please excuse if this has already been posted:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysyqish-l_e.
under the freedom of information act, this guy has tax returns showing where your money goes, where it is invested, companies like northrop gruman, monsanto, cigarette and porn peddlers, and we thought we where giving money to god!
i am quite sickened to discover i was giving money to the watchtower to invest in arms manufacturers..
This surely cannot be a gift from a single person, we are talking about millions and millions of Dollars, I am no wiser to how this works?
All that money that is invested must come from the Watchtower in the first place surely?, who would donate so many millions to the org?
hope this is the right place for it but.... wondering if there are people i used to know who are out these days.... i was in the derby peartree cong, and the derby littleover cong.
left in the early-mid 00s.
dad was known all over the place..
if jw`s come knocking at your door, do you open it & engage in conversation, tell them to sod off, or just not answer the door?.
my husband`s has asked me not to answer the door to them if he isn't here?
he hate`s the fact that they make a point of calling when they know he will be at work.
For the first time in years, I had a Witness call, a young Lady, she asked, "Who do you think runs the world" and I replied "Satan" which didn't surprise her as much as when I started quoting Scripture.
She told me where the Kingdom Hall was and I replied, "Yes I know, I helped build it, you have a photograph of me in your Quick-build album", along with other massive hints such as, "You wont be allowed to return visit me", she must have realised I was an ex, her friend was certainly looking horrified when she arrived after 10 minutes to see what this wonderful call was her friend had found.
Thing is, this girl sounded genuine Christian rather than dub, I get the impression she was new in the Twoof, she liked what I was saying so much that she asked if she could come back the next day. I did get to say to her, "if you ever find yourself at odds with the organisation, you dont need to abandon God as well because the JW's dont own God, come back and see me then and I will help you"
Of course she didn't come back, been got at for sure, surprised I haven't had my first Elder visit after 20 years of missing the meetings, but she might remember the things I said if she ever wants to find out TTATT so I think its worth talking to them because you might save a Lamb of God from their jaws.
i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.
could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?
perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.
I'm lonely, the Watchtower took my courting years, so I am left to face old age alone, though I did meet a Sister when I was in, the Elders gave her the old, "Jehovah wont be pleased if you marry somebody from a lower Caste" story, so my heart was broken.
But apart from the org and its teachings, the nicest people I ever met were in the Twoof, and I guess that's you guys.
i had to clear space in my shelves for new books that keep arriving.
so... out with the "old light"!
we got rid of all spares and duplicates and only kept one of each for the sake of memorabilia.
You crazy fools!, those old books are worth a fortune, a quick search on e-Bay shows for instance £31.74 for "Gods eternal purpose now triumphing for mans good".
Or maybe you could black mail the Watchtower with them?, especially the ones revealing 1914 originally came from measuring a Pyramid.
please excuse if this has already been posted:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysyqish-l_e.
under the freedom of information act, this guy has tax returns showing where your money goes, where it is invested, companies like northrop gruman, monsanto, cigarette and porn peddlers, and we thought we where giving money to god!
i am quite sickened to discover i was giving money to the watchtower to invest in arms manufacturers..
Oh,
I need a bit of clarification though then, does the "some one else" that has set up this charitable trust for the benefit of the Watchtower, have control over where the money is invested?
Is the Watchtower obliged to accept money made from investment in weapons of war?
Who is this "Some one else"?, I know nothing of financial affairs but the video seemed to be suggesting the Watchtower itself is the "some one else" as part of a tax dodge.
please excuse if this has already been posted:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysyqish-l_e.
under the freedom of information act, this guy has tax returns showing where your money goes, where it is invested, companies like northrop gruman, monsanto, cigarette and porn peddlers, and we thought we where giving money to god!
i am quite sickened to discover i was giving money to the watchtower to invest in arms manufacturers..
Please excuse if this has already been posted:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyQIsh-l_E
Under the freedom of information act, this guy has tax returns showing where your money goes, where it is invested, companies like Northrop Gruman, Monsanto, cigarette and Porn peddlers, and we thought we where giving money to God! I am quite sickened to discover I was giving money to the Watchtower to invest in arms manufacturers.
my sister encouraged me to join facebook again to share our holiday pics, whilst i am on the dreadful place, i may as well join the group for ex jws here in the uk, anybody have a link or can tell me how to join please?
Cheers Stan, I just sent a Friend request, Peter C
Will it be obvious how to join the group?
my sister encouraged me to join facebook again to share our holiday pics, whilst i am on the dreadful place, i may as well join the group for ex jws here in the uk, anybody have a link or can tell me how to join please?
this is a topic i think every ex jw should have oppurtunity to contribute toward .. it has been 144 years since c.t.russell first published "zions watchtower and herald of christs presence" in 1879 .. red flag 1 " zions watchtower " ?
obviously c.t.russell had sympathy with the zionist movement of the day.. "christs presence" in 1879 ?
that is right and armageddon was to occur in 1914.. when that did not occur 1916-18 was promoted.
I think you are being a bit too hard on the Org Smiddy, One thing that came true was the start of events leading to a "Kingdom" in 1914, just as the Pyramid Russell measured foretold, (albeit it took a couple of trys).
Only trouble is it wasn't the Kingdom of God, it was the birth of the Kingdom of Satan, starting with the League of Nations and ending with the New World Order, whose sign funnily enough just happens to be that same Pyramid.
