Interesting Band, thanks!
Randy
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Most Expensive property to sell in New York - Walentas in on it!
by Dogpatch init appears the famous stunt family the walentas are in on the brooklyn real estate craze, too!
i knew the walentas were jws but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!.
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn.
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Most Expensive property to sell in New York - Walentas in on it!
by Dogpatch init appears the famous stunt family the walentas are in on the brooklyn real estate craze, too!
i knew the walentas were jws but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!.
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn.
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Perhaps it's just a curious coincidence, but both names have some connection to the WT and DUMBO it appears.
I DO know the Wallendas are/were associated with JWs.
Walenta? Heavily involved in real estate and WT's favorite DUMBO property??
I don't have time to research it, but maybe someone else will.
Randy
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Most Expensive property to sell in New York - Walentas in on it!
by Dogpatch init appears the famous stunt family the walentas are in on the brooklyn real estate craze, too!
i knew the walentas were jws but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!.
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn.
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Here's another one, rather confusing.
Walentas, the `King of DUMBO,`Tells How He Developed Former Industrial Area
by Jennifer Needleman ([email protected]), published online 02-27-2004The Neighborhood Has Become His Life?s Mission, the Center of His Business DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN ? Yesterday morning, at the opening of the second day of the Brooklyn Home Expo at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, David Walentas, one of this borough?s most prolific and successful real estate developers, gave a surprisingly forthcoming and overall fascinating talk about the recent history of DUMBO.
Unassuming and casual in crisp jeans and a slight, ambiguous, non-New-York drawl, Walentas spoke to rousing applause, and revealed the trials and tribulations, along with the successes that have made DUMBO what it is today. Walentas is almost wholly responsible for the revival and gentrification of the area, having renovated and developed almost every building from scratch.
?We own everything between the bridges,? said Walentas, adding that DUMBO?s other large landlord, the Jehovah?s Witnesses (see related story, page one), owns everything around that. But it was Walentas, not the Witnesses, who came to the neighborhood with an unwavering vision ? a vision of an upscale, fully peopled area of town with natural, historical and urban beauty that is unsurpassed across the five boroughs of the city. Walentas spoke at an Expo breakfast, and told the story of how DUMBO came to be what it is today, starting from the very beginning.
Twenty-five years ago, DUMBO was practically abandoned, said Walentas. At this time, Walentas was busy as a developer in SoHo and NoHo ? his was the building that housed the first Tower Records in the city. On the lookout for a fresher area to put his paws on, Walentas asked one of his artist tenants: ?What?s next??
?DUMBO,? replied the tenant, and caught Walentas off guard.
?I had never heard of DUMBO,? admitted Walentas, who had also never been to Brooklyn apart from pass-throughs during ?trips to JFK and LaGuardia.?
Walentas crossed the bridge to check it out, and was utterly floored by the historic, non-landmarked buildings, the river access, the views, the streaming bridges arching overhead, the proximity to Downtown and Brooklyn Heights.
?I thought to myself, ?I?ve been training for this my whole life,?? said Walentas. DUMBO became Walentas? raison d?etre, his life mission and the center of all his business. He bought as many buildings as were available, and began to rebuild the nearly uninhabited neighborhood from scratch. At the Marriott, he spoke of the various financial failures, the lost and broken partners, the disillusioned politics, the city?s reluctance to help out with zoning laws.
?For a while, I was known as the dumb of DUMBO,? admitted Walentas.
One listener asked, ?Did you ever want to throw in the towel??
?The thought never crossed my mind,? said Walentas, who would always rather buy out a partner than leave a project for dead.
Walentas conveyed the impetus behind his rabid development of DUMBO as being almost personal; he lives in DUMBO and truly loves the area. His remarkable success seems to have come from his genuine concern for the area, and his courage in assuming responsibility for a swath of real estate and his sensitivity to the existing details. Walentas is clearly more concerned with preserving and renovating wonderful Brooklyn buildings than with wiping the slate clean to erect a mammoth money-mill of a development.
?It?s really the artists who made the neighborhood,? said Walentas, who describes DUMBO as an upscale, creative place. Throughout his time working on the area, Walentas leveraged the future of DUMBO in order to find occupants for apartments and commercial spaces ? to round out the neighborhood in its entirety.
