it's well worth taking a look at the article, it will only take you a few minutes.
but i would particularly like to highlight this part: .
if you are going to divulge a shortfall in funds, particularly with the aim of leveraging more donations (or valuable things) from a pool of supporters who are already lagging in this regard, the least you can do is treat them like adults and give some hard numbers.
they have $$$$$ Billions of dollars no doubt in Hedge Funds making money
They could have billions of dollars in hedge funds losing money. Do not think for a moment that hedge funds always make money, over the past three months there have many unexpected extreme swings on the financial market. Euro, oil, gold, Swiss Franc too name a few.
if a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the jw organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body.
what steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking.
and also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?.
" Do you believe that the governing body is Jehovah's sole appointed channel?"
Answer yes of course.
After all we all know that the name of the god of the bible is not Jehovah.
Jehovah is a name that first occurred in the year 1270, so Jehovah is a made-up name belonging to a man-made religion.
i know about it and i'll explain the reason why.it has to do with terrorism and hate speech!________________________.
in researching my book about jehovah's witnesses, (i wept by the rivers of babylon) i studied many supreme court cases jehovah''s witnesses were fighting during the 1940's.. one such case is: 1942 supreme court ruling chaplinsky v. new hampshire.. if you had to use just two words to describe this case those two words would be: fighting words.. __________________________.
a jw street preacher incited his fellow citizens to riot against him by insulting everything they held dear: their god, their religion, their government, and their flag.. (that doesn't surprise you, does it?:).
Crazyguy and DATA-DOG
Now if I incited Mr. Somebody to hate you and call you both "Crazy Apostates" and then he shot you both as well, Mr. Somebody would be guilty of a hate crime under American law. What about me, who incited "Mr. Somebody" to hate you, I didn't incite him to shoot you, but just to hate you, this hate cause him to shoot you. Am I guilty of a crime because I incited him to hate.
The Watchtower incites hate, have done for years. Hate leads to serious crimes.
i have a pretty good intuition but i have to admit i am going back and forth on the jw tv may broadcast.
i keep asking myself are they really in financial trouble (wishful thinking) or are they just grabbing for more money?.
i always appreciate reading everyone's thoughts and ideas on here.. let me know what you think.
I beg to differ there. Considering the labor is free, they could sell a complex immediately after completion, they would have to make some pretty good excuse to do so, but they could.
Another aspect (I am not really sure on this one), if a building complex cost the bOrg $150 000 000,00. After completion that book value is considerably more, any estimation on the value of a building takes into consideration the cost in the real world where labor has to be paid for. Having lets they say $250 000 000,00 on the books instead of the costs of just $150 000 000,00 would allow them theoretically to gain a load from a bank for other investments or to cover any short-term cash flow problem.
if a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the jw organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body.
what steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking.
and also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?.
Well in my case, the elders have as yet not spoken to me. I only stopped going to meetings 6 weeks ago.
What they have done is:
Gave a talk in the congregation on apostate literature on the Internet
and
Made it clear to my family including my 14 year old daughter that I was "mentally diseased".
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.
i know it's old but i never saw this one before.
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If anybody is interested there is an interesting article on "Hate Speech":
http://www.article19.org/pages/en/hate-speech-more.html
The following should perhaps receive a special mention:
I think that declaring anybody "mentally diseased" and shunning them is "with the intention of inciting
discrimination".
Although this is not law in many lands as mentioned by Ruby456.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.
i know it's old but i never saw this one before.
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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.
i know it's old but i never saw this one before.
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Ruby456
The text then goes on and expands on this.
i'm in dire need of assitance, and i have decided to humbly come here.... first, let me reintroduce myself.
my name is kolabomi, a nigerian and a proud one too.
i am a graduate student in one of my country's leading university.
And don't forget to give us an assessment of your personality in figures to at least 2 decimal places and a letter of recommendation from the local BOE.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/985479.
i know it's old but i never saw this one before.
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