Additional BOE Letter: Please Be Advised that Further Direction Will Soon be Sent to the Bodies of Elders...

by TTATTelder 103 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Watchtower doesn't have a biblical precident for this, but I think it deserves a couple:

  • Watchtower is taking a financial census of the JW populace similar to the way that David had taken a census... resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
  • Since WT has already collected hundreds of millions of dollars from recent sales of branch properties, the GB is now surveying to see how much they will continue to rake in. With this information, they can tear down their old money storehouses and build bigger ones. But like the guy in Jesus' story, he died that very night and his money was no use to him.
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  Oubliette

  We are writing as a follow-up to the ... March 29, 2014, letter [which] provided instructions for the local needs part
  on the Service Meeting for the week of May 5, 2014.

  Please be advised that further direction will soon be sent to the bodies of elders ...

  However, the resolution to the congregation should be held in abeyance until further direction is sent to the bodies of elders.

  WTF! Is this for real?

  Translation: We wrote a letter recently telling you to do something, but now we're writing to tell you to hold on and don't do that until we send another letter telling you what to do! However, if you did what we told you to do, don't do anything else until we figure out what we really want you to do.

  Re-translation: We obviously have no idea what we're doing! So please pretend you don't notice. That would make Jehovah sad.

  Keystone Cops!
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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  @ TTaTTelder: "abeyance" ?????? Like an average window washing dub elder knows what that means."

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  All a JW will hear is "Obeyance". "Obey", of course, sounding very much like "Pay". "Listen, Pay, and be blessed".

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  @ Oubliette- even the Keystone Cops would be shaking their heads in disbelief....

  Please be advised that further direction will soon be sent to the bodies of elders ...

  "We apologize that the wheels have fallen off the celestial chariot once again. Carry on".
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  Oubliette

  ADCMS: "Listen, Pay, and be blessed".

  That's pretty effin' funny!

  I like it.
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  TTATTelder

  We obviously have no idea what we're doing! So please pretend you don't notice. That would make Jehovah sad. - Oubliette

  That's pretty effin funny too!

  -TE
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  leaving_quietly

  If a survey is needed to determine the amount that can be contributed for local congregation expenses...

  The "confidential survey" is not for every congregation, only those that do not already have a loan with the Society. If they have a loan, there's no need for a survey. Just send the loan amount (or more if the congregation so chooses.)

  Again, though, "confidential survey" does not mean "anonymous survey".

  But you, when making gifts of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
  — Matt 6:5
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  never a jw

  Very f%$#ng funny ADCS. I got the best laugh of the day.
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  DesirousOfChange

  I really feel sorry for the Elders in these 110,000+ congregations. Right about now they must feel like yoyos!

  I'm thinking about the men on the various BOEs I served with. Most are good men. But they easily fit into several catagories.

  Most were sincere but dumb, without business savvy, and thus NOT well-off financially. They will just run gung-ho with whatever the Society tells them to do. They won't have much concern about this new arrangement. Likely they donate no more than $25/mo to the Cause. They have complete confidence in the WT Scam, so they will give it full support.

  Some are not so dumb and are already seeing through the scam. But, if they are popular within the Organization and if they love the Limelight it gives them and the prestige and admiration, then they will support this as well. They likely, even if they are able, only donate if it's a publicly known situation. That is, they donate TO the CO or they donate when there is a special need discussed by the BOE and they plunk down a check for $100 or $1000 etc. They're only going to spend money on the Corporation when it benefits them and wins them points. They are just in it for the GLORY.

  Others are not so dumb and are already seeing through the scam but they are Captives -- family, friends, etc. They will sit there in SILENCE. They will be afraid of saying anything negative. Their personal response will be to simply quit giving, or at least to give less. They will still talk the talk, but they will quit supporting the WTS Monster with their pocketbook.

  The ones who will be fleeced are the older JWs who have their entire lives tied up in the Organization, esp the elderly women or the elderly couples where the man has never served and thus they have no way of learning the inside operations of it all. They genuinely will feel they are giving their "gold" to build the tabernacle for Jehovah and that there is no better use for it. They will do without things for themselves, their children, and their grand children. After all, with the end SO NEAR, they can live without those little luxuries.

  Doc
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  berrygerry

  Why not just wait till they can write the full letter? Was there a time crunch for us to stop using the KHAA box ASAP ?

  My guess is that there is a rush to exit the "mortgage lending" business - hence the rush to say your KH is paid off - those outstanding mortgages could not be readily transferred to a shell corp. to escape creditors, or if a certain jurisdiction is saying, wait a minute, you guys are running a for-profit bank.
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  Apognophos

  As I said before, this new letter is referring to the simple fact that the Society failed to provide clear instructions for the congregations about how to survey the publishers and calculate the total amount to send. Their initial letter would have been clear enough for a group of businessmen to follow, but since they've trained the elders to be sheep about as much as anyone else, the elders all went off in different directions, as shown on this forum by the different accounts of how the matter has been handled, and now the Society needs to collect the sheep in one place again and calm them down.