ruby: I mean isn't everyone here taking advantage of ambiguity?
No.
In fact, quite the opposite.
*you are a different breed, aren't you?
so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.
when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?
' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.
ruby: I mean isn't everyone here taking advantage of ambiguity?
No.
In fact, quite the opposite.
*you are a different breed, aren't you?
http://reiblingfoundation.org/press/.
reilings's foundation active in supporting certain project .
- holocaust education, boston university, film festivial about concentration camps and persecution of jw in wwii,.
In 2005/6 (2007 return), the Reiblings gave $26,000 to the Blood Conversation Support Foundation and then again, the following year, they gave the same foundation $148,000 for a total of $174,000.
What/who is The Blood Conservation Support Foundation?
https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-8429198
2007
MISSION STATEMENT
To educate medical professionals, medical Institutions, medical service payers, and the general public, Including those in developing countries, with conservation and avoidance techniques for the use of blood in medicine.
PRINCIPAL OFFICER
Barak K. Baker, President
And...who is Barak. K. Baker? The president of this blood conservation foundation?
http://jwemployees.bravehost.com/NewsReports/2062.html
Leroy Dale Baker was the founding incorporator of the Wyoming Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dale Baker's son and business partner, Barak Kerns Baker, aka "Barry" Baker is/was a member of the Cascade Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Leroy Dale Baker made his millions as the founder of Grand Rapids' "Dale Baker Automotive Group". A subsidiary, Circuit Leasing, Inc., once leased automobiles to the WatchTower Society for its 500 or more traveling "Overseers" assigned throughout the United States -- until Baker eventually sold out his auto business operations.
Barak K. Baker was the Manager of Circuit Leasing, Inc. (Thereafter, the WatchTower Society cut out the middleman and formed its own "Circuit Vehicles" auto leasing subsidiary, which allows this subsidiary company to purchase vehicles directly from auto manufacturers and lease such back to the main corporation.) "Barry" Baker is currently President of the BLOOD CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOUNDATION, whose large expenditures over the years seems to indicate a significant asset for the WatchTower Society's anti-blood transfusion agenda.L. Dale Baker is also a founding Trustee of JAH-JIREH HOMES OF AMERICA, which is a Jehovah's Witness owned, operated, and occupied retirement community located near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Dale Baker is also the father-in-law of Judah B. Schroeder, who is a former WatchTower Society Attorney and the son of deceased WatchTower Governing Body member, Albert D. Schroeder.
Baker's blood conservation foundation doesn't seem to be active anymore:
This organization has not appeared on the IRS Business Master File in a number of months. It may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.
This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted.
so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.
when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?
' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.
Ruby: I think rank and file jws are quite honest and sincere and would not see it as lying or even as being deceptive - I think they are taking advantage of ambiguity.
Lol! You are absolutely right about that. The r&f have no idea about the difference between honesty and deception. They have no clue whatsoever.
Honest and sincere? Yes...they sincerely think they are being honest and don't even know that they have been trained in JW speak where a lie = truth. They have been lied to for so long that they need to live the lie. They have no truth to tell - their lie is their truth.
Taking advantage of ambiguity is willfully deceptive behavior.
http://reiblingfoundation.org/press/.
reilings's foundation active in supporting certain project .
- holocaust education, boston university, film festivial about concentration camps and persecution of jw in wwii,.
Hi Nonnie :)
Okay, WonderofYou, I had a bit of time to put some stuff together about the "Laura and Lorenz Riebling Family Foundation" (I smell another Reibling installment....)
Firstly, your title is a bit misleading - the foundation is not "starting". It has been around since 2006.
I downloaded the information from the 990 forms for the "Laura and Lorenz Riebling Family Foundation" and I will condense the activity that has occurred with the foundation since 2004/5.
