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  Watchtower/Bethelite Volunteers and US Self Employment or FICA Tax?

  by EnlightenedEphesian in

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  with so many aging bethelites being "laid off" after years of volunteer service, what hope do they have of collecting any social security retirement?

  i ask because i recently learned that my mother will not receive any government retirement benefits because she did not work enough to collect the 40 credits required.

  this got me to thinking about bethel volunteers.

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  Drop off your key is correct. Bethelites are joined to another object by an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis.
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  How are midweek CLAM meetings solid spiritual food in ANY way?

  by Isambard Crater in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  besides the possibility that the theocratic ministry school was dropped to avoid the word 'school' appearing any longer for a.r.c child abuse reasons, the introduction of the new clam meetings for midweek has been one of the several main factors making me develop a repulsion for the jw.org religion.. okay, the watchtower study is fairly mickey mouse these days too, but the midweek meetings are truly awful and contribute to me feeling physically and emotionally ill, which i documented in my first post on here.. i'm quite a well-educated person and my job involves a lot of linguistic skill, thinking, communication, analysis, research, interpretation and presentation.

  the clam workbook is patronising and like something even school kids would tire of.. after a long day at work, i don't like the idea of dragging myself off to a midweek meeting in the cold dark nights let alone any other time of the year, but it'd be far better if it was for more solid spiritual food.

  somehow the meetings i grew up with as a child were more interesting.

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  "Instead of wasting my time at a CLAM meeting I'd rather be helping the homeless or doing real 'good'."

  
  

  so why arnt you?
  
  
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  JW Bethel asks for a million euros to be paid to avoid courtroom

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from cronica (spain).

  jehovah's witnesses 'plugged' a one million euro entrepreneurial hole.

  the cult asked to maintain the "peace" of a congregation in galicia to avoid that the case of emptying of the company reached civil justice.. jws asked to hide a million-euro business hole at a supply company in la coruña (galicia).

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  Interesting that they didnt tell the first group to pay her and not worry the money. Its always a one way street.
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  Lots Of Whining And Complaining About Us JW's

  by Deaconblues1914 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in reading these posts, it sounds like a lot of you are very jealous of the wt.

  society’s annual income and the money they/we have in the bank.

  jehovah has indeed blessed us.

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  Dont worry. He will be back. They always come back.
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  February 26, 2017 TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS Re: Witnessing in Public Places

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  february 26, 2017 to all bodies of elders re: witnessing in public places.

  and.

  february 25, 2017 to all congregations re: magnetic boards and posters for public witnessing.

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  As an additional aside, in my former congregation even the carts themselves are dropped off and picked up by ms or elders on behalf of those manning them.... congregation not involved my ass
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  Observations from an Ex-Elder Part 1

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking about the fog model this morning, particularly about the "obligation" part.

  my mind went back to the last elders school i went to.

  one of the parts in the section on appointments was discussing how we should not place too high a bar (human standards) for brothers to try and jump over when we are considering them for appointment as a ministerial servant.

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  Agreed that is a terrible mix of traits. I was actually secretary when i stepped down myself.

  I had long realized that I, as secretary, got beat up for people not turning time in... i never asked people to make time up, i just averaged there previous months for them, with the exception of pioneers.

  In the end its a honor system reporting mechanism and i encouraged people to play fast and loose. Nobody ever cared as long as the CO was happy and then it was six months before anyone cared again.

  It was then and is now a travashamockery.
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  Observations from an Ex-Elder Part 1

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking about the fog model this morning, particularly about the "obligation" part.

  my mind went back to the last elders school i went to.

  one of the parts in the section on appointments was discussing how we should not place too high a bar (human standards) for brothers to try and jump over when we are considering them for appointment as a ministerial servant.

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  I saw the same thing, time after time. Didnt matter how good a man was as a person, only the 3x5 card and its numbers mattered. By the time i woke up i was flat out telling brothers to lie and that ni one cared. Some were uncomfortable with that thought so i changed it to 'be generous and creative with time reporting'

  i swear no longer elder is the thing i am happiest about
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  Hitlers reaction to the Watchtower bunker video

  by greenhornet in

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  2. humour

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cukt9ogwtds.

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  Positively brilliant!
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  Craziest thing you ever did during intermission at a Circuit Assembly

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  1970 - there was a local drag strip a few miles away from the hall rented for the circuit assembly.

  i was 18 , tim o. was 16 and wayne d. was 18. wayne had a 1955 chevy 4 door, 6 cylinder and fresh paint job.

  tim had his dad'ss 1965 chevy half ton.

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  Craziest thing i ever did.... go back inside when lunch was over 😂😂😂

  ok on a serious note i went to the movies more than once. Never saw much in being there if i didnt have part
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  COs are like parrots, can’t handle questions of dynamic nature!

  by anointed1 in

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  2. beliefs

  when i was a zealous publisher, once i took co for a return visit to learn how he handles difficult questions.

  house holder brought the subject of joshua secretly sending two spies to spy out the city of jericho before its planned conquest, and asked: “wasn’t joshua acting in a human way here?

  why would joshua need to send spies if he was the commander-in-chief appointed by god the almighty?”.

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  There are a hundred unknown people in the so called mesiahs geneology. Why would one more or less matter?