Posts by berrygerry

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Kushner paid over 1 billion to WTBTS SO FAR

by nonjwspouse in

in the past few years, kushner cos. and various investment partners have paid the watchtower more than $1 billion for property in brooklyn heights and dumbo.. and there's still more..... http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/5/31/first-look-kushner-cos-makeover-jehovahs-witnesses-headquarters.

yet the r&f can't seem to find the presence of logical mind to question where all that money is spent, when members are struggling financially and continuously asked for more, while being chastised for higher education and holding jobs that might interfere with pioneering.

ugh .

berrygerry

I think the GB / WTS are shrewder property investors than the Trumps / Kushners.
Maybe prices have peaked ...

Time will tell.

It is more likely that these were sales forced by monetary needs.

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Kushner paid over 1 billion to WTBTS SO FAR

by nonjwspouse in

in the past few years, kushner cos. and various investment partners have paid the watchtower more than $1 billion for property in brooklyn heights and dumbo.. and there's still more..... http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/5/31/first-look-kushner-cos-makeover-jehovahs-witnesses-headquarters.

yet the r&f can't seem to find the presence of logical mind to question where all that money is spent, when members are struggling financially and continuously asked for more, while being chastised for higher education and holding jobs that might interfere with pioneering.

ugh .

berrygerry

It was two billion a year ago.

Recently, Jared and a group of partners acquired several vast properties in Brooklyn from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, for two billion dollars; they are filling them with hip, techie tenants such as Etsy and WeWork.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play

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Russian BOE letters of instruction - meetings and $$$ matter$

by OrphanCrow in

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friends

these letters can be found in the original russian on jwforum.eu.. i will provide links but also copy and paste the english translation that was provided for each one.. this first letter was dated may 21, 2017 and concerns instructions on how to handle the donation$.

(*bolding is mine).

we should not make the same boxes for all groups.

berrygerry

Preferably choose a method of funding, which allows you to do so without presenting your passport. In the terminal, you need to select the partition recharge debit (or credit) card Tinkoff Bank, indicate credit card number (or number of the contract) and a row inserted into the bill validator bills until reaching 15,000 rubles. Take the receipt and complete the operation. To make a large sum, do 2-3 sets of 15 000 in the same or in different terminals. If you can not find in your region terminal systems listed above, you can use the other replenishment points, presenting a passport or send funds from any personal bank account, but in this case, one person should not list more than 15 000 rubles. In operations need to be cautious.

Money laundering?

No, we know nothing about money laundering.

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Do you think the general public cares about former Jehovah's witnesses?

by Christian Gutierrez in

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i was wondering if you guys think if the general public cares about our stories or if they even care what the watchtower does to people??

?.

berrygerry

Attention Mods:

Outlaw made a post without using a meme.

Isn't that a violation of forum rules?

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Just a survey

by Homer notsimpson in

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just to get others opinions and experiences.

out of everyone in the jw organization, how many do you think never get caught doing a "gross sin "?

and how many do you think actually get caught?

berrygerry

WT used to report the number of those DF'd, stating one year that it was 1 in 80 - the majority for immorality. They then stated that an even greater amount were in a JC, but not DF'd.

Based on this, and the number not "confessing," and the number when elders did not want to do the paperwork, it is then a high percentage.

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Invisible Rulership - one of the dumbest things I ever believed in

by Black Man in

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having now been out of the cult for a few years, it really shocks me about some of the nonsense i used to believe in.

like for instance, christ ruling in the midst of his enemies, but doing so invisibly.. let's let that one sink in for a minute.

you've supposedly got a king who is ruling for a kingdom, but it is an invisible rule.

berrygerry

I'm having sex with Kate Upton at the moment...invisibly.

Damn. Kate had telepathically said to me that we were exclusive.

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So how come Jehovah can do anything but he still needs angels.

by zigua in

as the title says :p.

berrygerry

It's how he set his sim game up.

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The number of translations boast

by Just stopping by in

just stopping by to share this... .

after seeing a watchtower representative paste the same thing over and over, about jw.org being available in 850 languages.... we all know how the watchtower loves to boast about the number of languages it translates into.

what are the facts?