The lack of financial transparency was always one of the things that really bothered me about this religion.
Every congregation publicly reports their accounts every month, but "mother" keeps her's secret.
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What if moving the world headquarters of the Watchtower is just a cover-up?
by WireRider inwhat better way to scam a few hundred million off the top?
with all the conversations, and truly distractions, of shortfalls and money problems - sell off about 1.2 billion of highly valued, tax exempt, property in brooklyn ny and build an ehhh 500 million property upstate.
what happened to the missing 700 million?
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Still feel weird about things....
by FeelingFree inso i'm loving the fact that my little one gets to be a "normal" child and take part in everything at school.
however i still have that stupid niggling in the back of my head that she shouldn't be doing it and it's wrong etc.
at the moment she is rehearsing for the nativity play and keeps singing the songs at home (she is going to be an angel!
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That "niggling" is your Pavlovian cult conditioning.
It eventually goes away.
Welcome to the rest--and the best--of your life!
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Preparation is key.
What kind of job are you trying to get?
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I think I was off the day they taught ...
by Simon indoes anyone else have those things that everyone else seems to know ... except you?
it's like you were off the day it was taught in school and you don't know that you don't know about it.
but everyone else does.. i have a couple .... first, days of the month.
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prologos: starboard right and green?
I LEFT my RED PORT wine at home
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The Watchtower are humans
by WireRider inthe watchtower are humans.
they have never had any conversation with any god, let alone one by a made up name.
they never had any power at all bestowed upon them.
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In fact, the 7 buffoons allegedly running the WTBTS aren't even particularly bright or inspired (in the ordinary sense of that word) leaders.
Let's review: It's a cult!
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Message from an elder
by paradisebeauty inelder: plese watch the november programm on jw broadcasting.. me: what i hope for is the change of the doctrine that states that jesus is not the mediator between jehovah and all jw's but only between jehovah and the 144000. i believe jesus is my mediator even if i am not one of the 144000. .
elder: may jehovah open your mind and heart.
me: may he open everyone's mind and heart.
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Elder: Please watch the November program on jw broadcasting.
Me: I already did, that's why I no longer need to come to the KH. I can get it all on my iPad!
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Science and religion can never be in agreement. They are fundamentally different world views. To suppose otherwise is ignorant.
Religion is about alleged REVEALED knowledge; Science is about knowledge that can be DISCOVERED.
Religion is about an elite individual or group that must be obeyed without question; Science is all about the question.
Peer review is essential to how science is done; in religions, your opinion is not wanted.
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Message from an elder
by paradisebeauty inelder: plese watch the november programm on jw broadcasting.. me: what i hope for is the change of the doctrine that states that jesus is not the mediator between jehovah and all jw's but only between jehovah and the 144000. i believe jesus is my mediator even if i am not one of the 144000. .
elder: may jehovah open your mind and heart.
me: may he open everyone's mind and heart.
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ParadiseBeauty, it was quite an epiphany when I realized that it's not really about doctrine. It's about control and obedience.
For the WTBTS, the Bible is merely a prop.
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Dr. Brandon van der Ventel says of the Genesis account in the Bible, “It points to God as the all-mighty Creator: a timeless, spaceless, immaterial and personal Being who is both the explanation and cause of the universe.”
He neglects to mention that this same God is a capricious, narcissistic, genocidal maniac that will kill you if you happen to guess incorrectly about which of the countless religions on Earth are representing him and which are not. Also, God needs money. Please send some, just don't send it to the wrong religion or, guess what? He'll have to kill you!
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JW sisters reaction to the cutbacks
by umbertoecho ini had gone away for a rest and came back to pick my animals up.
(yes we share one common thing.
the love of animals).
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LisaRose: there are so many signs of trouble it's getting harder and harder to pretend that everything is fine.
True dat!