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  Very important, you must save JWs from dieing at Armageddon!

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  every drop of breast milk has roughly 1 million white blood cells in it.

  so the next time you see a jw drink milk or eating milk with his cereal etc.

  you must run over and take it out of his/her hands and then give them a stern warning.

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  JeffT

  I guess JW's will have to stop drinking milk. I'm surprised no one (including me) ever thought of this before. Human blood contains about 4,000-10,000 white cells per milliliter.
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  Any William Miller Scholars out there?

  by neverendingjourney in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those who may not be aware, the 1914 date was arrived at by russell by using the same framework of the failed prophetic interpretations of the adventist preacher william miller.

  see this chart:.

  if you look at the top right of the chart, he uses the same 7-times reasoning to arrive at the 2,520 years (7 times=7 multiplied by 360-day years=2,520 years).

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  Miller moved his end date from 1843 to 1844 for the same reason that many Watchtower dates have been moved around: he got to the first date and nothing happened.
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  Warwick -How much will it cost to build?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are some good minds on this forum.

  how much will it cost, in your estimation, to build warwick?

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  I'm under the impression the dam is part of an environmental mitigation issue. I'll have to see if I can see where I found that.
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  Warwick -How much will it cost to build?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are some good minds on this forum.

  how much will it cost, in your estimation, to build warwick?

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  Somewhere along the line I estimated that if it was a private project it would cost 350-500 million. I have no idea how much (if any) they save using volunteer labor. I suspect that aren't really saving very much. Using volunteers tends to be inefficient, and there have been rumors of stuff needing to be done over.

  Without reading the documents I can't tell you what the performance bond covers. I might try to take a look and see if they are available on line. My guess is that they have to do with utility connections and the like. When the project is done, they bond will be released. That 30 million dollars doesn't really have much to do with the total cost of the project.
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  Assembly Hall selling HVAC machines

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not going to disclose a whole lot of details because it will implicate someone else without their consent.

  someone very close to me, who is a non-baptized publisher (for almost 3 years now), went to work to the local assembly hall.

  recently, they removed the existing hvac machines and replaced them with new ones.

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  If those things have mold in them, they are a huge liability. I presume that several thousand people go through that building. If there is mold, every one of those people is a potential lawsuit.

  And they may well have to do it again if they don't maintain the system properly.
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  Why the Governing Body caught a frightful fright

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it has been extensively reported on the forum that there has been a marked increase in effort over the past two years by the governing body of jehovah's witnesses to encourage an increase in monetary donations.

  this has also been accompanied by the stripping of financial capital from the local congregations.

  as has also been reported on this forum, this has in all probability been done to facilitate the financing of the vast new hq building project as well as the financing of the shift from a publishing company to becoming an internet based charismatic multimedia company which produces lame pixar/disney animation knock offs while simultaneously parading the governing body's ever expanding waistlines, blingy accoutrements and stupid grins.. meanwhile the financials of the organization remains as murky as ever.

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  Wire rider, what you are describing is tax fraud, a federal felony. It is the one thing that will get the government involved in church affairs. Both New York and Pennsylvania require the submission of audited financial statements with the renewal of corporate registration. https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/nonprofit-audit-guide/state-law-audit-requirements

  So far as I know, these submissions are not a public record, but no CPA is going to want to go to jail for lying about the WTBS' finances, which is what would happen to them. Google Enron and Arthur Anderson for an example.
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  I predicted a lottery number from a pattern, is the lottery NOT random or is random held to a universal force?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. social
  2. current

  i've studied and observed several lottery patterns.

  this one is now gone so nothing lost by revealing it.

  i had a certain history search and noticed that almost each week the past few months a list of numbers not used recently were being used 1 per week.

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  https://youtu.be/CBVSZKjHAi4
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  Why the Governing Body caught a frightful fright

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it has been extensively reported on the forum that there has been a marked increase in effort over the past two years by the governing body of jehovah's witnesses to encourage an increase in monetary donations.

  this has also been accompanied by the stripping of financial capital from the local congregations.

  as has also been reported on this forum, this has in all probability been done to facilitate the financing of the vast new hq building project as well as the financing of the shift from a publishing company to becoming an internet based charismatic multimedia company which produces lame pixar/disney animation knock offs while simultaneously parading the governing body's ever expanding waistlines, blingy accoutrements and stupid grins.. meanwhile the financials of the organization remains as murky as ever.

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  I'm sorry, I'm an accountant and this graph is meaningless. It shows twenty-two years, and only has actual numbers for eight of them. The reason I asked the question about cost vs market valuation is because the answer to that question has a huge impact on the meaning of the results. Market rate valuation can create wild swings in the value of assets held, which are meaningful only if you have to convert the asset into cash immediately. It also does not include assets held by other corporations, notably all the local Kingdom Halls.
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  Infighting at the top?

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've all been trying to decipher what is going on at the top of the watchtower organization.

  clearly, the game's afoot, we just don't know what game we're playing.

  item: the constant harping about money and donations.

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  What Fisherman said is along the line of what I am thinking. It may not be a fight within the GB, but a turf war between various departments. I suspect the business decisions are being made by lawyers and accountants, and as Beth Sarim points out, consultants. I do think the GB is incompetent at all levels, they may well know that. This leaves them dependent on the advice they are given by competing advisers.

  I converted when Knorr and Franz ran the show (1973). One of the appeals of the organization was the appearance (at least) of depth in the literature and meeting parts. Those days are long gone, replaced by (as noted by previous entries in this thread) insipid music, inept videos, and dumbed down lectures. This will cost them their most loyal members, which is why I say there might be a schism.
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  Why the Governing Body caught a frightful fright

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it has been extensively reported on the forum that there has been a marked increase in effort over the past two years by the governing body of jehovah's witnesses to encourage an increase in monetary donations.

  this has also been accompanied by the stripping of financial capital from the local congregations.

  as has also been reported on this forum, this has in all probability been done to facilitate the financing of the vast new hq building project as well as the financing of the shift from a publishing company to becoming an internet based charismatic multimedia company which produces lame pixar/disney animation knock offs while simultaneously parading the governing body's ever expanding waistlines, blingy accoutrements and stupid grins.. meanwhile the financials of the organization remains as murky as ever.

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  Does the WTBS report assets based on cost or market value?