Damn Straight

by D8TA 14 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  ve9gra

  I said "a time" but yes it changed afterwards. Just wanted to clarify that a while back things were different (just like about everything else).

  Zev: YGM
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  abbagail

  That's a Nifty Sign for sure! Black and Red says it all -- Really gives it that Satanic effect.

  True about pricing. The literature definitely used to have a PRICE LIST. I had them in my own hands. It changed when they switched to the contribution system back in the late 80's, I think it was.

  But, like GA says (I'm in FL, so yes to the southern hospitality, I guess) -- It didn't matter to ME whether John Q Public was supposed to pay or contribute... Either way I 99% avoided asking for or suggesting donations/contributions. I just bought the literature myself, and if someone was really interested, I gave it to them. I hated asking (or suggesting) for MONEY, period. I mean, big deal, a quarter or fifty cents? It wasn't worth the humiliation of asking/suggesting the householder for moola.

  Just my Two Cents. ;)

  GRITS
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  searcher

  The policy of charging for books etc was changed when the Supreme Court stated that the selling of books by Jimmy Swaggert Ministries was retail and as such was not exempt from tax, like religious contributions are.

  The borg changed to donations two weeks after the desision.

  Ihave the dates somewhere, I can look it up if you want.

  GREAT poster D8TA!

  searcher

  ps

  Just my Two Cents. ;)

  GRITS

  Just your 50 cents Grits!!!

  Edited by - searcher on 24 July 2002 17:49:2

  Edited by - searcher on 24 July 2002 17:53:1
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  abbagail

  Just your 50 cents Grits!!!

  Ahhhh, how right you are, searcher!

  And I remember when a year's sub for the mags was like one or two bucks!

  In the late '70s if you wrote the WTS about literature, they would send you a list of what they had with prices. Even in the backs of the older books, on the last page where it would show other titles of books, they always had a price next to those, too.

  And now that you mention it, I do remember in the late '80s the big mess with another religious group being before the courts about having to pay taxes on their literature, and I remember the "buzz" around the KHalls was that the society was being pro-active by changing to the contribution-mode in order to keep the 'wild beast' from attacking the society for charging for literature. I had forgotten WHICH religious group, so it was Swaggert, eh?

  Almost every change they make is prompted by outside events.

  But what about food at the conventions? What brought about them stopping food service? And what year did that happen? (I've been out since '90).

  Grits
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  searcher

  Grits

  Almost every change they make is prompted by outside events.

  Almost every THEORY they have is prompted by outside sources (Miller, Vine etc.).

  Try and get hold of a book called EXTRACTS from THE FLYING ROLL written by James J. Jezreel in 1879. Almost all of the WT theories are in there.

  The WT does not 'recieve word from God' they take the word from other people.

  But what about food at the conventions? What brought about them stopping food service? And what year did that happen? (I've been out since '90).

  I woulnt know I was never a JW.

  searcher.