I would inform them in no uncertain terms to cease making any contact in any form whatsoever or you will inform the authorities
jookbeard
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Faded for almost 10 years and still getting random calls
by ctrwtf inhi all, just wondering if anyone is in the same boat.
wifey and i dropped off the face of the jw planet almost a decade ago and still get 3 or 4 visits a year mostly when we are not dressed or expecting visitors.
it's really annoying because we are both wondering why they don't get the hint already.. we don't want to move because we really enjoy where we live and both have careers that keep us in the area.. i've asked politely that they stop calling but like the "godfather" they keep "pulling me in.".
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Carl Olof Jonsson correspondence with Watchtower
by Anony Mous inin case any collectors don't have these yet:.
correspondence 1977-1980 between carl olof jonsson and the watchtower society.
http://kristenfrihet.se/english/corr.htm.
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jookbeard
great author TGTR and The Sign of the Last Days When? are both must reads for any jw contemplating leaving
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Side effect of Downsizing......$$$
by Tech49 inso here is a tidbit you will all just love!.
we all are hearing of the trend right now to ¨downsize¨ the congregations...ie... eliminate by combining, in order to blah blah blah... .
here is what you didnt know: every time a congregation is dissolved, for whatever reason, including merging or dispersing, wt makes money!
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jookbeard
Morpheus ; the funds from a disbanded/merged cong is hardly going to sit around for decades in an account collecting dust is it? they cant wait to get their dirty hands on it.
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Side effect of Downsizing......$$$
by Tech49 inso here is a tidbit you will all just love!.
we all are hearing of the trend right now to ¨downsize¨ the congregations...ie... eliminate by combining, in order to blah blah blah... .
here is what you didnt know: every time a congregation is dissolved, for whatever reason, including merging or dispersing, wt makes money!
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jookbeard
not rocket science, sell off of the KH as well.
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The Governing Body Doing The Math As Corporate CEOs
by Brokeback Watchtower inlett announce to his braindead indoctrinated rank and file masses the wt corporation is short on funds and so they have money problems.
he made light of his role and the rest of management's predicament by saying on a public broadcast: "in doing the math we found that the amount of money flowing out will be much greater than the amount of money coming in at this time".
clearly the guys on the gb have very little business sense to let things get so out of hand with tons of projects in the works and having to close all of them except for warwick, and one in england.. i have to wonder just what type of math these dead heads on the gb even know or consider when making all their plans for the future of the corporation they have leadership over.
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jookbeard
I wonder how much of the $2b in property sales from New York have they actually been able see as disposable cash? I wonder how much they have had to pay to plug the hole of their investment losses of the years? how much do they pay their fund managers? One thing is for sure their business model as a huge printing company must still haemorrhage money at eye watering amounts vast Bethel HQ's all over the world with huge printing and bookbindery installations and all the ancillary departments that are required must be close to obsolete now, the general public dont want their literature, WT and Awakes magazines only printed a few months a year and no hard bound books anymore, their recent austerity cuts clearly empathise that, and the remaining staff they employ at HQ's all around the still need feeding watering and medical care, the remaining Bethel HQ's around the world can only be used for one thing though; retirement homes, thats what Chelmsford seems to be for, more austerity to come but their golden goose is still laying though with the forced sells offs of KH's that will continue.
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When did "The Last Days" of JW Organization Begin? Will This Generation See It End?
by steve2 ina growing discourse on this forum has been around what "the end" means.
as jws, many here spent varying proportions of our lives waiting for the end when an unsettling realization was that the end that approaches is more likely to be from old age than the world's end.
through the centuries, group after group, has claimed it has "inside" information on the end of the world, drawing in the desperate-for-comfort like moths to flames.
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jookbeard
1995 and the overlapping generation was the real killer for them, a doctrine that lacked any sense or credibility, something a two bit magician whose act was exposed pulled out of thin air , the nail in their coffin, it has been stated here whose brainchild it was from the writing committee, could someone remind me please.
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"Armageddon is already here"; "the preaching work is done" -- rogue teachings in your congregation?
by FatFreek 2005 inone of my jw sons seems to be putting pressure on his non-jw brother apparently to scare him into accepting the troof and start coming to meetings.
wild statements like our topic title, which i know are not supported at jw dot org, have been made to my non-jw son several times over the past year or so.
while i haven't been privy to the actual phone conversations i tend to believe that the jw son is being pressured by the local elders to cut ties with the non-jw since their conversations seem to degrade into arguments -- therefore tending to weaken the jws faith in wt teachings.. either my jw son is lying about what i would call rogue teachings (and this would disappoint me greatly) or he is in some close knit clique in his congregation which has secretly chosen to go rogue on certain wt issues.. based on many of the recent posts here about drastic money and wt organization problems this could be a sign of pending splits of certain congregation members.. what do you think?
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jookbeard
our loon of a PO promoted this also, " the end being so close that you can almost smell it etc blah blah blah" that was 30 years ago, he also believed that if it was not for the blood ban there would be untold millions more jw's, he was wrong on both fronts.
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A Little Direction Please
by Brian J ini'm an active elder, cobe, just got home from the meeting where i handled the treasures part and concluded by announcing a friend of mine has been d/f,.....blah blah blah...and over the last year have woken up.
i simply cannot spill my guts to my wife and children as it would be family suicide.
i have zero desire to bash, spread my feelings, or become an "apostate".
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jookbeard
it is a difficult situation Brian you find yourself in and full credit to you for waking up, that in itself is very brave, every situation and circumstance is different, all the best in the choices you take, I wont give you the advice in the actions I took as it ended my marriage, yes I would have handled things differently but that is just me.
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October 31, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: New Visitor Exhibit at Bethel (UK)
by wifibandit inoctober 31, 2017 to all congregations re: new visitor exhibit at bethel.
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jookbeard
there is an awful lot of deception and blatant lies in that video, " spreading bible truths!" mmm, comparing themselves to builders of the Arc, The Grand Temple and Tabernacle, the very temple that not one single shred of evidence shows that it ever existed, and finally "can you volunteer to work on this project" in other words free cheap labour, or put it another way buy cheap pay twice and we all know the disasters that befall these projects.
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October 31, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: New Visitor Exhibit at Bethel (UK)
by wifibandit inoctober 31, 2017 to all congregations re: new visitor exhibit at bethel.
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jookbeard
no there was a thread somewhere on Chelmsford SBF and an apologist on there was boasting about the complex set of tunnels is being constructed! LOL.