Posts by betterdaze

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Suffern tenants must move after Jehovah's Witnesses group buys building

by TJ Curioso in

suffern tenants must move after jehovah's witnesses group buys building .

suffern the nonprofit organization behind the jehovahs witnesses has purchased an apartment complex in the village with plans to use it as temporary housing for members while they work to build a massive new headquarters in nearby warwick, orange county.. the sale of the 48-unit suffern commons at 10-12 chestnut st. closed last week, a spokesman for the watchtower society told the journal news.. the deal forces families in the three-story building to quickly find alternative housing and could mean a loss to the village of $56,000 in annual property taxes if the new owner secures a religious tax exemption which it is interested in, spokesman richard devine said.. before the sale was confirmed, tenants spent the past few weeks anxiously trying to figure out why some of them received notices to vacate by june 30. others who had signed one-year leases or didnt know when their leases were up, like terri fosina-friedman, also have prepared to move.. but the painful process and lack of information from their landlord and the new owner has angered many residents, fosina-friedman said.. im just happy that i got it settled and i got another place to live and my son can stay in the school district, she said.. the watchtower society, the brooklyn-based organization that establishes doctrine for millions of jehovahs witnesses around the world, intends to honor tenants existing leases at suffern commons, devine said.

he indicated that the society would consider an extension of the june 30 move-out deadline.. were going to work with the tenants, he said.

betterdaze

SOLD!

Suffern's transit-oriented revival attracts investors

The recent $11 million sale of a 48-unit apartment complex on Chestnut Street shows investors' optimism about Suffern's future, said Paul Adler, chief strategy officer of the Rand Commercial real estate firm.
"We've got an unprecedented price in Rockland County," said Adler, as he spoke about the deal during the 2018 annual commercial real estate forum. "Suffern is in the vanguard of making TOD happen."
The sale was one of the most expensive real estate transactions in Rockland in 2017; the top was the $30 million sale of the former Novartis campus, also in Suffern.

In 2013, the three-story complex, then called Suffern Commons, was sold for $9.2 million to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, a religious organization that supports members of Jehovah's Witness. Watchtower used the complex as temporary housing for members while building a new headquarters in nearby Warwick in Orange County.
The massive headquarters project has been completed, and the religious organization put the apartment complex up for sale last year. Ethel 1 Suffern LLC, whose address is in care of Moses & Singer, a Manhattan law firm, scooped up the property for $11 million in an auction-style bidding process.
The new owner spruced up the property and started leasing in December. The complex includes three styles of two-bedroom apartments, currently offering one month of free rent. Rent starts at $2,100 a month.
Rick Weisman, a Rand Commercial real estate agent who manages the apartment complex, now called Chestnut Manor, declined to reveal who's behind Ethel 1 Suffern LLC. But he said the owner is an investor who has multiple investment properties.

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Jewish God Yahweh Originated in Canaanite Vulcan, Says New Theory

by greek in

the cult of yhwh as god of metallurgy originated among semi-nomadic copper smelters between the bronze and iron age, suggests biblical scholar: and he was not worshipped only by jews.. https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.magazine-jewish-god-yahweh-originated-in-canaanite-vulcan-says-new-theory-1.5992072.

according to amzallag, long before becoming the deity of the israelites, yahweh was a god of metallurgy in the ancient canaanite pantheon, worshipped by smelters and metalworkers throughout the levant, not just by the hebrews.

where did the yhwh cult originate?

betterdaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7980w0f88

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Viola plans to put pool inside old JW property

by betterdaze in

vincent viola plans to put a pool inside old jehovah's witnesses property in brooklyn heights.

eye on real estate: florida panthers' owner is turning 124 columbia heights into an apartment building.

by lore croghan.

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Vincent Viola plans to put a pool inside old Jehovah's Witnesses property in Brooklyn Heights

Eye on Real Estate: Florida Panthers' Owner is Turning 124 Columbia Heights into an Apartment Building

By Lore Croghan

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

It will make quite a splash. That's a literal statement, not marketing hype.

Vincent Viola plans to build an indoor swimming pool at his Brooklyn Heights Watchtower residential redevelopment project.

An application for a permit to excavate a pool in the cellar of 124 Columbia Heights popped up recently in city Buildings Department records.

Viola, a billionaire who owns the Florida Panthers hockey team, bought the dormitory building from the Jehovah's Witnesses for $105 million in 2016, city Finance Department records indicate.

The 10-story property, which is located within the boundaries of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, faces the famous Promenade. The building has views of the Brooklyn Bridge, the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.

The religious organization sold 124 Columbia Heights to Viola during its multi-year campaign to liquidate its enormous Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO real estate portfolio.

The property sell-off is now in its final phase. It was prompted by the Watchtower's decision to relocate its world headquarters from nearby 25-30 Columbia Heights to the town of Warwick in upstate New York.

Last summer Viola received the city Landmarks Preservation Commission's approval to put an elevator bulkhead on the roof of 124 Columbia Heights. The elevator will be used to move cars in and out of a parking garage that's being constructed inside the rebuilding.

He's remodeling 124 Columbia Heights so there will be 101 apartments, Buildings Department records indicate. When the Jehovah's Witnesses owned it, there were 237 dorms in it.

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Calling All Watchtower Historians ... What was the V.F.V.?

by Wild_Thing in

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in the may 27, 1942 edition of the consolation, the watchtower society devoted several pages to the controversy surrounding the burial of joseph rutherford.

in several sections, they write about "the opposition" in vague terms without much specificity as to who these other groups of people were who were supposedly persecuting them.

one section refers to a group called v.f.v.

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The VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and American Legion are specifically mentioned in Part 8

Prior mention in Part 7: Hearts of Flint.

