Well even in Rutherford's time investors paid in and were able to vote on things. So the key elements of how it started were not based on donations per say. I am just being devil's advocate on how they could honestly argue out of the donation element.
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Pedophile Lawsuits. Which account did it come out of?
by horrible life inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/153653/2818067/post.ashx#2818067.
this question was posted by poster chris cross about a month ago.
i have been wondering about this ever since.
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Why don't Elders who are sick and elderly ever step down?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inin my 35 years as a witness,there have been many elders in my congregation who were old,sick,tired,weak,and could hardly walk.
they had a hard time reading the material,couldn't remember names, and sometimes forgot where they were in their reading material and talks.they never stepped down as elders.. what are the reasons why most never step down?
can they be asked to step down because of age?
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Burger Time
The old ones in my congo were the cool ones.
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Pedophile Lawsuits. Which account did it come out of?
by horrible life inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/153653/2818067/post.ashx#2818067.
this question was posted by poster chris cross about a month ago.
i have been wondering about this ever since.
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Burger Time
This may not be technically true Alpaca. Russel was the first to invest in to his own missionary which then became the WTS and he invested ALOT. That being said they could use the argument that it was used from stock funds and other diversified investment that are not part of the R&F contribution. It would be a stretch but it could be true.
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More on the Governing Body suicide
by JimmyPage inwell i'm sure you've probably heard by now about the suicide of a governing body member.
what you may not have heard, however, is the rest of the story.
apparently he was finishing a book that blows the lid off the wtbts!
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Burger Time
It was Theodore Jaracz!!! He drowned himself in his own smugness!
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"KNOCKING" LEGAL ACTION AGAINST WATCHTOWER COMMENTS
by V inthis notice was emailed to a third party who embeds watchtower comments videos on his blog:.
"my name is tom shepard, co-producer and co-director of knocking, a documentary about jehovah's witnesses.
you have violated u.s. copyright law by not gaining permission to use footage from knocking in the opening sequence of your series of short videos "watchtower comments" archived at the url: http://jehovahswitnessesvideo.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html .
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Burger Time
Know this is late but I would like to help with the Channel project.
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Approaching the Attorney General of New York?
by nomoreguilt indo you suppose, that if there were a concerted effort by enough people, that the ag of new york state could compel the wtbts to divulge the names of all the child molesters that are in their files??.
do you think that enough pressure could be placed on the society in order to diminish their stature with the state?
imagine the impact that just the suggestion of such a move would make on brooklyn....... my thoughts......any others????.
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It probably will not work. I also side on the issue of the WTS here. They honestly don't even have to keep records of known molesters. I don't believe it is the governments right to force someone to give up something that is already public info. If your concerned you can always search the child molester database. I personally do feel it would be a violation of rights to give up a name in public of someone who admitted to doing something but was not charged with Child molestation by the government.
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The Watchtower Society Shows Their True Colors Again
by TooBad TooSad inin the new may awake magazine there is an article "is philanthropy the answer?
i knew what the answer.
was going to be before i even read it.
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Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective
By definition the WTS is an Philanthropic organization! Hilarious!! The WTS claims that helping others to find paradise is charitable. So they are donating time/money/good to support a charity! This is the type of Awake I dream about a JW using when they come to my door, so that I can completely destroy their argument.
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Israel
by Honesty inhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969459.html.
accusing the witnesses of targeting society's weaker elements, including new immigrants, the poor and the handicapped, critics blast what they call the group's devious recruitment methods.
"they've mapped out all of israeli society and then target segments that don't get attention elsewhere," said cohen.
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That's kind of sad that Israel is so hateful to other religions...not surprising though. I imagine it's funny to watch a smug JW from the U.S. come to Israel proclaiming to have a vast knowledge of Jewish faith only to run into an Orthodox and get his brain fried.
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wackjob response to my inquiry
by DaCheech intoday i approached this elder in the hallway to pick his brains.. i said: "i've seen a couple of buildings sold in brooklyn?
is there plan to sell all and move out"?.
he said: "brother these are truly the last of minutes, and day there might not even be any bethel in us...... the persecution is going to be so extreme that bethel might be in...... rome, islands, or bla bla".
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Only one more day till the end of all the world according to one JW (possibly?) who cam on here ranting. Hope this last one is a good one.
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JW weddings gone bad. A story from my old congo.
by uwishufish inmiddle tenn late 70s.
first there was the child the high school girl had out of wedlock.
the term rape was bandied about after she began to show.
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There was couple that my older brother was friends with. One was an immigrant with a drinking problem and the other was a girl who had been married like 3 times before that and she was only like 23 or something. Needless to say after numerous warnings from everyone about her about 3 months later she was filing divorce papers and ready to marry some other joker.