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  Beaumont Article

  by TallTexan in

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  i read this on another post, but there are so many things wrong with this article.

  beaumont - each weekend since october, danny farrow has driven about 90 miles to the golden triangle, where he lives in a trailer and feeds thousands of homemade meals to volunteers.

  he could be golfing.

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  badwillie

  my letter: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/105755/1.ashx
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  My Letter RE: Beaumont Article on JW's "disaster relief"

  by badwillie in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  here is my letter to the writer who authored this piece: .

  http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15921650&brd=2287&pag=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=8 .

  dear jamie,

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  Here is my letter to the writer who authored this piece:
  http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15921650&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=8 Dear Jamie,

  I read with interest your article of 1/13/06, "Church members come from far and wide to repair hundreds of houses".

  As someone with many years of association with Jehovah's Witnesses, I can attest that your article very accurately conveys the altruistic spirit that can be found among thousands of the organization's members. I do feel compell ed to point out however that your article only tells half of the story.

  You observ ed that "Jehovah's Witnesses who can't drive to Southeast Texas donate money to help the cause... which is used to buy supplies and food. Also, several nonprofit groups, like the Red Cross, have donated frozen and canned foods ". I commend the Red Cross and the several other nonprofit groups who saw fit to draw from their cash reserves to supply food to those in need in Texas.. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania Inc., which is the registered name of the corporation these voluntary workers belong to, has substantial cash reserves and billions of dollars in real estate assets worldwide. Unlike the Red Cross, the Watchtower Society (as it is known amongst its members) instead uses its members at their own expense to do this sometimes dangerous disaster relief and rebuilding work.

  According to the survey: The Top 40 Companies Headquarter ed in New York City, published in the New York Newsday of 9/23/02, the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society ranked # 31 with total revenues from the previous year of $951 million. To gain perspective, they are positioned between #29 - Barnes and Noble College Bookstores with $998 million, and #35 - J.Crew Group at $826 million. Now let's compare the revenues of these three New York based companies with that of Red Cross. For the year ending 2004, the Red Cross had total revenue of just over $3 billion. When you subtract the approx $2.2 billion in cash they received that year for supply of biomedical products and services, which leaves approx $862 million revenue from donated finances. Here is a link to their annual report. http://www.redcross.org/pubs/car04/CFS04.pdf

  J.Crew and Barnes and Noble are very profitable companies with a huge payroll of tens of thousands of employees. Red Cross is known worlwide for their disaster relief work.

  The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania Inc. owns printing factories worldwide on every continent where hundr eds of unpaid laborers toil to supply the company with the steady flow of magazines, tracts, and brochures they rely upon in order to solicit the millions of dollars in donation revenue they receive each year. Ask yourself, with a steady annual revenue equaling or surpassing that of some of America's most profitable companies, but with $0 dollars spent on labor, where is all the money?

  I'm sure you notic ed that most of the individual Jehovah's Witness volunteers who donated time and resources to this disaster relief are themselves of modest means. I have great respect for these individuals, both for their trust in each other, and for the great compassion that they show. Sadly, they are unwittingly being taken advantage of by an organization that is very eager to present a family friendly charitable face to the world.

  Sincerely, BW
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  Homosexuality at Bethel

  by Sam the Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whilst at london bethel, i witnessed this first hand.

  i know that it went on there.

  those from brooklyn bethel (i understand that there are a few ex brooklyn bethelites here), the question i have for you is 'did you witness/hear of any over your side of the pond?

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  Do any of these names ring a bell?

  Sorry I had to edit the names out. It would be better to PM them privately.

  Lee
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  Homosexuality at Bethel

  by Sam the Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whilst at london bethel, i witnessed this first hand.

  i know that it went on there.

  those from brooklyn bethel (i understand that there are a few ex brooklyn bethelites here), the question i have for you is 'did you witness/hear of any over your side of the pond?

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  Sam - I Iived in London from 1991-99. I knew many Bethelites too during that time. I may even know you.

  I was in the Stamford Hill cong in N.London. I hung out up at Mill Hill a lot over those years, we had some Bethelites in our cong. My wife and I used to joke about a few we met that were very effeminate. One I always suspected was the guy they usually had at the front desk as a receptionist, can't remember his name.
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  Low Low Low Self Esteem

  by joelbear in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  man, if i don't solve this problem i'm gonna be dead one way or another.. i know i need to build self esteem.

  i am focusing on bringing things into my life that i find real fulfillment in.. i had little fulfillment as a witness.

  really only the pleasure i got from bible studies, of which i really only had about 10 real ones of.

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  Joel,

  There is a medication available that I find very relaxing. It helps me to feel "centered" too. I notice others using that phrase, which I think is fitting. JW's have low self esteem built right into their minds by their programmers. . Anyway, the medication also helped me to see myself as others do. It allowed me to praise myself, all my fine qualities and achievements (without any guilt, very important). The medication I'm referring to is Marijuana. I started using this regularly about a year after leaving the cult. I know this wonderful plant has helped me to heal myself of the years of psychological abuse I went through growing up as a JW. Anyway, I tried it and found it to be very enlightening.

  I don't know how long I will continue this self-prescribed treatment, but for now I'm still benefitting.

  Wishing you inner peace,

  BW.
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  Would the WTS torture the "apostates" if they could?

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  do you think the wts would physically torture and even execute "apostates" if we all lived in a context that allowed them to do so?

  much as the catholic church did in the middle ages when they had the opportunity to treat their dissenters as they wished.

  already the way the gb wants apopstates treated is as vicious as can be, manifests a deeply seated maliciousness and animosity and is calculated to hurt as much as possible under the present day circumstances.

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  When I started raising questions 4 years ago about their involvment with the UN, I was called "a CANCER that needs to be cut out". Within 2 weeks of questioning I was labeled apostate and publicly reproved. My character was assassinated. I guess we are all very lucky this happened to us now and not when stoning and beheading were all the rage.
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  Ain't Karma Grand?

  by Low-Key Lysmith in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out that the po of my old cong who presided over my disfellowshipping meeting was just disfellowshipped himself for a long history of horriffic physical and emotional abuse of his wife and family.. while i feel terrible for his family, i can't help but crack a smile when i think of him sitting in a cell (he was incarcerated for his evil deeds) stewing in his own juices.

  when i was a kid in the cong, this guy was the most opiniated, judgemental, hateful asshole i have ever known.

  i feel to some extent that justice has been served.

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  Karma rules. My old pompous book study conductor was also jailed - for raping his wife.
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  I didn't even know that my sister was married yesterday.

  by badwillie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  sucks.,..just venting.

  i changed that little girl's diapers too, and still love her.

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  Thanks guys for the comments and support, it does help.
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  I didn't even know that my sister was married yesterday.

  by badwillie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  sucks.,..just venting.

  i changed that little girl's diapers too, and still love her.

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  sucks.,..just venting. I changed that little girl's diapers too, and still love her.
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  Your favorite quote about religion/God?

  by formerout in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i was going to add this to a comment to a post of mine in rune's topic "why?

  " (if anybody was paying attention to it) but i figured i would start my own thread on it.. i have always liked quotes, especially very profound life lessons revealed in a short quip.. one of my favorites is by michel de montaigne: .

  "man is surely stark mad.

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  "Religion is opium for the masses"

  - Karl Marx