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  LEAKED: WHQ Accounts: 2016-2020 Budget

  by Fay Dehr in

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  2. scandals

  leaked: whq accounts: 2016-2020 budget [part 1 of 5] https://youtu.be/g08tw2v3b4s.

  leaked: whq accounts: 2016-2020 budget [part 2 of 5] https://youtu.be/rpceb5v0vbe.

  leaked: whq accounts: 2016-2020 budget [part 3 of 5] https://youtu.be/2xa08ukc_6i.

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  To me this is huge. We are getting it straight from the horse's mouth they are in trouble financially. The cult members are not donating enough to keep up with expenses and it's not expected that they will from what I heard. Where are they going to get the needed money to finance everything? They are selling or were selling as of 2016 3,000 properties which I would say are mostly KHs. If the average price of each property is $500,000 that equals $1.5 billion which only goes so far for an organization of that size. From what the speaker stated they seem to really be counting on that money.
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  Whoop there it is!!!!

  by James Mixon in

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  2. friends

  walked into panda express for lunch the other day and there was a unusually long line.

  i notice a large group of folks that had a familiar dress and smile on their faces.

  the women dresses below the knees and the men wearing the top of line goodwill special suits.

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  And they used the placement of that mag so they could all count their time while they are lunch lol.
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  A ridiculous thing I found in the old young people’s book

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was in some book for young people that i found going through the watchtower library when i was doing research for old publications, i cannot believe this lunacy, i feel so bad for the teenagers at the time who had to try to take this seriously, but they’re not a high control religion or cult though, anyways here is is : .

  if you sleep in a room alone and you find that you seem to feel special stress in this direction at night, you may be able to arrange matters to share a room with another member of your family.

  also, you may find it helpful to sleep on your side rather than on your back or face down.. 18 another thing that may be helpful is to see to it that your clothing does not unnecessarily cause friction with the sexual organs.

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  If this is the book that came out in '88 or '89 then Ray Franz didn't write it since he was already out of there. Maybe his psycho uncle Freddie wrote it. There must be some sickos up high to be writing that crap. They must be the one using their clothes.
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  They are increasingly appealing to emotion

  by cookiemaster in

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  they always have but lately, they've taken it to a whole new level.

  the new convention video about the end, the many videos at conventions and meetings, the new songs, all highly emotionally manipulative.

  and they're working.

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  I believe they are at the beginning of the end of their rope. That is why we see these extremely manipulative convention videos. The manipulation is only going to get worse. They have nothing else to use. They are doing whatever they can to keep the cult members in fear and afraid to look at what the world has to offer.
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  Tacoma Dome regional conventions

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. beliefs

  this is the spot where most of washington state and even parts of oregon have had thier regional conventions.

  there would be as many as 4 conventions during the summer.

  this year none.

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  Maybe they're sending some to Portland this year.
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  I went to a meeting at my old congregation last weekend

  by hoser in

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  it’s a three for one deal.

  about 10 years ago they merged 3 struggling rural congregations into one in the largest town.

  at the time there were about 75 publishers.

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  That's awesome!!!
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  CO asked for everyone 20 years old & younger for a group photo

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there was a co visit in ohio a couple weeks ago.

  when he was finishing up his sunday talk he said that he would like if "all the children that are from this congregation, not if you're just visiting, but from this congregation to come on up on the stage right after the meeting because i want to get a picture of you.".

  i thought to myself, why?

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  Maybe the COs do that to encourage and convince themselves that there are still some young people left in the cult.
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  Judgment Day in Russia

  by Tahoe in

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  2. current

  http://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-are-having-their-homes-raided-even-remote-towns-934734.

  law enforcement officials in birobidzhan, russia, a small town close to the border with china, raided 20 homes belonging to jehovah’s witnesses, according to members of the religious organization.. the raids were conducted by around 150 police officers, who nicknamed their operation “judgement day,” jarrod lopes, a member of the jehovah’s witnesses, told newsweek.

  police confiscated photographs, bank cards, money and electronic devices from the houses they searched, said lopes.. a criminal case was opened against a man named alam aliev, who will be kept in pretrial detention until july, members of the religious group said.

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  It's so sad that brainwashed cult members will sacrifice everything for their leaders. They are willing to be persecuted to the highest degree because of their false beliefs. If they only realized it's ALL FOR NOTHING.
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  Beliefs and life after disfellowshipped

  by AlexPancho in

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  2. beliefs

  it is normal for a person to review their beliefs, especially after such a traumatic event as disfellowshipped.i think that many here do not believe that god is leading jehovah's witnesses.. someone does not believe in god at all.i think it is good when we can be free in our views, no matter how much they are, without the pressure from any organization that teaches us to "true" believe.so, now i read many books on the history of the bible text and found that there is no foundation to be sure that at least one true words after 500-year history of rewriting has reached us.

  if you wont find more info about this - googledbart ehrman book or nestle-alland new testament, where every words have many variant.for start read thisi read grat biological works, as dawkins "great show on the earth" and other (into russian lang) and i do not have any reason believe into creation.but, i still belive ino any abstract god-like force, without any "book based" reason.what do you believe in today?

  why?please do not condemn each other's faith - we have gone through a rather difficult path..

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  Are you serious

  Hola Alex,

  I sure as hell don't believe in the homicidal, jealous, hatefull, innocent killing god called jehovah in the fiction book the bible. When you look at it from a non-religious view you come to the conclusion that that god is big time nuts!

  Religions are just another way to keep people busy and make maniacs out of them.
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  How far will they go?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  imagine: you have inside information that could destroy the watchtower corporations.. how far would they go to protect the assets?.

  would they kill?

  no strange question in blackwater etc days.. g..

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  I believe they would. It's not only the gb's retirement fund but also all of their helpers future pensions also depend on it. Desperate times call for desperate measures.