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The Watchtower CUSTOMER battles
by Terry 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Tater-T
great post ..
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MrFreeze
You would have to think that eventually the game is going to be up for the Watchtower. I just don't see a way that they can last 40 or 50 more years financially.
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finally awake
The WTS didn't want to have to collect and remit sales tax because it would allow outsiders access to all the financial information. Any decent sales tax auditor would want to see total receipts data, as well as purchase data to verify that the reported figures were accurate. That would reveal just how much profit was being generated, and could even trigger the auditor to look at other purchases and the general business operations to determine if the corporation even qualified as a religion. Since the WTS seems to be fond of using multiple layers of corporations, a really thorough auditor would have a field day combing through the records. Don't forget the issue of food service at conventions - the fact that they preferred to cancel food service rather than have to remit sales tax tells me that they didn't want to risk an audit. Even though audit information is supposed to be confidential, I think they were still scared at the idea that their dirty laundry would get out.
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Band on the Run
Finally Awake,
Excellent point! I was not around when the court case regarding sales tax was decided. Why did they not always have this problem?
This is a bit off-topic. Does anyone recall the food service available in the 1950s-1970s? The filth was unbelivable. I was such a dumb kid that I looked forward to sharing a meal with so many other Witnesses. It made me feel a normal person. The food tasted so good when I was five. I could not wait to grow up and volunteer for the slop buckets! Perhaps Jehovah looked out for them b/c the liability from poisioned food must have been large.
I agree that paranoid and the excitement that is involved in persecution holds the Witnesses together. From my personal experience, it made me feel more important as I knocked on doors in utter boredom. The Cuban Missle Crisis, the Berlin War, 9/11-some werid type of chemical is released in your body. Terror exists but you are also bond to a community more than usual. After 9/11, I was downtown. Every person I came across was in exquisite pain. Normal living processes become unimportant. Is this what military uses? Break down the individual so your loyalty is to a group.
Do you think Rutherford had a detailed, action plan or all these things happened b/c his personality was pathological? I still cannot believe how he gained control of the WTBTS. Call him a bastard but his plans were effective.
When my mom would tell me tales from Russell's or Rutherford's time when being a Witness was a more intimate experience, I envied her her close ties. Everyone in a large geographical area knew each other well.
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breakfast of champions
Great post, TERRY!
Zeitgeist and Ortgeist. It really was the perfect storm.
Not so much anymore.
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Finkelstein
The END Times , the return of Christ, the earthly paradise to come , were all self created marketing strategies to attract attention
from the public toward the WTS's literature. The ensuing proclamation that if you read are literature and become a member of are
organization, that would pretty much assure yourself survival from your own personal destruction. Why ?
Because we have true bible interpretation, unlike all other organizations.
As the organization went about desecrating all other Christian based faiths.
So brazen in this Armageddon selling, that talks were given on how the survivors were to clean up the human carcases after animals and birds feasted
on the dead bodies, with young children in listening presence no less.
Now after more of a century of proselytizing " The End " the WTS. is in a bit of a struggle to maintain its own self expressed identity which it established.
The WTS. had told a mutitude of lies to circumvent its own power, control and notoriety as well to proliferate its own litature.
It was easy back in the days of Russell and Rutherford to postulate the " End Times" because they had time perceived and assumed into
the foreseeable future, starting from 1914 onward. Here its almost 100 years from that date and nothing has happened of significance
to back that date. This mentioned struggle is just going to increase particularly past the year 2014, not so much from outside the organization
but from inside, from long time stalwart devoted JWS.
Lies which were proclaimed the truth are going to eventually catch up to you, the only way to overcome this inevitable situation is to tell more lies.