He filled apartments and offices with ?artists and young start-up businesses, dot-coms ? the type of businesses that young New Yorkers were staking their futures on,? and thus, the area was infused with an irreplaceable energy.
Walentas spoke about the skepticism of early investors.
?I used to take bankers up to the top of the clock tower in DUMBO and say, ?Look at this view!?? said Walentas, adding, ?They looked and said, ?Where are the grocery stores???
There were no grocery stores ? or any other kind of stores for that matter ? in DUMBO when Walentas began. But he embarked on a populating mission, and enlisted his favorite vendors, business owners and service providers to open up shop in his neighborhood. Walentas? wife, for instance, was fond of the Peas and Pickles deli, located on Henry Street in north Brooklyn Heights. Walentas invited the owners, who were, as he put it, ?just a couple of Korean kids,? to open a market in DUMBO, free of rent for two years. The owners agreed and immediately began doing profitable business. Recently, as Walentas recounted, the married couple behind Peas and Pickles, no longer just a ?couple of kids,? were able to offer Walentas the money to buy one of his fabulous DUMBO loft apartments.
?She paid me in cash,? said Walentas, smiling. ?This is America, and this is DUMBO.?
Walentas is the type of savvy and visionary developer that Brooklyn needs ? one who saves instead of demolishes, who listens to the soul of a neighborhood and hopes to uplift rather than eradicate. Many of his developments ? such as the upcoming project at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street which will contain an enormous YMCA ? include details that serve to benefit the neighborhood before Walentas himself.
But that, it seems, is Walentas? bag. If you stake a claim on a neighborhood and do everything for its betterment, everyone will win.
?These apartments in DUMBO have made a lot of people rich,? said Walentas. ?It?s a good thing.?
Walentas, surely, is one of those people whose finances expanded immensely through the development of DUMBO ? certain properties were bought at six dollars a square-foot and are now selling for $800 a square-foot and DUMBO properties have the highest value in Brooklyn. But Walentas, as opposed to many of the rich and powerful in this city, does good as he does well, and his bravery, patience, vision and perseverance are the qualities that deserve all the admiration in the world. May we all be fortunate enough to be part of a community whose buildings were developed by a neighbor and friend!
? Brooklyn Daily Eagle 2004
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Most Expensive property to sell in New York - Walentas in on it!
by Dogpatch init appears the famous stunt family the walentas are in on the brooklyn real estate craze, too!
i knew the walentas were jws but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!.
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn.
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I didn't notice the difference in spewlling of the last name, but it has been well-known for years that the circus family were mainly JWs. It might be a good story. A google search on Wallendas+Jehovah yields this:
wallenda / is walking the wire over Atlantic City. (1), Jehovah's...
www.jehovahs-witness.net › Jehovah's Witnesses › Friends Aug 10, 2012 - 2 posts - 1 author Nick Wallenda is walking the wire over Atlantic City; halfway over.Nik Wallenda: Witness on the Wire - Pentecostal Evangel: Articles
www.pe.ag.org/articles/index_2012.cfm?...2... Nik Wallenda: Witness on the Wire ... Nik Wallenda, the seventh generation of the legendary Great Wallendas, holds a .... He's our Jehovah Jireh, our provider.Seeking the Lord with a true heart 01/24 by Jehovah Shalom | Blog ...
my.beta.blogtalkradio.com/jehovah.../seeking-the-lord-with-a-true-heart BlogTalkRadio - Jehovah Shalom Jan 24, 2012 – If you liked this show, you can follow Jehovah Shalom. ... Nik Wallenda, “The King of the High Wire,” is a seventh-generation member of the ...Dr Pepper Arena
www.drpepperarena.com/ In addition to David Larible, CIRQUE MUSICA will feature the world famous Wallenda Highwire Duo, the thrilling España Family and a cast of world-renowned ... Sat, Jun 22 Sat, Jul 20 Cirque Musica Big Sean http://www.drpepperarena ... www.drpepperarena.com ...Life Lessons from the National Parks
www.pennymusco.com/lifelessonsfromthenationalparks/ Perhaps the most famous member of the Great Wallendas was Nik's ..... The title Most High (Yahweh, or Jehovah), as mentioned in those verses, is undoubtedly ...157. What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe? With Richard Howe ...
