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The old JW model is history
I wonder how the old school, long timer JWs who have sacrificed several decades into this Borg feel about these developments over the last few years??
I dont think " confused " would be an appropriate term. I cant think of the right words.
Im surprised WT didnt sanitise his online presence a bit better. It only took the ex-jw community a few minutes to dig up the real estate video of him. Its a bad look for him and the org.
According to the website, he has only sold 4 homes. Is there anything to suggest he has become 'rich', or was it just a modest family business?
It's a classic case of being careful what you wish for.
For decades, lot of ex-JW's ridiculed the WT as to how all the GB members are all 75+ year-old men without any real-world corporate experience. You got one now.
Also, looking at all the information out there, Jody Jedele doesn't seem to be the worldy big-shot corporate guy that people are assuming he his.
Regarding working in the US Bethel, he has more experience in US Bethel than other 5 GB members - Jeffrey Winder, Gage Fleegle, Mark Sanderson, Geoffrey Jackson and Anthony Morris. While Jody joined US Bethel in 1990, Jackson and Morris joined in 2002 and were appointed to the GB in 2005, Sanderson joined in 2000, others joined after that.
By my association with the LDC and some projects, he has been one of the big brains behind a lot of property decisions in the past decade. So in no way he is a new guy that suddenly came into the picture now.
Magnum: So, that's what Jah wants on the GB now? Not longtime, highly experienced, greatly sacrificing fulltime servants, but commercial real estate dudes???
That would be an interesting shift. Maybe they are coming to the conclusion that it is no longer feasible to have a group of old men who are convinced that the end is near, and that they need people who can build the organization up and keep it afloat for the long term?
Drearyweather - By my association with the LDC and some projects, he has been one of the big brains behind a lot of property decisions in the past decade.
Wow, Drearyweather, I had no idea that you were so important in the JW World to be privileged with secretive information.
Could you advise what property decisions and personal involvement he had in them? Also, who are the other big brains behind those same properties?
Was he one of the brains that sold a Brooklyn property to Taurus, an investment vehicle of a JW, that sold it some time later with a profit of 10 milion dollar?
I know for sure that some JW made a huge personal profit of the Brooklyn property sales.
Were is Integrity if you need it.
Gorby
DREARYWEATHER:
Umm, that’s not entirely accurate and not telling the whole story…..
Yes that’s true that many ex-JWs criticized the GB for being out of touch with Real world experience:
BUT, that was because they were presuming to tell the rank & file Witnesses how to live. Telling people not to get higher education and what job or career they (shouldn’t have) and not plan for their Retirement. In other words, they should starve to death.. A GB who knew what life was like outside might have empathy and not say such stupid things.
The situation you have here now is different. They appointed someone with ‘real life experience’ in an area the RELIGION is interested in. Not to benefit anybody else!
Here is another problem I have with the 'fractional god' Jody Jedele: As a Bethelite and especially as a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses he has signed a vow of poverty to the Special Full Time Order of Jehovah's Witnesses (Or whatever they call it now). He is not allowed ANY income outside of his Bethel stipend and therefore does not pay federal income tax or pay in to the social security system. He sold 2 of his houses for a total of $375,000.00 in 2019 and retains ownership in HIS NAME of another house in North Carolina worth $304,300.00. Double standard, anyone? Some of you ex-Bethelites here from the old days can remember certain old timers left over from Rutherford's day that were bitter and penniless but stayed because they had no where else to go. If Jody has all his assets in a blind trust and makes a relative the beneficiary, who is to say that that relative does not draw off some of the money and then give it to Jody in cash...no need to let the government know since Jody does not file income tax because of his vow of poverty. Or perhaps he didn't sign the vow of poverty and pays income tax. Either way, something is 'rotten in Denmark'.
""Something is rotten in Denmark"".
ROFL
Love it.🤣
Da da da ta da "" I'm loving it". (McDonalds)
I've been thinking about this appointment.
The GB today is not what it was as is this corporation is not what it was. It is a multi billion dollar international real estate corporation. The GB was looked to for "spiritual guidance and prophecy" BARF, I know, but it was.
The faithful don't really need that anymore I think. People are leaving for all sorts of reasons. The faithful just do their thing, grateful for beards and pantsuits.
I watched a few minutes of either Sanderson or Jackson...I get those two mixed up, but whomever was doing this introduction. He looked like a bloated, contented j-a$$, who could not be more pleased with himself landing in such a comfy for-life job. They/he doesn't have to come up with any life shattering new light...they just need to keep people tuning in and sending in the donations. I have felt for years the GB are the figureheads and much much smarter business men are driving the van. So bring on the music videos and dramas/movie productions! Anything to keep people donating and engaged.
So Jedele sounds like a good candidate with the new direction of the corporation.
