by Vanderhoven7 17 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
You know.
It would be very interesting to be a fly on the wall. Whether it be in the kitchens,, dining rooms or living rooms. Of some of the homes of old school,, die hard,, hardcore JWs.
Hearing conversations of all the changes over the last dozen years or so.
No more door 2 door. Just ticking a box.
Zoom meetings.
Dramatic reduction of printed material.
JW broadcasting. All those strange dudes & those facial contortions.
I dont know,, I cant think of them all right now...
The CRA has public records of JW congregations and other entities, and having just checked the website, there are over 700 JW entities with revoked charitable status (either voluntary, failure to file, audited, annulled, or "other") out of almost 1900 listed.
22 were "failure to file" a tax return; these span decades from the 1980s until 2022.
The remainder of revocations were deemed "voluntary", spanning 1995 until September 2024. Some reasons for a voluntary revocation would include such things as amalgamation or dissolution of individual charitable entities.
If you look at individual JW "charities", you can see the "qualified donees" (recipients of donations) - the one I looked at had ONLY $426 going to Georgetown (I initially typed "Gorgetown", which seemed apt) and a second recipient (a local Congregation™) received $5321 for the fiscal year September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023.
Contrary to popular belief, religion does not necessarily get a blanket free pass to act with impunity in the developed world.
Vidiot.
At least countries like Norway,,,perhaps Denmark and others have their sites turned toward American-based high control groups.
Like Jws.
Sven here talks about some countries are actually under scrutiny and risk of losing their 'charitable" status.
It’s 21 minutes long, and I have the attention span of a puppy at the moment.
Is there a transcript or a list or something?
Vidiot, I share your attention span.
I know these vids can be long-winded.
Its a lot of speculation & opinion at this point.
Its a lot of ' could' , "perhaps" & " maybe",.
Nothing solid.
Just to spare you from watching the whole thing.
