it is known as "the green handshake" and everyone knows it happens.. .
the giving of money to c.o.
's to curry favor or perhaps a position or some special privilege.. here is my question:.
Millie, in the US an individual may accept cash gifts up to $14,000 from any other individual without reporting them for tax purposes. That is the level above which the Gift Tax kicks in.
You can bet your bottom dollar that these cash gifts are never reported.
an earlier discussion has been highlighting the differences between da'ing and df'ing.
xena said:i am sorry qadreena but i have never in the 20 some odd years i have been a jw ever heard of an unbaptised publisher being d/aed...marked as bad association yes..but d/a...no...but i guess stranger things can happen.... well that brought it all back.. actually xena the exact same thing happened to my brother in the early 80's.
he was only 14. he'd carried on associating with a friend of his who'd been disfellowshipped.
haven't posted much recently as i've been busy but in a good way!!.
it's been a pretty awful couple of weeks in the news with terrorist attacks, which took the shine off the christmas build up.
i wonder if anyone thinks it may all be building up to something??
i hope you get to enjoy the lights and sounds and food of winter.
according to a number of studies though, religion is in trouble.
a survey by the pew research center in 2012 saw record numbers indicating a huge upswing in atheism, with 20 percent of americans now identifying as agnostic, atheist or "unaffiliated" with a religion.
this was the highest percentages ever of "nones" or those who are unaffiliated in pew research center polling.. so with more people considering themselves atheist, what do they believe when it comes to the rules to live by?
Amen.
i have discovered why the gb-rinch canceled christmas.
(apart from them being fun-sucking assholes and "christ" is in the name.).
the christmas carol deck the halls clearly gives the command to:.
Terry, that would be so funny!!!
do jehova wingnuts believe jesus birthday isn't dec 25?
or do they just plain and simple not believe in any birthday?.
Let's not forget that all-important nonlogical jdub teaching that birthday celebrations result in death.
So, nooooo, you cannot possibly commemorate the most important things in life...like the creation of new people!
ldc semininar @ patterson nov 15-18, 2014 .
entire ldc dept included remote workers/design/legal/real estate/purchasing.
oversight.
I missed this when posted but O.M.G. Is there no end to their lunacy?
The jdubs will focus on comments such as "all our 80,000 properties are managed by volunteers" and think, wow that's so cool, we must be god's chosen people because we use volunteers!
They totally miss the important fact that they worship a real estate developer.
so, i'm visiting family this week who are all jws.
yesterday, it started with one of them talking about a co giving her some points on time keeping for service.
she is now writing a letter before she drives to service, so she can count her drive time.
As a rule, the piousneer trust fund elderettes got first crack at all the outlying territory maps.
The poor regular pio girls who had to work for a living got stuck with all the territories close to the hall and in the shady parts of town.
Feel the love?
so most would now know of the vile act in sydney last week where a man held hostage over 17 people in the lindt cafe in the middle of sydney.. two people were murdered...a beautiful, educated lawyer,loving mother of three, and a brave, loving young man working as the cafe manager.. this senseless and cruel act has touched everyone deeply, especially in the communities of sydney.
the outpouring of grief and support for the victims and their families has been immense.. i was therefore outraged to have the following comment made by a witness in conversation at the kingdom hall:.
"well, we dont need to be sad, because at least now they (the two victims) will get a ressurection.
The problem with jdubbies becoming mass murderers, other than the deaths of all those now slated for pandadise, is that the dubbies have then shot themselves in the foot. Now they don't qualify, so it's a win-lose situation. So only "worldly" ones can murder to gain eternal life.
