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  Jehovah’s Witnesses’ lock down deal for $700M Brooklyn plot

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jehovah’s witnesses appear to have achieved a handshake with their bffs: jared kushner, aby rosen and lvwrk.. the pricing is roughly $700 million for the witnesses’ 733,000-square-foot world headquarters at 25-30 columbia heights and a 1.1-million-square-foot as-of-right development site at 85 jay st.. the same group purchased 1.2 million square feet in dumbo heights for $375 million in 2013 from the witnesses and are now leasing to such companies as wework and etsy.. tech outfits have been circling the brooklyn waterfront properties — and the large “watchtower” on the sign could someday be swapped for a name like “facebook.”.

  bob knakal of cushman & wakefield has been running the sale for the witnesses, who are moving to warwick, ny.. multiple contracts were handed out for the properties and, so far, all are unsigned.. there has been interest globally, and local bidders have included l&l holding, east end capital, equity one and vornado realty trust.

  when reached, the parties declined comment.. .

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  misanthropic

  I may have missed something here. Has the society issued any kind of statement why they're selling their headquarters in NY?
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  Book of Books

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  your warm and supple skin delights my touch, .

  and the gliding of my fingers up and down your .

  spine creates within my rising spirit an awareness .

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  misanthropic

  Exactly Ms. Drew, Coco has a way with words
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  Any one else like me?

  by braincleaned in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have pioneered every time i possibly could, gave talks... i was a good jw!

  but for over 40 years, i had nagging doubts about the character of god.

  to make a long story short, i'm now a happy atheist!

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  misanthropic

  I went from being raised JW (elder dad) strong belief to complete revolt against anything having to do with religion. Now I'm at a weird place where I don't know what I believe but definitely don't subscribe to organized religion.

  I think it's a cycle and I'm just not sure what the next part is.
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  Famous movie locations

  by glenster in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  http://www.youtube.com/user/herveattia.

  http://www.youtube.com/user/locationpix.

  http://www.youtube.com/user/adamthewoo?feature=ceoqwrs%3d.

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  misanthropic

  Tons of Westerns were filmed out here:

  Young Guns was Filmed out at Old Tucson here as well as many Famous Westerns. The Young Riders tv series was filmed there as well as Mescal and a ranch that might have been the J Six Ranch towards Benson.

  Can't Buy Me Love was filmed at Tucson High
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  Book of Books

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  your warm and supple skin delights my touch, .

  and the gliding of my fingers up and down your .

  spine creates within my rising spirit an awareness .

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  misanthropic

  Reminds me there's nothing like the feel and smell of the paper from a real book, turning each page in anticipation. No comparison no matter how much more convenient e readers have become (even though I love mine). Beautiful Coco.
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  Loss and Loneliness

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  tonight's sunset is as spectacular as any i had ever viewed from the kitchen window in my former, beloved home-sweet-home.. a tiny abode it was compared to my current habitation.

  no longer within a mere four wooden walls of plain aspect and diminutive scale, i now am lost in a seeming infinite architectural spread that reaches toward earth's four points, an edifice of four expansive levels that demand i walk, climb, explore every one of thousands of hidden nooks and crannies.

  i am compelled to do this but find no joy in discovery.

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  Coco~

  Wow, just sent out a letter to you today; was thinking maybe, just maybe, I'd find something from you on here.

  "My endeavor is to maintain my poetry and stories at a PG rating, but sometimes I really want to soar into the broad and beautiful sky and let it all explode ..."

  I'd love to see that, I say go for it!
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  LITTLE TALES

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  looking out his studio's street-side window, marcel squints as diminishing afternoon rays of a limping, hazy sun come slicing through half-opened blinds.

  some men, he had read [for none had ever declared this truth to the young writer personally], write in a darkened box of a room to fend off all possible distraction from the proper conception and development of their little tales.

  that, marcel pondered, was too simplistic an accounting of how one's thoughts truly do go to paper.

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  misanthropic

  "He felt a pull but had no inkling whence it came."
  I have a feeling the man in the mirror will soon find out.
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  A lightning fast POLL: Two questions about CONVERSION

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1. were you yourself converted from a religion other than jw to becoming a jw by door to door work?.

  2.did you succeed in converting somebody in your own door to door work causing them to change religions to the point of baptism?.

  quick answers, please.. .

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  1. No
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  A werid experiance i had aged 13 with an Elder?

  by highdose in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i had a sudden memory of somthing that i had totaly forgotten about the other day.

  when i was 13 i can remember a elder in my cong cornering me in the hall and asking me in specfic detail where i got undressed?

  not content with being fobbed off with "in my home" he wanted to know what room, did i ever use the bathroom?

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  misanthropic

  There was a woman in my hall who's husband wasn't a JW, her son who was 15 or 16 at the time was asked by an elder alone if he masturbated and how he dealt with his sexual urges. I know his mom was pretty mad when she heard because she told my mom about it. Lots of weirdo's out there, obviously something was up because he too approached J alone and he couldn't prove it.
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  Are JWs the worst restaurant customers?

  by Alfred in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (a little background info before i ask my question...).

  my sister-in-law (non-jw), who manages a popular chain restaurant near a kingdom hall, just found out that my wife and i have recently faded, so she decided to get something off her chest the other day... you guessed it: she wanted us to know that jws are the worst customers ever!

  she then told us some really embarrassing stories about how jws would request a table for 15 to 20 people (after a sunday meeting) and then (when the bill came) some of the jws would start deliberating amongst themselves on whether or not the waiter was diligent or not (to justify the low tip he was getting anyway).

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  misanthropic

  I think it's all church groups. Anytime you get a group over a certain number etc. That's why some restaurants add gratuity to the bill. I remember an elder and his wife, they were huge tightwads. They would always ask for hot water and bring their own tea bags, ordering nothing else. I hated ever going anywhere with them.