so let me get this straight.. the borg moves into their new corporate country club....

by nowwhat? 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • TheWonderofYou
    TheWonderofYou

    For pictures google: "Farms, Red Mills Road, Wallkill, Shawangunk, New York, USA"

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    Watchtower properties in mid-Hudson


    TOWN OF SHAWANGUNK

    Red Mill Road

    A sprawling complex on 1,141 acres, including a saw mill, food processing and printing plants

    Estimated market value: $135 million.

    Tax exempt. If taxable, it would pay about $4.7 million in property taxes.

    TOWN OF NEWBURGH

    1294 Route 300

    Former Hampton Inn

    Market value: $6.4 million

    Tax exempt. It was paying $262,000 in property taxes before Watchtower bought it.

    15 Crossroads Court

    Former Hilton Garden Inn on 5.6 acres

    Market value: $8 million

    Tax exempt. It was paying $326,000 in property taxes before Watchtower bought it.

    TOWN OF MONTGOMERY

    124 Bracken Road

    200,000-square-foot warehouse on 12 acres

    Market value: $8.3 million

    Tax exempt. It would pay $290,832 if taxable.

    TOWN OF WARWICK

    15, 20, 30, 40, 45, 50 and 55 King's Drive, off Long Meadow Road

    Watchtower world headquarters

    Watchtower is building three multi-story apartment buildings, a vehicle maintenance building; a four-level parking garage, and an office-service building. The complex will total 1.6 million square feet.

    Construction has not been completed and therefore the property as a whole has not been assessed.

    TOWN OF TUXEDO

    Route 72 and Long Meadow Road

    Former research headquarters of International Paper

    Market value $2,748,000

    Tax exempt. It would pay $103,491 if taxable.

    227 Ironwood Drive

    Apartment complex

    Market value: $749,200

    Taxes paid: $28,213. Watchtower is seeking an exemption.

    51 Woods Road

    Single-family home

    Market value: $344,600

    Taxes paid: $12,868. Watchtower is seeking an exemption.

    57 Cross Ridge Road

    Single family home

    Market value: $345,800.

    Tax exempt. It would pay $13,168 if taxable.

    15 Sylvan Way

    Single-family home

    Market value: $295,500.

    Taxes paid: $10,056. Watchtower is seeking an exemption.

    Source: town assessors and Orange County

    http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150307/NEWS/150309486

  • joe134cd
    joe134cd

    Get this I had a relative tell me Wt was never against the internet.

  • stillin
    stillin

    The Witnesses have a hard time realizing (or they would never admit) that all of this glitz is validating their devotion to the religion. "See? We have something to show! "

    And in the big scheme of things, it's just more clutter on the surface of the Earth.v

  • dozy
    dozy

    There was a thread that some pictures of the rooms at the new HQ had been removed from JW.Org - possibly because they might "stumble" JWs who live in less comfortable accommodation.

  • Room 215
    Room 215

    Vomit-inducing, both for the magnitude of the properties themselves, also for the uncritical support/defense of them by the adoring masses and the volunteer labor lavished so senselessly on these vulgar, garish wanna-be Vaticans.

    Psalms. 127:1

  • wifibandit
  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    Gotta admit, the cushy digs are a pretty strong incentive for the loyalist rank-and-file to stay "in" and aspire towards.

  • TheWonderofYou
  • pepperheart
    pepperheart

    I think the word you are looking for is thick,in my area on the carts they are still giving 10 year old teaching books away and even if they only go the jw website they know of so many savings that the borg have made

  • punkofnice
    punkofnice
    Flipster - ll these J-dubs are getting the rug pulled out from under them- and they don't even know it. Or most don't want to admit it because they're too invested for life. Incredible.

    I wonder how long it'll be before the penny drops with the rank and file(tm)? Pun intended.

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