this kelowna kingdom hall can be yours for just under $3 million.
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https://infotel.ca/newsitem/this-kelowna-church-can-be-yours-for-just-under-3-million/it71323.
alanv - "...Another 28 had or will have major renovations..."
Ten bucks says most of the refurbished ones get listed before too long.
alanv - "...He did not say how many were sold in Canada."
That would definitely be more useful information, and the fact that he didn't mention it suggests, to me, that the number sold exceeds the number built or face-lifted.
i saw a post on reddit from somebody claiming to be an elder that the jw religion wants to contact all inactives.. some of the responses indicate that some were contacted or had close friends or relatives being asked for their contact information.
some of these people have been out of the jw religion for many years and have moved on.
the ones contacted said the jw informed them about cancelled meetings (as though they would care).
How many of you wanna bet that this is a some kind of half-assed attempt to suss out potential "apostates"?
i found this video on youtube which correctly explains how religoius cults develop and operate on a psychological and sociological study.. while watching it think of the jws and its general operative behavior.. i think its important to realize many people who fall into cults are usually having some kind unstable problems in their lives looking for answers and relief, the jws are known to exploit people who are under going some personal strife and are venerable to that effect.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-djacxaxa&t=281s.
TheWonderofYou - "There are similarities in the operation with JW."
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck...
...odds are pretty fair it's a duck.
hello everyone, i know that many here like me have read ray's book crisis of consience, i was very impressed with it, it helped open my eyes to the hypocrisy and double standards of the wts, and ray gave me the impresion of being a very loving and kind man, not the demonized apostate we were all lead to believe.
but, i noticed something that wasn't quite correct when i was reading the part that spoke of then brother rene vazquez, he makes it seem like all rene did was have private conversations with ray and nothing else, this is not true, i for a fact know that this was not all that happened.
in a ms meeting on tuesday back in 1980, rene was conducting a part and he went up to the stage with only his bible, he started saying that all we needed was the bible, that we would no longer be using other publications by the wts .
Pretty sure that the Org would have sued Ray's ass off if CoC was bullshit.
The fact that they didn't speaks volumes, IMO.
my wife pimi wife said today...." the tribulation has started" i was like wtf... i know things are bad.
but...... we have had other pandamics and market crashes in the past.
1889: russian flu 360,000 perished.
PIMI wife - "They're (finally) attacking Jehovah's People(TM)!!!"
goingthruthemotions - "Um... isn't 'Babylon the Great' supposed to be attacked first?"
interesting video.
i'd like everybody's thoughts on this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlfvxinte8&fbclid=iwar2omsj1dkm7rzxcyjblkd9aqnnp5xmijrxoc-rfaoh7ucfgvwlpkiynofs.
Hell... these days, it feels like they're trying to passive-aggressively provoke everyone to some degree or other.
Of course (as I've said many times)...
...going around jabbing people in the eye with a stick and then whining when you get a beatdown for it doesn't actually make you a martyr.
It just makes you an asshole.
interesting video.
i'd like everybody's thoughts on this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlfvxinte8&fbclid=iwar2omsj1dkm7rzxcyjblkd9aqnnp5xmijrxoc-rfaoh7ucfgvwlpkiynofs.
Terry - "The onslaught of millions of letters clogging the Russian official's mail system was sabotage deliberately goading - poking the 'bear' - to react negatively and make a martyr by banning them (for cause)."
You know...
...I can actually imagine the WT leadership doing this.
i haven't been to a meeting in years, but i was recently told by a friend of mine that they have really been hammering the 'use of your valuable things in support of the kingdom' in many of the talks and thursday night parts.
i know they used to mention it all the time, but he said it's gotten really bad lately.
i told him that's because the membership in the western (translate that to "richer"...lol) countries has really fallen off and even become negative in many countries and that the 3rd world countries can't contribute enough to support the great publishing empire.
Like I keep saying...
...in what crazy-ass, fucked-up mirror universe are...
...staff downsizing... product output reduction... and mass asset liquidation...
...signs of robust financial health?
Anyone?
do you think any higher ups know that much of the doctrine they teach is bunk?
thinking back to the time of raymond franz, how he pointed out specifically numerous teachings that the churches really did have right all along, and really any of the hidden mic apostacy trials you listen to on youtube, you see that even when inconvenient bible teachings are proven, the elders just try to sweep it under the rug and move on.
i think i remember franz saying how one of the gb approached him somewhat sympathetically, but there was nothing he could do.. whether you believe in the bible or not, there are some basic beliefs common among most denominations because they're just so plainly stated, such things as heavenly life for all christians, no central authority structure, minimal use of god's name, etc.
They know it's wrong...
...but believe it's true...
...at the same time.
Seriously.
day after day jws are constantly fighting with me over the internet that the nwt is the most accurate translation and then they prove it by quoting scholars from the watchtower magazines.
they tell me i'm biased and there rendering of john 1:1 as "a god" is approved by scholars but i have researched there so called "supporters" and i have found they have tooken what they said out of context to twist the scriptures to there liking.. .
dr. julius r. mantey (who is even recognized by the watchtower as a greek scholar since they quote his book on page 1158 of their kingdom interlinear translation): calls the watchtower translation of john 1:1 "a grossly misleading translation.
yogosans14 - "I'm tired of the Org misquoting scholars..."
Misdirection, obfuscation, and semantic pretzel-twisting... all the best sleazy-lawyer tactics to be found.
Once again, for the newbies, lurkers, and trolls...
...if you have to cheat to defend your beliefs, your beliefs don't deserve to be defended.
