Interesting how wide spread this is! Flipper is right. The dishonesty starts at the top of the WTBT$ and trickels/pours downward. The society was HAPPY to TAKE my familys fortune when my parents and grandparents gave it to them but pay a teeny tiny amount back??? Not so much. The society is well aware that my father paid for least 6 KHs in California that I know of. (there could be more) this was before the quick build arrangement. If he knew how they treated my mother he would blow a gasket. At least it helped me wake up.
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41Has The Society, or Any Bro or Sis, Ever Screwed You Out Of Your Money?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inthis thread was inspired because of 3rdgn, and her asking, on behalf of her destitute elderly widowed mom,.
for the return of her mother's "conditional loan" to the society of $20,000.00.. (this was stated today, under my thread of, "what was the effect on you of knowing hypocritical jw's?").
the society more or less yes, no, it is now our money, and you can't have it back.
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The GB Want More Gimme Gimme Feed Me More Money, What Do We Get?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inif we keep dishing out cash, to pay for all of our wonderful new light and spiritual food, have we, in return, actually only been fed garbage?.
example.. when they tell us not to bring up anything in older publications, because it is no long considered "the truth"(tm), was it ever the truth(tm)?.
have we been strung along for 130 years, on imitation food, masquerading, as real food?.
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Lois, hubby has a friend who is the poster boy for cognitive dissonance. He was the person who led me to this site, critises everything about the 'Borg: yet thinks it is Gods organization gone off the reservation. Still he has continued to believe that the GB are like the bad kings in Isreal. It's taken him so long to add everything up it was became anoying. Finally, I asked him Ok, so WHAT YEAR was it the "truth"?......Crickets.
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Parody of Memorial Song - 7 verses just means perfection
by sd-7 in--my wife has this as a ringtone on her cell phone, so i can't get the darn song out of my head.
thus, i had no choice but to lampoon it.
in order to do so perfectly, i knew that making seven verses--rather than six, which would be handling the matter imperfectly--was not only necessary, but wise.
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SD7 i'd love to sing this for kareoke!
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What Was The Effect of You Knowing Hypocritical JW's?
by LoisLane looking for Superman in(1) did it cause you to leave sooner than you might have, otherwise.. (2) it didn't bother you enough to do anything about it.
hey, we are all imperfect.. (3) did you want to prove you were better than they, and nothing they could do or say, was going to stumble you.. (4) they stumbled me, probably as much i stumbled them.
we all know it's an old boy's club and we are not going to tell on each other.. loislane.
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Put me down for hypocracy helping me see the real WTBT$. The worst was when they refused to pay back a $20,000.00 "conditional gift" to my elderly, destitute widowed mother. We wrote 3 respectful letters stating her plight, her very long record of faithful service, and the history she and my father had of huge $$$ donations (way over 7 figures!) And her relationship with the then president ,Max Larson. Hubby, an ex Bethelite had these letters hand delivered to at least 2 GB members by a friend. ALL went unanswered. Hubby called the desk and the verbal answer was put her on welfare! So much for the Bible's mandate to care for orphans and widows, "cast your bread upon the waters", "the wicked borrows but does not pay back" yada yada.
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Kingdom Hall vs. Crack house...?
by 3rdgen inok, this is our situation as of late: jw elderly mil needs to move in with us or go to an expensive assisted living arrangement.
although i would rather stick a fork in my eye than live with her, assisted living would bankrupt us.
i know because we've already been through it with my mom.
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Okie- dokie, Imallcool
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What is happening in Mexico?
by ILoveTTATT ini have heard that a lot of the english congregations in mexico are shutting down... they are condensing 5 congregations into one, or in some areas even disbanding the only english congregation.
jw's who have been living in mexico for many years and probably were sheltered by being in the english congregations will now have to move to spanish congregations.... .
ilttatt.
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Sir 82, yup
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Kingdom Hall vs. Crack house...?
by 3rdgen inok, this is our situation as of late: jw elderly mil needs to move in with us or go to an expensive assisted living arrangement.
although i would rather stick a fork in my eye than live with her, assisted living would bankrupt us.
i know because we've already been through it with my mom.
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Thanks Jake and Imallcool, actually we have investigated the laws and found that the state won't kick in untill she goes through most all of her assets. She is allowed to keep her home and rent it out but is only allowed to have $2000.00. Anything over that PLUS the rent goes back to the state to offset the cost of caring for her. In other words, she has to spend hubby's inheritance and be broke before they will help. A family trust is the only protection but it's tricky. So since hubby was willing to put up with my equally difficult JW mom, its only right that I return the favor. Just venting!
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A new life with my long lost brother...UPDATE
by TimeBandit inlast december i posted this joyous story about the new life i made with my long lost brother (here's a link to that story).. .
so much has changed since then.
for the absolute worst.
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((((((((Timebandit))))))))) you know the old saying "no good deed goes unpunished." I wish much better things for you in the future. Congratulations on the wisdom to select a lovely , understanding wife
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Kingdom Hall vs. Crack house...?
by 3rdgen inok, this is our situation as of late: jw elderly mil needs to move in with us or go to an expensive assisted living arrangement.
although i would rather stick a fork in my eye than live with her, assisted living would bankrupt us.
i know because we've already been through it with my mom.
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Ok, this is our situation as of late: JW elderly MIL needs to move in with us or go to an expensive assisted living arrangement. Although I would rather stick a fork in my eye than live with her, assisted living would bankrupt us. I know because we've already been through it with MY mom. Sooooo we are looking on line to find a bigger house. Turns out that what we can comfortably afford is either in a crappy neighborhood OR near one of the many KHs in our area. Pretty sure I'd rather live near drug dealers than put up with Witlesses stopping by every day to pee.
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1975 - The Killer WT quote
by tim hooper inone thing is absolutely certain, bible chronology reinforced with fulfilled bible prophecy shows that six thousand years of mans existence will soon be up, yes, within this generation!
(matt.
24:34) this is, therefore, no time to be indifferent and complacent.
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Back atcha Wasblind, Yup, I completely "ran ahead of the organization". lol Of course , I wasn't the only one! I personally knew people who put off dental work, making house repairs, even needed surgury. I knew others who racked up HUGE credit card debt figuring they would never have time to pay it off. There was a family in our cong. who had just finished building a $million custom home when they learned the "Truth". Within months (1974) they sold (I should say gave away) their home that had taken years to build, and went pioneering.