? 1:11 ? 1:11 video.christianpost.com/157-what-do-jehovahs-witn... Apr 13, 2013 Nik Wallenda on Fear and Faith on the High Wire · A Minute with T.D. Jakes: How Can We Forgive Our ...6/17 - Fathers' Day; GOD the Father's Glory; Niagara Falls' Wallenda...
? 15:12 ? 15:12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PvE0L6Ww4I Jun 18, 2012 - Uploaded by ArcturusRex ... GOD the Father's Glory; Niagara Falls' Wallenda; Elian Cuba's hope .... Dear Jehovah's Witnesses ...- More videos for Wallendas+Jehovah »
myPTfriends : Message: A Word With You #6336 - "Hesitating on the ...
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/myPTfriends/message/882 Aug 12, 2012 – The patriarch of the Wallenda clan was Karl Wallenda, and at the age ... will provide" - that's the name of God we know today as Jehovah Jireh.Favorite videos - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...feature=c4-feed-f 9 Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but ...... Daredevil tightrope walker Nik Wallenda crosses highwire 200 feet up: ...Nik Wallenda completes tightrope walk across Niagara ... - US News
usnews.nbcnews.com/?nvo=4300...58 Reuters reports: Nik Wallenda, a member of the famed "Flying Wallendas" family of ... Sex case: Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $20 million · Billionaire pledges .
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Most Expensive property to sell in New York - Walentas in on it!
by Dogpatch init appears the famous stunt family the walentas are in on the brooklyn real estate craze, too!
i knew the walentas were jws but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!.
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn.
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It appears the famous stunt family the Walentas are in on the Brooklyn real estate craze, too!
(and have been for some time.
I knew the Walentas were JWs but thyey are practically in bed with them as well!
http://gotham-magazine.com/personalities/articles/jed-walentas-is-building-brooklyn
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Walentas, the `King of DUMBO,`Tells How He Developed Former Industrial Area by Jennifer Needleman ([email protected]), published online 02-27-2004 The Neighborhood Has Become His Life?s Mission, the Center of His Business DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN ? Yesterday morning, at the opening of the second day of the Brooklyn Home Expo at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, David Walentas, one of this borough?s most prolific and successful real estate developers, gave a surprisingly forthcoming and overall fascinating talk about the recent history of DUMBO.
Unassuming and casual in crisp jeans and a slight, ambiguous, non-New-York drawl, Walentas spoke to rousing applause, and revealed the trials and tribulations, along with the successes that have made DUMBO what it is today. Walentas is almost wholly responsible for the revival and gentrification of the area, having renovated and developed almost every building from scratch.
?We own everything between the bridges,? said Walentas, adding that DUMBO?s other large landlord, the Jehovah?s Witnesses (see related story, page one), owns everything around that. But it was Walentas, not the Witnesses, who came to the neighborhood with an unwavering vision ? a vision of an upscale, fully peopled area of town with natural, historical and urban beauty that is unsurpassed across the five boroughs of the city. Walentas spoke at an Expo breakfast, and told the story of how DUMBO came to be what it is today, starting from the very beginning.
Twenty-five years ago, DUMBO was practically abandoned, said Walentas. At this time, Walentas was busy as a developer in SoHo and NoHo ? his was the building that housed the first Tower Records in the city. On the lookout for a fresher area to put his paws on, Walentas asked one of his artist tenants: ?What?s next??
?DUMBO,? replied the tenant, and caught Walentas off guard.
?I had never heard of DUMBO,? admitted Walentas, who had also never been to Brooklyn apart from pass-throughs during ?trips to JFK and LaGuardia.?
Walentas crossed the bridge to check it out, and was utterly floored by the historic, non-landmarked buildings, the river access, the views, the streaming bridges arching overhead, the proximity to Downtown and Brooklyn Heights.
?I thought to myself, ?I?ve been training for this my whole life,?? said Walentas. DUMBO became Walentas? raison d?etre, his life mission and the center of all his business. He bought as many buildings as were available, and began to rebuild the nearly uninhabited neighborhood from scratch. At the Marriott, he spoke of the various financial failures, the lost and broken partners, the disillusioned politics, the city?s reluctance to help out with zoning laws.
?For a while, I was known as the dumb of DUMBO,? admitted Walentas.
One listener asked, ?Did you ever want to throw in the towel??
