Posts by oppostate

I agree. I reposted it onto Facebook. It is just very wrong and I hope people will think of this photo when they see Witnesses standing by one of the lit-carts.

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The Man with the Golden Arm

by Marvin Shilmer in

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james harrison is australian and is known as the man with the golden arm.

i've neither researched nor inquired of his religious disposition, but i feel safe assuming he's not now and never has been associated formally with the watchtower organization.

this man is a national treasure and hero of the first order.

oppostate

The Man with the Golden Arm

I thought you meant Jaime Lannister

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Why a new "World Headquarters"?

by 4thgen in

i just dont get it.

the gb moved to patterson and are conducting business from there, right?

they are not printing as much literature as they once were and they are still operating walkill for the magazines...er a ....pamphlets.

oppostate

Why a new "World Headquarters"?

Because 9/11 spooked them. They saw, from across the river, how vulnerable their religious empire really is.

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Cart Witnessing - Thrilling! Productive! Epic! Er.....um, well, not so much.....

by sir82 in

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talked with a pioneer recently, she was recounting her first experience with cart witnessing.. she brought the subject up, was going on & on & on & on about how wonderful the experience was, and how great, and how she enjoyed it so much, and it was so wonderful, and oh jehovah's blessing, and on and on and on...... a few questions to her revealed what really happened:.

-- a jw who owns a small restaurant in a strip mall allows jws to set up their cart outside his restaurant.

-- the restaurant is tucked pretty far out of the way, not prominent at all.

oppostate

I second the idea that it just helps to put their name, their Brand out there to be seen. JW logo certainly gets more exposure in those 3 hours than in the same time knocking on not-at-homes.

So advertising the Brand (not Branch) and giving the publishers a quiet nice little assignment.

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Canada Branch Finances - What's Going On?

by berrygerry in

an update on the canada branch hasn't been made (i think).. year-over-year, canada's equity decreased by 11 million in 2012, 17 million in 2013.. however, the 2014 report shows a huge increase (20 million) in the cost of "purchased supplies.

" with the shrinkage of the mags, and the push to online, how the heck did this go from 39 million to 58 million?.

even with this number, the equity in 2014 went down by a staggering 56 million.. what the heck is going on?.

oppostate

Look at the figures for long-term investments,
they've taken their investments and cashed in.

Land and buildings has pretty much stayed the same
(just a small increase there). While Other capital assets
have doubled. Yet the Total assets figure has gone down
by 50 million in one year.

Then look at Assets less liabilities line:
They've used up their cash buying new assets (and supplies).

Now skip to Total cost of all purchased supplies and assets:
They've been spending a lot more and more every year to the
tune of 160+million since 2009, and 50+ million just last year.

And one last look at Amortization of capitalized assets line:
That means a "depreciation" of their assets broken up into
installments, last year that was over 5 million.

So, the Canadian Branch has been making huge purchases.
Some other entity(-ies) have ended up with a third of the total
wealth of the Canadian Branch.

What have they gotten for spending a third of their assets?

Not land and buildings. That figure shows little increase.
It's in the "purchased supplies" rather than assets that you'll
find the huge expenditures.

Since we know a lot of the printing has moved from the U.S.
to Canada, I feel it would be safe to guess that the U.S. Branch
sold Canada the equipment and other supplies for printing, thus
showing a great expenditure on the Canadian Branch, while the
U.S. Branch, or whichever other WT entity sold the materials
became $50+ million richer last year.