i have been doing the accounts for our local congregation now for 3 years.
i just thought, wow our local expenses total just $500 a month, yet we have an ongoing expense each month of $600 for the kh expansion work(ie:world wide work), $60 for the traveling overseer insurance and $54 for the local kingdom hall insurance, in addition to the operating committee expense of $525.. so, our one congregation sends $714 a month plus what the publishers contribute towards the world wide work usually between $600 to $700 per month.
in other words, we are at least sending, for our little congregation of 75 publishers, $1314 a month!
http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate/secrets-of-the-rich-use-other-peoples-money/
Secrets of the rich: Use other people’s money
Want to build a real estate empire or grow a business from scratch, but you don’t have the cash? Try a little leverage.
" We got the wrong play, the wrong director[s], the wrong cast. Where did we go right? " - Max Bialystock in The Producers
according to you tubers mike and kim and son of thunder, egyptian branch closing.
son of thunder is saying he has relatives that we're running bethel in egypt for years and they have been let go reassigned as special pioneers yet according to him this job no longer pays a wage.
he also states that 5000 total bethelites world wide are being let go.
he delivered the most cultic piece of propaganda i've ever seen in an assembly.
wife typed up the whole thing.
i will be posting when i get a chance.
They way people attack one another here suggests that it is definitely NOT an OPEN forum where one can express oneself freely and that unless you tow a certain line whether openly suggested or implied you are going to get ostracized, torn apart and insulted ! [As many were when exiting / fading the JW .ORG etc ]
Which has all the hall-marks of the start of the next Cult following - right here on your favourite forum.
Lets ditch this behaviour man !
Some restraint and yielding and improved choice of words could go a long way !
Also make it a lot more inviting for others to feel comfortable visiting here !
this is interesting, jw's go to the door of a biblical scholar, a professor in theology i believe, and he invites them in and records the whole conversation.
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpo43bgdbm.
yes friends it is too late for most of you to return to jehovah's org.
based on the new garlic bread parable in this month's broadcast with the illustration using loaves of bread.
it is obvious that the doors of the arc has been closed shut by jehovah's hand for some of us.. according to the new parable that can be found on jw tv.
My life has been one long loaf anyway !
i have been lurking on the site for a few months and thought it about time i plucked up the courage to step out of the shadows and say hello.. i am in the process of fading after realizing all is not right with the organization i had trusted implicitly for over 40 years.
there have always been 'truths' i have struggled to accept entirely, even as a child, but was confident that trusting in jehovah, building my faith and remaining patient would be enough to settle any nagging doubts that remained, so i pushed any inconsistencies to the back of my mind and concentrated on being the best witness that i could be.. over the last few years, however, i have been preoccupied with a number of crises in my family and stepping back slightly from 'theocratic' activity has allowed me to re evaluate a number of concerns and research sources other than the sanitized wt publications.. my eyes are now wide open - i found things which have appalled me and left me feeling extremely let down and disappointed by people i had really trusted.. i tried gently raising a few subjects with my mum (who was baptized early '70s and still remains a staunch wt supporter) but she will hear no criticism of the organization.
i understand this because the best part of her life has been invested in the religion and to acknowledge it may have got things wrong would be to recognize the last 40 years have been a vain waste.
Just to add a 2 cents......Your post could be a ditto of my and my wife's own fade out after about the same time in - baptized in 74 and 71 And the reasons along with all the others here are almost exactly the same!
I lurked here for years too ! [Its Simons fault ! ]
just in case someone wanted this letter for their records.
.. http://postimg.org/image/dn44a9m9h/.
.. petra!.
ClapCoordinator ..................lol
Happy the Clappy Clapped out Clapper - and there was that time when we derided the "happy clappers" of Christendom !
So if you do not clap ...........you will be taken to task ???
Mind you it could be really fun in the Spanish Congregations especially in Andalusia -
https://youtu.be/zDPhZkCZj0w?t=120ld
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/26/doomsday-clock-countdown-humanitys-end-moves-today/79347584/.
doomsday clock: 'three minutes' left until the apocalypse .
the doomsday clock, a symbolic countdown to the world’s end, stands still at three minutes until midnight, scientists announced tuesday.. it remains at the position it moved to one year ago.. that the clock moves no closer to midnight, the indicated end of humanity, remains "grave" news, its makers stressed.. "unless we change the way we think, humanity remains in serious danger," said lawrence krauss of the bulletin of the atomic scientists, the nonprofit that sets the clock.
I posted a comment on the BOAS website to the effect that JW- ORG loves it when they advance the hand of the clock as it plays right into their need to maintain the culture of FEAR in order to keep the Cult-troops "marching in step" and I suggested that they approach JW . ORG for a commission of sorts [ lol ]
i am going to engage on a trip to the past and share with you some of the matters that marked the beginning of the jws persecution in cuba.
you will be surprised that the pattern that was followed is very similar to what happened in other dictatorial countries.. in the cuban case, i am going to surprise you and tell you that like what happened with hitler; the wt was partially responsible for their clash and confrontation with the cuban government.
during the early 60s the revolution was fighting for survival and they were willing and ready to demolish any perceived enemy to their cause.. a prime example was their war against the catholic church that was the most influential religious entity in the country; it took the supreme leader only a few public discourses to send the vast majority of clergy packing and back to their country, in this case spain.. the jehovah’s witnesses were an insignificant minority but they over estimated their importance and displayed a belligerent attitude, it was known that this was a us based religion and an easy target to connect them with the cia.
