stay calm peoples. im only expressing the truth and defending it.
The Gall Of WT To Give This Advice To Pioneers:
by JW GoneBad 74 Replies latest watchtower bible
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JW GoneBad
Bro Mike: 'its just a friendly reminder.'
Maybe WT needs to follow its own friendly advice. Or is it as the old expression goes...' do as we say not as we do!'
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Brother Mike
Prove to me they said that. The entire context. That's what I thought.
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nonjwspouse
Brother Mike, it is not true this literature is paid for by the pioneers who pick up the literature, and then suggest donatioons at the d2d work? When they do get those donations it goes back to the WTBTS.
The literature is produced with basically slave labor. Overhead is incredibally small.
The goal of more converts, then produces the economy of scale. More $$$ and for what? More of the same? How about the massive amount of literature that the socierty says to destroy due to inconvenient " old light"? Old light, now that is an interesting twisted word.
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Brother Mike
It's sad to see such ones in denial.
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nonjwspouse
Yes bro Mike it is sad to see you blinded by your own emotions.
Try discovering facts, logic, reality......
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Brother Mike
Oh nice come back. LOL. Anyways I'm thinking of starting a thread with a similar topic.
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rmt1
I see. Brother Mike is as impervious a tower as Jesus, who preached to the spirits in prison. Unfallible, incorruptible, wiser than the words of Jehovah that are provided at the proper time through the (current, however that is formulated, whatever) Faithful and Discreet Slave. Brother Mike is in fact more knowledgeable, more far-seeing, and wiser than, Jehovah, Himself. I wonder if it's the first time that has happened...
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Brother Mike
Rmt1 you are crossing a line with me. Please do not cross this line. And don't EVER make fun of Jehovah again and say that I am more smarter the him. That's not true obviously.
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Stand for Pure Worship
I just read the paragraph, and admittedly I haven't read the entire article. My previous trolling aside, I agree with BrotherMike to some degree. I don't think it's necessarily, hypocritical, for the GB to ok this article, or for the Writing Department to have penned it. I say that because regardless of all the creature comforts provided for Bethelites, especially those higher up in the theocratic food chain, along with taking into consideration all of the property and wealth the WT has accumulated throughout the years, even with those things in mind, I'd still take my life over theirs any day. Because for all the things those Bethelites in higher positions take for granted, including the GB, they're still not living like kings. Unless I've missed it in the past few years that I've browsed and participated on this board, I don't recall any previous Bethelites posting anything about the GB living out an MTV Cribs fantasy. Robin Leach never spent time with Theodore Jaracz for a reason, and Sam Herd has never golfed with Jack Welch. Yeah they get to travel and give talks, eat at nice restaurants in between, get supreme adoration by the average JW, maybe a green handshake or two, have their own office, their own apartment which I don't believe is exactly a penthouse suite, etc.. Regardless of all of that, they're still not living the life of luxury. Far from it considering all of the property and donations at their finger tips. Especially when comparing them to well-to-do preachers of other denominations, the GB and other WT higher ups really do make you wonder where all the money is going. Because they're sure not living like they're enjoying much of it. I get the feeling that my salary job which I work more hours than I get paid for and the vacation time I have and use occasionally is still closer to Floyd Mayweather's life than the GB will ever come close to. Same with any CO, DO, Branch heavyweight, etc..
The only beef I have with the paragraph, and again I haven't read the article in its entirety, but I've read enough of these articles as a born-in to recognize that they're all the same. My beef with this kind of material is the irresponsibility of dispensing this kind of admonition. All of the people I think of that neglected a long term relationship, or didn't plan ahead for their future financially speaking, those that were released from Bethel service after spending what should have been the more productive years of their life building some kind of a nest egg...... at the least getting a pension, 401K, etc., and the end didn't come soon enough to mitigate the avoidable nonsense they're dealing with currently, when you think about it it's depressing. In conjunction with those folks, what's currently being said in print regarding, Higher Education, and the enforcement of their policy by socially stigmatizing ones who still go to school or the removal of appointed men whose children are attending school, it’s irresponsible because the WT is not going to provide anyone going through hard times a dime. Might get some encouragement from the literature lol, but no help where it's really needed. Considering the end has been close for 100 years, the WT really doesn't have any credibility when they print this stuff. Its one thing to admonish the need to live a simple life as did Jesus. It's another thing entirely to print that counsel, all the while encouraging people to not be responsible for their own lives, and that includes looking out for where they might find themselves during their golden years. It's irresponsible.