If you're using slave labour pennies can count. In the real business world it most likely would be a negative return on investment of labour to save stamps.
Posts by hoser
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28An experience at Bethel
by joe134cd ini was just thinking of something i observed on a visit to bethel some years back, that at the time struck me as odd, but now that i look back on it, it might be revealing about their financial situation.
please feel free to agree/disagree with me and also bear in mind this is some years back so my memory may be sketchey.
i remember walking into the front entrance of the bethel to do a tour.
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Welfare and Witnesses
by adjusted knowledge ini'm ignorant to the social welfare programs outside the us, but listening to others i have to assume in europe it is more generous.
i've not had deep personal conversation with active witnesses for nearly 20 years.
last year i made contact with a family and some elders came to my house.
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hoser
I know an elder who refused to take a good paying job to provide for his growing family because he would have to work every other Saturday morning.
Instead he does odd jobs, collects food stamps and other handouts and "takes the lead in the ministry"
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Book Burning and other burning of materials done by JW. Any experiences Please post
by adjusted knowledge inas a very young child i have memories of several book burnings done by jw families.
it wasn't something arranged by the congregation, but elders did participate in it.
it was actually scary for me as a child of only about 8 years old.
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hoser
Yep as a teenager we were made to burn led zeppelin , prism, fleet wood Mac and a whole bunch of other lps that I can't remember. -
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Rumor about the Imitate Jesus Convention
by FusionTheism ini saw a rumor a few weeks ago on reddit that the new imitate jesus convention is supposed to present new light and clarified understandings on the disfellowshipping/disassociation practices.. supposedly, if this rumor has any truth to it, there will be a talk given at the convention about how we should not be strict like the pharisees in how we shun people, loosening up some of the jw rules about this practice.. has anyone here heard anything about this or have more info on it?.
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hoser
They read a letter last week about not downloading the new releases until you have attended YOUR own convention. Ya right -
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Are J.W.'s as Gullible as the Org's Writings Imply?
by The Searcher inthe latest watchtower certainly indicates that the org thinks they are!!
why keep in expectation?
watchtower august 15 par.
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hoser
I was a born in indoctrinated by parents who were kool aid sipping Jws. I have to admit I was gullible as gullible gets. I drank the kool aid. I wholeheartedly believed all the bs in the revelation book as if it was from jehoover himself.
That was a result of my ultra orthodox jw upbringing. I knew of nothing else and was afraid of apostates.
So when you talk disparagingly of people who are gullible go easy on them. It may be their parents fault. Also realize there is a chance that they will change. I did.
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2015 May 12 BOE--Utility Supplier!
by Atlantis in2015 may 12, boe... re: kingdom hall utility supply.
.. click the green download button.. http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/1zwewah.
.. .. petra!.
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hoser
I'm sure there are some kickbacks somehow involved. Just like the hotel rooms at the conventions. -
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Geoffrey Jackson Bio!
by elkatire1980 inin the watchtower august 15 in the topic: "let the many islands rejoice" appears the following paragraph: .
then, however, it came time for a serious decision.
would i accept a scholarship to go to university?
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What WTS could learn - arrogance, entitlement, telling people how they should live their lives.
by berrygerry inhey simon:do you think that the wts could learn something in the orange crush steamrolling a 44-year dynasty?.
for non-albertans (a province in canada), a 44-year ruling party got tossed on their ass, with extreme prejudice.. in the last little while, they behaved exactly like wts does to their subjects.. the dark ages - are they ending?.
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hoser
I was thinking a similar thought. The pcs were in the mindset that an election win was a guaranteed right. The entitlement attitude these guys had was something else.
The governing body also feel they are entitled. The only difference is that we can't vote the governing body out of office.
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August 2015 WT - Let's Review the BS Children
by InjusticeSystem infound these gems in this edition:.
- keep in expectation!- prepare now for life in the new worldthe passing of time should not cause us to lose hope thatkingdom blessings will be realized.
there are solid reasonsto keep our scriptural expectations alive.
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The ONLY basis for power and control is the parable of "the faithful and discreet slave" ??
by stuckinarut2 inso, it seems that the only basis for the governing body / organization's claim to have divine backing and therefore control and power is based on the scripture at matthew :.
"who really is the faithful and discreet slave?"....
if that is correct, and this scripture has been thoroughly de-bunked in many other threads, then the fact is the emporer has no clothes on!.
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hoser
It seems that some people just like to be shat on. Funny creatures we are as humans.