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  What charitable works does the WTBS do in the UK?

  by highdose in

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  in the uk they are registered as a charity.

  its made clear from the platform that this is for tax reasons, they get a nice tax break from the goverment.

  but what charitable works do they actualy do?.

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  Charitable Trusts like all trusts are basically ways of sheltering organisations from tax, and religions are one a number of groups within charitable law accorded charitable trust status, and it is a rebuttable presumption that they therefore perform charitable acts. Until quite recently the Charities Commission has been relatively inactive in investigating a religious group once it registers as such, this seems to be changing a little. It is though a religious and political minefield, so do not expect rapid movement in this direction.

  That being said, as most of us know the wts do very little, if any, works that can in any way, shape or form that could be construed to be charitable. The wts is vulnerable in this area in The UK. We all know that the reason they claim trust status is to lower their taxes and reclaim them too.

  David
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  What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?

  by A.Fenderson in

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  what's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?.

  my personal recommendation: synecdoche, new york.

  it's one of those movies that words fail utterly to capture--which really is the hallmark of a good movie, i suppose.

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  Pan's Labyrinth. I loved slumdog millionaire as well.The Diving Bell and The Butterfly- very French, is poignant.

  David
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  What's your personality type? Myers-Briggs test

  by frankiespeakin in

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  take this 72 yes/no question test to find out.. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.

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  I am ENFJ, and have done this test three or four times, same result.

  What might be interesting is to see if our personality type changes as we move away from our previous incarnations as JWs, I suspect not, though we the percentage of each might differ.

  David
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  Which poster would you like to have a beer (or Pepsi for the sober peeps) with? Why?

  by serenitynow! in

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  i've lurking for months, and have enjoyed the various personalities on the board.

  i'm pretty sure that i've seen this topic done on an old thread, but i don't want to get my buddy asilentone all riled up by performing a resurrection.

  minimus- cause he is funny.

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  I have met some people on here and have found then interesting and warm. Cognizent Dissident is very warm and very interesting. hilary_ steppe is one of the most fascinating and cultured people I have ever had the pleasure to meet, and has fab musical taste.

  I would like to meet beks, she makes a lot of sense, and bts out of curiosity
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  Which is the latest movie you have seen ??

  by on the rocks in

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  avataar-brilliant.

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  I saw precious and took my 16y old daughter with me, it is a very challenging movie, she sat through it. My friend who is a solicitor was with us too, and as an aside he said that quite often whilst training he had to deal with child abuse cases.

  I have also seen An Education which I loved I grew up in the sixties, Alfred Molina was great as was Cary Mulligan.

  Saw Avatar too, which i enjoyed.

  Next movie I want to see is I love you Philip Morris

  David
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  guys, when you were JW's did you feel sorry for the subjugated sisters?

  by highdose in

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  in my cong i could name more than half the brothers who seemed to revel in squashing the sisters back into the door mat where they belonged.

  nothing personaly irrated me more than being treated like a lower form of life simply because i didn't have a penis!.

  but i never saw any brothers make a stand, or try to treat the sisters better.

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  I always felt uncomfortable being viewed as the head of the household, though I did very little to oppose it, now having left, I can see misogyny as part of the control mechanisms exercised by the WTS and many organisations. I loathe all forms of discrimination and oppose and highlight it for what it is.

  The wts says they treat women as equals, yet they plainly do not, it reminds me of that Orwellian remark " all are equal , though some are more equal than others".

  David
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  Tea Partiers Say They Would Absolutely Abolish Social Security

  by sammielee24 in

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  please, please, please let the libertarians, republicans and their offshoot the tea party, run on this issue.

  oh my heavens what a joy it would be to line up all the runners and tell half of the americans - the vast majority of those who actually live on their social security, that they want to take it away.

  abolish it.

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  And who caused the deficit - George W Bush and the Banks, nothing to do with socialism or social secuity. Bush raised spending and lowered taxes and the banks spent other people's money, then asked for government to bail them out, as did General Motors
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  Tea Partiers Say They Would Absolutely Abolish Social Security

  by sammielee24 in

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  please, please, please let the libertarians, republicans and their offshoot the tea party, run on this issue.

  oh my heavens what a joy it would be to line up all the runners and tell half of the americans - the vast majority of those who actually live on their social security, that they want to take it away.

  abolish it.

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  mindmelda, you are spot on in all respects in your analysis. I would add on something else; what about the the profligate banks who took so much of the taxpayers money, are they bastions of capitalism or socialism?

  On my side of the pond, irresponsible banks have cost us big time, and caused our deficit to to balloon, we would not be in nearly the amount of crap we are now were it not for them.

  David
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  Tea Partiers Say They Would Absolutely Abolish Social Security

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
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  please, please, please let the libertarians, republicans and their offshoot the tea party, run on this issue.

  oh my heavens what a joy it would be to line up all the runners and tell half of the americans - the vast majority of those who actually live on their social security, that they want to take it away.

  abolish it.

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  J Woods, you are incorrect to both in the general and the particular.; The USSR and China were the very opposite of anarchic, they were very tightly controlled societies,as in the Time of Draco who followed Anarchy. History does have lessons for us.
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  Tea Partiers Say They Would Absolutely Abolish Social Security

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please, please, please let the libertarians, republicans and their offshoot the tea party, run on this issue.

  oh my heavens what a joy it would be to line up all the runners and tell half of the americans - the vast majority of those who actually live on their social security, that they want to take it away.

  abolish it.

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  BTS do you know much about Greek history?? The reason i asked, is that when you say Capitalism can wok in Anarchy you show that you have not learnt the lessons of history and thus are doomed to repeat it

  David