… On March 5 there appeared an article in the Tribune-Sun that the San Diego Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars sent a communication to the Planning Commission which terminated as follows:
“Now therefore San Diego County Council, V. F. W., recommends disapproval of any request to establish a burial plot for Mr. Rutherford other than at a bona fide cemetery.”
“Harold Angier post 383, American Legion, also went on record as being opposed to such burial ‘in other than an established and recognized cemetery’.”
It thus appeared that the American Legion and the V.F.W. are at their old work of serving the Hierarchy, and this time they have the temerity to interfere in the proper burial of the servant of the Most High. …

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Russia: JWs try to retain building by donating to fellow believers

by betterdaze in

jehovah's witnesses try to retain building by donating it to spanish fellow believers.

prosecutor's office aims to return real estate of angarsk jehovah's witnesses to state.

interfax-religiia, 25 january 2018. .

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Jehovah's Witnesses try to retain building by donating it to Spanish fellow believers

PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE AIMS TO RETURN REAL ESTATE OF ANGARSK JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES TO STATE

Interfax-Religiia, 25 January 2018

The prosecutor of Angarsk sent to the city court a lawsuit with the request to return to state ownership a building and parcel of land previously belonging to a local religious organization of the Jehovah's Witnesses, which are banned in Russia, the prosecutor's office for Irkutsk oblast reported on Thursday.

"In 2017, by a decision of the Russian Supreme Court, the religious organization 'Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia' was liquidated along with the local religious organizations belonging to its structure. The property of the liquidated organization reverted to the ownership of the Russian federation on the basis of article 9 of the federal law "On combating extremist activity," the oversight agency recalled.

According to information from the prosecutor's office, the Angarsk local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses had transferred the building and land in Angarsk, where worship services were conducted, to the ownership of Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain, on the basis of a donation agreement, before the adoption of the aforesaid judicial decision.

"The donation agreement was concluded not for socially useful purposes, as required by civil legislation, but with the goal of avoiding the loss of this property by reason of its reversion to the ownership of the RF. At the same time, the immovable property has remained in the effective ownership of the Angarsk local religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses on the basis of a contract for its use without charge," the report notes.

Therefore the prosecutor of Angarsk asks the court to rule the donation agreement to be invalid and to turn over the building and land of the Jehovah's Witnesses in the city to ownership by the Russian federation. (tr. by PDS, posted 30 January 2018)

— Russia Religion News. “Monitoring news media reports about religion in Russia and other countries of former USSR. This website is maintained by Emeritus Professor Paul D. Steeves of Stetson University.”

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Found this little gem about sharing pillows with other brothers in the Insight on the Scriptures book

by jwleaks in

bosom position - guests reclined on their left side with a pillow supporting their left elbow, leaving the right arm free.

usually three persons occupied each couch, but there could be as many as five.

the head of each one would be on or near the breast, or bosom, as it were, of the person behind him.

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Jesus and his lounging bosom buddies who were so not gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) engaged in ~~confidential conversation~~ pillow talk.

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O no!!! The HQ song

by Gorbatchov in

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never througt there would be a jw.org hq song.. they have become mad.. https://tv.jw.org/#nl/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-osg_40_video.

g..

betterdaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl14xh4GSrc

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Sources of John's vivid imagery

by Doug Mason in

in common with other apocalyptic writings, such as daniel and 1 enoch, john’s letter employs vivid, memorable imagery.

as with the other elements of his apocalypse (revelation), john draws on existing sources for his material.. meanings inferred from the images need to keep the following firmly in mind:.

1. the symbols had to have meaning for and be clearly understood by his immediate intended hearers.. 2. john intended that these images encourage those hearers to “overcome”, then and there.. 3. john anticipated that the coming of jesus was imminent, “soon”.. it is my belief that the images were intended to depict earthly opposition (rome and apostate jews) as well as heavenly opposition (wars in heaven involving satan).. the writers/compilers of daniel also employed vivid imagery.

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In Mesopotamia, the slaying of a seven-headed serpent was one of the traditional exploits of Ninurta. It also has a well-defined place in the Canaanite mythology, where the beast is the Ugaritic Lotanu, the biblical Leviathan, the dragon of the sea that is vanquished by the storm-god (Baal, Yahweh). — The Melammu Project, Heracles and Hydra.

Shell-inlay inscription dated to Early Dynastic Sumer (ca. 2800-2600 BC) showing the god Ninurta battling a seven-headed serpent.

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Unprivileged

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

something just dawned on me today as i processed my assimilation into the real world (thanks to our new poster, @jester, giving me a major throwback to my first post).. when you're a jehovah's witness, you really are in some sort of la la land.

things which are perfectly normal are acts of eating from the table of the demons.

things which are horribly grotesque and extremely unjust are branded as "righteousness".

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pale.emperor that's a useful and clever list!

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Unprivileged

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

something just dawned on me today as i processed my assimilation into the real world (thanks to our new poster, @jester, giving me a major throwback to my first post).. when you're a jehovah's witness, you really are in some sort of la la land.

things which are perfectly normal are acts of eating from the table of the demons.

things which are horribly grotesque and extremely unjust are branded as "righteousness".

betterdaze

I'll casually talk about how I worked really hard as a single mother balancing out meetings, etc, etc, "and eventually, the elders gave me back my rights."

According the February 2016 broadcast, single sisters wouldn’t remain that way very long if we would just take a humbler view and learn to appreciate our female garbage rights.

Handling other peoples' reeking leaking bathroom waste is just one of the many rights obedient wives enjoy, along with sammich' making rights and beer fetching rights.

Jehovah approves engaging in janitorial rights to attract a suitable marriage mate.