Posts by NotFormer

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Will the GB Eventually "observe" Tithing?
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
found this on fb from the recent losch talk.

time for a new business model?.

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NotFormer

I thought as much; I can't see any government providing such a large and exploitable loophole! 😱
Were these "conditional donations" a loan for a purpose, when they've got some project on?
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Will the GB Eventually "observe" Tithing?
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
found this on fb from the recent losch talk.

time for a new business model?.

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NotFormer

Blondie: "...conditional donation arrangement (donor can ask for it back)...It was timed for November, so jws would be encouraged to give in time for claiming for tax purposes that year".
Was this an outright tax rort? That a sum could be donated and a tax deduction claimed, and then the WT paid it back as though it were a loan?
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Judgemental Much?
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. friends
da loving organisation strikes again (11:56):.

https://youtu.be/pcvlhshkjau?si=p8w9x6xrpr59ecf6.
NotFormer

Okay, maybe saying "the organisation" here is a bit strong. It was a table full of JWs.
Can anyone here verify that such a scene is possible? Were groups of JWs on social outings likely to have behaved in this manner, in the experience of people here?
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New meeting format
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just watched november broadcast very different order to the leaked agm .

be good if someone did a deep dive on the difference and why the changes?

i didn’t time the items but it should be easy to see if edited?.
NotFormer

I want to see long-haired JW Nazirites going door to door! 👍🙀
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Will the GB Eventually "observe" Tithing?
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
found this on fb from the recent losch talk.

time for a new business model?.

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NotFormer

They could just sell appointments. They've published enough articles about Simony to prove that it is rife in the organisation; it's not like the WT to not take advantage of any money making opportunity.
Actually, I take that back. They are too stupid and stubborn to recognise which way the wind is blowing. They had a nice little publishing company going, with free labour selling their product door to door. At the first whiff of them having to follow their own rhetoric to "pay to Caesar what is Caesar's" (sales tax), they scuttled the whole profitable enterprise.
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Judgemental Much?
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. friends
da loving organisation strikes again (11:56):.

https://youtu.be/pcvlhshkjau?si=p8w9x6xrpr59ecf6.
NotFormer

Da loving organisation strikes again (11:56):
https://youtu.be/PCvlhshkjAU?si=P8w9x6XRpR59eCF6
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Tracy Chapman & John Mellencamp
by BoogerMan in
1. social
2. entertainment
did tracy chapman "sample" john mellencamp's song for her big hit, "fast car"?.

@ 47 secs.

- 55 secs.
NotFormer

I just remembered a striking similarity from the early 70s. Compare Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky with Alvin Stardust's My Coo Ca Choo. I'm surprised no ambulance chasing lawyers went after that one.
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New meeting format
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just watched november broadcast very different order to the leaked agm .

be good if someone did a deep dive on the difference and why the changes?

i didn’t time the items but it should be easy to see if edited?.
NotFormer

When hours worked in field service translated into sales of WT and Awake!, counting hours could be roughly translated into spirituality, WT style, that is, dollars earned for the organisation. Perhaps they will have to become more direct in equating dollars with spirituality. Maybe different tiers of donation. Everyone at the Kingdom Hall gets to wear a badge (purchased from the WT, of course!) displaying what level of "generosity" they demonstrated that month through their giving.
They could, of course, resort to outright Simony and just sell appointments.
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The Apostates' Handy JW Glossary
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. social
2. current
perhaps this has been printed here before...but still it gave me a few laughs...so here it is again.. the apostates' handy jw glossary.

by doug checketts.

"anointed" - an experience that, unfortunately, no "anointed" one has ever been able to explain.
NotFormer

"Class" - a "greater fullfullment" word which applies to virtually every character ever mentioned in the Bible. In the "greater fullfillment", the "class" which represents each Bible character is somehow applied to JWs. How do ya fit "Onan" in there, anyway?"
I must ask about "the Onan class", next time a JW comes to my door (if they ever do again).
But seriously, do they still talk about the various classes, Jonadab, John, etc? Or is that one of those things that is fading, like the whole types and antitypes thing? And 1914...
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The Apostates' Handy JW Glossary
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. social
2. current
perhaps this has been printed here before...but still it gave me a few laughs...so here it is again.. the apostates' handy jw glossary.

by doug checketts.

"anointed" - an experience that, unfortunately, no "anointed" one has ever been able to explain.
NotFormer

I miss Farkel.
...and Minimus.
I doubt they would miss each other, though!