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  Are the G.B.members really good business people ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  if i was an author of a book i think i would be over the moon if i was guaranteed a sale of around 5 million or more books for my work.. the jehovah`s witnesses have over 8 million members plus relatives that are fringe dwellers who come to the memorial once a year ,.

  so what a gold mine they have been sitting on as a publishing house .. why didn`t they keep publishing books for the faithful ,they could have even upped the price , and the faithful would have paid especially in prosperous country`s in the west.. they could have milked this venture for years to come as the faithful would have bought anything they would have published .. and their prophets (profits) would have soared ,literally and figuratively for many more years to come ..

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  Pete Zahut ,you may very well be onto something there ,and if they haven`t thought about it before they are certainly going to be thinking about it now
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  Joke Sharing Thread

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  got a good joke or two?

  why not share them.

  here is a fun one.. retirement can be fun.

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  Me...I just read in the "Health & Well being " section of the newspaper that Russian scientists have discovered a cure for the STD of syphilis

  You.. OH ?

  Me.. Yes its called an atomic pill

  You... Oh and what does it do ?

  Me... It gives you a Nu-Clear weapon .
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  Don't give them 2019

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  i am writing the post i have wanted to write for some time.

  it's a heartfelt note to those still attending meetings, still caught between the lines of watchtower and the world.

  those with kids or a spouse in the society..... despite being mentally out....those who have weighed up that there is too much to lose in leaving.

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  I believe snare&racket `s OP and I believe in overlapping both make interesting valid points for seeing both sides of the issue .

  Its an excellent post "snare" and an equally excellent response "I believe".

  Any lurkers on here would do well to read this post and weigh the pros and cons on what decision they decide .
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Witnesses already can't check books out of the "Kingdom Hall library"

  Is that only in your local KH ? or is it a GB directive ?

  That`s really weird ,a library with books your not allowed to read.
  
  
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  Are the G.B.members really good business people ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if i was an author of a book i think i would be over the moon if i was guaranteed a sale of around 5 million or more books for my work.. the jehovah`s witnesses have over 8 million members plus relatives that are fringe dwellers who come to the memorial once a year ,.

  so what a gold mine they have been sitting on as a publishing house .. why didn`t they keep publishing books for the faithful ,they could have even upped the price , and the faithful would have paid especially in prosperous country`s in the west.. they could have milked this venture for years to come as the faithful would have bought anything they would have published .. and their prophets (profits) would have soared ,literally and figuratively for many more years to come ..

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  (if you go on to the jws own website it tells you that in 2012 they closed 20 bethels around the world down)

  I know they went through or are even still going through a period of cut backs however I didn`t realize they closed down 20 Bethels in one year Is that correct ?

  All of the cutbacks and closures taking place are not the signs of an organization/religion doing well rather it is more like the writing is on the wall as in an imminent end.

  Maybe I should titled this post

  "Are The Current G.B. members good Business people" because obviously the first couple of generations did build up an impressive religious publishing and real estate empire that the current GB members seem hell bent on destroying .
  
  
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Where about`s did this happen ? Maybe not a specific cong .but a country or state ?

  It could be newsworthy if it is a direction from the GB to do it everywhere .

  What religion or any other organization is there that is either ashamed or even embarrassed by their beginnings /early history and is continually re-writing that history as the years roll on ?
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  Robert Alter Completes his New Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the jewish telegraphic agency comments on alter's translation:.

  https://www.jta.org/2018/11/21/culture/robert-alter-completes-monumental-translation-hebrew-bible.

  translation is not an easy task.

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  In this 21st Century their is still $$$ Dollars galore that can be made in making money from thousand year old texts that are not even original and that you can give your own interpretation too .in a gullible market.

  And still the so called inspirational author of these writings Jehovah God is silent .?
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  Active JW's: If asked, can you explain/defend this belief?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as all jw's and awakened ex-jw's know, the very existence of the religion is dependent on people's belief that the "holy trinity" of the wtbts, the ccojw, and the governing body (aka the organization) were personally selected by god/christ.. 1) mr. rutherford claimed that this divine choosing occurred circa 1919, and that all anointed members were personally chosen by god/christ to be the faithful slave.

  2) in 2013 this long-held, "profound scriptural truth" was discarded by apostates in brooklyn (the present-day governing body) when they personally decided that only gb members were chosen by god/christ to be the faithful slave.

  (wt july 2013, p.22, par.

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  If I remember correctly newsheep it was in a court of law that they claimed no specific individual was identified as a faithful and discreet slave member ,that it was only in fact a "Theocratic Arrangement" when certain members came together to decide on matters of belief.

  A court case brought on by Steven Upthank against the WTB&TS in the State of Victoria in Morwell .Australia.

  This took place just a few years ago.

  You may want to look at jwleaks to find the full story

  As an interesting point from my point of view is that as you say it was a female lawyer that was defending the organization in this case in a court of law .

  Yet female Jehovah`s Witnesses have no place in any organizational structure in the religion ? But they can do so in a secular court of law in the land obviously.?
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  Armageddon has started in Astoria, Queens

  by ShirleyW in

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  now we know that the con ed plant in astoria, queens had an explosion, but before anyone knew what the heck was going on, so many people were posting on social media their pictures of the "strange blue circle light" that was in the sky this evening,usually st. johns which is near me has a fireworks display after a game, i thought this doesn't look like fireworks, much brighter and no sound, it actually looked like it was 4pm in the afternoon right before the sun leaves the sky.. i live in the jamaica section of queens (just up from trump's foot dr. if you saw that article in nytimes.

  com the other day) and haven't lost power but laguardia is dark now, no flights in are out.

  just wondering how the old school dubs that saw the lights outside window, thought "finally, the big a is here" !.

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  Every negative News service about a catastrophe here or their and its a sign for JW`s that the end is nigh ?

  They ignore the Bibles words that it is a wicked and adulteress generation that looks for a sign.
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  Mental Illness isn't limited to the Human Race.

  by Lost in the fog in

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  a former friend of ours who lives in ireland posted this link recently about animals and mental illness.

  seems humans are not so different from the animal world at all.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150909-many-animals-can-become-mentally-ill .

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  I have no problem believing this having a dog and cat for over 16 years and observing both of their behaviour`s.