below are pasted pages from website landoffree.com - canada with information about registered charities.
the one i direct attention to is the tynehead park congregation of jehovah's witnesses.. note several items.. rick worsley - elder - is identified as fundraiser.. has anyone seen this title applied to other jw's.
tynehead park congregation of jehovah's witnesses, surrey b c from british columbia, surrey, surrey has not been rated yet.
I looked up my old congs and they are all the same, 70% and 30%, and there is always an elder called a "fundraiser", along with "director" and "trustee". Must just be how they do the tax stuff.
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Assets include the Kingdom Hall itself, one of my old congs. had their own hall and moved into another with other congs and I see when they moved, their assets dropped by over $400,000.
the watchtower does not usually place women in positions of authority.. so, does anyone know if there have been any female medical doctors (any type, md, do or chiro) that worked at bethel recently?.
the only one that i know of was dr mae j work, but she was at bethel over 70 years ago!.
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Yes, Canada bethel had a female doctor when I was there a few years back. At Wallkill there was at least one male doctor I believe, he lived in one of the houses on the farm property with his family.
it's been 12 years since i first read ray franz's books and the scales came off my eyes.
by that time i was in my forties.. since 2002 i went back to school and have worked with 3 very professional organizations.
but my biological clock is ticking away and while my peers are looking forward to retirement, i am only beginning.
I feel the same. I'll be 26 when I graduate from community college, whereas most people who I went to high school with graduated with degrees four years ago and have been working since then. I wasted 4 years in pioneering and bethel service, with shitty job experience. it fucking sucks
this is an unofficial survey.. was curious as to the number of currently serving elders who were born-in and/or raised as jw versus those who were "recruited"( i.e, not born in or raised as jw.).
for instance, right now in the hall i am assigned to:.
2 elders were born-in and/or raised as jws.. 5 were not (recruited as adults).
80% (born-in) in one hall, 90% in another, 15% in another (the average age of the eder body was 65+), and maybe 60% in mine right now. As Ignoranceisbliss mentioned though, the elder bodies are mostly old in most of the congs I've been in, like average age is 65 or 70. The youngest elder I've met was 33, the oldest in his 90's. Average age of the elder body in some other congregations is mid 40s to late 50s.
sorry for the caps but... this movie was incredibly amazing!
this film will probably win a lot of oscars.
more than an hour's worth of footage has been shot in 70mm so it is worth seeing it in imax.
I've seen it three times in IMAX already!! One of the greatest movies & soundtracks of all time!!
website owners can get reports of ip addresses that visit their website.
it would be funny to find out if this site gets regular visits from wt locations.
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Balaamsass2, nobody I knew had a smartphone, the guys with cellphones just had the old flip phones, but the overseers were given pagers. I assume Wallkill and Patterson would get 3G now, and Brooklyn 4G. Warwick will probably be 3G too. You had to pay for internet access as well, I think it was about $5/month? It's been almost 5 years since I left so my memory is hazy on the small stuff.
website owners can get reports of ip addresses that visit their website.
it would be funny to find out if this site gets regular visits from wt locations.
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When I was at Bethel, I tried accessing this site and got the big "THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN BLOCKED" warning with the reason being "apostate site" (every site has a generic warning, but torrent sites were fine!). You cannot get around the filter unless you found a really random, new porn site/porn gallery site, and the Computer Department checks your router's website history every once in awhile to see if you have been visiting pornographic sites or getting around the filter. The only way you'll get around this is if you are on a different network at Bethel, which is impossible in my mind, they simply do not have a "secret" network that allows unrestricted access.
Remember that regular members can visit this site, tell the CO what they read, who then reports to the local Bethel about it, so Bethel doesn't even need to monitor it themself, they hear everything from members, who then reports to the CO, which they then hear about.
Also I was never question about trying to get to this site, and if I was all I had to say was I clicked the wrong link in Google when searching "jehovahs witnesses".
Also the WT's IP range is 208.74.140.0 to 208.74.143.255
i remember many years ago we would talk about those who leave the org.
something bad will happen to them.
because god was mad at them for turning away from the wt.
Adolf Hitler was responsible for millions of deaths and died at age 56
Joseph Stalin was responsible for millions of deaths and died age 74.
Mao Zedong was responsible for millions of deaths and died age 82.
The slimeballs Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney are still alive at ages 92 and 73, respectively.
The ruthless Robert Mugabe is still alive at age 90 while millions of Zimbabweans starve and die of disease.
ShirÅ Ishii, the director of the terrible Unit 731, was immune from prosecution, despite commiting unspeakable acts to thousands of civilians, and died age 67.
Genghis Khan and the Mongols were responsible for reducing the world's population by 11%, with Khan dieing around age 65.
Pol Pot was responsible for millions of deaths and died age 72.
Hell even Keith Richards, who has survived a lifetime of drug addiction, is still alive at age 70.
Meanwhile, if you left Jehovah you'll die a horrific death before you're 30 because you disobeyed him!!!!! He singled you out because you left him, but he did nothing to Hitler, Stalin, etc.
hi y'all,.
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can anyone give me the download for the wtcdrom that goes back the furthest (i think i heard it was 1993)?.
The oldest version seems to be the 1993 version, which came out in 1994 (link). My family never got a computer until '98/'99, and I don't think we kept those old CDs. As far as I can tell, there is no ISO available online of the old CDs, so you'll have to get it from a JW who still has the CD.
Thanks for this. 110 minutes on appealing, 90 minutes on reinstating, 95 minutes on how to conduct the Watchtower? Why do they need 95 minutes to go over that? The rest seems like generic talks.
