LevelThePlayingField

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  If JWs Were More Tolerant Would It Help Their Money Woes?

  by minimus in

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  they don't want you bettering yourself.

  they hate college education.they applaud you if you quit full time secular work and instead, "pioneer".

  they cry that they have money problems.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  The October broadcast had a segment of "simplifying your life" and it showed a couple who sold their house, the husband quit his office job and the couple started washing windows and they were spending "more" time in the field ministry. So, yes, I completely agree with. They ARE shooting themselves in the foot. All this means less donations for WT. Good! Let it happen. Let people be obedient to that.
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  S-109-E WORKING TOGETHER SAFELY Safety Rules and Standards for Volunteer Projects

  by wifibandit in

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  google.

  https://infotomb.com/sb4uq.

  so they have a manual for protecting workers (to avoid lawsuits), but they don't have a comprehensive child protection policy or manual?.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  They have victims in both cases right? So it would stand to reason. But WT just doesn't care about the children because in reality they don't have a voice, at least not yet. Victims of workplace safety automatically have a voice, right there on the spot, but not the poor little children, so WT doesn't care. But God does. AND, the royal commission does, and the money hungry lawyers do too. Gotta love them :)
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  CO Comes Up With A New Way To Be Judgemental...

  by JW_Rogue in

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  2. experiences

  at the latest co visit something very strange happened.

  during the meeting with the elders and servants he passed out a copy of a hypothetical publisher card and asked us what we could learn from it.

  upon receiving it i saw that the average hours were pretty good, it had return visits and quite a few bible studies.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Are you serious? I remember being an elder for years and that would have made me so mad, a comment like that! Like John Aquila would say, 'let's review, it's a cult!'
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  Curiosity killed the cat.

  by James Mixon in

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  don't you think with all the talk about apostate sites, this is having a reverse.

  effect for the rf.

  if i was a jw today i would wonder what are all the lies these people are saying.. and i would try defending their truth on these sites, but in each case those that come here.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I would click on the apostate web sites and didn't care. That's what woke me up. I wanted the truth no matter what the cost. That's what made me study with the Witnesses in the beginning and that's what made me wake up in the end.
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  Aus Bethel reducing numbers dramatically.

  by joey jojo in

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  sorry if this is old news but just heard that there will only be about 75 people left at sydney bethel after layoffs.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  As far as shock factor goes, who needs the evening news when you have WT.
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  Something interesting!

  by John Aquila in

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  i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.

  we both served as elders for years.

  he is in his late 70s.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  well, there you have it, JW leaks, let them battle it out.
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  What more do they need to see?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so bethelites are being decreased...bethel homes even sold off.... special pioneers no longer being funded.. magazines getting smaller and published less frequently.. building work stopping or being reduced.. no large conventions and renting of venues.. etc.... so, money is not coming in anymore to cover the "expenses"??.

  didnt the first ever watchtower said that when this occurs, it would be evidence of god no longer blessing the activity....

  oh, and throughout the years, we have constantly been told that the "growth of the org and the projects such as buildings and contributions" etc were evidence of gods blessing.... .

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Close. That Watchtower said if they didn't have the money to print the WT any more then it would be evidence of Jah not blessing. But they still print the stinking thing. But you're close man, real close.
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  Only 144,000 saved in 2000 years?

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  so i phoned an elder in the cong and asked him: "when did the calling for the great crowd start, was it 1935?

  he said, "no, i think i remember a convention talk about 1950.

  " so anyway, i said, "so then let's say in the 20th century right?

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I appreciate all of your answers, thank you.
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  This takes the cake

  by Sour Grapes in

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  today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..

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  LevelThePlayingField

  It's funny that elder said that because the MS who reads the WT reads it from his smart phone right up on stage!
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  Only 144,000 saved in 2000 years?

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i phoned an elder in the cong and asked him: "when did the calling for the great crowd start, was it 1935?

  he said, "no, i think i remember a convention talk about 1950.

  " so anyway, i said, "so then let's say in the 20th century right?

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  LevelThePlayingField

  So I phoned an elder in the cong and asked him: "When did the calling for the great crowd start, was it 1935? He said, "No, I think I remember a convention talk about 1950." So anyway, I said, "So then let's say in the 20th century right? And so if 8 million plus people have gotten the truth in this last century and prior to that it was the heavenly calling, then why for almost 2000 years was there only 144,000 people that found God's favor?"

  He said, "I don't have an answer for that." And then went on to try to explain away about how the population now is so much more than it was way back then, and "if fact if you consider" all the inventions and blah, blah...

  I brought him right back to the original argument and asked him again, "So you mean to tell me then, of the countless millions and millions of people that lived that only a 100,000 plus people found God's favor in 2000 years but in the last 100 years 8 million did? How are we to understand that?"

  He said, "Some things you just have to take on faith. And you know these questions you have, sometimes we don't need to ask all these, well, we don't need to know all these questions or answers to all these questions do we? Really, if you think about it, there's a lot of things that we don't know, and we just accept them and wait for the Slave to clarify them"...and I can't recall everything of his rant after that.

  But I think this is a good questions to pose to Jdubs out there. They won't know how to answer either, or will they.