Sept. KM: WT Sanctifies Fiscal Irresponsibility

Room 215

``Because the world scene is always changing, a family head may be inclined to spend an excessive amount of time on the job, with a view to building up his financial reserves for unforeseen crises.''
Just mind-boggling. Do they seriously endorse living from paycheck to paycheck as spiritually meritorious, a responsible mode of living for heads of families with mortgage/rent payments, child support, health insurance, car payments, utility bills, a food budget, etc. etc.?
All this after they ``stack the deck'' against self-sufficiency and independence for the average JW famnily head by discouraging university education or other forms of specialized education so vital in today's complex economy.
That's why so many, even while professing loyalty and submission to the FDS quietly come to terms on their own. No wonder why so many others, who naively and conscientiously follow this warped advice to the letter find themselves stresed out, in deep doo-doo financially and hoping against hope that an early Armageddon with rescue them from indigence.
And you still think they have your best interests at heart?

Nathan Natas

Strange as it might seems, these PARASITES need to keep their thrall in a weakened state - not quite dead, but nowhere near good health, zombified by the assurance that their deliverance is near.

Of course the idiots making up this bilge and urging everyone who follows them to behave this way are themselves taken care of in every need. They have no compunction against encouraging their elderly followers who are now living from month to month on social security payments that their willingness to give money to the WTB&TS is a measure of thier "zeal".

They should be ashamed of themselves, but they have no moral compass.

Farkel

: They should be ashamed of themselves, but they have no moral compass

Either that, or they sold it to dark forces decades ago for years of personal comfort and prestige in this very-short-life.

Either way, they've become lost by virtue of their own self-aggrandizement, lack of any humility and total contempt towards the personal and spiritual needs of individual members of their flock.

It's not a pretty position to be in when they take their last Pharisaical breath.

Farkel

"When in doubt, duck!"

jayhawk1

I have faith in the KM. After all I read that the world is ending very soon. You can find this information in the latest 1920? (pick a date) Watchtower. It told me that the new system is just around the corner! Oh, I am so happy to have the truth!

"Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford

expatbrit

From the Sept 01 KM:

Because the world scene is always changing, a family head may be inclined to spend an excessive amount of time on the job, with a view to building up his financial reserves for unforeseen crises

Heeding Jesus' counsel to 'store up treasures in heaven' and be "rich toward God" is the wise course.

A single line from the 1998 financial statments of the WTB&TS of Pennsylvania, just one of the WT corporations:

Cash and short-term investments........$296,522,535

What a disgrace.

Expatbrit

chester

Wait until you see the November 1 2001 WT.

On pages 28 and 29 they suggest ways in which some choose to give contributions to the worldwide work.

Among the ways listed are
Insurance
Bank accounts
stocks and bonds
Real Estate
Gifts Annuity
Wills and Trust

They are telling us that if we have been inclined to build up financial reserves and you die.....we want what you have left.

MacHislopp

Hello Room 215,

great topic. Great logical reasoning

based on FACTS!

I do like also Farkel point, Expatbrit reminder of
the millions owned by 1 of the WTS corp/Soc. and
excellent the foreglimpse of nov/km by Chester!

One word to summmarize it all: h y p o c r i s y!

Greetings, J.C.MacHislopp

P.S. Have you read the financial figures in the
topic "...WTS charity .."?

" One who has an accurate knowledge
of God's Word will have no problem
in refuting false religious ideas".

MacHislopp

Hello Chester,

sorry, I meant : " the November 1 2001 WT."

Greetings, J.C.MacHislopp

" One who has an accurate knowledge
of God's Word will have no problem
in refuting false religious ideas".

Teirce

Is there anywhere on the Society's own website that has any financial/earnings information, or is that all closed-door? If there was something Society-based, I'd be comfortable bothering to tell my father (elder) to look at it.. Or, is there any specific challenging questions that you can challenge a Witness to ask an overseer? Like, would it do any good to challenge a Witness/Elder to ask about Rand Corp, or to ask their CO "Who is Rand Corp and What kind of devices do thry make?" I wouldn't insult myself trying to help dad unless there was something incontrovertable using proximitous Society-sponsored data.

Room 215

Chester, MacHislopp, Farkel, Expat et al,
So of course they now, already laden wth cash, beg for resources from the very sources that got the back of their hand, i.e. the JWs who had he temerity to disdain the social pressure and went ahead with their prudent instincts, invested in the debt and equity markets, both insurance policies and opened personal reiterment accounts.
But they needn't worry too much about the state of their finances: With all the flagwaving and imminence of military action, prospects look bright for their big Rand Corp. investment.
I know for a fact they spend about $20,000 a year from a Bloomberg terminal, a state-of-the art news, financial analytics and investment monitoring tool; they didn't subscribe just to check on last night's baseball scores.

Sept. KM: WT Sanctifies Fiscal Irresponsibility

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