Posts by millie210

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Just had a former elder friend tell me, “This Overlapping generation is crap.

by John Aquila in

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; .

millie210

I thought they were on the way to dropping it last year.

When all the summer conventions were about welcoming parties and letting people do the stroll on the stage in the Kingdom Halls.

For a 100 year anniversary, the barely touched on the whole "date" thing. I thought all the distraction and the dainty stepping around and the barely mentioning were smart.

I thought they were all well thought out choreography to letting it die.

Then they went and did this broadcast!

Beyond stupid of them strategically. They were almost out the door so to speak!

It is looking from way out here, like there is a wresting for control in what info will be disseminated to the rank and file.

The wiser "let it drop" folks got their way last summer. The zealots have taken charge this fall.

Is it because there is a power struggle in the tower or is it an attempt to start us all focusing on that instead of other things (such as the money issues and pedophile issues)?

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Two jewels from JW-Archive today

by StarTrekAngel in

let the equalization begin thru the kingdom hall construction fund.. .

need i add anything?.

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millie210

Fat old men wearing big rings.........Im glad they have their collars turned backwards so I can tell theyre not the Governing Body!

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Mandrakes, what are they?

by purrpurr in

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.

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

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; .

millie210

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

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 :).

millie210

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

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.

millie210

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

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.

millie210

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

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 :).

millie210

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

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 :).

millie210

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

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?.

millie210

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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