nice room that way.
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JW_Researcher
That restored 'palace' that has won awards is excessive for a religion that supposedly follows Jesus the carpenter.
Sometimes designated "historic" buildings must be restored to a certain standard. So, if the JWs are remodeling a building, they may have to meet externally imposed standards.
We called the Brooklyn Historical Society the Brooklyn Hysterical Society as they were very aware of any "non-authentic" remodeling.
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katiekitten
They shouldnt have histoical buildings that need excessive amounts of authentic remodelling. For an organisation always begging for money why then deliberately buy listed buildings you know are going to cost a fortune to look after?
Its wicked and immoral to take poor peoples hard earned money and then spend it on chandaliers. How is that any different from any con man spending donated money on feathering their own nests?
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Qcmbr
Boast alert**** Lds headquarters thwop that mouldy oldie
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bronzefist
It always bothered me that out of one side of their faces the local elders were comparing the "humble" looking KHs to "worldly" elaborate churches, and then out of the other side of their faces defending the multi-million dollar "palaces" in NY. People would come back from Bethel visits with tears in their eyes......damn. All the while there were those within the congregation struggling to put food on their table. SOB's will never have a donation box in the hall for widows and orphans, those in need now have to "humble" themselves before the BOE to maybe get a few dollars.
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Kaput
Ya got THAT right!
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JW_Researcher
They shouldnt have histoical buildings that need excessive amounts of authentic remodelling. For an organisation always begging for money why then deliberately buy listed buildings you know are going to cost a fortune to look after?
Its wicked and immoral to take poor peoples hard earned money and then spend it on chandaliers. How is that any different from any con man spending donated money on feathering their own nests?
Yeah well…I’m not real into the “shoulds” and “morality” of others’ behavior but…. Let’s say a building is donated in the area where the headquarters are… a walk for the Bethelites (like the Bossert and the Standish).
The JWs, however, must renovate it to historical standards and spend a bunch of money doing so. They still may end up with a beautiful building for less than they could have built a modest building from scratch.
My comment was only to inject the reality of having to meet certain externally enforced standards on their remodeling efforts to allow others to understand that perhaps the level of “opulence” was not necessarily the JWs’ idea. For example, look at 107 Columbia Heights which the JWs did build….looks nothing like the Bossert Hotel.
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katiekitten
the level of “opulence” was not necessarily the JWs’ idea.
They shouldnt have opulent buildings. Full stop. They brow beat ordinary people week after week about how strapped they are for cash, how its all for the futherance of the world wide work. We had retired widows living on state pensions in our cong donating their one piece of gold jewellry so it could be melted down for cash for the Borg.
One old lady (auntie Helen) was found to be so poor she was diagnosed by her doctor as malnourished but she was still popping money in the box every week.
Wicked. Malnourished old ladies and chandaliers. BOLLOX.