http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/15/audit_of_charities_encounters_resistance.html.
interesting canadian information on popular charities.
regarding the "cushion" factor that mentions how many years these charities could continue to function without a single donation remember that the wt brranches download all proceeds directly to new york.. classic cult conduct in handling donated fundswith minimal transparency.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/15/audit_of_charities_encounters_resistance.html
Interesting Canadian information on popular charities.
Regarding the "cushion" factor that mentions how many years these charities could continue to function without a single donation remember that the WT Brranches download all proceeds directly to New York.
Classic cult conduct in handling donated fundswith minimal transparency
one of the elders schools i attended, we dealt with a person who touched a girls breast and covered it up and kept it secret until it was revealed through a source.
the instructor first laid the ground work for a guilt trip.
he read this scripture;.
Stillin -
Yeah, that happened a lot in my life, and it wasn't unclean it was GREAT. Lovely ladies, soft kisses and
they shared their beautiful breasts with a very appreciative guy - only these perverts could twist such joy and
generosity into something filthy...weirdos.
wtb&ts has invested $40,000,000 in november 2007 in a hedge fund located in the cayman islands, a tax haven.
the document is from the official website : securities and exchange commission:.
http://www.sec.gov/archives/edgar/vprr/07/9999999997-07-048801 .
Tax Free havens specialize in Captive Insurance Companies- Watchtower is certain to be doing this scam.
They have millions of dollars so they self-insure with a company that they themselves own .
They tell the poor slobs at the kingdumb hall that they need to pay for insurance every year, so tens of thousands of congregations pay millions of dollars year after year and the Watchtower gives the impression they are forwarding the premiums to an insurance company nobody has ever heard of.
In fact the yearly millions go straight into one of their own bank accounts which appears to be an insurance company with only one "customer" - themselves.
The advantage of off-shore is secrecy. Give some of your cult friends a credit card based on the off-shore account and no-one in another country will ever know as the paper work all goes back to the off-shore phony bank.
i've been lurking on the board for almost a year now and i think i'm ready to come out of hiding (although, i'm so nervous as i type this).
i'm not ready to share everything about my story, but the basics are that i'm a born-in, elder's kid, baptized as a teenager because i was tired of hearing people ask me "all your friends are baptized, when are you going to get baptized?
", married an unbeliever (was df, but came back shortly after) and we have two kids.
Welcome Welcome young lady -
How wonderful to see another bright young mind freed and casting itself on the wondrous, expanding waters of modern knowledge.
You go girl!
i've finally got round to joining the site (after over 2 years lurking!
i was born into jws, pioneered for 10 years (met my husband at pioneer school).
had health issues that saw me catapulted away from 'the centre of the cong' and wow what a different place that was!
Hello Peony -
and welcome to you both!
Just put your feet up and relax - you're about to make some fine new friends while you sip your tea!
for me, there have always been special movies or scenes in movies that trigger my old jw experience (fiddler on the roof and little mermaid touched me deeply when i watched them as a young jw).
later as a survivor, it was more donnie darko, thx 1138 themes that struck me in particular.. anyway, looking for suggestions on great movies, books (art of any kind, really) that especially speak to or move you as a jw survivor?
there are reasons beyond purely entertainment that i ask..
The Giver
Yes, it realistically portrayed the way elders steer others through the cognitive dissonance left from their youthful idealism to acomodate the dire realizations that a cult is a manipulating, dishonest, dangerous trap.
i flew over this crate yesterday on my return home from las vegas.. .
they say this crater was created by an asteroid about 50,000 years ago.
then about 6000 years ago, presumably, god wiped out all life on earth with a global flood.. how much sediment would have been moved around during that flood.
i made a thread on reddit regarding questions jw's can't answer.
was wondering what you guys can add to it..
2000 years ago there was a mountain so high that all the kingdoms of the earth could be seen from it. Jesus and an old buddy went up there to have a looky-see .
Question - where is that mountain and what is its' name? - I'd like to see it too.
the science is in: god is the answer.
research shows kids raised with spirituality are happier and healthier in the vulnerable teen years.
why arent we all signing up?.
Age of Religious Consent - I like it.
How about 30 years old - theres a really good precedent!
perhaps the recent lunar eclipse was heaven's way of demonstrating approval of the tremendous changes in china.. here's some images from the china daily:.
the total lunar eclipse as observed in shenzhen, south china's guangdong province, april 4, 2015. the moon slipped fully into earths shadow saturday, starting a total lunar eclipse for nearly 12 minutes what guangdong astronomical science association says it was the shortest such eclipse of the century.
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FTS-
Thanks for the excellent pictures. I witnesses the same type eclipse a few years back. To see it in person the moon becomes totally 3 dimensional and the visible half-shere protrudes right out of the sky beautifully lit by indirect anbient light instead of the glareing disc it usually appears. Every detail of its rough relief visible as if lit by a museum display.
The sight was truly awesome - one of highlight of my life.
