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  Mandrakes, what are they?

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i decided to do about of research about mandrakes.

  remember the ones found by dan and purchased from leah by rachel?.

  now i don't remember seeing any indepth explanation of what mandrakes are in the wt.

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  millie210

  Now Im curious as to what the AID or INSIGHT book had to say about this.

  Did they sanitize it the way they tried to the Song of Solomon?
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  Just had a former elder friend tell me, “This Overlapping generation is crap.

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i ran into a former elder friend, he is in his late 70s.

  he asked how i was doing and i asked how he was doing.

  then out of the blue he tells me; .

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  I think the older ones are praising it for the obvious reasons..

  The ones who see themselves as "stabilizers" in the congo are going to praise it out of it being part of their job description.

  I dont think the younger ones give a fig and that is the part I dont understand....why doesnt the GB just let this die a natural death the way the 7th Day Adventists did with their 1844 doctrine.
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  A note on the Watchtowers property investments

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  about a year ago there was a thread regarding the 2008 watchtower bible and tract society of new yorks tax return.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/287098/2008-watchtower-income-tax-return?page=1.

  a reference was made to the provictor property fund iv which was listed as their primary alternate business activity.. turns out that at that time 75% of the chrysler building was owned by the provictor property fund iv until it was sold during that year.. http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/09/news/international/chrysler_building/?postversion=2008070913.

  just thought you should know :).

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  respectful observer...so what you are saying is that they lost BIG and have no where near that now.

  So does this help account for why they want the kids ice cream money?

  The pedophilia scandal and the accompanying payouts are relatively new. So there has to be something to account for the panic they are showing when they hit up Mexico for more money, right?

  Orphan - The above is a copy/paste from JW Archive by a guy who is (I believe) secretly working from within. He is the owner and goes by the nic "The Librarian"

  Sorry for the confusion.
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  That old time religion............JW.Org

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had a secret conversation with a dyed in the wool jw recently.. they told me that they felt that the organisation now was a different religion to the 'good old days' when knorr was the boss.

  the books were more interesting.

  the zeal was there.

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  Do they even have any good writers anymore? I would love to hear Barbara Andersons thoughts on this.

  Of course, even if you have good writers - you need content for them to write about.

  That is probably the bigger problem for them.
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  That old time religion............JW.Org

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had a secret conversation with a dyed in the wool jw recently.. they told me that they felt that the organisation now was a different religion to the 'good old days' when knorr was the boss.

  the books were more interesting.

  the zeal was there.

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  So well put and I couldnt agree more!

  If you look hard at the new publications, you can see they are copy/pasting sentences and paragraphs from older publications and just linking them together.

  Its an attempt to stay relevant. After all, they never expected to be here this long!

  Its like the saying "Quick! Im their leader, which way did they go?"
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  A note on the Watchtowers property investments

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  about a year ago there was a thread regarding the 2008 watchtower bible and tract society of new yorks tax return.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/287098/2008-watchtower-income-tax-return?page=1.

  a reference was made to the provictor property fund iv which was listed as their primary alternate business activity.. turns out that at that time 75% of the chrysler building was owned by the provictor property fund iv until it was sold during that year.. http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/09/news/international/chrysler_building/?postversion=2008070913.

  just thought you should know :).

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  Here is the comment where that statement is made on JWArchive. Its on page 8.

  Not that the page number helps because as people load their pictures the page number will change.

  Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania owns over 7% of J.P. Morgan Chase Liquid Assets Money Market Fund.

  Here is a page by JP Morgan Chase about how much $ is in that mutual fund. Take 7.3% of that total and we are one VERY RICH religion. ;-) Jehovah has blessed us.

  I just did the math and as of today that total is equal to $1,361,584,818.41 give or take a few pennies. Wow! Jehovah is smiling.

  Thank you for your contributions!

  Agape!

  The Librarian

  p.s - This doesn’t even included all of these other subsidiary corporations of WTBTSP

  - See more at: http://www.jw-archive.org/#sthash.NUmdAygl.dpuf
  
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  A note on the Watchtowers property investments

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  about a year ago there was a thread regarding the 2008 watchtower bible and tract society of new yorks tax return.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/287098/2008-watchtower-income-tax-return?page=1.

  a reference was made to the provictor property fund iv which was listed as their primary alternate business activity.. turns out that at that time 75% of the chrysler building was owned by the provictor property fund iv until it was sold during that year.. http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/09/news/international/chrysler_building/?postversion=2008070913.

  just thought you should know :).

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  I just read over on JWArchive that they own a 7% investment with JPMorgan.

  Can anyone really know all the places they have stuffed money?
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  Going Nuclear - Marriage

  by Sofia Lose in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  has anyone here gone nuclear on their spouse and, all of a sudden, came out in the open as a jw opposer?.

  by this i mean, sitting them down and saying: i no longer want to be a jw anymore, do not want to go to meetings or preaching anymore!

  and, what has happened in the relationship after that?.

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  I dont know if I could do it so please feel free to dismiss this idea but some who cannot go on with the religion find an alternate "reason" to skip without a head on confrontation with their mate..

  The reason I am referring to is some kind of elusive illness. A way to skip field service, listen to meetings on the phone line and of course cannot make assemblies because they are too exhausting.

  What do you think?

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  Is it really that great being one of the Governing Body Members?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  movie stars travel to, or buy their own private beaches, they get invited to fun parties, and are able to buy not one, but several fast sport cars like jay leno.

  they can buy their own planes and helicopters and fly them like harrison ford.

  (how much fun would that be?

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  If you have the "religious gene" and I am convinced some do, then yes.

  You get power and adulation AND you get to feel lke you and God are besties.

  I would imagine that is a heady feeling if all the things that make you crave it line up inside you.

  I dont need or want it.

  Wouldnt want the movie star life either.

  I know I am in the minority there though.

  I subscribe to the belief that one is the richest who needs the least.
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  Need advice: Intimacy with my wife almost non existint because she considers me an apostate

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just on of the perks of being an apostate who is married to a branwashed, blinded jw woman.

  you know, we have been married for ~27 years....most of which we had nothing to do with the piece of shite cult.

  up till the begining of 2014 was when i woke up.

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  You can outsmart them goingthroughthemontions!

  The first thing is to know that what you are facing is wrong. Many here identify and sympathize.

  The second thing is to see if you can change things by what you do.

  In quiet subtle ways (dont expect anything at first) begin to woe your wife. If you need help with ideas get a book or check out a website where women talk about what melts them.

  Armed with ideas, apply them to your personal knowledge of your wife. If she doesnt like chocolate then dont buy her a box of them and expect a good result.

  She loves wild flowers? Take her on a drive and pick some for her. Or go get some from a florist (they can order them)

  Any personal indulgence she likes but doesnt ask for? Be aware of it.

  There are many things that come up over the course of a marriage that can separate partners. Life threatening illness, financial reversal, fights over kids decisions and/or mates and so on.

  At some point, every one of us has to decide to fight or throw our hands up or to just simply go.

  You have come up against one of those situations and its name is religious differences.

  If you dont care about winning her back then disregard the above!