Posts by LevelThePlayingField

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Am I to understand this right, sales and acquisition of halls and remodeling must now be approved by the "branch" not locally?

by LevelThePlayingField in

is this the now correct understanding?

does the borg now take over even the local kingdom halls?!

what the hell?!

LevelThePlayingField

Thank you all so much for your answering this for me.

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my sources tell me that it's time to pull out paper shredder

by poopie in

jw
friends

at bethel.

they have dug themselves deep in hole they are shreddin documents little by little so stuart anderson cannot get his hands on documents that would cause them to open those wallets the shunning policy is being questioned so much

LevelThePlayingField

poopie - can you drop us a hint as to what the shredding is pertaining to?

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The watchtowers view on Rape!!! must see

by Khaleesi in

this person did a great job putting this together... i am disgusted with wt policies & them acting both judge & jurywatch "noonespecial - rapists - jw" on .

youtube.

https://youtu.be/lwufz7gyozm.

LevelThePlayingField

Good video. It really shows how things are in the borg. The borg convenently forgets about the scripture that talks about the woman in the field who gets raped that doesn't need a 2nd witness to get the guy stoned to death. I remember the counsel Angus Stewart using that with Mr. Jackson during the RC and I thought he did a brilliant job with it. But the WT never uses that scripture. They like to pick and choose.

I would like to to send this video to some elders but they would know who sent it to them. :(

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Watchtower properties for sale website

by NewYork44M in

jw
friends

here is a great site in case anyone is interested in acquiring wt property in brooklyn heights.

https://www.watchtowerbrooklynrealestate.com/.

LevelThePlayingField

I know this has been said time and again, but it merits repeating. Where has all the money gone? And if the WTBTS has another dozen properties yet to sell off, then alarms are going off in my head that something really isn't right here. Something must have really fell apart in the few months financially. You know how it is when you get this nagging feeling when something just isn't right. I'm no financial guy, but something is really a miss, and many a post has said it before. And you can bet your bottom dollar that WT will do everything in its power to cover over any kind of trouble it can. But sooner or later the trouble will catch up to you if you run out of money.

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Am I to understand this right, sales and acquisition of halls and remodeling must now be approved by the "branch" not locally?

by LevelThePlayingField in

is this the now correct understanding?

does the borg now take over even the local kingdom halls?!

what the hell?!

LevelThePlayingField

Is this the now correct understanding? Does the borg now take over even the local Kingdom Halls?! What the hell?! Is this really true? Can anyone verify this? So am I to understand this correctly that they don't trust the brothers even locally enough to make a local decision as they have done for the last, what 50 years effectively and now, poof, that's gone too?! WTF>?!

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2016 CA videos

by wifibandit in

download links (get 'em while they're hot!).

imitate jehovah-- morning.

imitate jehovah -- afternoon.

LevelThePlayingField

Thank you Wifibandit! Hey in all honesty, if you think about it. Why doesn't the org provide have what you just did. I mean think about it? We all know about the poor little 'ole guy/gal that can't make it to the assembly because they are in a wheel chair or are home-bound for some reason or have heard of it, right? This is a really cool way of giving them their "spiritual food". But does he slave have a provision of doing that? NO. They do not!

Really makes you think. They are not progressive thinkers, now are they?

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Watchtower properties for sale website

by NewYork44M in

jw
friends

here is a great site in case anyone is interested in acquiring wt property in brooklyn heights.

https://www.watchtowerbrooklynrealestate.com/.

LevelThePlayingField

@sledge Hammer - thanks for posting that. If the GB have 85 Jay St for sale and people are just begging to buy for $352 million and yet the GB say they are strapped for cash, what the hell is the problem?

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I never understood field service...

by Joliette in

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friends

it was always boring, and i was afraid that i was gonna get attacked by a dog.

i actually almost got attacked by a rottweiler once.

i didnt get paid for it, nobody listened to us, i actually had guys make passes at me while i was out doing street corner, i was always afraid i would get grouped and raped.

LevelThePlayingField

I didn't mind field service that much. I could take it or leave. But what I did mind quite a bit was, the other publishers and especially the pioneers who would drag their feet out in service. They would walk so slow. When they finally got to the door and it was there turn to knock, they would just stand there and talk to me forever and not knock. Finally they would knock and then not knock again, but just talk and talk. Or maybe not talk, but just stand there. It would drive me nuts. I thought, are in this to help people or are you just doing this to fill time?

I really used to hate that. I thought, what a bunch of fakers. And to tell you the truth, most publishers and pioneers were just like that. That was one of the contributing factors to me waking up. I even suggested to the one of the elders about 2 months ago, said what if instead of pioneers having an hourly committment, what if it was based on the number of RV's and bible studies per month instead. He said, I bet the pioneers would really support the evening and Sunday field service more. I bet they would! Cause right now they just stick to their convienent schedules of what works for them "getting their time" and that's it. It's really hypocritical to me.

But that's just my 2 cents.

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Sorrry if a repeat

by careful in

thoughts?.

http://taze.co/2015/01/31/jw-org-idolatry/.

the quotation from the 1974 km is good..

LevelThePlayingField

I read the article, but I just don't see it as idolatry. Sorry.

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Have the Governing Body caught themselves out in a lie?

by slimboyfat in

all sorts of suspected deception going on surrounding the cutbacks and the reasons for them.

but hard to pin down a direct falsehood.

sure, they initially said they were reducing the magazines so the brothers had less to read, then later said it was to save money.

LevelThePlayingField

At our hall they only planned on give about $100 more per month than the original loan. Folks here are rather poor. As far as I know from the accounts report everything is on track.