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  How much can you buy with a dollar a week allowance?

  by John Aquila in

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  $ 1 dollar a week x 8 million jws = $ 8 million dollars a week.

  $ 8 million x 52 weeks in a year = $ 416 million dollars a year.

  and its all tax free.. you know jws donate more than $ 1 dollar a week!

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  In all my life as a JW the total I contributed over a 30 year period was less than $50.00

  Man, I wish I could say that about myself. In the congregation I attended, and I lived in a City close to the border of Mexico where education was nil and poverty is rampant, monthly contributions were between 5k to 10k monthly. We had many business owners in all sorts of trades making more than doctors.

  We will never know how much the WT actually collects since they will NEVER print financial statements. But the point is that the WT views $ 1 dollar differently than a normal average person. Just .50 cents a week from each member would pull in more than $ 200 million dollars a year TAX FREE.

  It's the advantage of the bigger you are the more advantage you have even in little things-economies of scale
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  Something tells me 1914...

  by Monsieur in

  1. watchtower
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  after todays watchtower lesson, and the lessons coming, something tells me bigger and bigger new understandings are coming.

  and that it will culminate with 1914. notice how jesus is now coming, and no longer already here.

  the current understanding is both, he is here and hes also coming.

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  History suggests they will not abandon 1914

  Business wise 1914 is the WT’s best product. It is the cash cow of the organization. It is what keeps the money rolling in. Nothing else the organization does matters. Overlapping generation, Faithful and discreet slave, types and antitypes is just new products that are being marketing to try to draw in new customers-(members-children)

  They are smart enough to know that changing 1914 drastically could have serious repercussions financially for the organization. They are knowledgeable enough to know that to get rid of 1914 is tantamount to Lambert Pharmacal Co. getting rid of Listerine mouth wash or Procter & Gamble getting rid of Ivory soap.

  You just don’t mess with your Cash Cow.

  All these changes are just market ploys to try to attract and retain future members (Children being baptized) or the unwary.

  1914 will stay until it is not being bought by anyone anymore. Then they will get rid of it.

  You don't tug on Superman's cape.

  You don't spit into the wind.

  You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger.

  And you don't mess around with 1914
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  How much can you buy with a dollar a week allowance?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  $ 1 dollar a week x 8 million jws = $ 8 million dollars a week.

  $ 8 million x 52 weeks in a year = $ 416 million dollars a year.

  and its all tax free.. you know jws donate more than $ 1 dollar a week!

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  John Aquila

  $ 1 dollar a week X 8 million JWs = $ 8 million dollars a week

  $ 8 million X 52 weeks in a year = $ 416 million dollars a year

  And it’s all TAX FREE.

  You know JWs donate more than $ 1 dollar a week!

  
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  I had sex with my wife but now he’s my brother.

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
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  golden age 1930 apr 2 p.446.

  question: will husband and wife live together after the resurrection is completed, if both are in harmony with god?.

  the most that we know is that here will be no children born during the last 100 years of the millinnium (isa.

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  These are the people that 8 million follow, obey and worship.

  What kind of people does that make Jehovah's Witnesses

  
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  Something tells me 1914...

  by Monsieur in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after todays watchtower lesson, and the lessons coming, something tells me bigger and bigger new understandings are coming.

  and that it will culminate with 1914. notice how jesus is now coming, and no longer already here.

  the current understanding is both, he is here and hes also coming.

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  They can keep the 1914 going for several more years and people will keep waiting.

  How long have people been waiting for Jesus?

  
  

  
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  G Losch: child baptised at 5, reg pioneer since!

  by fifth.column in

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  at the end of april, there was a zone visit in france, with tv broadcast in all kh.. g. losch told he received a letter from a girl, 10 years old, baptised at 5, reg pioneer since 4 years !

  what a fine example, he said....... let s imagine the faces of the parents in the kh!

  i was happy to see i was not the only one to find it crazy.. if you have a child, you know how mature he is at 5. how can a child preach 2.5hours/day after 7hours of school and homework to do??

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  5 years old baptized child qualifies to work at the Bethel factory.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhD3IEGP7tY
  
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  I had sex with my wife but now he’s my brother.

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  golden age 1930 apr 2 p.446.

  question: will husband and wife live together after the resurrection is completed, if both are in harmony with god?.

  the most that we know is that here will be no children born during the last 100 years of the millinnium (isa.

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  Golden Age 1930 Apr 2 p.446

  QUESTION: Will husband and wife live together after the resurrection is completed, if both are in harmony with God?

  The most that we know is that here will be no children born during the last 100 years of the Millinnium (Isa. 65;20), nor any born after that, because men and women do not have children after they reach the age of 100 years.

  There have been some well authenticated instances in which women have been transformed into men,

  and it is possible that this transformation may become general and we shall all be brothers together.
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  Prayers, are you worthy to do them? [5/15/90 wt]

  by sowhatnow in

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  for those who still pray, and go to the kingdom hall, when was the last article on prayer?

  whats the view now?.

  king solomon asked that jehovah hear only foreigners who prayed toward gods temple in jerusalem.

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  God, Please Watch over me today.

  
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  what reaction have you received when you said 'that .org site is nothing more than tv evangelism' to a jw ?

  by sowhatnow in

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  did they get it?

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  do they also not see that they are building 'temples'?

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  A couple of Jws told me it was different because they are the True Organization that Jesus specifically picked and the rest are part of Babylon the Great.

  
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  Question: Are single sisters allowed to be missionaries in other countries?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  as far as i remember, only married couples were allowed to be missionaries.

  my jw sister recently told me that single sisters can be missionaries, too.

  this sounds too progressive for jws, so i just want to verify it.

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  Was there something else in the organization that you could only do if you were a married couple?

  Yes, the missionary position.