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  Mandatory Donations??? Is This Accurate?

  by Atlantis in

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  does the information about mandatory donations in this post sound accurate to you?.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/i1gews/new_letter_1000_donations_are_mandatory_now/ petra!

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  JW GoneBad

  ...I remember one time hearing a C.O. talk about the problem WT had in big cities with dead-beat dads...individual JW fathers who were either behind in their child support payments or not paying at all. Add to that, the amount of single JW women raising children on their own and on low income. Me thinks WT is rolling in debt...Yay!
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  Mandatory Donations??? Is This Accurate?

  by Atlantis in

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  does the information about mandatory donations in this post sound accurate to you?.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/i1gews/new_letter_1000_donations_are_mandatory_now/ petra!

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  JW GoneBad

  Bourneldentity: $8.50 per publisher and 8.6 million publishers worldwide works out to $73 million a month they will roll in.

  The vast majority of these 8.6 JWs are from the poorest countries in the world. The U. S. claims to have 1.2 million. How many of these 1.2 million are low hour...nearly inactive & unreliable publishers. My guess is...that if WT can get 750,000 to contribute $8.50 monthly in the U.S. your talking tops $8 million. The WT leadership has often been heard to say that the JWs in the U.S. wind up covering/carrying the overhead/debt of all the poor countries...which is true.

  Bottom-line...WT is operating in the red!
  
  
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  BOE Update! (as of 2020-07-31)

  by Atlantis in

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  body of elder letters, announcements, and so forth will be next to "none" unless more elders decide to contact us and help out.. atlantis has lost three elders in the past two years.

  two elders were disfellowshipped, and one disassociated and walk away a month ago.. when this happens receiving confidential documents is severed.

  the last announcement we received was 2020-07-23. i was not about to send out a childish letter on "mold" in the kingdom halls.. there are people out there out of work and concerned about what they will eat tomorrow, and the watchtower is concerned with mold!.

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  JW GoneBad

  No worries Atlantis & Petra! Yes...it was always a bonus getting those BOE letters hot off the press...so to speak. But as we all know WT has this retarded way of always shooting itself in the foot. So we'll always have something to entertain us here...BOE letters or not. Who knows, something else even better will land in your laps soon enough.

  Thank you for all you do!
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  Using gods name

  by Gorbatchov in

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  i've never thought about it before, but isn't it some sort of blasphemy and extremism to use a god's name in the official name of your religion?.

  g..

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  JW GoneBad

  Overrated: How about the supper righteous where everytime they speak, every other word is Jehovber. If someone keeps saying my name I would think they are some sort of retard.

  Amen to what you say Overrated! Most of our servant body when opening or closing a meeting with prayer will say 'Jehovah' anywhere from 5 to up to 15 times. On average they have a need to say that name at least once in every sentence of their prayer. It almost comes across as a mantra or chant!
  
  
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  Zoom meetings, how long ?

  by Phizzy in

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  i was wondering two things, 1: how long in total are the zoom meetings, i presume the sunday one is the longest ?.

  and 2: if you use zoom for free, the session only lasts 40 minutes, so do they have an intermission so people can log back in, or are all jw's expected to pay for the "privilege" ?.

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  JW GoneBad

  Zoom meetings...how much longer can you stomach them for? :-) :-)

  This cult would be in utter chaos if it wasn't for 'Satan's' world of modern technology.
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  Where is Reinhard Lengtat?

  by jst2laws in

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  sorry for the posting error below.. my wife is reading crisis of conscience now.

  this is good news because i know i will have someone to talk to when im caught and dfd.

  but in her reading she is recognizing most of the names ( we were there at bethel during the 70s as a married couple) and asked what happened to reinhard lengtat?

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  JW GoneBad

  I have been told that Lengtat has one foot in the Watchtower and one foot out.

  Reinhard Lengtat reminds me alot of another exJW who had close ties with WT whose name recently popped up...Rolf Furuli...who refers to this cult as his 'Beloved Religion'!.
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  My letter of disassociation, what do you think?

  by James Jack in

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  dear brothers, july 27, 2020. in 1919, the president of the watchtower society made a bold prediction, “millions now living will never die”.

  that quotation was constantly repeated by the organization till the year 2000 when they realized that everyone in attendance at that assembly, who listened to j.r. rutherford repeat those words, are dead.. that teaching has guided my life.

  statements were repeatedly made at assemblies, conventions and in print that there was no career in “this system of things” so you don’t need a job with benefits or retirement, your fulltime job is to “preach the good news”!

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  JW GoneBad

  James Jack: "I'm running for public office next month. Our local newspaper printed my name as a candidate. I got multiple phone calls from other JW's wanting know what is going on in my life. Yesterday, The Elders called me to a committee meeting."

  Yep...sounds like a letter of DA would be in order. Good luck to you mate. In this instance, me thinks your DA will leave a black-eyed imprint in your local JW community...nothing wrong with that...in fact a bonus!

  BTW...your letter is indeed in good taste...I can see the elders reading it as well...a good witness to them.
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  Where Is BLONDIE?

  by minimus in

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  i might have missed this but blondie was always one of the best posters here.

  her analysis and commentary was spot on.. is everything ok with her?

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  JW GoneBad

  I often think of Blondie when visiting Las Vegas. Planet Hollywood in Vegas off of Harmon Blvd & the Vegas Strip has a ton of inside shops called 'Miracle Mile Shops'. Included in these shops are a ton of places to eat. One of the classy restaurants there is called 'Blondie's' that I frequent.

  Any way...long live 'Blondie'...and may the good Lord be good to you!
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  Honest assessment of my life

  by silent3 in

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  my old account was silent and i had to create a new account which kind of bums me, but here i am.. over the years i've really experienced some rough times emotionally and spiritually which led me down many paths.

  being angry most all of time with a few outbursts really started to make me take stock of what was wrong with me.

  further i started really going back and trying to figure out where i went wrong.. so i revisted all my previous posts on here.

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  JW GoneBad

  How much y'all want to bet that silent3 will be back on his meds again shortly after attending JW boasting meetings?:) :)
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  Phone Reverse Witnessing

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  i think this gal is incredible.

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  https://youtu.be/pbms453asdo.

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  JW GoneBad

  ...it's pitiful when grown adult ordained ministers (elders) pullout the apostate card and repeatedly refer Bridget fromaz to their web site instead of admitting when they're stumped!

  What's another way to handle a question form a caller that you (JW) can't or don't want to deal with...abruptly hangup!