conoroberst
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JW Care Homes For The Elderly.
by Englishman inhttp://www.jah-jireh.org/index.html
this is a registered charity run by a fella by the name of delaney.. you can become an associate and help them to raise money.
these are the latest figures i could obtain from the uk charity commission.. they seem to be doing ok!financial year startfinancial year endgross incometotal expenditure01 jan 199731 dec 1997114001 jan 199831 dec 199840026901 jan 199931 dec 19993502,10601 jan 200031 dec 2000812,199742,19601 jan 200131 dec 20011,894,4551,703,64401 jan 200231 dec 20022,214,7671,782,906. .
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SHOW ME THE MONEY!
by conoroberst ini am an active (but leftfield) jw, who visits here periodically, one of the things that i have never understood is certain posters assertions that the wtbts is a money making scheme.. i was just wondering where these people think the money goes, has anyone here ever seen as ostentatious elder (in full time service) or gb member, or anyone who relies on the wtbts for their income with a rolex on?.
i havent, any elders or cos i have met with wealth are from their careers before going full time....all these people who quote the society's $1bn turnover seem to think some people are asking it in, if you do the math $1bn split between 6m supporters is really not much at all.... allll i would say is, show me the money :).
c.o.. uk
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So When and Why Did They Stop Feeding People At Assemblies?
by Englishman init seems nuts to me.
the feeding of umpteen thousand using voliunteers was their "in" with all the local press.
i know that cafeterias were still in use in '72 when i left.
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Elder occupations
by Iforget inmy dad is an elder.
he is one of the most level headed compassionte men you will ever meet.
even though he never received a college education he was kind and understanding.
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Veterans day is a bunch of crap!!
by LuckyLucy ini have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
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How to get personal file from WT???
by izobcenec ini would like to know, if it is possible, for someone, who leaves jw's (or is df) to get his personal file, stored in kingdom .
hall and in bethel...i mean the judical commitee hearing notes, s77 form (or a copy of it), publisher record card and all.
other documents...what kind of request must one do an to whom?
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couple of topics from a newbi
by Brummie insince i'm new here you may already know about this, i didnt have time to go through the 5 billion archived posts on this board to see if they had already been discussed.. .
1) bill bowen when he was in england related how jws would drive past his house and keep on honking their car horns (to intimidate)...so he put up a poster outside his house saying "honk for silentlambs"..hahahahahahaahahah , that was a pretty darn cool response huh.
things had never been so quiet after that!.
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Dateline/Panorama/Silent Lambs, Whats Changed?
by conoroberst inso now in the space of a few short months television programmes on national networks in the us, uk, canada and australia.
we see regular newspaper articles and radio phone ins on the subject.
but is anything changing?
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What will bite the WTB&S in the butt?
by hillbilly inin a word, lawyers, and they will be the lawyers that the wtb&s has trained to staff the worldwide legal department is in the last few years.. what happens when any other business gets cash and asset heavy?
in a nutshell, the lawyers figure out a legal way to sell the assets and line the pockets of themselves and the ceo's and other high ranking corporate officers.
the watchtower is just another corporation.. back in the 40's, hayden covington was the heroic defender of wtiness freedom in the states.
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Twister! What Would You Do?
by Swan inlast week there was an f3 tornado that occurred in the vicinity of my brother's home in bloomington, indiana.
all weekend long and for the first part of this week i have waited to see if anyone would call and let me know they are okay.
last month my 18 year old niece died in a car accident in bloomington.