?The thought never crossed my mind,? said Walentas, who would always rather buy out a partner than leave a project for dead.
Walentas conveyed the impetus behind his rabid development of DUMBO as being almost personal; he lives in DUMBO and truly loves the area. His remarkable success seems to have come from his genuine concern for the area, and his courage in assuming responsibility for a swath of real estate and his sensitivity to the existing details. Walentas is clearly more concerned with preserving and renovating wonderful Brooklyn buildings than with wiping the slate clean to erect a mammoth money-mill of a development.
?It?s really the artists who made the neighborhood,? said Walentas, who describes DUMBO as an upscale, creative place. Throughout his time working on the area, Walentas leveraged the future of DUMBO in order to find occupants for apartments and commercial spaces ? to round out the neighborhood in its entirety.
He filled apartments and offices with ?artists and young start-up businesses, dot-coms ? the type of businesses that young New Yorkers were staking their futures on,? and thus, the area was infused with an irreplaceable energy.
Walentas spoke about the skepticism of early investors.
?I used to take bankers up to the top of the clock tower in DUMBO and say, ?Look at this view!?? said Walentas, adding, ?They looked and said, ?Where are the grocery stores???
There were no grocery stores ? or any other kind of stores for that matter ? in DUMBO when Walentas began. But he embarked on a populating mission, and enlisted his favorite vendors, business owners and service providers to open up shop in his neighborhood. Walentas? wife, for instance, was fond of the Peas and Pickles deli, located on Henry Street in north Brooklyn Heights. Walentas invited the owners, who were, as he put it, ?just a couple of Korean kids,? to open a market in DUMBO, free of rent for two years. The owners agreed and immediately began doing profitable business. Recently, as Walentas recounted, the married couple behind Peas and Pickles, no longer just a ?couple of kids,? were able to offer Walentas the money to buy one of his fabulous DUMBO loft apartments.
?She paid me in cash,? said Walentas, smiling. ?This is America, and this is DUMBO.?
Walentas is the type of savvy and visionary developer that Brooklyn needs ? one who saves instead of demolishes, who listens to the soul of a neighborhood and hopes to uplift rather than eradicate. Many of his developments ? such as the upcoming project at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street which will contain an enormous YMCA ? include details that serve to benefit the neighborhood before Walentas himself.
But that, it seems, is Walentas? bag. If you stake a claim on a neighborhood and do everything for its betterment, everyone will win.
?These apartments in DUMBO have made a lot of people rich,? said Walentas. ?It?s a good thing.?
Walentas, surely, is one of those people whose finances expanded immensely through the development of DUMBO ? certain properties were bought at six dollars a square-foot and are now selling for $800 a square-foot and DUMBO properties have the highest value in Brooklyn. But Walentas, as opposed to many of the rich and powerful in this city, does good as he does well, and his bravery, patience, vision and perseverance are the qualities that deserve all the admiration in the world. May we all be fortunate enough to be part of a community whose buildings were developed by a neighbor and friend!
? Brooklyn Daily Eagle 2004
http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=5&id=871
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DUMBO Developer Steals Electricity!
As if real estate developers didn't have a bad enough rap! David Walentas, the mastermind who turned the clocktower in DUMBO into a Clocktower of luxury apartment, is accused of stealing $130,000 of electricity by rigging wires from the Clocktower to his commercial building. The Daily News' exclusive story says that the Clocktower's condo owners are suing Walentas, after finding out that the "commingling" of heat and electrical from 30 Washington Street and Clocktower actually meant more expensive electrical bills for the Clocktower residents. And this is just the latest in problems for the Clocktower: There have been leaking roofs, non-working windows, boiler issues, and more. Most impressive of Walentas's chutzpah is this:Brockstedt also found that Walentas had an air conditioner installed on the Clocktower building's roof that served only his unit but was powered by the common area meter - and thus paid for by the condo association.
Good lord. And everyone who lives in a Trump Building - see if all the wires are leading to Mar-a-Lago!
NY magazine called Walentas's Clocktower development the "tipping point" in DUMBO development. And here's Bluejake's DUMBO series from last fall.
