Don't forget also that according to the Organization book, all of those buildings and printing presses don't belong to them! They are all said to be the property of Jesus himself!
After everything I've ever read in their literature I still haven't found a more absurd teaching that they hold other than this one.
If Armageddon Is Soooooo Close, Why Does The Society Spend $$$ On Buildings
by minimus 18 Replies latest jw friends
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drew sagan
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ariana
Alot of things will happan in the last days. Most people are concern about the enviroment and the economy as they should be.The end will come on an ordinary day where we will be doing as the usaully., and it will happen suddenly, like the bible says a thief in the night comes when you least exspect, so it is vidal that we find the truth and turn to jehovah for guidance because we do not know on which day he is coming only he knows not even the angels in heaven know when he will come.We should try our upmost to be on guard and be prepared so we will not fear the end.
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jaguarbass
and Assembly Halls and expansion?? Seems like a waste to me! This is Amerika. The Tower is an american capitalistic endeavor. In capitalism you have to sell the sizzle not the steak. You have to create a need and fill it. Think of a donkey walking with a carrot out in front of him, from the old spanky and our gang tv shows. Once the donkey gets the carrot, the walkings over. The watchtower scam will be harder to run in this information age. It will have to be run on people with out computers and hook ups to the internet. It will have to be imported to third world undeveloped countries and compete with Islam and catholisism. Then in time all of the angry unintelligent peoploids may destroy the intellegentsia. Thats kind of what the communist and other totoletarian movements did in the past. Intelligence vs stupidity. It seems stupidity wins every time. Frank Zappa said science says hydrogen was the most prevelant element in the universe. He took exception and said it was stupidity. Then again when we are not out working to pay taxes and keep the lights on, we humans waste time.
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38 Years
This is exactly one of my explanations I would give the Elders when I wanted to move out of my parent's house, go to college, travel and anything else they decided to bother me about. With the time they wasted trying to figure out an answer, I had already walked away.
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gaiagirl
A JW I know has had his own janitorial business for years, cleaning offices and windows, and claiming that it pays quite well. However, about a year ago, he took a full time job with the railroad. His reason was that they "had a good medical and dental plan, and a good retirement plan". So apparantly, he expects to work long enough to retire from the railroad.
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SirNose586
I'd imagine their property empire will come to a grinding halt shortly after 2014 when a critical mass of JW's start to realise that the emperor has no clothes on.
I don't think a critical mass will leave...I do think that it will have a noticeable effect on the fence-sitters, like the generation change had on people.
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Stealth453
To hide their bomb shelters.
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eclipse
the bottom line? power, control & money.
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minimus
No JWs that I know of think 2014 is anything to think about.