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  The finances of the JW in Canada

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes, revenu canada now has a service to display all of that information for free: click here!.

  you can also have the finances of all the circuits, congregations and assembly halls over there.

  wonder how much your kingdom hall is worth?

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  mynameislame

  Not sure how they qualify as a charity. Although, that seems to apply to most of the churches I looked at, not just the KH

  Ongoing programs:
  
  To assist the local unincorporated association of Jehovah's Witnesses in carrying out their religious objective of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom and promoting public religious worship designed to uplift Jehovah's Witnesses and any who attend their public meetings by means of moral and spiritual instruction based on God's Word the Bible.

  I found this odd for the one I looked at:

  Receipted donations $15,540 (84%) Non-receipted donations $2,878 (16%) Why are there so many receipted donation compared to the non-receipted? I thought they gave in secret? (ha ha, i guess that isn't so suprising) The others I looked at seemed to have mostly receipted donations as well. A few I looked at also had "Gifts from other charities". Wonder what those are from? And what exactly is the "Charitable program" listed in the expense column?
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  Is there a search bar for jw.org??

  by mauiboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i registered as a user (under an alias of course) but can't find a search bar anywhere on the site......i'm not a tech-savvy person, but usually can find what i need.

  i will repost this question under the post "counteract jw.org august 2014 campaign" participating in that idea was what prompted me to open an account on the jw site in the 1st place.

  other than that the whole thing makes me want to puke..

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  mynameislame

  Also found that the online library seems to have a search field

  http://wol.jw.org/
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  Is there a search bar for jw.org??

  by mauiboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i registered as a user (under an alias of course) but can't find a search bar anywhere on the site......i'm not a tech-savvy person, but usually can find what i need.

  i will repost this question under the post "counteract jw.org august 2014 campaign" participating in that idea was what prompted me to open an account on the jw site in the 1st place.

  other than that the whole thing makes me want to puke..

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  mynameislame

  jw.org, not this site :-)

  try searching google with

  site:jw.org your search terms
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  Is there a search bar for jw.org??

  by mauiboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i registered as a user (under an alias of course) but can't find a search bar anywhere on the site......i'm not a tech-savvy person, but usually can find what i need.

  i will repost this question under the post "counteract jw.org august 2014 campaign" participating in that idea was what prompted me to open an account on the jw site in the 1st place.

  other than that the whole thing makes me want to puke..

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  mynameislame

  There's a search button on the blue bar at the top of each page right next to active topics.
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  Curious change in December 15 Study Article

  by Bobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i ran across a change between the printed edition of the december 15, 2013 wt study edition and the magazine as a pdf download from the jw.org website.. whether the change amounts to much, i'm not sure.

  but it is curious.

  the change is in paragraph 16 on page 15:.

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  mynameislame

  Who would be more likely to read each version?
  Maybe it is a way to say something different to the non-JWs than to those already part of the borg?

  Or maybe it is someone in Bethel trying to help people wake up....
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  Is there going to be a 2014 district convention?

  by booker-t in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard rumors for over a year now that the wt is not going to have a 2014 dc.

  i know they are having a circuit assembly and special day talk assembly but what about their yearly dc.

  has anybody heard anything?.

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  mynameislame

  What do you think it costs to rent the arena?

  The one in Maine, sort of near me, looks to be around $1500 a day. That seems even cheaper than I would have thought. For that kind of money I could throw myself one crazy birthday party. And makes those $100+ concert tickets seem absurd.

  I frequently wonder why they keep letting the JWs rent since they don’t seem to bring much to the local economy. They don’t hire any of the arena employees which seemed to be a requirement at a number of centers. (Maybe all that cleaning that gets done after the assembly is spun as a free spring cleaning service for the arena.) They probably don’t bring all that much revenue to the local businesses either, although I guess as long as it is a low use weekend even some revenue is better than none.

  Also interesting that many conventions seem to be at Universities. Wonder if that ever registers with the attendees? They are probably both laughing at each other. The school is thinking “we get our cash from JWs one way or another” and the JWs are thinking “how ironic that we are the ones providing the real education”.
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  What Motivates Jehovah's Witnesses To Stay In The Religion?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i believe it is mostly guilt.

  many witnesses pioneer or "reach out" in the religion because they feel guilty.. they may feel they aren't doing enough.

  they may have secretly "sinned" against rules imposed by the organization.

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  mynameislame

  It is the opposite of motivated. You join that cult because you are lazy and fall for the “Get saved quick” scheme the FDS is selling. Madoff has nothing on them. No thought or work required for everlasting life, we will take care of it all for you. Don’t worry you don’t even have to think we will tell you exactly what to do and when.

  Take this pill and lose weight, follow this plan for easy money and come to the KH and live forever.

  The bible says that you should search like you are searching for a hidden treasure (Prov 2:4-5) not that the treasure will be delivered to your door and spoon fed to you. That one scripture proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the JWs are full of Shite!
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  Useless Web Site!

  by piztjw in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i happened to peruse jw.org this morning.

  considering the rabid way that the jw's are shamelessly promoting a web site i found it telling that when i, out of curiousity, clicked on the "request a home bible study" link i got this meesage:.

  request a free bible studywould you like to learn more about the bible?

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  mynameislame

  I seems to be working for me, it must have been the holy spirit preventing you from sending apostate hate mail to the WT
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  WT Video on how to handle JWs contemplating suicide

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.mediafire.com/watch/cvas6fcrc9zca94/shepherding_instructional_suicidal_widow.avi.

  i just watched beginning of the recently leaked video produced by the wtbts allegedly instructing elders how to treat jws contemplating suicide.

  i am so apalled i cannot even begin to describe it!.

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  mynameislame

  The more likely scenerio would be that the elders woud grill Mary to see if she had done something else that was causing her depression.

  Mary, did you perhaps have sex with somene else and that is what is bringing on this bout of guilty depression?
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  Billboard Campaign

  by mynameislame in

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