fair warning, i am not a jehovah's witness believer, but i am curious about what it is you believe and why you believe it.
so i am interested in talking to you instead of reading about you from my own christian perspective.
after all, who understands what jehovah's witness believes better than a jehovah's witness?
Where can I find a good Jehovah's Witness forum to engage actual Jehovah's Witnesses?
My information may be out of date, I left the witnesses a number of years ago.
Short answer: you can't. Jehovah's Witnesses are told to stay off the internet except for a few approved sites. Any JW engaging with Non-JW's is disobeying his/her religion. There may be some, but they probably don't fit any reasonable definition of a "good" Witness.
it doesn’t have to be about big money.
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I'm now on about my 3rd or 4th career, and I'm doing the job I always wanted: Novelist! Pay isn't great, but I love the work. Besides I'm retired from other kinds of work. My most recent "Armageddon's Disciples" is on Amazon. Link below leads to the Kindle version, and a few opening chapters. Paperback and hardcover editions are also available.:
the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.
the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.
they blow it on useless tat.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make the down payment.
the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.
the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.
they blow it on useless tat.
Tip #2
For god's sake, if you own a house stop refinancing it every time you read an article about prices going up. That is the biggest asset you own, don't piddle it away on vacations or whatever. That is the middle class version of buying sneakers.
Don't own a house? Sit down with a banker (a real banker, not a mortgage broker) and work out a plan to get into a house.
/change to joke mode/
DOC: from my days working in real estate development:
Q: How do you make a small fortune in real estate?
A: Start with a big fortune.
the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.
the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.
they blow it on useless tat.
There is an easy route to increased wealth if people will take it: maximize your contribution to your 401(k). This is especially true if your employer matches your contribution. Once money is in the 401(k) it gets invested in (drum roll) stocks and bonds. The profits are also reinvested. And none of this money is taxable so you get to be one of those rich people that doesn't pay taxes on his money.
The thing that stops most people is they fact that it takes twenty years or so for this to start showing significant gains. You have to be ready to play long ball, this won't show immediate results. Gratification is delayed, something Americans aren't good at.
what is the probability that a religious organisation is used for money laundering?
for example, large amounts of money are raised by the organization as a donation and then legally introduced into the financial system.
is there any chance that jw.org is used for this kind of purpose?
Keep in mind, the main reason to launder money (in the US) is to avoid paying taxes. The WTBS is a church and doesn't pay taxes they have no need to hide their income.
To answer the OP (if I understand the question correctly) in some ways a church would be a good vehicle for cleaning dirty money. Every Sunday you have the pimps and drug dealers drop the week's earnings into the collection plate. Then you split the money however you want as payments to contractors, salaries etc. The down side is you'd have to have a lot of church staff in on the scam, and possibly a bank or two. I suspect that would lead to a visit from the IRS, see Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
what is the probability that a religious organisation is used for money laundering?
for example, large amounts of money are raised by the organization as a donation and then legally introduced into the financial system.
is there any chance that jw.org is used for this kind of purpose?
Great Teacher, better be careful, you could end up like this:
i answered a question on quora about jw flip flops .
i mentioned, amongst other things , the 1975 debacle.
how witnesses were told that armageddon was coming in the fall of that year.
I started studying with JW's right after I graduated from college in 1973. Everybody (and I mean everybody) was talking about 1975. What seems to be their common excuse for this is to blame it on the rank and file running ahead of the organization. Fine, make them show you where they chastised "the brothers" for making this up.
They can't do it, because they were encouraging the talk, not trying to make people act sensibly.
so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?
a tragic accident?
maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.
I grew up around guns. My father was an avid outdoorsman, if it wasn't hunting season the only thing that kept us off the range some days was fishing.
I learned at a very young that there was no such thing as an unloaded gun, and you never ever pointed a gun at something unless you wanted to shoot it. To this day I can not touch a gun without checking the chamber, and even if I just checked it, the muzzle is always pointed at the ground.
The question here is: were these people attacking Mr. Baldwin? If yes then he can claim self-defense. If he was holding a gun that discharged and killed some one, he should be charged with negligent homicide. There may be some defense to that, I don't know what it would be.
so, i saw dune (1984) yesterday.
i knew it wasn't gonna be great, but deary me.
i'm not gonna lie - this film is not good, in fact it's laughably bad in places.. first, i'd like to know the thought process that went behind choosing david lynch to write/direct.
Just ran across this: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/dune-better-in-hebrew
Worth reading as a look at the linguistics of the books/movies. Interesting minor point -- he says that David Lynch didn't read the book before he made the movie. That would explain a lot.
