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  Green Handshakes - Taxable income in Australia

  by Listener in

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  i was doing some research on the taxable status of money being gifted to co’s and travelling missionaries and was surprised with what i found.

  i had assumed that it was not taxable income in australia.. it is taxable income in australia and it‘s likely that the same rules apply in some other countries.. a registered religious institution only receives tax free status on donations because they have been endorsed by the australian tax office.

  travelling overseas and missionaries are not in this category.. there’s a tax ruling that goes into great detail.

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  FEDUPJW & FULANO:

  I observed when I was in the JWs an undercurrent of saying things were a ‘conscience matter’ with regard to an individual paying taxes.

  Somebody like myself who worked at a regular job had taxes taken out of my paycheck by my employer. However, those people in the congregation who ‘worked for themselves’ whether cleaning or other..were on the ‘honor system’ as to reporting taxes. The whispers I heard indicated that many were not so upright as to reporting how much money they made.

  For those JWs who were not so honest about reporting their taxes all through the years: ..it has come back to bite them in the end with a pathetically low Social Security payment!!
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  JWs in the news: UK Telegraph:"‘Jehovah’s Witnesses told me I would die at 15 – so I didn’t save for a pension’"

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  ‘jehovah’s witnesses told me i would die at 15 – so i didn’t save for a pension’.

  fame & fortune: award-winning author on religion, divorce and her dream car.

  70. gift this article free.

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  PHIZZY:

  I totally get it for a lot of born-in Witnesses that they were conned into believing they shouldn’t pay into a pension plan.. But I fear common sense was kicked aside in favor of conformity and telling people their business. Why would anybody need to know you paid into a pension plan??

  I am glad not all Jehovah’s Witnesses fell for this as you yourself did not - and good for you.. You figured wisely that if you prepared and the End came so what? But, if the End did not come your preparation was vital.. NOW, how about me who was not even born-in?.. I would have had to be out of my mind to heed their suicidal stupidity.

  I came in a young adult with a full-time job (in the U.S.) ..and I was hounded by old people to quit and do housecleaning/pioneering. Meanwhile, ALL these elderly people were in the workforce when younger and were collecting THEIR pensions. Hypocrisy?? Or did they just hate women? Was it a holdover of pre-1975 mentality? Whatever.

  The fact is, I never listened back then and am grateful today.. It was worth it to be shunned by people most of whom are deceased today!

  Sorry for anybody who fell for Witness nonsense and are suffering today.. This is not an easy world to live in and even people who prepared have to watch their pennies because things are tight.
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  1975 debacle

  by Gman2001 in

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  did the borg ever apologize for 1975?.

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  AQWSED12345:

  Bravo for your very informative post about the Jehovah’s Witness religion’s 1975 monumental failure.

  I think the majority of Witnesses under age 50 know Zero about the 1975 thing and it is vital to have a good history lesson on this because people’s memories are faulty.. In this case, even more so because it was deliberately covered up.

  I came into the Witness religion several years after and reading about what people did in the years before ‘75 makes my stomach turn because this was hidden from me when I came in. As you related, many ‘thousands sacrificed their future for a lie’.. Looking back in retrospect, I wonder if the harsh treatment I received back then because I wouldn’t quit my full-time job and take up ‘pioneering’ to appease the congregation was the leftover mentality they had before 1975??

  I am glad I later got Out and cannot believe this very harmful religion is still around reinventing itself and deceiving people.
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  Live long and prosper: WT JULY 2025

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "now more than ever, we need to focus on our hope.

  because we are living in 'the last days' and we all have problems that are 'hard to deal with.

  ' (2 tim.

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  RAYMOND FRANTZ:

  More gaslighting.. It’s infuriating to read this because the Witness religion’s policies telling people not to get careers/decent jobs is what is the main cause of poverty there.

  Of course, there is the ‘hope’ (more like fantasy) they put out about a future ‘paradise’ that will magically take these problems away. But, for here and now, there are real problems:: like people who haven’t worked much because they spent most of their time in an unpaid ministry for decades!!! The religion is trying to make it sound like other people in the congregation (responsible people who worked - hint, hint) should give these people things..

  What about the religion itself having soup kitchens and food pantries (like other religions) to help all these people who worked for THEM?? Yes, this is who these poor JWs worked for, not anybody else.

  I predicted something like this happening years ago and I said I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near these Witnesses when reality hit them. It happened. This is the handwriting on the wall and I’m Glad I’m not there now.
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  1975 debacle

  by Gman2001 in

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  did the borg ever apologize for 1975?.

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  SEA BREEZE:

  I came into the JW religion after 1975.

  The only whisper I heard about it was that ‘some left because they were serving for a date’…I was young and nobody told me about all the fanfare and buildup before: people selling homes and quitting jobs. In fact, I never learned all these other details until I left the religion years later!

