Posts by tim3l0rd

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Forgiving Loans the Watchtower Way

by cofty in

bank - thank you for maintaining your loan repayments for the past 3 years.

to show our appreciation we are forgiving the balance of your loan.

borrower - yeah!.

tim3l0rd

WireRider - I lost track somewhere. Why do so many people just send money straight to the WT for nothing? Looting accounts/reserves. Money. Where does the money go? A real estate empire? I can't believe that general people are paying the mortgage on WT owned property. It doesn't make any sense.

I think that many people stopped contributing to the World Wide Work once the announcement was made that the congregation was pledging to do so. I remember almost two decades ago that contributions to the WWW used to be close to $1000/month in my congregation. The report I looked at recently showed the contributions to the WWW was around $350 (that was money collected from the box for WWW in the KH). When adjusted for inflation, that $1000 would be like $1500 today. So donations have dropped almost $1200/month in 20 years.

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Forgiving Loans the Watchtower Way

by cofty in

bank - thank you for maintaining your loan repayments for the past 3 years.

to show our appreciation we are forgiving the balance of your loan.

borrower - yeah!.

tim3l0rd

DD -

I know that they finished one in NJ and I believe are close to finishing one down near Miami. They did say on the video last year that they were focusing on the densely populated areas first. It just seems ridiculous though that the RBCs in each area were able to build so much quicker and now the LDC is running at a snails pace.

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Forgiving Loans the Watchtower Way

by cofty in

bank - thank you for maintaining your loan repayments for the past 3 years.

to show our appreciation we are forgiving the balance of your loan.

borrower - yeah!.

tim3l0rd

Spoke with an elder last night and supposedly the LDC is in full swing and building new KHs, yet they have 5 congregations sharing one KH here because they sold a KH last year and they are not on the schedule yet for a new KH. He also said that as long as a KH is in good shape and has no major issues they will not be renovated or upgraded even with new equipment.

I checked the accounts report and that congregation is sending $500/month for the KH building fund. That's $2500/month if all 5 congregations are doing the same thing!

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Faith in the Flood,-- a Dud.

by prologos in

for the next two weeks, wt will attempt to lay the basis for their imitation "faith" by discussing the "imitate their faith" book, chapter on the flood.

a golden opportunity to share faith strengthening details with your believing friends.

do not miss it!.

tim3l0rd

It was apparently the tremendous weight of the Flood waters that pushed mountain peaks to their high levels and produced more than six-mile-deep valleys in the ocean floor.

They love those words: apparently and evidently. Funny how it's not so apparent to the scientific community.

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The Tale Of River Song

by River Song in

hello all, thanks for all the warm welcomes this weekend.

there was some interest in my origins story so here goes.. i am a born in, never baptised.

my parents were immigrants who knew no one in a new town in a new country when they got love bombed into the cult.

tim3l0rd

@ River Song - Yes. Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi have their merits, but David Tennant has been the best so far.

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The Tale Of River Song

by River Song in

hello all, thanks for all the warm welcomes this weekend.

there was some interest in my origins story so here goes.. i am a born in, never baptised.

my parents were immigrants who knew no one in a new town in a new country when they got love bombed into the cult.

tim3l0rd

Welcome fellow Whovian. :-)

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Mamas...

by Vidiot in

j-dubs aint easy to talk to and harder to like...they'd rather give you a tract than say gesundheit...saturday morning, instead of cartoons,xxxxits the watchtower brought to your door...if you say youre not interested, youre outta luck;xxxxtheyll be back next week offering more.. mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be j-dubs...dont let em get baptized at seven years old,xxxxor take em out knockin on doors in the cold.mamas, dont let your babies grow up to be j-dubs...theyll never quite manage to think for themselves,xxxxjust know how to do what theyre told... j-dubs might not smoke weed or watch r-rated movies...theyd rather stay home than go drinking on saturday night...thats all fine and dandy if youre eighty-six,xxxxand waiting, one foot in the grave...but a kid needs some fun in his life while hes young,xxxxstead of being a watchtower slave.. mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be j-dubs...dont let em be judged by a self-righteous putz,xxxxteach em to stand up show they got guts...mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be j-dubs...pretty sure they would rather be shoveling shit,xxxxthen have pedophiles groping their butts.. oh, mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be j-dubs...let em date pretty girls that they know from school,xxxxcollegell teach em theyre nobodys fool.yes, mamas, if you keep your babies from growin up j-dubs...theyll be thankin you all through the rest of your life;xxxxhell, they might even think that youre cool..

tim3l0rd

Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys by Waylon Jennings. Listened to it all the time growing up.

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Where has all the money gone?

by gingerbread in

jw
friends

a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.

during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.

being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!

tim3l0rd

I don't think they will tithe on an individual level, but I think we will see them pressure the elders to pass resolutions to tithe on a congregation level. They already are after having the mortgages "forgiven", but I could see them pressuring the COs to pressure the elders to up their congregation tithes. Then when the congregation cannot pay the monthly amount, it'll be up to the elders to have a local needs about donations. The flip side of this is that, as the congregation tithing amount increases, the R&F will decrease donations directly to the World Wide Work thinking that the congregation is covering that now.

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Bethel layoff question

by CookieMonster in

hi,.

with the layoffs of bethelites and special pioneers, does anyone know if they get some sort of "redundancy" payout?

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tim3l0rd

At least SPs are being given 3 months of expenses and don't have to meet their hour requirements during that time. Bethelites get nada.

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Suicide or Real Freedom? - My Story As One Of Jehovah's Witnesses

by dubstepped in

"sometimes i think the only thing i could do that wouldn't upset someone would be to kill myself.".

those were the frustrated words of my friend as we stood out in his large yard in the country, just about to enjoy a nice bonfire on a beautiful night.

what was it that could have been a lesser evil than killing himself?

tim3l0rd

Awesome post! I love how you accomplished your goals, were blessed, and yet not one JW or family member could see it that way. I'm going to go find some of those books you mentioned and see if they help me.

Thanks again for the post! It really was a moving experience and quite the journey.