The 'Hand Over Your Kids And Money' Watchtower

by metatron 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  Once again, it's November in the US. The leaves are changing, there's morning frost - and , of course, it's that time again

  to remind publishers to hand over their money to the Watchtower, Inc. , especially before they die ( in this system of things,

  having been deceived into thinking that The End was "Soon" - Nov 1, 2006 WT.) You need to open your wallet so that the old men

  who run the Society won't get depressed by cuts in printed literature, cuts in Awake printing, selling off real estate assets and dropping

  subscriptions. Why if no one gives them any money, they might think that they've wasted their lives supporting a corporation that

  claims to have Divine backing! How sad!

  And while you're at it, would you mind terribly if you just hand over your kids to the Watchtower, too? If you have any doubt about their

  goals, just note the lofty hope that your offspring could be "full time evangelizers" - unpaid distributors of Watchtower, Inc. products! (pg 7)

  Wouldn't that be wonderful? Do you think that the Society publishes articles like this ( "Reliable Advice for Raising Children")

  because, in actual fact, most Witness kids are dropping out of the "truth" and Witness families are commonly falling

  apart? Do you think putting the word "Reliable" on the cover is a blatant lie, given the mass exodus of youth out of local

  congregations?

  And let's take a final look at the word that the Watchtower thinks is an awful, dirty word, to be shunned and avoided!

  The word is....... ( drum roll, please) "Social"

  "We want our meetings at the Kingdom Hall to be warm and inviting but not to the point of resembling a neighborhood social club"

  ( pg 30) My God, perish the thought! Imagine that some want meetings to be social!

  If any of you Bethel monitoring bozos are reading this, you might wonder if the lack of social contact among Witnesses, might

  be one reason why these unenlightened "Theocrats" have to keep nagging their tired flock about MONEY, their

  kids AND slipping meeting attendance ( as in this Nov 1 magazine).

  Will they ever wake up?

  metatron
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  rolling rock

  Nice post...
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  TheKings

  !!!

  i remember when they started to encourage people to ask for donations at the door after introducing the watchtower and awake magazines in the KM's (kingdom miseries).

  i thought it was so wrong. :p

  and now full page articles devoted to making you want to give up your life's possesions to them.

  yucky.
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  Virgochik

  Yep, God forbid the Kinkdumb Hell should resemble a social club....it'd be the only social club those poor people get, and now they're taking that away too! This reminds me of an earlier thread about how some fun was permitted in the 70's and 80's, and how it's all been squashed.

  Again, I ask, how do they keep anybody???
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  blondie

  Once again the WTS cover all the angles.

  ***

  g012/22pp.6-7DoYouNeedInsurance?***

  Does a Christian who trusts in God’s help and anticipates the end of the system of things need insurance? Back in the year 1910, some posed this question to Charles Taze Russell, editor of the magazine now known as TheWatchtower, companion magazine to Awake! Russell acknowledged that the Bible foretells the end of the present economic system, adding that personally he carried no life insurance.

  "Nevertheless all are not situated alike," Russell observed. "A father having dependent wife and children—if the latter be of tender years and unable to make their own living—has some responsibility for them." (1 Timothy 5:8) A man might set aside funds to provide for his family, Russell noted. "But in case he could not do this, he might be able to discharge his duty toward them through the medium of life insurance."
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  truthsetsonefree

  I recently found a booklet, yes an entire booklet, printed by WT on Charitable giving. Its complete with color illustrations too. Yet dubs aren't supposed to be making money. It makes me wonder if a lot of their money comes via the way a Bethelite in the Treasurer's office told me. One sister showed up with 10G in cash ($100 bills), said she was making a donation. She had gotten the money from one of her husband's accounts without his knowledge. He would never notice it she said. Of course the amount of 10G forces WT to report to the IRS, creating a paper trial. What to do? Well she was told to donate S9,900 and on the way out of the building drop the last hundred in the contribution box. Those terrible unbeliving mates....
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  mama1119

  Good post!

  I think the WTBTS shys away from anything that may be percieved as joy or fun, because it is easier to control miserable, dis-content people than it is happy ones.
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  misspeaches

  I recently found a booklet, yes an entire booklet, printed by WT on Charitable giving. Its complete with color illustrations too.

  I bet the printing quality of the booklet is better than your standard Watchtower! Put money into the publications that is going to make you some money....
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  vomit

  Well they must be spending it on all the new videos they have up on www.watchtower.org
  go and have a look there are 3 or 4 videos being linked from the home page.