Posts by The Big Machine

His whole refusal to apologize, even in this interview, points to how narcissistic he is. When literally, all he had to do originally was put out a brief statement apologizing and saying he is taking some time to get help. That’s all he had to do and he probably would have come out of it relatively fine.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

The Big Machine

So if he drops under 540 patrons, does that mean he lets Tibor go? I’m pretty sure that was the mark he had to hit to hire a video editor.

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Changes In Canada

by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

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i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.

so here are some of the facts as i know them.

ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.

The Big Machine

Thanks for the update LetTheTruthBeKnown!

I started a thread on Reddit about this a few days ago and someone commented and gave a very plausible reason for all of the congregation changes going on in Canada: the pending Canadian class action law suit. This could be still the case, but now that you found out that Aylmer Assembly Hall and Long Island are planning to be sold, the congregation merging makes more sense.

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Changes In Canada

by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

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friends

i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.

so here are some of the facts as i know them.

ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.

The Big Machine

I learned some more details about the deletions in Ottawa over the weekend.

I don't know everything happening in Ottawa as each congregation only knows what effects them (information control), but here is what I learned.

Confirmed to be deleted:

Meadowlands, Ingleside, Blossom Park

Probably deleted:

Carleton, Alta Vista

All of the territories have been re-drawn so I assume every congregation in Ottawa is affected and there are probably more deletions that I have not heard about.

The congregation of Long Island has been split up completely. Some people going to Cedarhill, others going to Kemptville East, and some others to Rideau. Long Island now consists of a little piece of Barrhaven and what used to be Meadowlands. For some reason they kept the name Long Island even though the island itself is no longer in the territory but Meadowlands still is.

Blossom Park was completely broken up and now is part of Hunt Club, Rideau, and Kemptville West.

Part of Rideau is now part of Kemptville East.

I believe Ingleside is now going to Kemptville West.

I'm pretty sure Carleton is now part of Centrepointe and Island Park.

Alta Vista has been broken up as well (a portion is now part of Hunt Club.)

Cedarhill possibly has part of a Kanata congregation.

That's as much as I know for now. There are many people who now have to drive at least 40 minutes to get to their congregation. Needless to say, most people are very unhappy with the changes.

All of the changes come into effect in March.

Supposedly there are no Kingdom Halls to be sold at the moment. However, I don't see the purpose in re-drawing all of the territories and making all of the congregations upwards of 150-200 publishers unless Kingdom Halls are being sold. Maybe in a year or so they'll be put up for sale or they'll start being put up for sale in March and they haven't told everyone (information control wouldn't surprise me).

At this website (Canada Revenue Agency), you can see all of the congregations that have been deleted in Canada since January 1, 2019: https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/advncdSrch?q.srchNm=jehovah&q.bnNine=&q.accountType=RR&q.accountNumber=&q.stts=0014&q.sttsEffctvDt=2019-01-01&q.snctnTypCd=&q.cty=&q.prvncSttCd=&q.pstlZpCd=&q.dsgntnTyp=&q.chrtyTyp=&q.chrtyCtgry=&p=1

Right now it sits at 77. It will be interesting to see how high this number gets over the next few months once all these changes are implemented.

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Changes In Canada

by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

jw
friends

i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.

so here are some of the facts as i know them.

ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.

The Big Machine

They don’t necessarily have to build a couple of Kingdom Halls if they sell Aylmer. If they get rid of a few congregations that go there, plus Meadowlands and Blossom Park, then the remaining congregations can combine and meet in the existing Kingdom Halls. IMO, they wouldn’t delete congregations if they weren’t going to sell at least one Kingdom Hall. Based on what congregations you hear are being deleted, that Kingdom Hall could be the Long Island one, the Quinn Road/Albion one, or the Aylmer assembly hall. They would obviously make the most money from Aylmer.

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Changes In Canada

by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

jw
friends

i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.

so here are some of the facts as i know them.

ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.

The Big Machine

“There are really no Kingdom Halls to sell in Ottawa as they were sold years back to build the Assembly/Kingdom Hall building. They were offered 25 million for it years back. Not sure how much they can get for it now, as there is a lot of mold.”

I think that the Long Island hall in Barrhaven could be sold. Especially now that Meadowlands has been deleted. Long Island would be the only English congregation left in it. The Kingdom Hall isn’t that big and would be incapable of holding a congregation of 150 publishers. Also it’s in a pretty prime spot along Prince of Wales near the bridge connecting Barrhaven to Riverside South. They’d probably be able to sell it pretty quickly

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Watchtower Corp of New York worth over$ 2 billion

by Diogenesister in

in the montana sex abuse court case for the first time watchtower has been required by the courts to give a financial statement to the court to assess awards of punitive damages for negligence and (for the first time)malice in non compliance of mandatory reporting laws.. watchtower corp of new york has finances in excess of $2 billion while cc of jw is worth $49 million.

this doesn't include the pensylvania corp or what overseas branches may have.. pretty healthy bank balance by any standards..

The Big Machine

Didn't Watchtower in the past couple of years make 1 billion dollars from selling their Brooklyn properties? That could be how they're worth 1.6 billion dollars. But with all the cutbacks they've been doing, they're probably shedding money and the 1 billion dollars just bought them time.