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  No to beat the Un thing to death, but something stinks here....

  by isnrblog in

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  i still can't understand what they would have to gain by being a un ngo.

  some say status and others say they could gain monitarily, things to be investigated.

  the staus and influence theory does make some sense.

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  Seriously, the real estate angle is interesting. They own some choice NYC properties.

  In a non profit corp, the way the board members can profit is to say, set up a company that sells ink and sell it to the Society. The IRS is tightening up on non profits, where officers or board members profit directly or indirectly, to prevent such a scenario. This type of thing happens all the time.

  Think about it. If the GB members set up trucking, insurance, packaging companies or simply sales companies that they ran building supplies through, they could make billions. The Corp. i.e. the Society would show no profit, yet it bought 10 million dollars in ink from some other for profit corp.

  Incidentally, this type of stuff happens all the time. Like I said the IRS is tightening up on it but I'm sure their are loopholes.

  Fred www.isnrblog.com
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  No to beat the Un thing to death, but something stinks here....

  by isnrblog in

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  i still can't understand what they would have to gain by being a un ngo.

  some say status and others say they could gain monitarily, things to be investigated.

  the staus and influence theory does make some sense.

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  Very true. I totally agree.

  Fred www.isnrblog.com
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  Law suits by the Society against websites

  by isnrblog in

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  on this site and others i have been reading about the watchtower society suing bloggers and website owners because they quoted the watchtowers publications.

  a couple of observations.

  if you quote a publication that was publically distributed by the millions of copies, how could you be liable?

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  Thanks. Fred
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  Law suits by the Society against websites

  by isnrblog in

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  on this site and others i have been reading about the watchtower society suing bloggers and website owners because they quoted the watchtowers publications.

  a couple of observations.

  if you quote a publication that was publically distributed by the millions of copies, how could you be liable?

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  That is probably a better strategy than fighting them in the open.

  fred www.isnrblog.com
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  Law suits by the Society against websites

  by isnrblog in

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  on this site and others i have been reading about the watchtower society suing bloggers and website owners because they quoted the watchtowers publications.

  a couple of observations.

  if you quote a publication that was publically distributed by the millions of copies, how could you be liable?

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  On this site and others I have been reading about the Watchtower Society suing bloggers and website owners because they quoted the Watchtower’s publications. A couple of observations. If you quote a publication that was publically distributed by the millions of copies, how could you be liable? My lawyer says that if you do not acknowledge the quote as coming from the literature, you could have some liability. It could be charged that you were taking credit for its authorship. Otherwise since they are so widely distributed, they would have no argument. Of course, you wouldn’t want to distort the quote, there would be liability on your part for doing so. Just like you can criticize a public figure, the Watchtower by making this massive effort to place this literature in the hands of the public, would allow you to reprint and critique. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t sue. Often a person or entity with lots of cash will sue a person without the means to defend him/herself. The defendant may be right, but he doesn’t have the money to prove it, so he/she loses. I have two questions/thoughts: 1- Has anyone heard of any suits, been sued themselves and what was the outcome? 2- Shouldn’t we establish a legal fund to counter this? $5.00 from each DF’d Witness would put a stop to it. It’s also interesting that the new placement Watchtower is different than the Study Watchtower given to publishers. That creates a whole different legal dynamic if the study Watchtower is not made available to the public. It could be that they are trying to “plug the hole” with the new Watchtower arrangement. Comments? Fred www.isnrblog.com
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  My wife says "They miss you at the Hall"

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  she comes home with "sis.

  curious says she misses you.".

  "tell her i am right here, a phone call away.".

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  When they say they miss me, I always say "Ya know, I always miss you guys too. I keep forgetting to get those sites on my rifle calibrated. It shoots a little high.

  My wife (not a JW) works where my father works. He will often come in her office and tell her how much he "misses me". Her standard reply is "Come on over tonight for supper. Bring Mom". I'm DF'd and an apostate. Of course he says "he can't" and she says "Sure you can! You can drive and you know where we live."

  Piss on 'em, really.

  Fred www.isnrblog.com
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  Neat trick to play on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by isnrblog in

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  sorry if this has already been mentioned, but what we need to do is get 145,000 disfellowshipped and or apostate ex witnesses to attend the next memorial and partake in the wine and bread.. what a hoot!!!.

  that will get the bethel calculators going overtime.

  fred www.isnrblog.com.

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  Of course they say that anyone who partakes is counted and no one can object to anyone partaking but would they count them?

  Good question.
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  No to beat the Un thing to death, but something stinks here....

  by isnrblog in

  1. jw
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  i still can't understand what they would have to gain by being a un ngo.

  some say status and others say they could gain monitarily, things to be investigated.

  the staus and influence theory does make some sense.

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  I still can't understand what they would have to gain by being a UN NGO. Some say status and others say they could gain monitarily, things to be investigated. The staus and influence theory does make some sense. I am researching this.

  This leads to another question about monitary gain, Is someone or a small group actually making millions from the Witnesses? They have to have Billions on real estate alone, just in NYC. When you think about it, what expenses do they have? They pay the bethilites squat and have littel or no mortgages in their properties. In fact, they will give individual congregations loans to build halls. Are these underwritten by banks?

  Someone with the means should look into this an investigative reporter, or such. How are they doing since they switched to voluntary contributions at the door? As I recall, the congregation members ponied up for the literature. Whats happening now?
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  Neat trick to play on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by isnrblog in

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  sorry if this has already been mentioned, but what we need to do is get 145,000 disfellowshipped and or apostate ex witnesses to attend the next memorial and partake in the wine and bread.. what a hoot!!!.

  that will get the bethel calculators going overtime.

  fred www.isnrblog.com.

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  Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but what we need to do is get 145,000 disfellowshipped and or apostate ex Witnesses to attend the next memorial and partake in the wine and bread.

  What a hoot!!!

  That will get the Bethel calculators going overtime.

  Fred www.isnrblog.com
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  Have you ever intentionally said crazy things from the platform?

  by B_Deserter in

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  like have you said stuff that is just outright insane like "each and every one of us should be ready and willing to die for the society" purely in the hopes that you'd turn someone off?

  i imagine for most of us trying to fade that would be the most difficult thing to do, but some people are really good at shutting down and just going with a flow, too.. .

  i ask because it's the only possible explanation i can come up with for some of the really bat-shit insane stuff i've heard come from the podium.

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  Where do I start?

  My aging father was giving the "special talk". You read the "Special talk". You do not adlib. Anyway dad began to adlib on the subject of racial discrimination and actually said the "n" word, from the platform, in his rambling adlib. I almost pissed myself. That was the funniest thing I saw from the platform.

  He was removed as an Elder.

  I was in a demonstration with two other brothers where they actually started arguing on the platform. We got way off subject. Finally, when it was my turn to say something. I said “I think I’m in the wrong demonstration”. We were running out of time and had to end it. You had to be there. It was a hoot.

  One time a brother put his glasses down on the podium and he was leaning on the top of it and it collapsed on his glasses.
  There was a newly baptized guy who was being interviewed on stage and when he touched the mic, he got a shock and instinctively yelled “Shit!!”

  I would always raise my hand during the Watchtower study and ask questions they could not answer. In fact, they revoked my “privilege to answer”. What a crock of s**t. The meetings are not for Witnesses to learn they are for indoctrination purposes. If you interrupt the cadence, you spoil the brain washing. As a result of this I was DF’d for apostasy.

  If you’re still a Witness and planning on quitting, do some research on each study Watchtower and you will find discrepancies in the lit. Raise your hand and ask about them.

  Fred www.isnrblog.com