2006 - 990 return
gift to foundation - 15,000
paid out - 38,500
2007 - 990 return
gift to foundation - 336,000
paid out - 56,000
2008 - 990 return
gifts - 0
paid out - 195,500
2009 - 990 return
gifts - 0
paid out - 14,500
2010 - 990 return
gifts - 0
paid out - 7,500
(2011-2012 - no activity)
2013 - 990 return
gifts - 0
paid out - 1,500
THE GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON FUNDCULTURAL 500 170 BEACON ST PROGRAMS 02116 LAWRENCE LANGER-HOLOCAUST FUNDHOLOCAUST 1,000 SYMPOSIUM BOSTON UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM 1SILBERWAY 02215 1,500
2014 - 990 return
gifts - 0
paid out - 5,000
Paid during the year BOSTON COLLEDGE THE FILMS STUDIES FUND 5,000 140 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE CHESTNUT - 5,000
2015 - 990 return
gifts- 0
paid out - 21,500
Returns for 2015 and 2016 were not available.
There are several noteworthy contributions to various entities that deserve some more comments and background information. I will return with a better look at the "bloodless" $support that the Reiblings have offered to that indu$try.
the appeal date is june 13, 2017.
11:40 am.
http://vsrf.ru/moving_case.php?findbynember=%c0%ca%cf%c817-238.
The appeal date is June 13, 2017. 11:40 am
http://vsrf.ru/moving_case.php?findByNember=%C0%CA%CF%C817-238
so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.
when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?
' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.
Ruby, it is deceptive behavior.
"How can they be lying about their identity if..."
Well, if you have to ask that question, your concept of "honest" and "deceptive" is different than mine is.
japan had a handful of witnesses after ww 2....this number skyrocketed to 222,912 by 1998!
then something happened.
publisher figures didn't stop, they dropped by thousands over the next decade!.
thomyorke: Raуmond Franz books translated into Japanese?
you read that right.
there is a whole talk on the topic.. .
outline: safeguard your children from “what is evil” co-tk17-26-e. .
fast jehu: Could you give me a link to the source, where I can find this statement?
In the Submissions on behalf ofWatchtower Bible and Tract Societyof Australia & Others9 November 2015, this statement was made (pg 15):
Child sexual abuse is a matter of concern to any right thinking parent or adult, and to see it only as an “institutional” problem would be to miss an essential truth: that much abuse occurs within families.
The Commission responded with this in Report of Case Study No. 29 October 2106 (pg 8):
A key submission made on behalf of the Watchtower & Ors was that:
Familial child sexual abuse is not institutional sexual abuse, as has been acknowledged by the Commission. Similarly it is self-evident that when child sexual abuse occurs outside ‘institutional’ contexts as defined, the response to it does not fall within the Terms of Reference of this Commission.
The Commission proceeds on the basis that when an allegation of familial sexual abuse becomes known to an elder and is subsequently Scripturally investigated by congregation elders, it ceases to be familial abuse and becomes institutional abuse. This conflation of familial and institutional sexual abuse does not accord with the Terms of Reference.
http://reiblingfoundation.org/press/.
reilings's foundation active in supporting certain project .
- holocaust education, boston university, film festivial about concentration camps and persecution of jw in wwii,.
Thanks for posting this, Wonder.
I don't have time at the moment to go through everything you posted...but, just one quick thing for now (I will return to this later)
The Reibling money is what goes into the research and promotion of PBM.
Here is one medical study that has been supported by the Reiblings:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/trf.14006/full
*note all the JWs listed as authors on that study
A clear $$$$ line that connects the JW blood doctrine to the blood industry. Profiting from the blood doctrine.
the wts is to be commended on their timely and prompt response to the jw ban in russia.
the august wt has an article that features the sivulsky family from russia.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-august-2017/endurance-under-trial/.
pavel sivulsky' son, yaroslav, is getting a lot of air time lately.
The WTS is to be commended on their timely and prompt response to the JW ban in Russia.
The August WT has an article that features the Sivulsky family from Russia.
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-august-2017/endurance-under-trial/
Pavel Sivulsky' son, Yaroslav, is getting a lot of air time lately. He is/was the Watchtower spokesman during the recent Supreme Court hearing in Russia.