judicial committee invitation comes, with be there or be square consequences.. ( come or we will df you ).
what are the sure fire, tested and true tactics that will keep the elders off your back?
( for good ).
They DF'd her last night.
I got a chance to see her today. She is able to roll with this completely.
She completely ignored them all the way. ( which is amazing )
Side effect, another one of her children quit the meetings as result of this madness.
I envy the closure. Time to enjoy freedom as well as gaining one's life!
Do active JWs understand how this all takes place?
so, as well reported, the latest jw broadcasting show is all about giving money.
as far as the wt society goes they have been pretty candid about there not being enough funds to meet the expenditure.
there are plenty of views on if this is really the case or not but underlying this is why are they spending so much money?.
Aren't all the RTOs that will cost $1mil or more each just going to be some offices with adjoining luxury accommodations?
Did I hear 150 proposed locations or no?
Like the one in South Florida?
it was one of the commenters replying to another thread, but i cannot find it.
it was a great rant & well thought out.
it basically put in simple terms how the donation arrangement is like being forgiven of your 10 year mortgage, then being told you should 'donate' an amount equal to your monthly mortgage payment, but indefinitely.. i'd really like to find that person's reply, so i can use the same logic with some of my family members.
There must be term for this:
Borrow money you donated, then pay back loan for something you will never own...
as some of you know i was given pdf files of much of the conti and lopez child abuse court cases and asked from a friend to peruse through it and post some excerpts on the board here that may have been missed or not addressed in the pbs newshour report or the abc news nightline report.
so after going through this richard ashe testimony i feel i found something quite interesting that exposes the real attitudes of the wt society leaders towards child abuse and the attitudes wt leaders put into it's appointed men's minds as well.
the viewpoint that richard ashe displays is repeated in elders throughout thousands of jw congregations on this planet.
the internet is the archive for civilization.. watchtower cannot hide it's history.. are we seeing the beginning of a mass exodus out of her?.
I sure hope you are right.
Again my biggest fear is mass suicide when the walls of Watchtower come crashing down.
If GB members end up in prison or are forced to testify in court, it'll all happen very quickly.
i hope that writing this, there will be some lurkers that i can shake.. if you have not listened to mays tv broadcast, please do.
it may wake some up.. note @ around 21-22 minutes into the broadcast lett brings up the the kingdom halls/assembly hall loans have been cancelled and the congregation can now send in what they can afford.
wow...how many banks would do that?.
The biggest kick to the crotch is that the local JWs never really owned the property they had a mortgage on to begin with. JWs are being asked to pay for/remodel property that they will never own.
The elders may be on the title, as long as they remain elders.
If the local property get sold, the money will ALWAYS end up in WT's bank account.
If HQ decides your hall needs to be sold because Jehovah needs more money, there's not a thing YOU can do about it. Well you can drive 30 minutes to the next closest KH... Joy!
what is god's kingdom?
some say it is in your heart.
some say it is heaven.
What are you hoping to achieve? We've all seen behind the curtain, here.
You know Harm-you-gettin' was supposed to come in 1914, yes?
Mixed signal? Lil' static on God's one channel of communication?
He didn't mean 1914, he meant after 2015...
the internet is the archive for civilization.. watchtower cannot hide it's history.. are we seeing the beginning of a mass exodus out of her?.
With the estimated 100k JWs leaving every year, that's a lot of donation potential the GB needs.
Jehovah needs money.
Where are the "real" growth stats?
could this be a "wake up trigger" question to a nosy elder?.
"how many pedophile lawsuits are the wts legal team currently defending?".
how would/could they answer?why should the answer be secret?.
Any elder must know the seriousness of the situation.
The comments found in the "Flock" book and BOE letters about dodging media/phoning WTS Legal dept and the like when questioned about the pedophile issue is alarming.
What kind of excuses can be justified to keep this information secret?
Then you see the May2015 JWbroadcast and realize these lawsuit judgement/settlements aren't going to pay themselves. Sacrifice your firstfruits ( make a deposit into god's heavenly bank account. Then Stephen Lett will be careful spending "Jehovah's Money"® )
Won't the elders start waking up since they know the truth about the so-called forgiven mortgages?
I don't know if the answer is available, The number of lawsuits and total donated monies to defend/settle must be staggering.
That being said, please give some commentary!!
i am sure that the gb does not care about the r&f jw.
it does not care about the organization collapsing overnight.. why do i say this?.
in 2013 the organization declared that the "faithful and discreet slave" consisted only of the seven member of the gb.
It has to be an act at the top.
This madness cannot really be believed?
It gets hard to focus clearly on the fuzzy Wednesday afternoon and the like secrecy
