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  Tonight’s meeting

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this post is for the lurking dub.

  the pimc (physically in, mentally confused) lurker dub.

  the guy who reads the watchtower stuff and scratches his head, sure something is amiss but not sure of what’s really happening.. it may also be of some interest to those curious of the nuts and bolts of watchtower’s methods of scripture twisting.. in tonight’s “digging for spiritual gems: (8 min.

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  Sitting through a meeting after learning TTATT is painful beyond belief.
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  Anyone watching the handmaids tail?

  by blownaway in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i thought this was all about the 18th century.

  but its current or just post current times.

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  I read the book. In the book, a JW was part of a public hanging. Was this portrayed in series?
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  Download Raymond Franz PDF Books Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those who've never read these incredible books by our friend ray franz.. here are links for both.

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  happy reading!.

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  The Kindle version is less than $10.00. It is well worth the price.
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  People are nice and life is awesome.

  by OneEyedJoe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got invited as a +1 to someone's house yesterday to watch the fireworks.

  i'd never met the hosts, and it seemed that most of the people in the group only knew one or two other people there.

  yet i felt more genuine friendship from everyone there than i ever felt at any jw gathering.

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  The most shocking thing I learned after leaving the "truth" is that most people are nice, honest, moral, and a lot more fun to be around than your typical JW.

  That is the secret that the Watchtower does not want the R&F to know. Notice how The watchtower portrays "wordy" people - angry, immoral, agents of Satan, and our enemies.
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  Since You Left The Organization Do You Celebrate National and Religious Holidays?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know of people who were disciplined because they observed the fourth of july fireworks celebration.

  and i know many people who celebrated thanksgiving but just didn’t call it that because they could get into trouble with the elders.. do you now celebrate birthdays and other holidays or is that something you really don’t care about?

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  We have a Christmas tree and a turkey for Thanksgiving.

  I have no interest in Easter and am not emotionally vested in other holidays.
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  Female JW parking "attendants"

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was shocked recently to see on social media a couple pictures of jw sisters at a convention working as parking "attendants".

  i put that title in quotation marks because they still don't get the official attendant badge like the male parking attendants do, only the reflective vest.

  has anybody else heard of this .

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  I wish that in my attendant service days as a hormonally charged young JW that there would be a few females to direct traffic. I was born in the wrong generation.
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  Yearly Donations down? 2.4 billion for the 2015/16 financial year

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so people keep saying watchtowsr is in a financial mess.

  i think we can all accept that numbers are stagnating at best and going down year on year in the north / western countries and japan.. however the recent finance dept leeks confirmed that following the may 2015 broadcast requesting more donations, an extra 30 million was sent in for the months of july/august.

  stephen lett stated that this figure equated to a 30% increase.. lloyd evans has used this figure to work out how much is donated on a yearly basis worldwide.

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  I am sure their risk management consultants have advised that they reserve a few hundreds of million $ for pending litigation. Never forget the impact of their legal issues. Again, the concern is that once they spend their accumulated capital the game is over.

  How fast can money be spent? If you recall the story of pets.com, they burned through $100 million in less than 9 months. This is what happens when stupid is in charge.
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  I watched some of the Regional Assembly

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i watched about 2 hours of the regional assembly and these are my thoughts.

  the video's and songs did stir my good memories of when i was a jdub elder and very happy in the religion.

  i can see how these two things would make it difficult to leave the borg because of the emotional buy-in.. now getting into the talks, the cults true colors show and i wonder how in the hell was i a part of that for over 40 years.

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  Vidiot - What a great picture - his emotion is a combination of anger and cluelessness. If this is the leader, they got problems.
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  But it's not about the Money

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  money was the motivator.. .

  money.

  again, money was the motivator.. .

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  Everything is about money. To think otherwise is just silly.
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  Yearly Donations down? 2.4 billion for the 2015/16 financial year

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so people keep saying watchtowsr is in a financial mess.

  i think we can all accept that numbers are stagnating at best and going down year on year in the north / western countries and japan.. however the recent finance dept leeks confirmed that following the may 2015 broadcast requesting more donations, an extra 30 million was sent in for the months of july/august.

  stephen lett stated that this figure equated to a 30% increase.. lloyd evans has used this figure to work out how much is donated on a yearly basis worldwide.

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  Thank you for posting this. Lloyd did a great job framing this issue.

  Some have made the comment that they received a billion $ from the sale of the Brooklyn Heights property.

  This is true, however, an organization needs to think about this investment capital from operating cash flow. I see the unspoken theme is that they have a major issue with operating cash.

  Yes, they can spend capital funding on operations, but once that is gone, the party is over. I think the GB has discovered that it is very easy to spend money and much harder to collect money - and they are scared.

  Just my random thoughts as a CPA and accounting professor...