Wow, Terry, they certainly have found their "paradise" on earth already.
WATCHTOWER's RTO (Remote translation offices) like this one are million dollar luxury locations
by Terry 20 Replies latest jw friends
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Terry
I'd really like to know if GB each has his own getaway location or if it really is just for the purpose of
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blondie
Terry, in days gone by during WW2 the WTS built a building around Lansing, NY, for the big guys and favored cohorts to retreat to away from NYC (at least that is what my jw family told me, who were adult jws during that time.. The WTS in 1943 converted it to the location of the Gilead school for missionaries. I figure the WTS moving out of NYC is another one of the "safety" issues.
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blondie
Re: why building built in Lansing, NY
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TonusOH
I wonder if any translation work every actually happened there?
They probably have a computer set up for remote access, and some poor translator connects to it from his apartment in some seedy part of town, and does the translating work all day and gets paid with the occasional pat-on-the-back.
Not that I'm cynical or anything...
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Terry
GETTING THE HELL OUT became a long-term goal, especially when NINE-ELEVEN tumbled
in their laps, not all that far from headquarters and undoubtedly scaring the bejeezbus out of them.
When all you've done for a century is predict a violent END - why wouldn't you want to be as far away from
ground zero as possible?
Let's face it - the scam of real estate turnover has always been the grub worm at the root of their tree.
The avalanche of lawsuits put a spanner in the works, however. Child molestation issues could not be kept
under wraps with the easy access to communication + leaks in the internet age.
Watchtower ran out of free lawyers on staff forcing them to hire expensive "worldly" law firms that specialize in protecting
crooked evangelists from bankruptcy.
One thing you can always count on with lawyers: they can drag it out inflating their fees!
This drain on finances has led to emergency liquidations (going out of business sales), begging witness kids for their ice cream money, and demanding commitment to tithing (disguised in weasel language).
Bottom line?
Where do cults go to die? The elephants' graveyard of a CULT COMPOUND.
Circle the wagons.
Sell off the Kingdom Halls.
Pass the kool-aid. -
ThomasMore
I'm with Road To Nowhere on this one. When they started buying these fabulous translation centers (luxury homes), my BS alarm was off the charts. They are nothing less than expensive getaway homes for the elite of the organization. I was at Bethel when translation was a sensible exercise conducted in a cubicle on a floor with no view. Real estate ventures for a non-profit must be justified so voila! Now the Org has lots of these critical translation facilities. "Jehovah filled the need for spreading the good news and it is beautiful!"
Thanks for lifting this up Terry! I had forgotten how angry it made me so I needed a reminder.
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Terry
They can run - but they can't hide.
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hoser
The little people always suffer the most. CEOs and religious fraudsters have the gift of making people feel great while they are getting screwed.
The watchtower can buy up and renovate properties for literally nothing. This is how it goes:
1. Watchtower land man finds distressed property with a great upside potential.
2. Watchtower has a governing body update about the “need” in that area where the above mentioned property is located.
3. Old ladies donate their dead husbands money to the watchtower thinking somehow it will make up for all the meetings he missed while working shift work at a factory.
4. Watchtower purchases property.
5. Watchtower puts out call for volunteer construction workers who willingly do renovations as they can get hour credits for their pioneering service. Swinging a hammer is easier than knocking on doors.
6. Watchtower has another governing body update as they need more funds
to pay out a pedophile victimfor the renovations. Mom’s donate their grocery money and kids go without ice cream.7. Luxury property is finally finished. Watchtower has a retired circuit overseer maintain the yard for potential viewings by buyers.
8. Translation office is sold as per “Jehovah’s direction” and a different language group has a “need”.
It isn’t hard to make money in the real estate business if your labour, land, real estate agent, maintenance and capital gains taxes are all free and it really makes the little people feel good about themselves to be part of something bigger.
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Vidiot
Terry - “I'd really like to know if GB each has his own getaway location...”
Well, they Org has money squirrelled away in accounts in the Caymans.
One could start looking there.