Any news? It should be pretty soon...
Annual meeting 2023....
by mikeflood 15 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Beth Sarim
Normally the 1st Saturday in October.
Pretty ''soon"" I guess.
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road to nowhere
The indifference shows. No announcement about it, no wonderment among the webelows. It will be th e same clowns plus the new additions
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Beth Sarim
Another "nothing burger".
We know when the "end" is coming.
""It will be right on time".
Beyond infuriating.
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Big Dog
The annual meeting is actually a legal requirement for both for profit and not for profit corporations. Under Section 519 of the New York not for profit code:
According to Section 519 of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, not-for-profit corporations in New York are required to present an annual report of directors at the annual meeting of members1. This report should be verified by the president and treasurer or a majority of the directors, or certified by an independent public or certified public accountant or a firm of such accountants selected by the board1. The report should include details such as the assets and liabilities of the corporation, revenue or receipts, expenses or disbursements, and the number of members1. The annual report of directors should be filed with the records of the corporation and entered in the minutes of the proceedings of the annual meeting1.
It's interesting how they always turned this into a "religious" event. Making announcements about how the borg had grown, new book releases or doctrine changes etc when at its root it's a house keeping meeting where the tax returns and financial statements from the previous fiscal year are reviewed and ratified.
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no-zombie
Big Dog is right but since the GB split the legal entities from the religious organization (done in the 90s I think), being a share holder means very little today. Its now become a kind of royal Gala event, for the connected to feel important. I'd rather just go out and get some pizza.
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Ron.W.
..the GB split the legal entities from the religious organization.
What does this mean in a nutshell, I've always wondered how I could explain it to someone else as simply as possible?
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hoser
They are masters at begging for money.
By turning a legal, fiscal requirement into a religious event they can guilt the attendees into $$$$
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Beth Sarim
Manipulative and brainwashing
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FFGhost
Expect breathless, hyper-spastic spittle-flying announcements about their new “Make Disciples” brochure, the ones that have been sitting in those “top secret” unmarked boxes accumulating mold and bugs in Kingdom Halls over the past several months.
They’ll be falling all over themselves about how wonderful this “new tool” will be, and how millions more people will be thronging to join the ranks of JWs.
Because, of course, the plummeting yearly baptism figures have nothing to do with a tired 140 year old message of “the end of the world very soon now” and CSA scandals and human rights concerns over DFing and lack of enthusiasm from their adherents.
Nope, JWs rapid and precipitous drop in recruitment is entirely due to the lack of the 20th or 30th set of instructions on “how to make disciples”.
”Yeah, sure, our ministry hasn’t been effective for over half a century, but these 32 pages will make ALL the difference!”
And the mouth-breathing window washers and janitorial engineers who watch the program will leap with joy over this latest evidence that we are in the “last seconds of the last minutes of the last hours of the last days”.
My eyes already hurt from the extreme rolling they will have to do.