i was totally p***d off about watchtower teaching u should keep your life simple and not investing in treasures in the earth etc while they are buying luxury apartments and forcing its residents out on the street including children.
so i got on with an email and sent it as follows.
if any from uk want to launch a complaint go to http://www.frsb.org.uk/donors/.
@leaving_q that 11.5 million was paid for the land.
Construction costs and development costs for the new international headquarters are much higher.
At this moment we are building (with free labor) a convention centre here. Costs for the project are about 19 million dollars.
And that is a very small project compared with the world heaquarters
i was totally p***d off about watchtower teaching u should keep your life simple and not investing in treasures in the earth etc while they are buying luxury apartments and forcing its residents out on the street including children.
so i got on with an email and sent it as follows.
if any from uk want to launch a complaint go to http://www.frsb.org.uk/donors/.
i looked up the estimated revenue of jw.org using http://www.siteworthtraffic.com/ and was shocked at the results.
not only are they saving money on printing psychical books/magazines, but they're also making a tidy sum romtheir "free" website created and maintained by volunteers.
i spoke with a jw recently who was very proud to tell me just how good their website was and that they provided it free of charge.
pope francis has denounced the "brutal persecution" of religious and ethnic minorities, in his traditional christmas day address.. in his second "urbi et orbi" - to the city and the world - christmas message, the pontiff highlighted the plight of victims of conflict in syria and iraq.. "too many people are being held hostage or massacred" in nigeria, he added.
pope francis also urged dialogue between israelis and palestinians and condemned taliban attacks in pakistan.. tens of thousands of people turned out on st peter's square to hear the argentine pope deliver his annual message.. he said christians in iraq and syria had endured conflict for too long, and "together with those belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, are suffering a brutal persecution".. "may christmas bring them hope, as indeed also to the many displaced persons, exiles and refugees, children, adults and elderly, from this region and from the whole world," the pope said.. .
******and, what did the governing body talk about when they addressed the world of jehovah's witnesses earlier this month?
when popes speak.... the world may listen.. but catholic believers don't. That is a fact
popes represent the catholic doctrines and teachings and the catholic believers represent people who divorce and remarry... who use anticonception,.. who live together before marriage,.. who have abortion,.. who think 'live you life as gay and stay catholic' is ok etc etc
so there you have the big difference between the popes and the governing body.
When the governing body speaks... the world won't listen but Jehovah's Witnesses do
well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.
has anyone an update on the move by finish authority to investigate wt 'committees?
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overhere in Europe we would say... it was nothing more than a storm in a glass of water.
Only a short mediahype about nothing
so, i'm visiting family this week who are all jws.
yesterday, it started with one of them talking about a co giving her some points on time keeping for service.
she is now writing a letter before she drives to service, so she can count her drive time.
@mikey the Daniel book was not on jw.org
i took a hiatus from jwn because the wall started to collapse because i lost several people ive known almost my entire life.
these were people i thought would never die, the lies told by the watchtower is unforgivable!
there was a party i attended keeping a low profile while documenting what was said.
@sanLuis 50 X 4000 = 200,000
i hear many people on this forum say that kh's don't have windows.
but i have never been to one that didn't have windows.
is this only in a certain area or something?.
the no-window story is a hoax.. i have visited Kingdom Halls in dozens of countries on 4 different continents... all had windows
ever since mitt romney turned the spotlight on the lds church a growing tsunami of disaffection has been accelerated and brought to a head.. the lds core faithful members are leaving in increasing numbers such that growth has not simply stagnated in the west but it has actively reversed.
to their credit the church is responding aggressively but not only is it too late, it is an impossible task.
you can only paint sh*t so many ways.
@sir82 no its not 100% true cause the same official letter speaks about building entirely new Kingdom Halls and refurbish a lot of them too. So what is happening is abandoning old/rented buildings and build new ones.
More and more you see that they build new Halls with more than one auditorium or make with 2 or 3 congregations use of one audiorium on different days and times. That only makes sense in areas with a good number of congregations.
It has nothing to do with decline or hollowing out, but is all about ownership, cost reduction and efficiency.
