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New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours

by thedepressedsoul in

publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.

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coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.

truth_b_known

Jehovah's Witnesses is a religion based on the business of selling books. That is why the term "Publisher" is used when they refer to a fellow member. Businesses collect data on sales to help make decisions. Jehovah's Witnesses literally were door-to-door salesmen for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. That was until the 1990s.

Fears over losing their religious tax exempt status in the U.S. caused the Watchtower to change its model. Instead of selling their printed products, publishers were to "place" them with interested ones and then make that person aware of the donation process supporting the "World Wide Work." This model failed as a business plan.

As a result we saw many changes come and come quickly. Hardbound books were replaced with paperbacks. Watchtower and Awake magazines were reduced in the number of issues published and the number of pages. A new digital format has been adopted requiring members to download publications on their own devices.

Why the change again? For legal reasons. I see the same being true with maintain records on members with the recent privacy laws being passed in Europe. I could see members having to log into an account and report their activities with the servers being based in Wallkill, New York.

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If you prepaid $2100.00 in taxes, Uncle Sam could refund you $9987.00

by Hecce in

there was a little bit of discussion on another thread about the results of the recent tax changes in usa.

i decided to compare whether or not the changes were favoring the lower-income class versus the middle class.

the family that i inputted into the system was a married couple with four minor dependents, their income was $44000.00 annually and they paid $2100.00 in taxes during the year.. after completing the calculations, this family is getting a refund of $9981.00; the bulk of it are earned income credit $2191.00 and additional child credit $5600.00.

truth_b_known

The perfect tax return is $0.00.

This is the same reason I know longer escrow property taxes and insurance through my mortgage company. Mortgage companies over estimate what you will be paying in property taxes. The money you pay into your escrow account goes into an interest bearing account. Come tax time, the mortgage company pays your property taxes and you end up getting a modest check for the amount you overpaid.

What about the money made in interested on your escrow account? Oh, the mortgage company keeps that. Literally, they make money off of your money.

The same is true of federal income tax. You pay in quarterly. That money goes into an interest bearing account. Come tax time you find out you over paid. You get a refund of money you could have kept and spent, but the government keeps the interest made off your over payment.

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If The Mueller Report Doesn’t Prove Trump Colluded With The Russians They Will Still Claim Trump Is Guilty!

by minimus in

jw
friends

it’s already happening.

they just can’t move on..

truth_b_known

Donald J. Trump is no angel. Trump probably has committed crimes. I just know the political elite class of Washington D.C. is throwing whatever they can against the wall to see what sticks to de-legitimize Trump's presidency. It's not just the political elite class, but it is also all their statist buddies - Hollywood, media advocates (formally known as big media news press), educrats, etc.

Donald J. Trump is a crude and arrogant man. I personally do not like him as a person. However, I will not argue with the fact that the U.S. has done better over the past two years of his term than the last eight under the last guy.

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If The Mueller Report Doesn’t Prove Trump Colluded With The Russians They Will Still Claim Trump Is Guilty!

by minimus in

jw
friends

it’s already happening.

they just can’t move on..

truth_b_known

What sealed the deal for me on this was the pointless indictments of Russian private citizens for attempting to sway the outcome of the Presidential election. The US has not extradition treaty with Russia. So DOJ knew it was all for stage theater. That was until one of the Russian troll farms retained legal counsel, showed up in court with a Defendant's Response, and demanded discovery.

The moment that happened the Defendant immediately had a right to discovery. What did DOJ turn over as discovery to the Defendant - nothing! DOJ told the court they believed they didn't have to turn over anything because the Defendant was never served a copy of the suit.

That's when I knew this whole this is as it appears - a witch hunt.

The Russians have been meddling in US elections since the end of World War II. The evidence shows that the Russians involved spread misinformation about both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The desired result was not one or the other winning the election, but rather dividing the American people. Mission accomplished.

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The Space Alien is...JESUS!

by TerryWalstrom in

silly obsessionsome groups of people in the world believe flying saucers and space aliens are secretly visiting our planet intervening in man’s affairs.

jehovah’s witnesses believe something very similar!

except, the space alien is jesus!throughout the history of christianity there has never been any confusion about what the phrase"the return of christ" actually means.

truth_b_known

Terry:

I think it would be great to have your list of 18 items taught by the Watchtower with the citation next to each item. Bullet point item 11.

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The origin of the word Lullaby

by StarTrekAngel in

reading around the subject of lillith, the alledged, rebel first wife of adam, i stumbled upon this link and many others that link the custom of singing babies to sleep as an ancient jewish superstition.. http://www.jeanniemusick.com/lilith-world/lilith-as-the-origin-of-the-lullaby/.

some of the research could probably be argued but looking at it from the wt perspective and mirroring their usual reasoning, i could imagine the following.... ... it appears that the word "lullaby" originates from the the hebrew "lilith-abi", which means "lilith be gone".

jewish mothers used to sing these songs to their babies in bed in hopes that they would be protected from this baby snatching demon called lilith.

truth_b_known

The topic of Lilith is a very interesting story.

