Oubliette

Joined

• started 96 topics
• posted 7,450 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Oubliette

• 
  19

  What if moving the world headquarters of the Watchtower is just a cover-up?

  by WireRider in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  what 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?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  OrphanCrow, that report by the CIC is most telling. A grade of "F" indeed!

  I looked at the linked "Financial Statements." They are very opaque. There is really no way to tell from those statements how the monies are spent or what the assets are or how utilized.

  I'm one guy, with one job and a couple of relatively minor investments and my financial statements are much more detailed than these nonsensical "statements." They are really a joke.
  

  It was interesting to note the $57 million (Canadian Dollars) "Deficiency of revenues over expenses." That's a lot of money to be hemorrhaging. Of course, it could all just be a paper loss moving money from one branch to the other.

  Let's review: It's a cult!
  
• 
  19

  What if moving the world headquarters of the Watchtower is just a cover-up?

  by WireRider in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  what 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?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  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.
• 
  31

  Still feel weird about things....

  by FeelingFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so 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!

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  That "niggling" is your Pavlovian cult conditioning.

  It eventually goes away.

  Welcome to the rest--and the best--of your life!
• 
  14

  Job Hunting Advice

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what might you recommend to someone looking for a job?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  Preparation is key.

  What kind of job are you trying to get?
• 
  47

  I think I was off the day they taught ...

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  does 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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  prologos: starboard right and green?

  I LEFT my RED PORT wine at home
• 
  11

  The Watchtower are humans

  by WireRider in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  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!

  
  
  
• 
  27

  Message from an elder

  by paradisebeauty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  elder: 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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  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!
  
• 
  91

  Science Will Never Contradict The Bible

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so claims nuclear physicist

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  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.
  
• 
  27

  Message from an elder

  by paradisebeauty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  elder: 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.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  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.
• 
  91

  Science Will Never Contradict The Bible

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so claims nuclear physicist

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Oubliette

  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!