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  Where does WT get their money?

  by Dreamerdude in

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  i assume they get most of it from cash donations and assets left in wills.

  there may also be some income from invested assets.

  i guess they get a lot of money from old jws who die childless or with only df'd kids.geographically i assume they get it mostly from a few countries that have many publishers and strong economies.

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  I guess they call them "lands", which baffles me as much as it did Angus Stewart.
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  Where does WT get their money?

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i assume they get most of it from cash donations and assets left in wills.

  there may also be some income from invested assets.

  i guess they get a lot of money from old jws who die childless or with only df'd kids.geographically i assume they get it mostly from a few countries that have many publishers and strong economies.

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  Sorry for the lousy formatting. Not sure what I did wrong.
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  Where does WT get their money?

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i assume they get most of it from cash donations and assets left in wills.

  there may also be some income from invested assets.

  i guess they get a lot of money from old jws who die childless or with only df'd kids.geographically i assume they get it mostly from a few countries that have many publishers and strong economies.

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  I assume they get most of it from cash donations and assets left in wills. There may also be some income from invested assets. I guess they get a lot of money from old JWs who die childless or with only df'd kids.
  
  Geographically I assume they get it mostly from a few countries that have many publishers and strong economies. They recently published their top 6 publisher countries:

  1) US

  2)Mexico

  3) Brazil

  4) Nigeria

  5) Italy

  6) Japan

  I am sure the US makes up 50% of their income. Mexico, Brazil, and Nigeria are almost surely money losers, maybe even money pits. I don't think the Italians earn much profit, if any. I'll bet that Japan is number two in profits, with their super branch. I guess Germany is next with their super branch. I think the UK and and Canada turn sizable profits. Australia was profitable, even with their small population, at least until ARC.
  Here is my guess about profits:

  1) US 50%

  2) Japan 18%

  3) Germany 16%

  4) UK (known to the stupid Borg as Britain) 10%

  5) Canada 6%

  6) Australia?

  My impression is that the rest of the world either breaks even or loses money for the Borg. The case of India, which I read about here, is a funny case where the India branch has to beg Indian expats to donate from overseas, with copies of their passports.

  What are your thoughts? I hope I have not exposed my poor accounting skills. Please take easy on me, since this is my first post of intended substance. I hope awake people in these rich countries can help dry up the funds to this lousy "charity".
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Lost, thanks for the welcome. There are definitely better ways to spend life. It's not the best life ever.
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Rogue Bro. exposing TTATT, becomes a huge hit in Japan. It boasts nearly 300,000 access each month

  by nakanozzi in

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  a japanese bro.

  in good standing in his congregation, exposing ttatt in his blog, boasts nearly 300,000 access per month.. he is nearly unstoppable.. shou-tan blog.

  http://ameblo.jp/shou-tan-jw/entry-11719728036.html.

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  Banzai to Japan and the brothers exposing TTATT. And banzai to you nakanozzi, for giving the English speaking world a window into Japan's JWLand.

  Is it true that many of the wealthier witnesses are sending their young ones (20s and 30s and 40s) to serve where the need is funner, in other countries? They seem to pop up all over the world on social media.
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Steve2, I totally agree with what you said about the GB. I could put up with the foolishness they spout, if they didn't insist that my life depends on believing whatever their current collective opinion is. They are beyond arrogant.
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Billy, thanks for the great theme song. As you pointed out, there are so many more important things to talk about than mundane fashion. That particular day I was hoping to hear something positive, and not some fat old guy insulting young people.

  I really like the question you posed about how kangaroos made it from Mount Ararat to Australia. I always wondered how turkeys made it to America and nowhere else.
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  Mandrake, may the star and stripes, the red, white and blue, fly proudly over all the Kingdom Halls in Chile!
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  Waking up - introduction

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a male, born into the jw cult(ure), baptized as a teen, now mid fifties.

  most of my life i dreamed of hugging pandas and lions, punctuated at times by nightmares of armageddon or jw drama and politics.

  still going through the motions for still-in wife.

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  mandrake, thanks. I pulled my avatar from a crazy Rutherford book. It's supposed to be a clean shaven Jesus after being baptized by John the Baptist, a guy the Bible says never shaved his beard. To me it represents Rutherford's irrational hatred of beards and also an image of Jesus very detached from what the Bible teaches about him.