Posts by pontoon

Home By the Sea, did a lot of skiing at Ellicottsville. Truthseeker and JustMe2, I just love Indian Lake Islands Campground, Speculator and the museum.

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

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i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

pontoon

Folks from upstate NY.....that is anywhere north/northwest of NYC. How about the region---Adirondacks, Finger Lakes, Catskills, Western NY, I'm in the Hudson Valley.

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Where has all the money gone?

by gingerbread in

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a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.

during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.

being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!

All above interesting speculation on what is going on. My thoughts... I always felt the corp was so rich they couldn't spend it fast enough, I still don't discount that. Remember, they don't build KH's, the locals pay for them. When I worked construction the largest project I was involved with was $15,000,000, Warwick has to be 20x bigger than that. GB members don't get any more money (not looking at perks) than any other Bethelite, or are they just allowing us to believe that? On a assembly hall project I know for a fact that certain "volunteers" were paid to be there full time, which is OK but still very undercover, I'm sure there are ways checks can be written. Assemblies, especially in corp owned halls are HUGE money makers. Even in poorer halls often there is one or two people that have a lot of money and are the financial backbone of the hall. They take a personal pride/responsibility in keeping the hall's bank account in good shape. With the corp robbing the hall's money the wallets of those benefactors will stay closed

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

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friends

i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

pontoon

Hudson Valley, New York, not far from Wat Farm, Patterson, the place at the lake Warwick and the many properties the corp owns around Newburgh NY.

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If you still believe, do you go to church?

by ThinkerBelle in

while i'm still finding my journey and figuring out what exactly i believe in, i'm curious to know if others on this board who do still believe in a god attend other churches and what drew you to them.

sorry if this topic has been brought up before, i tried to do a search, but didn't find what i was looking for.. having been born and raised in jwland, how easily do you give up those doctrines that have been so thoroughly engrained?

even sort of celebrating (more like acknowledging, no party) my son's birthday seemed so strange to me because i've never done that, but it felt good to see him smile about it.

pontoon

I go to a 100 yr old church down the road 4 times a year......their pot roast dinner, their chicken barbecue, their pancake breakfast, and finally my favorite, their roast beef dinner. They are a little pricey, but well worth it. Just love it.

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Inverness Florida

by pontoon in

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anyone in the inverness florida area?.

pontoon

Would like to meet some ex JW's in that area

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Inverness Florida

by pontoon in

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anyone in the inverness florida area?.

pontoon

Anyone in the Inverness Florida area?

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big accident at Warwick construction site

by oppostate in

the wt society is fond of using the tilt-up method of construction where a network of rebar is made on the ground, concrete poured on it and allowed to cure, then the whole thing is tilted up and voila' you've got yourself a massive big-ass wall ready made.

these walls for several stories-high buildings are indeed massive and weighty so you need a heavy-duty crane to raise into position.. i just heard from an eye-witness ldc volunteer that while there a few weeks ago they had an enormous accident.

the crane tilted and crashed, the only one hurt was its operator.

pontoon

The name of the main outside contractor on the Warwick build is Storm King Group. Company was formally owned by a brother under a different name but similar. I believe they are about done now. Storm King doesn't have cranes, so cranes on site were Watchtower and/or other subs. They probably had 10 or more cranes there at the same time. Cranes are the only heavy equipment requiring a license to operate (at least in NY). Crane operator is the man in charge, high % of any mishap he'll own.

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Top Dog Volunteer

by pontoon in

from the first bethel layoffs some time ago i began to wonder how does one volunteer layoff, fire another volunteer?

they're suppose to be the same, equal volunteers.

the volunteer that does the firing----where did his authority come from?

pontoon

From the first Bethel layoffs some time ago I began to wonder how does one volunteer layoff, fire another volunteer? They're suppose to be the same, equal volunteers. The volunteer that does the firing----where did his authority come from??---another volunteer. The volunteer that is fired should just just pass his firing off to another volunteer, probably don't matter much which volunteer goes. Imagine how the fired volunteer feels when fired by the volunteer that volunteered with him at the same time. There must be layers of volunteers, temporary volunteers, ordinary volunteers, special volunteers, extra special volunteers, TOP DOG VOLUNTEER, (can never be fired). Many layers of bureaucracy in the Theocracy.