Watchtower sign was illegal
by jaydee 6 Replies latest social current
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Listener
They were very proud that they could inform the public of the time and the temperature.
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/bethel/watchtower-sign-brooklyn-landmark/ -
waton
Other wt time indicators were illegal too. Acts I :7 forbade them to enter the father's domain of pretending to know the times and seasons, in their publications, now broadcasts.
Deuteronomy makes it a capital offence to make predictions on God,s behalf that turn out to be duds.
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The Fall Guy
Illegal for over 50 years - and no one in New York's administration said anything?
I'm beginning to suspect that the WTBTS has some influential political friendships.
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MeanMrMustard
Illegal for over 50 years - and no one in New York's administration said anything?
I'm beginning to suspect that the WTBTS has some influential political friendships.The. Kerfuffles!
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RubaDub
If the sign was indeed put up before the WT bought it, then I can see how it could be grand-fathered in if the sign was originally legal.
I can also see the argument that the letters themselves are not part of the structure since they are just attached and not weight-bearing so as to be considered part of the structure. I would agree that changing the letters does not constitute a structural change.
Obviously if changes were made to the structure they would have had to go through the process of getting new permits which would not be approved today.
I guess with the WT gone to Warwick, it is a moot point now.
Rub a Dub
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steve2
Me thinks that darn old end-times horse has bolted on this one. Trust the persistence of legal nitpickers.
