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  Question about JW finance

  by Gorbatchov in

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  watched the jw finance video's.. they have sold all brooklyn landmarks.

  bilions.

  they are selling other property maybe up to 3000 units worldwide.. so, there is going something wrong.... there must be a giant money leak.

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  I wonder how much they really lost in the GFC and subsequent gambling on hedge funds? although its a terrible record on their history I dont see child abuse lawsuit payouts any where close to what the possible losses have been as I mentioned
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  The story of my congregation in the last five years.

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. experiences

  let’s start with the good news for the congregation that is.

  two new sisters were added to the group a mother and her daughter.

  then the bad news.

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  sometimes wonder how my old cong is doing, not that I care much, I do know a convicted paedophile serves there and is in good standing.
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  LEAKED: UK Branch Relocation Update 11-Jun-2018

  by Fay Dehr in

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  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/szsw4mwni40.

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  they talk about jeehovah( the grand architect, creator of the heavens and universe) that he/she has donned a hard hat, pair of boots and a high viz jacket and is a hands on god even making sure the planning applications are being granted, LOL, madness, so there are accommodation blocks, an auditorium, video production and maintenance?, no, kitchens, no transport dept,warehousing, no printing and no book bindery,didn't one loon on here speak about an underground network of tunnels! its becoming a bigger white elephant as each week passes, I bet they paid a fortune for that land and an even bigger fortune for the clean up work they would have been required by law to undertake, oh but its all a sign of jeehovahs blessing on the project, I wonder if jeehovah knows about the huge scaling back of the initial plans? their lies are nothing short of utter lunacy, who would believe a singe word any one of those cronies spoke as being true?
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  talked to jw woman on corner then later family fight with jw dad

  by JunkYardDog in

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  i had to go into a office close to a supermarket on a very high traffic expressway with next to no persons on the street anyway ever near.

  i see this jw lady about 65 yrs old standing there alone with 2 bags of groceries staring at the catholic church one side across the interstate road and the kh across the other side of the highway.

  cross bronx expressway.

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  JYD, you really are the very worst kind of activist, I suggest you get some professional help
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  So What Drastic Money Change is Next?

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  okay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.

  they reduced printing of mags.

  they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.

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  meeting in peoples homes again where paedophiles in the congregation can freely enter? not in a million years
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  elder from my former cong

  by jookbeard in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i left the wts in the early 1990's and i was baptised at the same assembly as this elder and his wife in the late 1980's they were probably in their early 50's back then, you know the kind; get called on, become a study and take to life as a jw like a duck takes to water, a dream call for all jw's and we went onto to be good friends with them over the years, the book study was held in their house also, he quietly progressed up the jw ladder became an ms then elder, a few months after i started my fade i saw him one day while i waited for a bus and he acknowledged me i said hi etc and he started a verbal tirade towards me about me knowing its the truth, how close we are living to the end, how stupid i was turning my back on it etc blah blah blah, i couldn't really get a word in edge ways, i bid him good day and that was that, he really was quite angry, i never saw him again until recently over 25 years later when him and his wife and their son were having a meal in my local pub, he was standing at the bar ordering, i saw him acknowledged him said hi and he looked straight through me, he said "do i know you ?

  " i replied " hey eddie its jookbeard from the ********** congregation, surely you remember me?

  " he said sorry i've never seen you before in my life, his wife came over to help him with his drinks and i said "hey pat, how are you?

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  no she didn't either dogisgod
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  elder from my former cong

  by jookbeard in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i left the wts in the early 1990's and i was baptised at the same assembly as this elder and his wife in the late 1980's they were probably in their early 50's back then, you know the kind; get called on, become a study and take to life as a jw like a duck takes to water, a dream call for all jw's and we went onto to be good friends with them over the years, the book study was held in their house also, he quietly progressed up the jw ladder became an ms then elder, a few months after i started my fade i saw him one day while i waited for a bus and he acknowledged me i said hi etc and he started a verbal tirade towards me about me knowing its the truth, how close we are living to the end, how stupid i was turning my back on it etc blah blah blah, i couldn't really get a word in edge ways, i bid him good day and that was that, he really was quite angry, i never saw him again until recently over 25 years later when him and his wife and their son were having a meal in my local pub, he was standing at the bar ordering, i saw him acknowledged him said hi and he looked straight through me, he said "do i know you ?

  " i replied " hey eddie its jookbeard from the ********** congregation, surely you remember me?

  " he said sorry i've never seen you before in my life, his wife came over to help him with his drinks and i said "hey pat, how are you?

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  LHG; possible
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  elder from my former cong

  by jookbeard in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i left the wts in the early 1990's and i was baptised at the same assembly as this elder and his wife in the late 1980's they were probably in their early 50's back then, you know the kind; get called on, become a study and take to life as a jw like a duck takes to water, a dream call for all jw's and we went onto to be good friends with them over the years, the book study was held in their house also, he quietly progressed up the jw ladder became an ms then elder, a few months after i started my fade i saw him one day while i waited for a bus and he acknowledged me i said hi etc and he started a verbal tirade towards me about me knowing its the truth, how close we are living to the end, how stupid i was turning my back on it etc blah blah blah, i couldn't really get a word in edge ways, i bid him good day and that was that, he really was quite angry, i never saw him again until recently over 25 years later when him and his wife and their son were having a meal in my local pub, he was standing at the bar ordering, i saw him acknowledged him said hi and he looked straight through me, he said "do i know you ?

  " i replied " hey eddie its jookbeard from the ********** congregation, surely you remember me?

  " he said sorry i've never seen you before in my life, his wife came over to help him with his drinks and i said "hey pat, how are you?

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  Diogenesister, their son is in his 50's about my age, he had already left home and getting on with his life when his mum and dad joined the WTS
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  JW UK Branch update 2018: "Follow the White Elephant"

  by Fay Dehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/y5uydq1mwtm.

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  is it me or does Lett act and sound more and more like Forest Gump?
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  elder from my former cong

  by jookbeard in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i left the wts in the early 1990's and i was baptised at the same assembly as this elder and his wife in the late 1980's they were probably in their early 50's back then, you know the kind; get called on, become a study and take to life as a jw like a duck takes to water, a dream call for all jw's and we went onto to be good friends with them over the years, the book study was held in their house also, he quietly progressed up the jw ladder became an ms then elder, a few months after i started my fade i saw him one day while i waited for a bus and he acknowledged me i said hi etc and he started a verbal tirade towards me about me knowing its the truth, how close we are living to the end, how stupid i was turning my back on it etc blah blah blah, i couldn't really get a word in edge ways, i bid him good day and that was that, he really was quite angry, i never saw him again until recently over 25 years later when him and his wife and their son were having a meal in my local pub, he was standing at the bar ordering, i saw him acknowledged him said hi and he looked straight through me, he said "do i know you ?

  " i replied " hey eddie its jookbeard from the ********** congregation, surely you remember me?

  " he said sorry i've never seen you before in my life, his wife came over to help him with his drinks and i said "hey pat, how are you?

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  dont think so Scratchme, his son would have definitely known of my status and we made some small talk after the initial contact, I doubt he was practising for an acting role.