Dear Jehovah's witnesses, a question....

by punkofnice 35 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  punkofnice

  OldHipster
  How? By miraculously printing money or making the staff never feeling hungry, by letting their clothes and shoes never be worn like in Sinai? By making companies suddenly feel the urge to give materials away for free? What is the alternative to letting the JW community come with their assests?

  Sure, why not? He has magic powers doesn't he? Or doesn't he exist or care? why not ask the members of the Governing body to pawn their £1000's watches and jewellery for a start?

  Finky - Open disclosure of the corporation's accounts would be very revealing.

  In the mean time they rely on little girls giving ice cream money to fund the protection of the very paedophiles that will abuse them.
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  Vidiot

  punkofnice - "Another thing I was talking to someone about was how the 'apostates(tm)' don't set out to persecute the JWs...it's often the other way around."

  Oh, that's classic.

  Reminds me of something I heard said about rabid Right-Wingers... that if they were complaining about something being "done to them", you could pretty much guarantee it was something they themselves wanted to do to others (paraphrasing, but that's the gist).

  punkofnice - "I know of a couple of long standing, dyed in the wool wehovah's jitnesses that are beginning to feel the GB only want their money."

  No way they're the only ones...

  ("Wehovah's Jitnesses"... wish I'd thought of that one. )
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  Vidiot

  punkofnice - "...they rely on little girls giving ice cream money to fund the protection of the very paedophiles that will abuse them."

  This one's internet-meme-worthy, IMO.

  "The Watchtower... using kids' ice cream money to defend the men who'll abuse them", or somesuch...
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  sir82

  What is the alternative to letting the JW community come with their assets?

  None.

  But why no transparency?

  Why do they expect Witnesses to contribute more, more, more? Every other monthly broadcast is about "send us more money". Regional conventions have cartoons urging kids to sacrifice small pleasures & send their money to the WTS instead. Congregations are instructed to send all "excess" money directly to the WTS. Kingdom Hall construction loans are "forgiven", only to be replaced by a demand that the same amount be sent to the branch anyway, "to time indefinite".....
  

  Meanwhile, Witnesses, get less, less, less: Awake pages reduced by 88%, branch offices closed & sold, construction projects stopped & suspended indefinitely, Bethelites & special pioneers dismissed & left to fend for themselves after 20 or 30 years of service.....

  They've got a literal billion dollars in real estate sales in the pipeline. They are slashing expenses dramatically. But still they say, "give, give...." (Proverbs 30:15)
  

  Where exactly is all this money they are so desperate for, going?
  
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  Vidiot

  The Caymans, among other places.
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  Finkelstein

  Where exactly is all this money they are so desperate for, going?

  Money for building new facilities and perhaps retirement homes for the elderly Bethelites which there is now a ballooning amount and most don't have any retirement funds to live off of, like the GB members.

  Jah was suppose to have killed off this old system of things long ago and people living today weren't suppose to need a retirement fund .

  Nevertheless the GB members today are taking in as much as they can for themselves, that you can be sure of..
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  punkofnice

  Vid....internet meme worthy at? Where's the meme makers? You can use that one.....fine by me :)
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  BelleStar

  Ucantnome You are so right, the spin from the Elders will be how ''Times are now harder than ever'' and how the congregation must have faith that Armageddon is just around the corner and all the jw's are being tested in faith. They will have the r&f living in basic bedsits, sitting on boxes after selling all their 'worldly' goods for the Watchtower to continue churning out. The sacrifice will all be part of the greater plan.
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  OUTLAW

  What is the alternative to letting the JW community come with their assests?

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  DATA-DOG

  Old Hippie,

  That's easy. DOWNZISE and see what "Jeehoober" does. Can smaller groups of Dubs meet in homes, pool their resources in a "grass-roots" manner, and still preach? You bet your ass they could!

  ORGANIZED RELIGION is a freaking sham. If "GOD" wants it done, it will get done. 7 a-holes, their lawyers and Real Estate agents are not needed. In fact, the ONLY hope for JW-ism to ever perform real charitable works and dig themselves out of their current situation, is the utter dissolution of the current S.O.P.

  DD