whereas cookies can identify the previous web page the visitor last opened.
Everybody should go to a pornsite for a minute before visiting the WTBS website. That would give them something to investigate.
Posts by JeffT
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15Is downloading Jw application dangerous?
by nakanozzi inhi, everybody.. romor has it that here in japan, downloading jw application is dangerous because once.
you download it, borg will know your every activity on the internet.. is this true?.
does anybody know about that kind of thing?.
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New K.Hall Design, Mansfield
by BluesBrother innot mansfield u k , but mansfield in u s a - it doesn't look much, does it?
in fact even the uber dubs on j w talk are not impressed (that must be a first!
this thread of theirs is publicly readable:.
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JeffT
I've worked in real estate. They'll be doing well if they can sell that thing for what it cost to build. It has no appeal whatsoever, it will go for a low price because anybody who can afford something nicer won't buy it. If you're in business, you want a building that will make people want to come in. Business like CVS would probably build something to their own design. And if it sells a year from now, everybody in town is going to call "the old Kingdom Hall." -
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How Corrupt Is WT?
by thedepressedsoul inhow corrupt do you think they are?
if so, in what ways?
i've been compiling my own list and thoughts.
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Legally corrupt or morally corrupt? There's a difference. I think they may be brushing up against the legal line on a lot of things, I don't believe they've crossed it.
Morally, they have a lot to answer for: false prophecy, harboring child molesters, lack of financial transparency for starters.
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Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
by JHK inmillions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens... [...].
what about watchtower society's holy money?.
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html?goal=0_ffd1d0160d-4ddea55429-100339089&mc_cid=4ddea55429&mc_eid=bfe834e473.
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JeffT
Lawsuit losses do not warrant trying to hide money in off shore accounts. The potential losses from lawsuits measure in millions. The WTBS has assets measured in billions. Unless they get much bigger, lawsuit payouts are not going to be that big a problem. Attempting to hide assets from the courts is a federal felony. I used to work for some one who tried it and ended up in prison for that AND tax fraud.
You launder money when you have it via criminal activity. I have yet to see that the WTBS has done anything illegal.
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Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
by JHK inmillions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens... [...].
what about watchtower society's holy money?.
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html?goal=0_ffd1d0160d-4ddea55429-100339089&mc_cid=4ddea55429&mc_eid=bfe834e473.
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Why would the WTBS bother with offshore accounts? They already have tax exempt status. The R&F don't seem to care where the money goes. I don't see who they need to hide it from. -
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A blog post on my 65th birthday
by JeffT inputting this out there for everybody.
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http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/.
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Putting this out there for everybody.
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JW-Facts--Here is that Circuit Assembly Financial Report Form you wanted!
by Atlantis inour "spy" was able to get in and get out undetected.
we thank him/her for their kindness and courage.
remarks were made that the assembly this person attended only kept the women in their place.. i remarked to this person that one of these days the watchtower is going to "put down" the wrong woman who is going to clean their clock with a massive discrimination lawsuit!.
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Mephis, thanks I missed that, as I said I was headed for work. So what happens if the brother authorized to transfer funds doesn't like the request, or thinks it is for a frivolous purpose? My inner accountant is not liking the idea of transferring money between entities like this (among other things). I will probably write more on this tomorrow. The lack of transparency is stunning. -
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Diddling, adjusting, changing Doctrines? Why not leave it alone?
by Terry ini have kept on asking myself why the jw's put targets on themselves by constant diddling with their own doctrines?
why not leave it alone?.
mainstream christianity has fixed teachings.
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JeffT
The WTBS has two fundamental problems in this.
1) they have no standards for hermeneutics and exegesis, that is the methodology of used to understand a text and the resulting interpretations. These would include careful analysis of who wrote a particular text, who he was directing his comments to, as well as close critical textual examination of a text. The WTBS runs into trouble because it doesn't apply any of this to any text, everything is taken as literally true and subject to their understanding of what that means. Since they have no standard method for explaining a verse, they can just shoot from the hip all the time.
2) A classic method of control is to constantly move the goals, purposes etc of whoever you're trying to manipulate. I've worked for a couple of control-freak bosses and it is very much like have the GB as your boss. You have to do it exactly right, or you'll get in trouble, but what is "exactly right" changes constantly. You're lucky if you get to find out in advance what that is.
edited to add: I spent some years as a member of a "mainstream" church. That church and a majority of other protestant denominations all agree on what they consider major doctrines: salvation by faith, the divinity of Jesus, Baptism, regular communion etc. All of minor points are left to the individual to decide for himself, and are not considered major points for argument. Most of the differences between churches involve worship style and governance, not doctrine.
The WTBS regards individual thinking as intolerable.
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JW-Facts--Here is that Circuit Assembly Financial Report Form you wanted!
by Atlantis inour "spy" was able to get in and get out undetected.
we thank him/her for their kindness and courage.
remarks were made that the assembly this person attended only kept the women in their place.. i remarked to this person that one of these days the watchtower is going to "put down" the wrong woman who is going to clean their clock with a massive discrimination lawsuit!.
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JeffT
I'm about to go to work, I hope some one can answer this question, because I really want to look into some accounting issues with these reports.
Here's the question: After the circuit sends excess funds to the branch office to be held on its account there, what does it have to do to get the money back?
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A New Watchtower trade name: Hudson Valley
by Gorbatchov inwatchtower and trading business is a never ending combination, now under the new name of hudson valley, selling their building machines online: .
http://used-tools-equipment.com.
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JeffT
excuse my ignorance, but when you factor the cost and logistics of housing and feeding 3000 volunteers, along with the purchase of 10's of millions of dollars of equipment, for those who would know how is this more cost effective then having the general contractor do all the work?
It isn't. And that would be before you factor in all the added expense caused by incompetent project management. The biggest thing the general contractor brings to the work site is the knowledge of how to do the job. A bad GC can cost you a fortune. Example: on one of the projects I worked on (an apartment building) the floors were installed before the plumbing, which means the plumber had to rip out the floors to install the plumbing. The floors then needed to be replaced. In our case the GC ate the cost (and probably watched his profit disappear).
I have no doubt (and there have been some reports) that this kind of thing happened a lot a Warwick.