According to Jewish legend, Lilith was the first woman created by God. This originated because of Genesis 1:27 -

"And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them." NWT

Eve doesn't show up into the picture until Genesis 2:22. To explain Genesis 1:27 "male and female he created them," indicating that God created both a man and a woman from the Earth, the Jews created Lilith - Adam's first wife.

As the story goes, the "marriage" between Adam and Lilith ended real quick over an argument of who was going to be "on top." Lilith leaves Adam and moves into a cave next to the Red Sea. She starts having children with an angel and these kiddos are demons.

Adam, being lonely, whines to God. God sends three angels to force Lilith back to Adam. These three angels threaten Lilith that if she doesn't go back to Adam they will drown 100 of her offspring everyday. Lilith responds by saying she is going to kill every male child 8 or younger and every female under 20.

Lilith and the angels make a compromise - Lilith doesn't have to go back to Adam in exchange that whenever the three angels' names are invoked by the parents of a child she will not kill that child. This in turn created the tradition of inscribing the three angels' names on amulets and hanging them over children's beds.

It is also interest to note that many renaissance artists depicted Lilith as the serpent in the Garden of Eden and that Lilith was the one who convinced Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.

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Leah Remini: Scientology and Jehovah's Witnesses: "They have the same rhetoric" Newsweek article

by TerryWalstrom in

https://www.newsweek.com/leah-remini-scientologists-jehovahs-witnesses-have-same-rhetoric-attacks-1267728?fbclid=iwar2myik_ojmxv66tzeu22ql5hnupir2ohgk9teucexkwa6ljcfzurbsih2g.

hey’re hoping that a&e will have enough pressure from disney, their parent company, [and] enough advertisers will pull out.

these are the tactics of scientology,” she added.. remini’s new season, unlike before, explored the jehovah’s witnesses in a two-hour special.

truth_b_known

"The difference between a religion and a cult is what happens to you when you try to leave."

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Removing Mr. Trump from office.....

by mikeflood in

former fbi deputy director mccabe confirms: there were discussions within the department of justice about invoking 25 th amendment to remove trump from office.... .

i mean the us democracy isn't a third world country, a least the people involved should be reprimanded, they acted like trying a coup d'etat..

truth_b_known

There is one political party in Washington, D.C. - the party of the political elite class.

Democrat and Republican congressmen alike put on a big show in front of the citizens which is published by media advocates (formally known as "journalists"). At the end of the day all the members of the House and Senate go over to the Capitol Grille at 601 Pennsylvania AVE, have drinks together, and laugh it up.

Donald Trump is an outsider. He wasn't supposed to win. He wants to do what he was elected for and that goes against the grain of the political class.

As a result of Hillary Clinton losing an election the political class banked on, the next best thing they can do is attempt to de-legitimize Trump's presidency. Enter the Mueller Investigation. Two solid years of innuendo. Now the media advocates are prepping the hopeful for utter disappointment. A two year investigation and what have we found out - nothing. In fact, Mueller may never make a report. That's ok because all that was needed was to cast doubt and suspicion on the President.

If wasting millions of dollars of your money on a witch hunt doesn't upset you, maybe the fact that the U.S. Congress hasn't passed a budget since 2006 should. What's the difference between a budget and a continuing resolution? A continuing resolution has no spending cap. That's why the U.S. owes foreign banks 22 trillion dollars. Everything else is smoke and mirrors to take your eyes off that.

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Film showing the pyramid beliefs of early JWs and the end coming in 1925

by Crazyguy2 in

https://youtu.be/s2snv8syqvu.

apparently the jws were still using russell’s pyramid measurements to push the end for 1925 too.

here is the film anyone know it they used pyramidolgy to push the other previous dates like 1918?

truth_b_known

Isn't that a true testament to the organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses. Charles Taze Russell starts the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society. Russell teaches that 1914 is a pivotal date, the date when Jesus begins his reign as king of God's kingdom.

Then a century later the corporation/religion Russell founded gets embarrassed by Russell, stabs him in the back, and says, "He was just a guy. Rutherford was the real first Faithful Slave."

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Film showing the pyramid beliefs of early JWs and the end coming in 1925

by Crazyguy2 in

https://youtu.be/s2snv8syqvu.

apparently the jws were still using russell’s pyramid measurements to push the end for 1925 too.

here is the film anyone know it they used pyramidolgy to push the other previous dates like 1918?

truth_b_known

I find it hilarious that these guys travel all the way to Egypt to "study" the great pyramid of Giza because it is supposed to be a testament to the Israelite god "Jehovah" (YHWH) and his divine plan of the ages. Meanwhile the local Egyptians guiding them have no clue what these guys are talking about because -

1) The Israelites were never slaves to Egypt.

2) The Israelites never built the pyramids.

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