Posts by ScenicViewer

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Forgiving Loans the Watchtower Way

by cofty in

bank - thank you for maintaining your loan repayments for the past 3 years.

to show our appreciation we are forgiving the balance of your loan.

borrower - yeah!.

ScenicViewer

Bank - No we insist on forgiving your loan. It's the least we could do. You're welcome.

Thanks Cofty, I needed a laugh like that.

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ANNOUNCEMENT CLIP ...2015 Annual meeting Sam Herd confirming what we knew a month ago about slow down and halt of worldwide construction

by Watchtower-Free in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_h68ktwpim&feature=youtu.be.

ScenicViewer

Lol. That's a nice reference about making wishes. Herd may as well have said "Good Luck to you all."

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Where has all the money gone?

by gingerbread in

jw
friends

a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.

during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.

being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!

ScenicViewer

WT is into something, just what that is at this point has us all for now, but sooner or later we will know, sooner or later.

I hope so. There seem to be more and more leaks, Bethel insiders leaking out letters, announcements, and other information. I can't wait til there is significant leak of Watchtower finances. We have never known how much money comes in to the Organization and where it comes from, or how much goes out and where it goes to.

Wouldn't it be nice to have that revealed? I hope it happens in my lifetime.

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ANNOUNCEMENT CLIP ...2015 Annual meeting Sam Herd confirming what we knew a month ago about slow down and halt of worldwide construction

by Watchtower-Free in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_h68ktwpim&feature=youtu.be.

ScenicViewer

The double talk is astounding.

Sam Herd first says....

The cutbacks, Directed by the GB, are
- Branch and Assembly Hall construction projects worldwide be delayed, reduced in scope, or in some cases cancelled.
- KHs built or renovated in proportion to whatever the brothers are able to contribute for this purpose.
- Bethel families are being reduced at all branches.
- Temporary Special Pioneers will be reduced significantly, and some reduction in Special Pioneers in affluent countries.

Then he says,

Please be assured that these adjustments are not being made because of a lack of financial support on your part.

That's probably true. So what has the Organization done with all the money that was donated, collected from Brooklyn property sales, and taken from congregation bank accounts? This amounts to a windfall of cash easily totaling more than a billion dollars, a windfall that the Organization has never had in it's history. They should have more cash than they know what to do with. He didn't address this of course. Will they ever?

He continues,

The Kingdom work is expanding at an accelerated pace, and we can only do so much with the funds at our disposal.

If the Kingdom work is accelerating, why all the cutbacks in Bethel personnel, construction work, Special Pioneers, and literature (not mentioned here, but mentioned in other announcements)? All of these things would be needed if the expansion reports are true.

Then he adds,

- We will be reducing personnel at Bethel
- Bethel family members will be caring for many of the services that were previously provided by fellow Bethelites.

Those services, which he didn't identify, would likely be what we've already heard about - laundry services, house cleaning services, and waiters in the dining room. All cut and sent home.

Again, why all the reductions just when the work is expanding?

Then he adds this loving remark,

The response of the Bethel Families to these adjustments has been heart warming. We love them for it.

Ok then. Thank you for all the straight talk.

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On Monday Portuguese TV station will go on prime time with a great article about Jehovah's Witnesses

by TJ Curioso in

on monday, at 20.30 a portuguese tv station will go on prime time a great article about jehovah's witnesses.

it will be the first time that such a big story is made in portugal, where they will be encompassed many issues related to religion: from the blood to pedophilia and its cover-up.here is a promotion.https://youtu.be/hyqyummfcxy

ScenicViewer

Great title for such a report.

"In the Shadow of Sin"

Google translated from "Na Sombra Do Pecado."

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City of Sodom discovered

by Saved_JW in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html

ScenicViewer

Seemed like I was reading the same sentences over and over.

Same here. I'm on a desktop computer, so it wasn't your portable device's fault.

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Do they notice who no longer gives donations?

by onightdivine in

because i haven't put in a single dime for over a year now in the box at the kh.

the usual custom is to put money in there right after the meetings.

but heck, i already spend so much in car fuel just to attend - i don't care really if the gb starves and dies.. oops.. anyway, do the elders take note who's donating and who's not?.

ScenicViewer

I handled accounts many years ago, and there were several who donated regularly, same amount, every month, by check. If those checks suddenly stopped it would be noticed - but only by the accounts servant, assuming he didn't inform others.

If you donate cash there is no paper trail, so not likely it would be noticed.

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Here is the funeral talk outline. VERY discraceful.

by stillstuckcruz in

this is truly terrible.

i just love the statement "instead of eulogizing the deceased, use the material in this outline to give a fine witness concerning the truth.

" in other words, utterly disregard the deceased.

ScenicViewer

DJS said,

...this self aggrandizing marketing pitch...

That was perfectly put!

It's a shame that at every event, gathering, meeting, etc, Watchtower is on the never-ending sell, and they will do it with total disregard for the sanctity of human life.

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Guardian of Doctrine Admits 'Doesn't Really Matter If Jehovah is Accurate' say it how you want...

by LostGeneration in

tough to watch this whole video, the way he talks gets pretty annoying, especially after the rc hearings:.

http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwban_201506_1_video.

go to around 8:20 where he gets into the pronunciation of jehovah.

ScenicViewer

It's puzzling that Watchtower would go with the popular pronunciation of the Divine name instead of the more correct one, but at the same time make a big deal out of something that doesn't matter at all, like whether Jesus died on a cross or stake.

Actually it's not that puzzling. Watchtower simply focuses on what they want people to think is important, but when a contradiction is pointed out on another topic they say that one doesn't matter.

It's pure manipulation of people's thinking I suppose.

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The Watchtower says: The Septuagint became God's Word

by opusdei1972 in

the last edition of the watchtower (study edition) says the following:.

alexander the great later conquered much of the ancient world, and common, or koine, greek became an international language.

so, in this verse the septuagint was not god's word according to matthew.

ScenicViewer

Thus, the work of imperfect human translators became part of the inspired Word of God...

Now that is some really twisted logic. It can't be the work of imperfect men -and- the inspired work of God at the same time.

I think Data-Dog nailed it, they need a loop-hole for something and this is the set up for it.