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  A simple explanation for the financial changes

  by JeffT in

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  as i've mentioned from time to time, i'm a retired accountant.

  i have tried many times to come up with some logical, sound business reason why the wtbs has made the big changes in its financial arrangements: taking the congregations savings, the monthly donations per congregation etc.

  i finally came up with the answer.. the leadership of the watchtower society is batshit crazy.

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  JeffT:

  "The leadership of the Watchtower Society is batshit crazy."

  They have been rational enough throughout the last 130 some years; why should they be crazy now?
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  Latest Leaked BOE letter to Elders Oct. 4th

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  october 4, 2015. to all congregations.

  re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.

  dear brothers:.

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  On the issues of the magazines does anyone know if they still produce the bound volumes?
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  Revolt Brewing At Headquarter and Different Branches and The Governing Body Is Losing Credibility Among It's Staff

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  in my mind i see this as a very real situation developing rapidly world wide as these child molestation pay out become public knowledge and can no longer be denied or kept secret from the r&f.

  pretty soon the governing body will be the but of many jokes at headquarters and abroad.

  they are being caught red handed while robbing the cookie jar.

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  Brokeback Watchtower, what kind of rebellion are you talking about? I could picture a partial exodus from those branches but I can't picture any alternative JW sects forming.
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  Who Really is ..... The Blood Washed Multitude (Great Crowd) ?

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for jw's the issue has never been who the faithful and wise servant (f&ds) was.

  that is just misdirection and sleight of hand.

  it is plain from the context that this was obviously a rhetorical question meant for self introspection.

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  Sorry Perry but that movie is far more memorable than the 4 Gospels combined.

  Sacrifice is a common motif in the myths of Man but that simply means that the myth of Yeshua ben Yosef has the same roots as the rest of them.
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  Uh, wow. I think I might become vegan.

  by marmot in

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  2. current

  i am a dyed in the wool carnivore.

  i suffer from cheese addiction.

  lobsters are mercilessly boiled alive.. but after watching this new documentary called cowspiracy on netflix, all that may change.

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  SecretSlaveClass, having two children per household is not going to reduce our population. Having one child will. Resources will continue to be depleted at the same present rate with two children per couple.

  What is needed, as I previously mentioned, is a complete restructuring of our civilization and that won't happen unless the current one collapses.
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  MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA: WE NEED MORE MONEY!

  by avaddohn94 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this topic was already discussed in the following thread: .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/451530001/we-need-more-money-letter-sent-mexico-re-jw-broadcasting-may-2015.

  if you don't want to go through the whole thing; basically it is about a letter that was sent by mexico's branch requiring the body of elders to modify the service meeting for this week (september 21) and the following (september 28) in order to watch (again) stephen lett's solicitation for money (may's broadcasting).. so, why a new thread?

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  It's either this

  

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  "Aid to Bible Understanding" pdf download link

  by Fernando in

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  2. bible

  does anyone have a current link to download the "aid to bible understanding"?.

  thanks plenty.. fernando.

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  Don't know if it works but you can try this: http://www.search-document.com/pdf/1/1/aid-to-bible-understanding.html

  Let me know if it downloads.
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  Why did you choose Jehovahs Witnesses?

  by vinman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm wondering why ones on this forum initially became jw's.

  if you were born in, why did you make it "your own"?

  if you became one later, what was your draw and driving force?

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  None of my family was in. I was 14 and naïve when I found a pamphlet at my door. That was all that it took to get me studying and joining. I thought I was learning the secrets of the Universe. Fortunately, I got df'd for apostasy when I was 21.
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  Uh, wow. I think I might become vegan.

  by marmot in

  1. social
  2. current

  i am a dyed in the wool carnivore.

  i suffer from cheese addiction.

  lobsters are mercilessly boiled alive.. but after watching this new documentary called cowspiracy on netflix, all that may change.

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  Morpheus:

  "Vegetarian diets have positively ruined some peoples health. I will cite a few vocal opponents to the lifestyle and their reasoning, i need to pull the references, but its the "doing it right" thats so difficult."

  A good multi-vitamin like Twin Labs Mega 6 and B-100 complex - not the junk you get at the supermarket - should round off a good diet. Vitamin B-12 in particular has to be supplemented to a non-animal diet.
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  Uh, wow. I think I might become vegan.

  by marmot in

  1. social
  2. current

  i am a dyed in the wool carnivore.

  i suffer from cheese addiction.

  lobsters are mercilessly boiled alive.. but after watching this new documentary called cowspiracy on netflix, all that may change.

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  marmot:

  "Village Idiot, the documentary thankfully backs up the statements with facts. Have a read:

  "http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/"

  Interesting, I'll need some time to trace the citations back to their primary sources.

  One thing that struck me though, at the 1 minute mark on the first video on your link, Will Tuttle says that human beings and their animals presently make up 98% of the biomass. He doesn't make it clear that he's talking about animals only. When you include biomass you have to take plants and animals combined. The houses that we live in, mostly made from wood, have more biomass in them than we do.

  I don't deny that water usage is exorbitant though. Especially in California where I live. 80% of all water consumed there is for agriculture with water intensive plants like alfalfa which is shipped to China for cattle feed.

  Also, the first point titled "Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation." makes it clear that animal husbandry emits only one fifth of what everything else does.

  What I advocate is an 80% reduction in fossil fuel usage of automobiles, electricity and other uses. Without reducing animal consumption at all that savings would account for 34.4+% of our current usage. Not as much as I'd like but it would be major progress.

  I believe in permaculture (In the context of a different civilization replacing ours - a million ecovillages). As for meat, I would like to see the growing of laboratory meat in full scale production. That would take far less resources than what we're using now. We could have that within 20 years.