The Quick-Build Deception.

by Englishman 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  Englishman

  I was driving past a disused Kingdom Hall last week, here in WSM. It looked very out of place with its Watchtower crennelations, like a mediaevel sort of castle, with a huge sign announcing that this was now the home of the British Red Cross.

  However, we are now blessed with a new, QUICK-BUILD Kingdom Hall on the outskirts of town.

  But this is not the true story, this QUICK-BUILD Kingdom Hall took 3 months to erect, unlike the publicity blurb handed out to our local newspaper which claimed that the work was done in 3 days.

  Being involved in the building trade, I knew that the local equipment hire company had been supplying the dubs with concrete mixers, diggers, back hoes and JCB's for fully 3 months before the build officially started.

  All the ground work was done weeks beforehand, all the services laid on, the roof trusses were ready and waiting as was the curtain walling and window shutters. All that was need was to raise the walls into position, screw the corners together, a quick skin of fancy brickwork that didn't actually support anything, crane in the roof rafters, tile over, and bingo, aren't JW's wonderfully well blessed! It must be the truth!

  Come the big day, when the press was invited, what took place was more like the raising of an Amish barn than an actual day of construction!

  To my mind, this is blatent dishonesty and publicity seeking to an incredible degree. The hall took just as long to build as any other, what took place during the quick build period was just the final icing on the cake, a cunning bit of fakery to inflate the JW ideology of working in harmony.

  And these people call me an apostate?

  Englishman.
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  TR

  AHHHH! The TRUTH comes out. And not an additional KH, but just a replacement.

  TR

  "cults suck"
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  Duncan

  Englishman

  What you so clearly fail to take account of here is the spiritual, antitypical fulfilment of the biblical rule-of-thumb:

  "A year for a day"

  So, in fact, that 3 month (to us) elapsed build time, was, of course, to those who had the requisite "eyes of faith" a period of only a quarter of a day, or...er...I mean ...was it? 90 years - or something like that(?)

  Darn! Since turning apostate I seem to have lost all my spiritual insight (let the reader use discernment)

  Duncan (enjoying a Quick Brew)
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  Englishman

  Duncan,

  You can always tell 3 months in advance when a QUICK-BUILD is about to happen!

  Englishman.
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  JAVA

  Good points, Englishman--I fully agree.

  The so-called quick-build KHs take months to get ready for the Tower's photo op in the local paper. The Tower works a great scam with these buildings. The local JWs borrow money with interest from the Tower (who gets the money without interest) to pay for the land and building. In 20 or 30 years the loan is repayed, but it's time to remodel or move, and the process starts over again.

  Like a magician who wants to fool the audience, the Tower wants to fool the public into thinking they're special. The audience doesn't see the slight-of-hand months of preparation when the local paper takes the picture. The Watchtower has never gotten a prediction right, but they know how to work the audience. Thank god for the Internet!

  --JAVA

  ...counting time at the Coffee Shop
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  philo

  Englishman

  Joke:

  PO to MS bless this brick, <passes brick to MS>
  MS to Pioneer: bless this brick, <passes brick to pioneer>
  Pioneer to sister: bless this brick, <passes brick to sister >
  Sister to PO: bless this brick, <passes brick to PO >

  philo
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  slipnslidemaster

  very out of place with its Watchtower crennelations, like a mediaevel sort of castle, with a huge sign announcing that this was now the home of the British Red Cross

  Sold to the British Red Cross???!?!? Don't miss the irony here!

  . o O (slipnslidemaster)
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  Englishman

  Slip'n slide master,

  Don't know how I never made the connection! Many thanks indeed. Now take a peek at this. Seems that not only do JW's lie about how long it takes to build a KH, they now sell the old one's to organisations who utilise blood transfusions!

  This is a segment of the British Red Cross website, the org that the WSM JW's sold their KH to:

  "In 1921 the British Red Cross established the first blood transfusion service in the UK. Medical advances meant blood transfusions were increasingly successful but facilities to store blood were unavailable at this time. Percy Lane Oliver, a member of London Branch of the British Red Cross, initiated a panel of donors prepared to give blood, day or night. The British Red Cross continued to provide help with the Blood Transfusion Service in an ancillary specialist role until 1987."

  Englishman.
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  willy_think

  i wonder, if someone took a photo a day, and sent them to the local news paper, for the months befor construction "began". would the headline read "not exactly the truth"?

  the ideas and opinions expressed in this post do not necessiarly represent those of the WTB&TS inc. or any of it's subsidiary corporations.
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  slipnslidemaster

  I was referring to the blood issue, but the nice big red stake, I mean cross, makes me laugh too!

  . o O (slipnslidemaster)