Good question. Thanks for the thread.
In the corporate world, it's called a "split". When one corporation gets too fat, rich, and vulnerable, a new corporation is started with few cash assets to do the day to day business of making money. It adds another liability firewall, it creates officer and director jobs to satisfy some of the ladder climbers, and it gives the appearance of growth.
The growth is not just a shell game. The Watch Tower Society aggregate is growing. It's getting mega rich! As a business model, this thing's a success.
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Whats the reason behind the name change of the Watchtower Society ?
by Homerovah the Almighty ini just read one of the wts.
recent km and realized the the wts.
the new name for the publishing corporation.
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Interesting scans of new lit - 2009 WT, Oct 2008 KM, and a new tract
by DoomVoyager ini found these articles intriguing.
i'll let them speak for themselves.
the first is from the january 2009 wt; kool-aid edition; second from the october 2008 km, the last is a new tract.. oh, and i apologize for the poor lighting.
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The offer for the month is any book printed on paper that discolors? OR any book printed BEFORE 1992?
Hahahaha!!!! This is the cutting edge Watch Tower Society of the 21 century!!!! This news must have "false" religion quaking in their boots. Hahahaha!!!! -
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Do we have any elders on here? "secret letter"
by Muney inrecently my wife (pioneer) told me her friends father (who is an elder) told her about a "secret letter" that wont be read to the congregation and to be kept just to elders was sent out.
apparently it had to do with the changes in the org and the "closeness of the end".
anyone else hear of this letter?
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<-------- Laughing @ Farkel
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Do we have any elders on here? "secret letter"
by Muney inrecently my wife (pioneer) told me her friends father (who is an elder) told her about a "secret letter" that wont be read to the congregation and to be kept just to elders was sent out.
apparently it had to do with the changes in the org and the "closeness of the end".
anyone else hear of this letter?
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The Society sells the sizzle and never yet has delivered the steak. They use drama, hype, innuendos, rumors, and just plain old showmanship. All these years I've been watching them, it all comes down to two things: 1, They're a printing company, and 2, They're never right.
The Watch Tower Society has managed to create a market for being wrong and they have leaned how to exploit that market to their benefit. "Big secret letter" comes under HYPE.
They plan these tricks months in advance.
Did ya ever wonder why, if the Watchtower magazine is so dad gum full of vitally important information, it's written and produced 6 months in advance and then sits in the can for most of that 6 months. If the information was really important, they could throw it up on their web sire the same day it's written.
The information isn't important (to them), the donations received from the pulp paper magazine is the important thing (to them). This is a publishing / media corporation with a gullible, superstitious market. First they found the market, now they are creating the market. -
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2003 Learn From The Great Teacher--PDF!
by Atlantis in2003 learn from the great teacher--pdf!
bookmarked searchable reduced front cover?
click here: http://www.imagger.com/view/446115_scan-10001.jpg.html click the link at the bottom of the next page.
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Very nice! Thanks!
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Elder stakeouts! Anyone done one / been a victim of one?
by sir82 insuppose the elders get an anonymous letter or phone call, or even a brave soul tells them that they no "brother so-and-so" is sleeping with "sister suzy q".
or a believing jw has a "non-scriptural" divorce, and wants proof her ex is sleeping with someone else.
the elders' manual says the "strong circumstantial evidence, such as evidence that the accused spent all night in the house of someone of the opposite sex who is not his wife or a family member" (paraphrase) can be used as evidence in a judicial case.. to get such "strong circumstantial eveidnce", elders have been known to "stake out" a house, spending all night in a car watching a house.. in all my time as an elder, i was never involved in one of these.
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been a victim of one? Oh yes! I'm not sure who was the victim though. The idiot sitting out in his car in South Dakota January weather watching my parked car all night while I walked to work just might have been more a victim than me. Served him right:-)
At first I was pissed but then I had a light-bulb moment and I realized I had the best car security in town. Lance Roberts in Yankton was the twerp who ordered the stake out and Merlin Marvin in Vermillion did the deed. They were both a couple of idiots. I doubt they had two working brain cells between them. -
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WT backtracking fast on Book Study -High Gas Prices
by stillajwexelder inso tonight the congregation discussed the front page of the october km -the new meeting schedule.
straight away it was emphasized it was not because of high gas prices that the meetings were being reduced.
it was pointed out that in parts of the world the brothers do not have cars so it was not high gas prices.
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Interesting that now the Witness leaders are in the position of having to promote reasons why Witnesses don't need to go to arranged meetings. When I was a kid I thought it was a huge good deal if we didn't have to go in service an hour before the book study on Tuesday night.
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2006 Revelation Its Grand Climax At Hand--PDF!
by Atlantis in2006 revelation its grand climax at hand--pdf!
bookmarked searchable reduced click the link at the bottom of the next page.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1duzi9 cheers!
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Good job! Thanks!
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Did you ever go in field service after realizing it was not the truth?
by Samuel Thorsen ini did not, but i did fs when i had seriuos doubts and i thougt some householders had pretty good arguments some times, but i could not admit it of course.. and i did fs for a long time after i realized the magazines was very very poor.
i still remember my very last hour from door to door.
geee that was torture, i hatet myself and hoped no one was at home.. do you remember your last fs hour?
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Good topic. Thanks for starting it.
Near the end of my Witness experience I decided I'd quit turning in time reports to the Corporation, that I'd just do door to door direct sales ("service") for God. I went in sales work ("service") for months with the groups every weekend without turning in a paper sales report. After a few months I realized I hadn't ever been doing direct sales ("service") for God, I'd always only been doing it for the paper report to please the Corporation.
The servants would call me and ask if I had any time to turn in for the month because they knew I'd been out with the groups every weekend and I'd say "no". I'm pretty sure they were filling in a time card for me. After a while they quit calling. It was easy to quit selling ("service"), because I already hadn't turned in a sales activity report paper for months. -
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just wondering
by booby inwhy, if all things were created through jesus, does the new world translation wait till genesis 1:26 for god to say let "us" make, and then revert back to ignoring the us in verses 27-31 to just god.
in verse 31 it says again just that god saw everything "he" made was good?.
31 after that god saw everything he had made and, look!
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My observations of Jehovah's Witnesses is . . . they're confused . . . Biblically, ethically, politically, morally, medically, . . . confused.
Now, which way is the door?