  You say all the ‘old timers who pushed the hysteria of ‘75 are all dead’. Yes, they are not even around to help anybody they misled…Isn’t that usually the case? When I was young in the JWs all the older people were pushing poverty sticking their noses into my business.. Well, those judgmental busybodies went to their graves after living a cushy life. Thank God, I never listened to anything they said.

  The moral of the story out of ALL of this is: live your life and wisely work and plan for your future. Never believe anybody who tells you to pursue poverty because the ‘End’ is coming and not to ‘worry’ about anything. You’d have to be crazy.. In my observation, the poverty they were pushing was certainly not for them, just some young gullible person.
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  1975 debacle

  by Gman2001 in

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  did the borg ever apologize for 1975?.

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  GMAN2001:

  Not only did the religion never apologize for 1975, they hid this failure so thoroughly that younger Witnesses hardly knew anything about it.

  The result of this secrecy was that decades later (90s?) some Witnesses made similar stupid mistakes again like quitting jobs before their actual retirement age and going where the ‘need was great’ thinking the End could only be just a few years away..

  Problem was their money ran out but Armageddon hadn’t come to save them.😮 So, these JWs had a problem and were unprepared and needed to seek work at or near retirement age!.. Not a good situation to be in and one that could have been avoided if other older Witnesses were honest enough to warn them about what happened before 1975!..

  I saw years ago that an unsuspecting person could be very damaged in this fear-based religion because other people will not speak up or warn! Too bad.
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  Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

  each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

  we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.

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  JOEY JOJO:

  Yes, looking back in retrospect the Witness religion is a very BAD joke, sorry to say!

  Even though I never faced the blood issue when I was there - the joke would have been on me if I had listened to other things….Sorry for others who believed the hype and made the mistake of literally planning their lives around this religion...👎 No good.
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  Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
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  the following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.

  each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.

  we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.

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  RAYMOND FRANTZ:

  So now the religion is backtracking on this?!.. Sounds like it. All this in the name of looking good in the eyes of authorities and getting funding.

  I know of at least two ex-JWs who took blood to save the lives of their infants. They are eternally grateful that they made this decision!!.. I never had children and never faced this dilemma - but I could never have lived with myself if hadn’t taken blood to save the child! Sorry for anybody who listened to this!

  As far as the religion saying: ‘we never told them what to do..’. Similar language was used on some people who pioneered for decades and never worked much and who are complaining they ended up broke.

  With all this backtracking on serious life-altering issues like this that have profoundly affected countless lives - I cannot imagine what those older PIMIs in the congregations must be thinking about all this - and how they could even stay there. Glad I got out ages ago.
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  WT June 2025: We Are Not Blind We Just Don't Know

  by raymond frantz in

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  https://youtu.be/7xumqjq3zfc?si=ivcg96t4dtgze4ft.

  so this is from the brand new watchtower study edition of june 2025 which has just been posted on jw.org .under the title: modestly accept what you do not know, a let’s read paragraphs in question 4 &5: “read matthew 24:36. we do not know when the end of this system of things will come.

  even jesus, while on earth, did not know the ‘day and hour.’ he later told the apostles that jehovah, who is the great timekeeper, keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction,’ or authority.

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  JOURNEYMAN:

  I agree with your post very much.

  The religion has strung along generations of people for a lifetime with arrogant claims of ‘dates and times’.. The tragedy is that the people in the religion who made these claims have gone to their graves after living a cushy life - meanwhile those gullible individuals who based their whole lives on this are left holding the bag!

  Like you, I never believed the ‘it’s just around the corner’ hype and held onto my job. I also was raised Catholic and had my father’s wisdom. Even though I’m long ‘Faded’ from the JWs I will never forget how badly I was viewed because I wouldn’t follow absurd advice.

  Let the religion keep doubling down on their message. Makes no difference to me since I am long Out.. In my opinion, it is to placate the older Witnesses there who gave up so much for the religion and are angry the ‘new system’ isn’t here!
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  WT JUNE 2025 MODESTLY accept what YOU do not know

  by blondie in

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  pp.

  14-19 just some quote and a few comments from me, very, very repetitious.

  the gb seems to think that the rank and file came up the years 1914, 1925, 1975, generation (70-80 years from 1914=1994), overlapping generations.

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  FINISHED MYSTERY:

  Very good points you make and I do believe they want to keep that old R&F dumbed-down and thinking they are ‘immodest’ for even wanting answers.

  I also think articles like this are put out in response to all the complaints the religion is getting lately from sick & tired older Witnesses who feel they should be ‘in the new system by now’ instead of this ‘old system’ where they are growing older and having to worry about money.

  The religion has to quiet everybody down by saying ‘modestly accept what you do not know’. .Meanwhile, it is they who gave all this false hope in the first place - and caused their members to be in the bad shape they are now in (arrogantly saying don’t get careers or plan for retirement which they are still saying..).. What a mess. I am so Glad I never listened to a thing they said years ago.