the september 2015 broadcast had david splane explain matthew 24:34 “truly, i say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place”.
his explanation of this scripture was by means of a chart to indicate an overlapping generation.. .
no scripture was used to show the overlapping generation concept, and as a result it makes no sense.. to illustrate how crazy this concept is, look at the lyrics of the song my generation.. my generation.
slimboyfat - "...Maybe the idea is not even meant to be understood, it’s a paradoxical kōan-type test of JW ability for mental gymnastics while attempting to remain sane."
That's it, it's a litmus test!
It's like how doofy Stephen Lett looks when he's on JWTV...
...only the most hard-core brainwashed loyalists could drink that guy's Kool-Aid and honestly want more.
based on a daily telegraph article : jehovah's witnesses accused of selling off assets and moving cash to avoid sex abuse compensation
watchtower has 800 charities in australia and australian law says they don't have to report assets below 1 million .
doesn't this imply watchtower can have in excess of 700 million laundered funds?
I gotta say, this is just about the dirtiest they've ever looked in the press.
i guess it's the covid-19 thing.
but very little news from a couple of people i know well there.
they can't leave the "compound" or much of anything else.
Also, has Top-Shelf Tony's whiskey stash run out yet?
i guess it's the covid-19 thing.
but very little news from a couple of people i know well there.
they can't leave the "compound" or much of anything else.
Would it be wrong to kinda-sorta hope the virus is able to make its way to them?
"victims say cash moved offshore".
i just thought you might be interested in how widespread this article has been taken up by the media in australia.. west australian newspaper , herald sun sunday victorian newspaper ,the daily telegraph n.s.w.
newspaper,.
BTW, Natalie O'Brien is my new favorite journalist.
"victims say cash moved offshore".
i just thought you might be interested in how widespread this article has been taken up by the media in australia.. west australian newspaper , herald sun sunday victorian newspaper ,the daily telegraph n.s.w.
newspaper,.
truth_b_known - "...the proceeds have been funneled elsewhere?"
Sort of.
A couple years back, WTHQ had the bulk of their money in Australia transferred overseas.
There is no fucking way it was a coincidence.
this article seems to confirm what we already knew:.
https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-selling-off-assets-and-moving-cash-to-avoid-sex-abuse-compensation-ng-08ffe6d55e293182580d9e34b4400088?transactionid=72145.
Not to mention that as soon as the Org's lawyers start whining that doing so will put the WTS in "financial distress" or somesuch...
...the collective world's response will probably be somewhere in the range of "seriously?", "so?", and "boo-fucking-hoo".
And good luck spinning "paying back Caesar's things to Caesar" as "persecution".
this article seems to confirm what we already knew:.
https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-selling-off-assets-and-moving-cash-to-avoid-sex-abuse-compensation-ng-08ffe6d55e293182580d9e34b4400088?transactionid=72145.
@ smiddy3...
My favorite bit in the pic you just posted...
"...the Federal Government would 'name and shame institutions and consider financial sanctions such as revoking charitable status' if they did not join the scheme."
Can't help but wonder...
....just how financially dependent on its tax-exemption is the Org?...
...and if it gets pulled in Australia, how soon will the Org's other charity-status dominoes around the world start to fall?
there was a 50 year gap between the failed dates of 1925 and 1975.. memories fade, people die, and who cares what was said 50 years ago.. most jw's now in the religion werent there when 1975 was a thing.
even my mother who was baptized in 1974 who i do remember speaking about it back in the day, can barely remember what the fuss was about.
for active jw's who are doing all there studying online now, its practically impossible to find any wt contemporary reference to 1975.. i read recently (sorry i cant source it right now) that at the time, even watchtower may have taken the view that even if they knew 1975 was wrong, the short term gains would far outstrip those who left leading to an overall net gain so it was a risk worth taking.
Vanderhoven7 - "Actually, they did set another date for Armageddon... prior to the year 2000."
Damn, that's right.
I'd forgotten about that.
there was a 50 year gap between the failed dates of 1925 and 1975.. memories fade, people die, and who cares what was said 50 years ago.. most jw's now in the religion werent there when 1975 was a thing.
even my mother who was baptized in 1974 who i do remember speaking about it back in the day, can barely remember what the fuss was about.
for active jw's who are doing all there studying online now, its practically impossible to find any wt contemporary reference to 1975.. i read recently (sorry i cant source it right now) that at the time, even watchtower may have taken the view that even if they knew 1975 was wrong, the short term gains would far outstrip those who left leading to an overall net gain so it was a risk worth taking.
JWGoneBad - "...here's what he actually said, if you can believe it: 'The events unfolding around us are making clearer than ever that we're living in the final part of the last days... undoubtedly the final part of the final part of the last days... shortly before the last day of the last days'..."
LOL!...
..."The final second of the last minute of the eleventh hour of the culminating day of the closing week of the penultimate month..."
Like I said the other day, it's super-hard to not suspect that the rest of the GB must know he looks and sounds ridonculous, and they deliberately put him on as some sort of doofy-ass litmus test...
...the guy can't help but further alienate the "lukewarm" (albeit in the funniest way imaginable), and any remaining loyalists who can drink the Lett-flavored Kool-aid and seriously ask "please sir, can I have some more?" are in for life.
