"Brother Jodie jenelle began his bethel service in in 1990....."

nowwhat?

But what they don't say he left started and ran a real estate company and a global real estate consulting firm and apparently after making a fortune come back to bethel a few years ago. How in the hell could a non lifer now be anointed and appointed to be a GB member. Sure can't be for his spiritual qualifications!

LeeMerk

Exactly. But they need someone good with real estate investing.

LeeMerk

But you know, Jehovah provides what is needed at the time 😉

blondie

LeeMerk, good tongue-in-cheek remark about real estate investing is an important skill for a GB member. :)

OnTheWayOut

I have really been away from my day-to-day checking on JW things. But I still have a wife and mother in the cult, so I still keep occasional tabs on it. I love the way JW THOUGHTS presents his information, not so over-the-top, so it is one place I go. This video intrigued me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xza_PCyHYPk

Listen to the first 6 minutes and if it gets your attention, then listen to the rest. While I won't go as far as the presenter's conclusions, I do see that they are actually more interested in what Jodie was doing away from Bethel than they are interested in what he has done "spiritually."

blondie

Very interesting, OnTheWayOut. I have always believed that the real source of WTS money, is their property, using it as collateral for loans. (I worked in a bank for some time handling things like that). This person's layout of the plan, fits what I have known. The WTS has always been about money, not the spiritual status of its members. I am going to see if I can find the link to his other podcasts, can you pm me one?

Magnum

It is shocking to me that the religion I once loved and would have died for has become what it is now. Consider the three new Ireland business entitties with their top gun executives and the appointing of Jody Jedele to the governing body. The JW leaders and/or their advisors must realize that they've lost as a religion. It seems that they are almost blatantly turning the religion into a full-on business. In the 70's or 80's, somebody like Jody would not have even been remotely considererd as being GB material. Please watch the video below; it's only 2.5min long. It is referred to in the video OnTheWayOut posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdlcjdz2fvI

This was Jody in 2012 - just twelve years ago. Instead of his mind's being completely on the Kingdom, this is what it was on - at least somewhat. He was involved in commercial real estate. He comes across as not just one who did real estate part-time to support a full-time ministry, but who one put great effort into commercial real estate and now he's a GB member. Somebdy commented somewhere (I think on YouTube) and said something like "I can imagine a GB member approching Jody and saying "You know, if only you were partaking, you'd almost be guaranteed a spot on the GB [hint, hint; wink, wink)."" That person then indicated that he'd love to know when Jody actually started partaking.

So, that's what Jah wants on the GB now? Not longtime, highly experienced, greatly sacrificing fulltime servants, but commercial real estate dudes??? Putting Jody's appointment together with the formation of the Ireland entities and the recruting of the high level executives for them, I've come to the conclusion that the org wants to become a self-sustaining Berkshire Hathaway type entity. I believe that If it's not already there, it could reach a point at which it will have enough funds and real estate that it coud have enough invested with good enough returns that it could survive without any donations from the rank and file. I think the leaders foresee the decline and weakening as a religion, so they're going this route in order to survive.

Fairly recently, I thought the org was going to crash and burn because it is so weakening as a religion, but now I believe that if it pursues this investment route, it could continue on indefinitely and maybe even thrive as a business.

So, Sophia has to give up her ice cream money, but GB members can be involved in real estate (Jedele & Lett) and drink top shelf Scotch (you know who),

The old JWdom that had at least a semblance of sincerity, dignity, concern for theology, and concern for spiritual things is truly gone.

DisgruntledFool

According to Ancestry.com Jody has lived at Wallkill, Patterson and two separate addresses in North Carolina from 1992-2020. He was born in October 1970...that would mean that he was 4 years old when I was at Bethel. What a fucking joke and embarrassment to any Jehovah's Witness with one operating brain cell left! This religious charlatan was in diapers when Nathan Knorr was ranting and raving that "there are no new remnant!!!!!" I heard that out of Knorr's mouth on more than one occasion.

Listener

I wonder if he left Bethel due to his wife becoming pregnant? Maybe they brought up one or two kids and started his businesses during that time. Since his kids would now be young adults, it would have enabled him to return.

If he does have grown children, like Tony Morris, they could be Bethelites as well.

LongHairGal

DISGRUNTLED FOOL:

Yes, it would appear that appointing a GB member lacking the ‘spiritual’ credentials his predecessors had (and passing over more ‘spiritually’ qualified individuals) ..is yet another slap in the face to any Jehovah’s Witness ‘with one operating brain cell left’ as you said.

I get the sense that this is more upsetting to people here than last year’s change of dropping the counting of time slips. I thought that change was a slap in the face to anybody who sacrificed. I was judged over that as a low hour publisher but glad now I never listened!

Is this new change of putting a controversial individual (judging from the religion’s own past standards) in such an esteemed 🙄place as a GB a more shocking change than last year’s change(s)??

The old JW religion is gone. Hope nobody was wishing to go back there because they can only go back in their dreams!

"Brother Jodie jenelle began his bethel service in in 1990....."

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