Contact the author of this article or email [email protected] with further questions, comments or tips
http://gothamist.com/2005/02/11/dumbo_developer_steals_electricity.php
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The Most Expensive Property In Brooklyn, New York
Categories: ARCHITECTURE · Leave a Comment
A stunning triplex penthouse apartment that overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbour has just been listed for $25 million USD, making it the most expensive property in Brooklyn (if it sells mind you). The penthouse sits atop one of the tallest buildings in Dumbo, the cobblestoned neighborhood that sprang to life in the 80s in a former industrial area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.Unsurprisingly, the apartment was commissioned by David Walentas, the creator of the Dumbo neighborhood (I hate this name!). The building was originally a cardboard box factory, a relic from New York’s industrial past. Walentas renamed the factory the ClockTower Building and converted it first into offices for the New York State Labor Department, and then into 124 condominiums in 1998.
The ClockTower Building Penthouse
- Listed at $25 million USD
- 3,000 square foot main floor features an open concept design with 16 foot ceilings
- Each wall is dominated by a striking 14-foot fully functional window clock
- A glass-walled elevator and a three-story floating staircase at the center of the space lead to smaller floors that narrow toward the top of the tower
- There are three bedrooms on the 2,300-square-foot second floor
- On the third floor, there is a 988-square-foot open loft with a 15-foot ceiling
- Of course, at the very top of the building is a tiny windswept crow’s nestThe highest sale price on record for a home in Brooklyn is the $11 million sale of a house in 2006 in Gravesend. The highest price paid for a condominium is the $7 million sale of a 14th-floor apartment at the ClockTower building last year. That condo is now listed for sale at $8.5 million. (Is it coincidence the two most-expensive condos in Brooklyn are for sale and in the same building?)
Walentas’s real estate company recently won approval to construct an 18-story building near the base of the Brooklyn Bridge over the objections of neighborhood residents. Walentas says the building will not affect the views from One Main Street, as the ClockTower Condo is also known.
The glass-walled elevator and a three-story floating staircase
A glimpse into a second-floor bed and bath
Surprisingly, the sofa will not be included with purchase
Watch out!
Do you have the time? Why yes, it’s $25M past poor o’clock
Sources
All information and photographs from the New York Times article and slide show below:
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/realestate/09deal1.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/07/realestate/0809-deal-slideshow_index.htmlAll photographs by Ángel Franco for The New York Times
Maximum respect to my friend Paul for showing me this beautiful property. Good Look!
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Then (1960) and now (2013)
by theron ware ini was raised as a jw from the age of 7. i was df'd for apostasy in 1971 at the age of 23. it has been 42 years since i have had contact with any jehovah's witnesses, including my family.
last year i moved to tucson.
when i read that a district assembly was coming to town, and that it would be at the convention center only minutes from my house, i decided to check it out.
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for LostGeneration:
What happens when LIARS leave the TRUTH! (and Bethel)
Yeah, I brag, tell dumb okie jokes, post way too much stuff all at once, and am generally unbearable to be around. But good news!
You won't have to put up with me much longer.
Randy
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Then (1960) and now (2013)
by theron ware ini was raised as a jw from the age of 7. i was df'd for apostasy in 1971 at the age of 23. it has been 42 years since i have had contact with any jehovah's witnesses, including my family.
last year i moved to tucson.
when i read that a district assembly was coming to town, and that it would be at the convention center only minutes from my house, i decided to check it out.
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Dogpatch
Good post, Theron!
It's so much fun to tell all the "apostate lies" about Bethel!
We have to keep "LostGeneration" entertained!
Dogz
BELOW:
I lie so much even my roommates had to kick me out of the house!
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The Governing Body scenario is nearly identical to that in 1977 - no power
by Dogpatch inthe watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
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The Governing Body scenario is nearly identical to that in 1977 - no power
by Dogpatch inthe watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
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Being careful not to bore poor LostGeneration to death, this is it for now. But I have lots more lies to tell, LG!!
Thus Saith Jehovah's Witnesses
by Randall WattersThis is the outline of the book, Thus Saith Jehovah's Witnesses by Randall Watters. The first edition was printed in 1982, not long after Randy left Bethel--the Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. The third and much more extensive version was printed in 2004 with updates on the United Nations scandal. To read Randy's background, click here. For the extensive chronicles of his misadventures at Bethel and those of others such as Raymond Franz, go to the Bethel Chronicles.
