Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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2013 DC new releases - rumors ???

by obarac in

there is rumors that in this years dc nwt will be released and also new tracts.

any other rumors about new releases?.

dropoffyourkeylee

I could see the large reference bible being made available only in electronic media. Simply because of the cost, and reasoning that they don't generally use it from the platform or in field service.

If the religion were really interested in the spiritual well being of their people (they are not and that is the problem) they do need to have a major revision of the NWT. Large parts of it, especially the OT, is worded in such an awkward manner as to be unreadable. Given that the 'translation' work was done between 1945 or so and 1961, it is remarkable that they are still using it.

I really doubt that the cash-strapped organization can pull it together to do anything other than band-aid tweaks to the NWT. Another complication is that whatever is done in English then has to be done in umpteen other languages. The cost would start to mushroom

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WT Society, Travel agency? Latest money making scheme?

by dropoffyourkeylee in

jw
friends

recently there was quite a buzz at the local hall of people applying to be a specially approved candidate to attend an international convention overseas.

one person i knew applied to go to the assembly next year in south africa.

she was elated to find she and her daughter-in-law were accepted for the south africa site.

dropoffyourkeylee

Recently there was quite a buzz at the local hall of people applying to be a specially approved candidate to attend an international convention overseas. One person I knew applied to go to the assembly next year in South Africa. She was elated to find she and her daughter-in-law were accepted for the South Africa site. Now she finds out that the WT society's arranged tour will cost $8000 per person (US). She will probably back out as it is beyond her ability to pay. The advance letter and application did not give the cost. So my question is this, does the WT society get any portion of this? Is this simply another moneymaking scheme of the Society. It really sounds fishy to me.

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Watch Tower Corporation Listed Top Forty Revenue-Generating Companies in New York City, Reporting an Annual Revenue of About 951 Million US Dollars

by frankiespeakin in

so are they a religious non profit corporation?

how is this dicotomy possible that they could generate such revenue and not make an accounting to irs?.

originally known as the peoples pulpit association, the organization was incorporated in 1909 when the society's principal offices moved to brooklyn, new york.

dropoffyourkeylee

For a 2013 comparison, I located this website:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/states/NY.html

which shows the top 50 companies in order of annual revenue in the state of New York, 42 of which are in NYC. To make this list the company needs 4.8 billion in annual revenue. Things have changed a lot in 12 years since 2001, I doubt the WT society would make any top 40 list now.

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Watch Tower Corporation Listed Top Forty Revenue-Generating Companies in New York City, Reporting an Annual Revenue of About 951 Million US Dollars

by frankiespeakin in

so are they a religious non profit corporation?

how is this dicotomy possible that they could generate such revenue and not make an accounting to irs?.

originally known as the peoples pulpit association, the organization was incorporated in 1909 when the society's principal offices moved to brooklyn, new york.

dropoffyourkeylee

Thanks gopher,

The 951M in 2001 equates to roughly 1.23 billion in today's dollars, due to inflation. I still would not have believed that would put it in the top 40 of a major financial center like New York. wow

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Watch Tower Corporation Listed Top Forty Revenue-Generating Companies in New York City, Reporting an Annual Revenue of About 951 Million US Dollars

by frankiespeakin in

so are they a religious non profit corporation?

how is this dicotomy possible that they could generate such revenue and not make an accounting to irs?.

originally known as the peoples pulpit association, the organization was incorporated in 1909 when the society's principal offices moved to brooklyn, new york.

dropoffyourkeylee

I have not read the links provided, but I find it hard to believe that 951M per year would put the WT organization in the top 40... nowhere near it

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QR codes: a way to stop APOSTATES !!!

by raymond frantz in

interesting meeting today.the do had the last talk and he mentioned a couple of things i have not heard before :.

1) the new lighter magazines are designed in a way to attract people to our website .

2)the ministry will change to incoprorate preacing in town centres and and with stands as in manhattan and certain brothers will be allocated to do this .so it is done now in a big scale ,organised.. 3)the qr codes at the back of the magazines are there for smart phone users to guide them directly to jw.org ,unlike bad old internet via laptops and pc's that you have to look for the website on google and sometimes end up in enemy websites that look like our website but are spreading lies about jw's (he said exactly that!

dropoffyourkeylee

OK, help out an old guy. What is a QR code. I'm looking at a Feb 2013 16 page Awake and I don't see anything besides the usual 'jw.org'.

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Does anyone know of I high ranking elder in the Canada region named Lorne Morton?

by Vienna Angelika in

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friends

supposedly he was one of the most well known elders living in canada in the second half of the 20th century.

he lived in winnipeg for quite a time frome what i hear.

any of you guys heard of him?.

dropoffyourkeylee

No one has asked the obvious question, Why are you asking if anyone has heard of Lorne Morton? Is there an issue?

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What shape is the WTBTS in????

by lonestar63 in

jw
friends

been many years since i've been inside a hideous kh.

i posted my story on here a few years ago, and thought i would drop back in and say hi.

i'm just curious, are people leaving in droves???

dropoffyourkeylee

Concerning the Sagan quote, (thanks clarity) I find it curious that Sagan even would know enough about the witnesses to make such a precise and accurate comment. He hit the nail on the head. Did he ever have a connection to the witnesses? family members or something?

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This is the man who made it all happen!

by Terry in

william miller.. do you know how important this man has been to your life?

do you know your life would have been entirely different (without a doubt) had he not lived?.

read on!.

dropoffyourkeylee

Interesting post!

I think it fair to say that Miller, despite what some of his biographers wrote, did not come up with his time prophecies entirely through his own study of the Bible using only the Concordance. Of course the basic ideas, day-for-a-year, etc had been appearing for centuries. I really would be interested in knowing exactly what books Miller would have had access to, or indeed what books were commonly found in NE America at that time.

On another note, a previous post mentioned the SDA books 'The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers'. I have looked at only one of these (there are 4 volumes in the series) and was really impressed with the detail and candid way the history of the beliefs was presented. I think they were written in the 40's or 50's?? and the author/editor's name was Froome or something like that.

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An interesting YouTube experiment, JWs straying onto an "apostate" channel

by cedars in

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friends

some time ago i uploaded a video to youtube that was a medley of different young ones singing "listen obey and be blessed.

" as you can imagine, it's rather creepy.. here it is.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou802omcnvq.

my intention in making the video was twofold.

dropoffyourkeylee

'Enter into his rest' is JW speak for entering the new order. I think it comes from the scripture of Jesus being the lord of the sabbath, kind of a throwback to the Russellite Millenial beliefs