Posts by JimmyYoung

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Is it possible to nullify a baptism?

by idk123 in

hope you are all well,.

i was wondering within the organisation if there are any guidelines or grounds for nullifying a baptism.

see i grew up a jehovah's witness and was baptised at age 13, i didn't get baptised for the right reasons, i felt pressured to because my friends were getting baptised at the same time.

JimmyYoung

What are you talking about it means nothing so all you do is click your heels together three times and say I aint a W I aint a W.

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Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

by minimus in

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she certainly is passionate about climate change.

🤔.

She is nothing but an autistic twit who has obsessed on the end of the world and wants the world to stop using fossil fuel, Which is not going to happen anytime soon. Think of how heavy cars would be if no plastics were used, or what modern pharmaceuticals would be if they could not use fossil fuel. We can only feed the world as is because of petrochemicals keeping insects at bay and fertilizer along with genetic modifications. She is really not very smart, she has picked this one thing and acts like its really easy to just stop using fossil fuel. In Medicine alone the syringes, sterile packaging and rubber gloves are all made of fossil fuels. The tires on your car to the shoes on your feet. She is a twit for sure. And the leftist idiots are using her to push their stupid agenda.

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Has Anything Really Changed For JWs In The Last 10 Years?

by minimus in

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2020 is days away.

has anything really changed for the witnesses or the religion?

?.

JimmyYoung

They are 10 years older and most likely still have nothing put away for retirement.

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Big elders meetings?

by road to nowhere in

i hear of whole circuit meetings being held, taking all day.

maybe just usual yearly stuff, but it seems the local elders immediately held a followup.

i am sure it will be about better local control, more charity, kindness, that sort of thing.

JimmyYoung

LOL I grew up with Special talks and other BS. Its always nothing. A lot of BS to make them selfs feel important.

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Cost to build a hall and the lies of the cult

by JimmyYoung in

i was listening to a podcast on cost to build a hall and there was a brother from the stage saying it costs the cult half a million to build a hall.

lol its bs.

there is no fing way that it cost the cult a half million to build a hall.

JimmyYoung

Stephen,, I agree now take a look at actual sales results of halls. do an ave and you have an aprox of what they sell for. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/18353865/104-Buckner-Road-Dover-TN/

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17917363/3161-Oro-Bangor-Hwy-Oroville-CA/

Doing a quick search I see them run from 165k to 450k depending on area. I can see the avg sale price at a quarter of a million but this is far form what the cult paid to have it built.

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Are JW's unknowingly part of a CULT?

by The Fall Guy in

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some points for awakening jw's to consider in 2020: .

"joining a cult: religious choice or psychological aberration" by dena s. davis.

some of the following characteristics are listed:.

JimmyYoung

If a JW knows they are in a cult they are a PIMO. Most who are drinking the kool aid are not aware they are in a cult.

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Cost to build a hall and the lies of the cult

by JimmyYoung in

i was listening to a podcast on cost to build a hall and there was a brother from the stage saying it costs the cult half a million to build a hall.

lol its bs.

there is no fing way that it cost the cult a half million to build a hall.

JimmyYoung

Well ADD I think you are totally wrong. To even put replacement cost on your insurance is nothing but apples and oranges. First off most insurance company's over insure. Every home I have ever bought they wanted to insure it for 20 percent more than I paid. Second I have been in all the trades for 40 plus years. Everyone in my family was in the treads and its all I know. I have built myself several of my own homes and remodeled more. I was in Floorcovering as a trade in my last years and grew up helping my father in plumbing and heating. He was a master. I also would get off the school bus at my uncles building sites and help him with electrical and when younger I started by scrapping out and helping hang drywall. If you have never been in a hall that had land donated you were not much of a JW.

I know not all were but more than not that I have been around had land donated. Yes building materials are not cheap but when you buy in bulk and get the discounts that society gets, and in the cases of the several halls I was around that were built they have builders who get their discount and pass it on to the cult. In the average home of 2000 sf the actual cost of rough in materials would be around 15000 dollars. All in materials about 65k tops unless you are buying some exotic things. The labor is always more than materials on most items. Not all but most. when you are paying 20 plus an hour to the avg work man or more and you also have the cut going to the general of each trade.

Most owners don't do their own work, They have tradesman do it or at least work with them. In the mid west you can buy a 1500sf home new on land for 135k. So half a million is crazy money. And it is a lie. Also in a project you call a tradesman they add at the very least 10 percent to the cost of the material. They never pass it on. And that is very low, in my case we would add 50 percent to the cost of flooring. And we were low. Some builders would go cost plus ten and that was a scam. They inflated material added hours ect and then collected ten percent on top. It most times cost more than a bid job.

Homes new built should not really run all that much more than a comparable existing home. Unless you live in California or NY areas, Take a look at what you can buy with half a million in your area. Usually a 10 times more exotic and larger home than some 2 or three thousand sf KH. No add in that they did not pay labor and got a cut rate on material and you can look at three quarters of a million dollar homes to compare. Its an out and out lie.

I also know the avg ratios of two to one on rough in and three to one on mechanical, but what is never taken into account is the mark up on material. What I am referring to is the sometimes 50 percent or more markup on material. If you take this in to account on the KH builds and the discount they get when they are either given material or at a discount then its closer to one to one sometimes less. The point is no matter what half a million or a quarter of a million is a lie when it comes to building what amounts to a 3000sf open roof system with a couple of bathroom stalls in it.

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Cost to build a hall and the lies of the cult

by JimmyYoung in

i was listening to a podcast on cost to build a hall and there was a brother from the stage saying it costs the cult half a million to build a hall.

lol its bs.

there is no fing way that it cost the cult a half million to build a hall.

JimmyYoung

I was listening to a podcast on cost to build a hall and there was a brother from the stage saying it costs the cult half a million to build a hall. LOL its BS.

There is no Fing way that it cost the cult a half million to build a hall. This is an obvious lie. They get free labor to build, and materials are bought in bulk. The land many times is donated. What a hall sold for is not even close to what it cost them to build. I would say it costs the cult about 80 to 95k to build a hall. There is no kitchen so that expense is gone, there is no laundry room. Its only a couple of rooms one very large and two bathrooms and a furnace room with HW heater. I was in floor covering and used to get the FC at cost for the cult and we all got together and installed it. So this BS that it costs half a million is what it may cost in an expensive area like parts of California and NYC where labor is very expensive. Don't buy this BS lie.

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What is the average cost to build a new Kingdom Hall

by jworld in

i was recently told that the average cost to build a new kingdom hall in the united states rural midwest region was $250,000.

i was shocked to say the least.

i remember when my childhood congregation built a new hall in 1989 for $60,000.