T hird edition, 243 pages letter-size and coil bound, copyright revised 2004 by Common Sense Publications, a division of Free Minds, Inc., Box 3818, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266.
table of contents Review of the Watchtower Presidential Eras
section 1: Principles We Believe In
section 2: Why Believe Us?
section 3: Dates We've Set
section 4: How We Make Money (printed version only) section 5: People We Quote (printed version only) section 6: How We Control You
section 7: Damage Control and the News Media (includes new section on their involvement with the United Nations) (printed version only) -
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The Governing Body scenario is nearly identical to that in 1977 - no power
by Dogpatch inthe watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
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Watchtower Reorganizes for Legal Advantages
In a move that is more likely to attract attention for legal reasons than anything else, the Watchtower has made a massive reorganization of its corporate leadership. While this does not seem to affect current responsibilities such as their actual daily work, it clearly is meant to provide isolation of guilt to as few entities as possible in the litigious days ahead for the Watchtower organization. Here is their press release. Below are some notes from the Annual Meeting.
Here are a few notes from the Annual Meeting held yesterday:
Yeartext for 2001: Colossians 4:12: "Stand complete and with firm
conviction in all the will of God."Talk by Dan Sydlik: The Board of Directors and Officers of the Society's
Legal Corporation were all anointed, since it was closely associated with
the Governing Body. (The lone exception was Hayden Covington) However, as
pointed out in 1971, the Governing Body preceded the WTBTS of
Pennsylvania, since it was established at Pentecost. The Governing Body
is not appointed by any man, and cannot be voted into office. The GB does
not have officers (President, Vice President, etc.), only a
chairman, who rotates.Is there any scriptural reason why the officers of the WTBTS of
Pennsylvania have to be anointed? Not really. There are about 100 other
legal entities associated with the WTBTS of Pennsylvania, whose officers
are not anointed. They are legal instruments, under the direction of the
GB, designed to make Jehovah's name known worldwide. However, they are
not necessary to carry on the work, as has been demonstrated in many
lands where the work has been banned.Members of the other sheep are called on help with the work, enabling the
GB to focus exclusively on spiritual matters.Talk by Ted Jaracz: Began by discussing how congregation elders and
ministerial servants are not elected, rather the qualifications are set
out in the scriptures. Holy spirit, in various ways, plays a vital role
in theocratic appointments. Theocratic appointments at all levels are
made directly or indirectly by the GB. No legal entity controls such
appointments.Talk by Jack Barr: Members of the Governing Body resigned from the WTBTS
and members of the other sheep were nominated and elected to fill their
slots. Thirty or more names were read quickly for various corporations.
Don Adams is now president of the WTBTS of Pennsylvania.Brother Barr also mentioned that three new corporations were being
formed.The Governing Body will continue to direct these legal entities.
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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:56:26 -0400
I wanted to share some announcements with you that were made at the
Annual Meeting today. (sent by a Bethelite)The Governing Body has decided that the positions of President, Vice
President, Secretary/Treasurer, etc. in the legal corporations (e.g.,
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.; Watchtower
Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., etc.) do not have to be filled
by anointed brothers. Therefore, all of the brothers that were currently
holding these positions, all of whom were on the Governing Body, have
resigned. Brothers of the other sheep have replaced them. Therefore,
brother Don Adams is now the president of the Watch Tower Society.Quite a lengthy discussion was given as to the reason this was decided
and why it's OK. Essentially, it boils down to the fact that this allows
the Governing Body to step back and deal primarily with spiritual
matters, while these brothers of the other sheep handle day-to-day
business operations of the legal corporations.In addition, three new corporations have been formed:
1) Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, which will supervise
matters of a religious and educational nature. This includes organizing
the preaching work, holding conventions, etc. The directors and officers
of this corporation are primarily brothers who work closely with the
Service department in Patterson. Brother William Van de Wall is the
president of this corporation.2) Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses, which cares for matters
pertaining to those in Special Full-Time service, including Bethelites,
Special Pioneers, Traveling Overseers, etc. Brother Patrick LaFranca is
the president of this corporation.3) Kingdom Support Services, Inc., which handles design & engineering of
buildings and holds titles to vehicles used by the Society.The attendance for the annual meeting was 13,082, the largest ever.
Additionally, the year text for 2001 will be: "Stand complete and with
firm conviction in all the will of God" - Col 4:12
? 1:11 ? 1:11
? 15:12 ? 15:12
