Posts by JeffT

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Wish me all the best

by LevelThePlayingField in

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so i called in to my local walgreens pharmacy to get my blood pressure medicine refilled.

i go to the pharmacy to pick it up and they tell me that the doctor has denied filling it saying to them, "prescription refill not appropriate".

i asked them what that means and they say you'll have to contact your doctor on that, sorry.

I've said this before, but this is a good place to say it again: I'm an alcoholic. I haven't had a drink since August 29, 2005. Best 11 years of my life. I now work in a 28 day recovery center. I may be able to help find counselors/programs etc wherever you live. PM me if you want. Alcoholism is a disease, not a moral failure. It is quite capable of killing you, which is why your doctor wants you to come in and get your tests done. It is probable that if you go there and tell him the truth, you won't say anything he doesn't already know. I went in for a physical after I got sober, one of the docs first questions was "how much did you really drink?" When I told him he said "I knew you were lying to me."

Get some help and good luck to you.

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Does the Watchtower Bible Society own stocks. Nad are those stock related to military business?

by CitizenofEarth in

hello.. i am a young 18 year old danish guy, who is a baptized jw.

since one year ago i have been maturing gradually and asking questions about many things, not only about jw stuff(which has caused some problems.

but nothing i couldnt handle with a bit of social skill).

JeffT

Put simply, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He says the form he is looking at is the official tax return of the WTBS, and shows its investments. It isn't and it doesn't. This is a tax return for a charitable trust, which is a separate entity created with somebody else's money. In this case it's the Henrietta Riley trust. The money invested is hers. Under US tax law, the beneficiary of such a trust has NO say in the management of the trust. It is managed by a trust company and regulated by the legal instructions of the person who established the trust, in this case Ms. Riley.

There are large issues for which the Watchtower needs to be held accountable. This isn't one of them, and harping on it obscures the real issues and gives JW's that choose not to see facts a good excuse not to look at real information about real problems.

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Does the Watchtower Bible Society own stocks. Nad are those stock related to military business?

by CitizenofEarth in

hello.. i am a young 18 year old danish guy, who is a baptized jw.

since one year ago i have been maturing gradually and asking questions about many things, not only about jw stuff(which has caused some problems.

but nothing i couldnt handle with a bit of social skill).

JeffT

Do you have links? I can't find anything.

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Does the Watchtower Bible Society own stocks. Nad are those stock related to military business?

by CitizenofEarth in

hello.. i am a young 18 year old danish guy, who is a baptized jw.

since one year ago i have been maturing gradually and asking questions about many things, not only about jw stuff(which has caused some problems.

but nothing i couldnt handle with a bit of social skill).

JeffT

Reminder: I'm an accountant.

I did some research on this a few months ago. This Thread contains my conclusions.

@Startrekangel No the WTBS does not own the O'Rielly trust. That trust is a separate entitiy that belongs to Ms O'Reilly's estate. It is managed for the benefit of the WTBS, but they don't have any say in how its run. These things are regulated by US law, which doesn't care what the Watchtower says in its magazines.

On both of these issue I don't think there is anything here for the XJW community. There are much bigger fish to fry: pedophiles, the theft (in my opinion) of local funds and kingdom hall ownership, misappropriation (probably) of donations, and who knows what went on in the construction of Warwick.

Citizenofearth: congratulations on doing your research. I expect you'll find you can't go back.

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Do JWs Regard You As An APOSTATE?

by minimus in

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i doubt people consider me an apostate but you never know.🤓.

JeffT

I know we were considered apostates when we left in 1989. The thirty page letter we sent them probably tipped them off. At this point, I'd be surprised if any of them even remember us. We moved a few years after we DA'd.

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Was There ANYTHING Positive That You Experienced Because of Being a JW?

by minimus in

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was there anything positive about your jehovah's witness experience?.

JeffT

I quit smoking when I became a JW. I met my wife through the Witnesses. We've been together for 42 years, only fifteen of that was as JW's.

lt taught me what life would be like in a jail.

Either you've been in really nice jails or really bad kingdom halls.

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What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

JeffT

That's why I suggest that it's better to listen to both sides, weigh the arguments and discern what is spin and what is based on reality, and that the truth is often somewhere between the two viewpoints.

Or sometimes, somewhere else entirely.

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What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

JeffT

Progressives notice that Fox News has an agenda and lies to support it.

Conservatives notice that the other news outlets have an agenda and lie to support it.

Nobody (that I can see) notices that both of those statements are true.

Same shit, different day.

I'm reading a good suspense novel called "The Last Child" by John Hart. It's part of my research for a JW related thriller/suspense novel I'm in the middle of rewriting.

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The fact that different states have different laws about child sexual abuse is ludicrous it should be looked at pronto.

by smiddy in

it would go a long way in having a law that prosecutes anybody sexually abusing a child or even an adult that encompasses all states with the same laws the same consequences and the same penalties in the country.. this system that has different laws ,different penaltys , different outcomes depending in what state you live in is ludicrous.. one country should have the same judicial system no matter how many states their are in that country.. this state has mandatory laws this state doesnt and the outcome can be so demoralising for those involved ..

JeffT

In the United States, general police power is the province of state governments. Interstate trafficking in sex and child pornography is already a federal offense. If you think your state's laws are inadequate, you need to lobby your state legislature to change the law.

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Democrats, Conspiracy theorists, take a look

by JeffT in

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/sandy_berger_and_the_clinton_c.htmlsandy berger and the clinton cover-up - why it mattersbyronald a. cass.

on may 17th, sandy berger, president bill clinton's national security adviser, voluntarily gave up his law license and with it the right to practice law.

that is a stunning move for an accomplished lawyer, one of the nation's most influential public officials.

JeffT

Good grief Hecce this is so old I didn't remember posting it. I thought somebody must have hacked my account to post it. I hope you find something to do more productive than digging up ancient posts about politics.