frankiespeakin - "They have painted themselves in a hole too deep to get out of..."
Either that of they've dug themselves in a corner too deep to get out of...
Sorry, dude; couldn't resist.
can a skillful lawyer use this information in court as evidence of lack of fullfillment of fuduciary duty on thier part since they claim to be the only true religion and obedience is a life and death matter.. just saying could not the governing body just be falling into a trap of thier own making and not even be consciously realizing it?
and maybe consciously and unconsciously thier legal team is pushing them that way conspiracy theorys could take many turns on that one.. how about conspiracies that operate in the collective unconscious level, conspirering against them unconscious to them making themselve thier own worst enemy..
frankiespeakin - "They have painted themselves in a hole too deep to get out of..."
Either that of they've dug themselves in a corner too deep to get out of...
Sorry, dude; couldn't resist.
needless to say it's the same old rubbish.
the wt has the usual 'doom & gloom front cover, end of the world, fireball, people running in panic.... george.
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Awake is 16 pages, now, too?
hey all, i am new here and not sure how this whole thing works.
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...says the Dragon Lady.
Seems more and more roads are leading away from Rome...
...to here.
was just going through a few topics and this caught my attention, and since that thread looks pretty much dead i thought i would create a new one to add my thoughts .. so i would start by replying to as much criticisms as i can okay.
@jam: .
the purpose of the flood, because man grieved him to.
Bein' as how it's highly unlikely the event is literal history, well... not too much.
Except maybe scaring fundys into goin' to church.
hey all, i am new here and not sure how this whole thing works.
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haboob48 - "...not sure how this whole thing works."
breakfast of champions - "...still don't know exactly how it works."
There's a way that works????
Aw, christ...
Call me a pessimist, but I'm having a hard time imagining anyone will see her alive again; to me, the pretty ones always seem like the ones in the most danger.
This's gonna get me all anxious about my kids, now.
In addition, I'm also reminded of this recent post on another JWN thread:
AndersonsInfo - "...they are property rich and cash poor and are finding it difficult to sell billions of dollars of property they have for sale all over the world - and that's a fact, folks and you can quote me."
And I'm reminded of an exchange I had with Theocratic Sedition on yet another thread:
Theocratic Sedition - "They might be pious and crazy enough to believe that by opening themselves up to legal attacks, if the secular authorities go after them it will be like touching Jehovah's eye. Maybe even viewing it as God's direction to entice Gog thinking he has an opening when all along it was a trap."
Vidiot - "That smacks of desperation to me, and thusly kicks in my skeptic mode... but it wouldn't be the first time the WTS foolishly painted a big fat target on itself to drum up publicity, stoke the persecution complex of the R&F, and try to give the appearance of fulfilling prophecy (or even trying to give prophecy a for-real nudge, for that matter)."
With more and more impending child abuse cases looming and the abysmally bad PR that comes with it, maybe they're experiencing a new kind of increase...
...that of quiet desperation.
If so, increasingly desperate times definately make increasingly desperate actions all the more enticing to increasingly desperate men...
tiki - "I heard from a reliable source that they have garnered over $100 billion in sales, and the money will be spent in building a "city" in New York State... it seems that Patterson is not the place - this is supposedly somewhere else out there... kinda like a little Vatican for the governing papacy? They say it will be like a little island in the US, but not part of it..."
My money's still on Patterson; these's been to much prepwork to pull the plug on it at this point.
The $100B part sounds kinda iffy to me, though; all the sales listed in frankiespeakin's post tallied up to just over $400M. The bit about having a little sovereign "island" in the middle of NY state that's somehow independent of the US is too much of a stretch, too; there's no way the Federal Government would put up with that kind of crap.
frankiespeakin - "Maybe the IRS are already seeing this as a virtual run away cash cow, and are doing a search with thier computers to see where the money is going."
Well, I do remember something posted by one of the Anonymous hackers back in the summer about "Uncle Sam" being unhappy about some alleged money laundering on the WTS's part. Not that I fully buy it, but the fact that the WTS has listed properties and plans to move upstate reminds me of something that I'd shared when I first started posting on JWN:
Vidiot - "Some time ago, I'd read about a sort of checklist that Canadian federal law enforcement had compiled as a means of identifying potentially dangerous high-control groups at their onset, and it happens that a significant phase involved shifting from an urban presence to a more centralized semi-rural or rural presence..."
When an increasingly radical group starts "goin' up to the country", it raises red flags among federal agencies (both in Canada and the US). Interestingly, that same checklist also highlights an increase in illegal activities soon after - or associated with - said exodus.
So despite the big grain of salt I take the whole Anonymous thing with, I can't shake the feeling that there might actually be something to that particular laundry-related post.
F**kin' fire sale.
Jeeze Louise.