I'm looking for scans, links or original publications or even CD-ROM quotes from the articles telling people how they can donate land, wills, property etc to the WTS
Was there even an entire specialised publication just on this topic?
Giving Arrangements Promoted by the WTS
by besty 9 Replies latest watchtower bible
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sir82
Every November there is an article on this. If you have the WT-CD just look up any November Watchtower from the past 15 or 20 years.
There is a publication, available by special request only, that goes into more detail on how to donate money and/or property to the WTS. They also have a whole Bethel department devoted to it, if I recall - the "Charitable Giving" department or something like that.
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besty
thanks Sir82 and SO
any more info on this Bethel Dept or special publication?
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AllTimeJeff
There is a special brochure, and I could have sworn I saw it downloadable as a pdf of somekind somewhere.... I will look for it. Be prepared to be disappointed, it comes across like an annuity instruction manual.
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bohm
think they missed where you can mail in your firstborn...
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so
"Charitable Planning to Benefit Kingdom Service Worldwide"
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MissingLink
November 1996 KM equated giving them your money with love, and suggested up to $100 might be an appropriate donation for the watchtower CDs (which cost them under $1 to make)
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WTWizard
A deluxe Bible can cost more than $20 (and up), but is more likely to be of much higher quality than the Not Well Translated version. Many come with full color maps and plates--the Not Well Translated does not.
A reference book can cost $40 and up. However, most reference books in that price range are well worth it. I have a world atlas that I got for $30, and it has details about places that is quite fascinating. One can actually use those atlases in geography class, or to study different regions of the world. I have a chemistry reference book that lists for at least $100, but it contains just about everything I would ever need about chemistry, including formulas for most common molecules. To a professional or semi-professional chemist, it would be worth its price. The same cannot be said about the Washtowel reference materials--all it references to is the rubbish the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger puts out, and goes out of date in a few years.
A CD-ROM can cost $100. True, encyclopedias are very expensive (a physical encyclopedia can sell for more than $1,000). Again, these things are very useful for a wide variety of research projects, and are generally accurate (save for typos and transcription errors that get through the proofreaders). They might go out of date in a few areas (such as older encyclopedias still mentioning 9 planets, while the newer ones list only 8 plus the "dwarf planets"). They are useful for researching term papers as well as personal information. Again, that is more than can be said for the Washtowel CD-ROMs, which are pure rubbish.
A music CD costs $20. Videos cost around $30. However, this is not always the case--I have seen many CDs for $9.98 and videos for $14.98. These are new release materials--I only paid something like $14 for 50 Cent's CD The Massacre. You can download a CD for $9.98 or $11.98 on iTunes or Rhapsody. Besides, you get music--which is more than can be said about the Kingdumb Maladies.
Failure to contribute sufficient funds may restrict the amount of this rubbish they can distribute, or restrict the number of pedophiles they can protect and victims they can silence. Generally, failure to create sufficient value in a product to be worth sufficient money to pay for the material is what leads businesses to go belly up. If they cannot create music with $20 worth of value, they have no business charging $20 for the product. If their CD-ROMs fail to produce $100 worth of value, it is stupid to pay $100 for them. If they want $20 for a music CD, I suggest that they start making music that is worth $20 a CD.
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donuthole
I remember that KM article. Even as a JW I saw the flaw in their "suggested" donation. The costs associated with those materials go to pay profit to the writer/artist, printer, distributer, and seller. As a non-profit organization that self performs all these activities the cost should be lower.
Speaking of 50 Cent, Of course this is the same organization that charged .50 for can of generic lemon-lime soda I could buy at the supermarket for .20