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  The "Regular Pioneer" title has now become a total joke

  by pistolpete in

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  we just had our co visit a few weeks ago.

  apparently, he was encouraging all who could to regular pioneer, to at least try it out for a year.

  because of this, we had a few people in our hall become one.. so this weekend we were on zoom service, and the sister that was just appointed was talking about it.

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  hoser

  It definitely is a conundrum for the organization. If anyone can be a regular pioneer it’s like everyone gets a participation ribbon. There will be no special privileges for anyone so why be one?

  When the CO came around and had a meeting with the regular pioneers the auxiliary pioneers could attend the first half. The carrot was that if you would reach out and be a regular pioneer you could find out more “spiritual gems” in the second half. Then the internet was invented and it didn’t matter anymore.

  They will have to figure out again how to reimpose class structure in the congregation.
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  Does the Watchtower/JW Organization Regard its Readers & JWs as Fools and are they Secretly Laughing at Them?

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  2. beliefs

  does the watchtower/jw organization regard its readers & jws as fools and are they secretly laughing at them?

  for some examples consider the following.. the wt literature has many times used odd language where they say one thing but word it in such a way as to suggest something else.

  they have said that a number of jws drew incorrect expectations about a number of things, including about 1914 and 1975, though it was the wt itself which proclaimed and taught those expectations in the wt's literature to jws.

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  hoser

  It’s about the money. They change whatever rules they need to in order to keep cash flow coming. Yes, they think the average publisher is a fool as they keep giving their money.
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  A group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  a group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations.

  that is a major goal accomplished by the biden administration.

  seehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-to-global-deal-to-curb-tax-avoidance-11633709979 .. if corresponding legislation gets passed into law in the usa it will be much harder for corporations doing business in the usa to move their operations out of the usa to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

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  Sloppyjoe2

  Covid relief money is a two edged sword. Not only does it inflate the money supply creating price inflation but in addition causes potential employees to stay at home creating shortages of goods causing more inflation.
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  A group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  a group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations.

  that is a major goal accomplished by the biden administration.

  seehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-to-global-deal-to-curb-tax-avoidance-11633709979 .. if corresponding legislation gets passed into law in the usa it will be much harder for corporations doing business in the usa to move their operations out of the usa to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

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  Sloppyjoe2

  The system you describe would punish the poor and reward the rich. If you drop or eliminate taxes and rely solely on the creation of more fiat currency you create a higher inflation rate(deflation of currency). This rewards the asset holders as their land, houses, gold are worth more currency but the wage earner with no real assets sees the purchasing power of his paycheck go down. We are seeing this happening in our economy right now.
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  A group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  a group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations.

  that is a major goal accomplished by the biden administration.

  seehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-to-global-deal-to-curb-tax-avoidance-11633709979 .. if corresponding legislation gets passed into law in the usa it will be much harder for corporations doing business in the usa to move their operations out of the usa to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

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  When corporations are taxed higher they will either expand their operations to avoid paying taxes or pay less dividends to their shareholders.
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  Question about Congregation accounts in ECUADOR 🇪🇨

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wondering if anyone here knows why local congregations in ecuador do not have accounts under the congregation’s name.

  i just found out they use the personal information of one of the elder’s 😳 wtf .

  what’s the legal reason for this?

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  hoser

  If there is CSA in the local congregation the authorities might not go after the branch. The org has no loyalty to the local brothers. Fire up the greyhound
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  Question about Congregation accounts in ECUADOR 🇪🇨

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wondering if anyone here knows why local congregations in ecuador do not have accounts under the congregation’s name.

  i just found out they use the personal information of one of the elder’s 😳 wtf .

  what’s the legal reason for this?

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  hoser

  He might not even be stealing the money. He might be using it to help locally for legitimate needs of the brothers. Donations to the org never come back to help the local brothers unless they can get some media attention from it.
  
  
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  GENDER PRONOUNS

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just to put it out there, the whole gender pronouns idea being pushed by the lgbtq+ minorities is just a way to try to hide the sin of homosexuality.

  if you can void people talking about your true sexual identity then it seems there is no sin anymore if two they or them of the same sex are together.

  example of the coverup: ("i don't identify as either gender"), so the kids i'm raising in a lesbian relationship need not speak of me as a mom or any other female term and we all don't have to feel any stigma attached to the true terms so, any shame we might feel is hidden anyway.

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  Someone in BC, Canada successfully sued their employer for $30,000.00 because the staff were not addressing with their preferred gender pronoun.

  These kinds of settlements don’t help that community in any way as guess where I’m sending job applications that have preferred pronouns on them.
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  Annual Meeting

  by sove in

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  2. friends

  is it the annual meeting this weekend?

  any insights on "new light" or new releases?.

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  hoser

  We had a wealthyish elder in our hall that used to attend the agm. When he would come back the publishers would hang around him to get little scraps of information of what went on. My how the internet has levelled the playing field. We get to know what’s going on in the organization often before the elders do ironically from an anti Jehovah’s Witness web site.
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  Life In Communist Victoria Australia If You Are In The Workforce

  by jonahstourguide in

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  2. current

  well, it has happened.. workers in these industries will be forced to vax or lose their employment.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-01/victoria-which-authorised-workers-mandatory-vaccination-onsite/100506980.

  i'm glad to be out of the workforce.. never thought it would come to this in a supposed democratic society.. no wonder protests and law suits are increasing in intensity.

  like for fucks sake,,, a worker at a takeaway bottle / liquor shop.

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  hoser

  This won’t end well.