No Katie. I'm gonna sell em back to JW's exclusively through my shop and website (still under construction)
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WBTS Discontinues Publishing Deluxe (Gold Leaf) NWT Bible!?!?
by AMNESIAN 19 Replies latest jw friends
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katiekitten
Cool!
I like the link about 'men for life' at the bottom of the page. Can I get a bumper sticker? Men are for life not just for Christmas! (I think thats the mistake I made last time. I just got bored with feeding him and clearing up his shit all the time).
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Ingenuous
Does anybody actually "pay" for their publications? Maybe I was just in a cheap congregation or wasn't observant enough, but I didn't see anyone putting money in the boxes after they picked up their literature.
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ezekiel3
Would some hearty and reliable soul...
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Forscher
I noticed the comment on the other thread about the binding companies dancing in the street. As an old printer, I can tell you that the burst binding they now use isn't very good for rebinding. I've seen folks ring bind those things, but that's about all you can do with it. Forscher
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blondie
I don't think the WTS is trying to make more money by having JWs "buy" more Bibles since it is on an anonymous donation basis throughout the world.
But they will save money in the production of the publications. They have already gone to paperback study books and cutting the Awake to one issue a month starting January 2006.
The question is how much more they can cut to save money to off balance the drop in donations at the KH. My hubbie says people vote their feelings with their pocketbook.
And what happens when the French government wins their tax case against the WTS and over 50 million dollars plus has to be coughed up.
Blondie
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GermanXJW
Haven't they already won?
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blondie
No, the WTS appealed it to the European Court.
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blondie
I didn't find this in the threads so I'm posting it just in case you guys didn't see this [courtesy of ...ahem...JW's United] FRANCE - Court of cassation confirms Jehovah?s Witnesses have to pay 23 million EUR taxes
The decision will be appealed before the European Court of Human Rights
HRWF (21.10.2004) ? Email: [email protected] - Website: http://www.hrwf.net - On October 5, 2004, the Court of Cassation in France confirmed the measure taken by the Internal Revenue to impose a retroactive 60% tax on offerings received by the Association of Jehovah's Witnesses during several years. The amount to be paid is 23 million EUR and some property has already been mortgaged.
At the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the OSCE in Warsaw (4-15 October 2004), a representative of the French « Association des Témoins de Jehovah » made a statement which was then circulated to the 55 official delegations and other participants. He was quoted as saying : ?No other religion in France is being taxed in the same way. The fundamental religious freedom of 250,000 who attend Jehovah?s Witnesses religious services in France has been dealt a severe blow by this court decision. Beyond the simple question of taxation, it is the practice of religion that is in question. The French authorities will say that it is a sovereign decision by the Court of Cassation, a legal decision. But I solemnly assert that it is an unjust measure that seriously flouts the high principles to which France is attached. This unparalleled tax measure has been criticized by the vast majority of specialists. More than 30 articles published in reputable legal journals have expressed the view that this tax is exorbitant and highly questionable. Jehovah?s Witnesses will appeal this discriminatory measure before the European Court of Human Rights.?
The OSCE/ ODIHR posted the text of the statement on its internal website alongside all the other statements made during the conference.
In 1996, the Parliamentary Enquiry Commission on Sects included Jehovah?s Witnesses on a list of ?dangerous sects? and made a general recommendation for tax authorities to check the accounting and financing of the so-called sects through tax audits. The tax authorities initiated an audit against the « Association des Témoins de Jehovah » (ATJ) and recognized the non-profit nature of their association but applied to them a law designed to prevent individuals from circumventing inheritance tax and which had never been used against associations. Through this procedure, the authorities applied a tax rate of 60% and claimed back taxes on individual gifts for the years 1993-1996.IP: CV0rA0YIDdrRrnZJ -
La Capra
When I was about 16 I got the deep red pig skin one. I still have it, on my bookcase (all other literature enjoyed a cathartic bonfire).
An item of note, of which this thread reminds me, is that I only put my first name in it. That says so much about how far I've come.
I guess I should take care of it now, if they can't get them anymore, eh?
Shoshana