Is the Watchtower Society running short of cash?

by isnrblog 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  OnTheWayOut

  On the congregation level, I agree with Blondie. A few families keep the Kingdom Hall lights on.
  Many times, the elders and pioneer families carry the load of financial responsibilities.

  At the corporate level, I do believe they have slowly had troubles since 1990, but I doubt it's as
  tight as their cutting back would indicate. I think the cutbacks are typical corporate analysis of
  the profit margin getting thinner. I still think there was profit before they cut back, but they see
  the light down the road. To increase the profit margin, they have cheapened the product. That's
  the way it's done in nearly all big corporations. Modern technology allows them to lay off their
  loyal workers before they reach the age of medical burden. That's just watching the bottom line
  before it's a big problem.
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  Outaservice

  Maybe a few have their hands in the 'til' so-to-speak, and that always causes shortages. Please try to remember, It's not about money, but rather all about lives! Or is it?

  Outaservice
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  worldtraveller

  Money.
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  steve2

  Scriptural or not, there's a lot of clever business sense in tithing the docile rank and file - a guaranteed income for the religion and it does aways with the constant in-direct hints for your money that typifies the Watchtower's predictable patter on donations.

  The few smart fundamentalist religions that milk the tithing teaching for all its worth - citing chapter and verse - may well be the envy of the Watchtower in its financially tight state.
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  Abandoned

  I think they must be. They re-use so much artwork and even the articles are just slightly re-worded older articles.
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  144001

  They may be running short of cash but they are up to their ears in bullshit!!!
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  WTWizard

  I hope they go belly up. I haven't donated a penny in more than 10 years, and was rather stingy even before that. And now I have no intention of ever giving those pedophile defending cockroaches another penny, no matter how much they need it.

  Maybe if they would have created value instead of coercing people to give them value, they wouldn't have that problem.
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  MissingLink

  I got this FW going around the JW email circuit from my father today.

  (PICTURE OF CLOCK AT TOP OF WATCHTOWER BUILING)
  Here is a story told at the annual meeting……
  You know how the society has been cutting costs, part time help, cutting back
  on cd;s selling property etc... well , you know the famous WATCHTOWER
  READ GODS WORD DAILY " sign is on one side of the place,,,, well ,,, on the
  other side is a sign but also a clock which is lit at night! Well the G.B, decided
  that it cost too much in electricity so they decided to turn it off! Now remember ,
  this has been lit since forever as far as bethel goes. Well they got inundated
  with phone calls and Emails telling them that the clock was dark and the lights
  were out, The brothers would politely answer that yes they understood but that
  they are cutting costs so decided to turn it off. WELL..... the MAYORS office
  eventually p honed and said that THEY were inundated with calls objecting to
  the clock being turned off , so when the brothers told them about the cost
  cutting the mayor said....." We will have a man come over and put a meter on
  that side and the City will pay for it!!!! .........WOW talk about a LANDMARK!!!!
  JEHOVAH is amazing and truly awe inspiring!!!

  Truly amazing! The JWs cant afford to pay to light up a clock, so the government is going to do this for them. And somehow they see this as a sign of Jehovah's support!? They can spin anything.
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  5go

  I will give a clue my circuit despite having $9000 dollars in the bank was short $14,000 in expenses. Also this was held at an assembly hall not an arena venue.
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  bluesapphire

  I hope the Society loses their asses!!!