whatever we think of it, you have to admit that it's quite "genius".. the door to door ministry as done in western developed countries where the jw quirky religion has probably reached their saturation level was a complete and utter waste of time in terms of the effort expended to recruit people.. at the same time, it was rarely something that anyone enjoyed which led to people being labelled as inactive, being pressured to doing more and maybe ultimately deciding jwism wasn't for them and leaving.. there was also the issue that many jws are actually pretty bad at knowing and articulating their beliefs so were pretty incapable of getting any meaningful message across.. they solved all this with the cart witnessing.
the real point isn't to recruit, it's to make life easier for jws.
now they can stand and chat with their friend, have a coffee, not talk to anyone or make eye contact and still act as a walking billboard for jw.org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Ikf6zVSrY
Maybe they should try this so they can show their "award winning" videos.
Didn't they use to walk around with billboards announcing that religion is a snare and a racquet? Now they themselves are the snare and a racquet. Personally when I see walking ads or a blow up doll whaling its arms wildly, I am not influenced in any way to approach that product, maybe backing away and avoiding the idea being promoted.
i can't say much out of fear of getting caught, but i overheard a jw i know on the phone with a friend talking about "how close we are to the end.
" yeah, yeah, i know.
we've been on the brink of armageddon for well over a century, but what struck me about this particular instance was what she said next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUniG6F_RzY
Maybe the GB will use Michael Jackson's last video as an introduction to their talk since he claimed to be a JW and is awaiting the resurrection . The young ones would go estacic and a few middle aged ones also.
in the montana sex abuse court case for the first time watchtower has been required by the courts to give a financial statement to the court to assess awards of punitive damages for negligence and (for the first time)malice in non compliance of mandatory reporting laws.. watchtower corp of new york has finances in excess of $2 billion while cc of jw is worth $49 million.
this doesn't include the pensylvania corp or what overseas branches may have.. pretty healthy bank balance by any standards..
From my schooling in accounting 40+ yrs ago, i remember book value was the value paid for an asset at acquisition . It doesn't represent the current value but may just be a "close enough" amount to make an educated estimate of their current assets. As a side bar, quite a few KH,s are built outside of towns and as such are not worth as much as they claim simply because no business would buy them, being so far away "from the action" Just visit www.loopnet.com and search Kingdom Halls and you will see some Halls for sale in the boonies, which are harder to sell, if they can at all. Maybe they could donate them to the VFW since they seem to always be on the outskirts of town and would be so fitting to see this come about, a perfect spot for drinking.
Good point I M. I wonder that they went to the trouble of rewriting the bible to match what they think is correct, that they haven't thought of rewriting their calendar also. Maybe call sunday meeting day and saturday field service day.
overlapping
and has finally succeeded in burning one to the ground.
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I thought they were self insured?
good luck on this thread..
so our family fade is well under way.
we changed congregations as regular attenders and left in good standing with those giving hugs and kisses simply knowing we "needed a change".
we moved to a neighboring congregation that is out of our original region knowing we would see no one and the two boe's wouldn't really have immediate dealings.
Say you can't tolerate organizations that are run by men only such as the muslims, catholics, and the like, and you are waiting for the governing body to appoint a woman, since they do allow them to declare themselves anointed. Ask them what is their opinion of women becoming in charge and would it make any organization run better.
in all of the art i`ve seen in christendom, angels always have the form of a male, and in the bible those that are named always have a male name such as michael ,gabriel , etc, .
nowhere in the art world that i have seen do angels have the female form, and in the bible they don`t have female names.. so if the angels are neither male or female why then are they depicted as males with male names ?and not female also ?.
the watchtower illustrators also follow this line .when they illustrate an angel it is always in the form of a male and never a female form.. the anointed who make up the 144000 comprise of male and females right ?
I guess that male angels might have looked on Eve and wished they could overlap into the generation of adam and eve.
banks create money “out of thin air.”empirical studies have been undertaken to prove this thesis and this is the conclusion:.
in the 5,000 year history of banking, banks have been thought of as “deposit taking institutions which lend money”.. 1. what is the legal reality?
banks don’t take deposits and don’t lend money.the public is under this false impression on purpose because the language of banks is not legal language.. so--what is a “deposit”?a deposit is not actually a deposit.
Maybe if banks could overlap each other there would be no more failures
