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  Investment departments in Bethel

  by Mikejw in

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  i was a bethelite in london for many years then got reassigned to the field and then went on brd from the start of chelmsford right upto covid.. during my years at the branch i was sometimes asked to be on a team who went to homes donated to the branch when some older one died.. this happenes an awful lot, everything is left to the branch in the will.

  the unbelieving family is furious they didn’t get left anything and sometimes they tried to get their elderly relatives possessions and there was a legal battle .

  but in the end a team of us would go and empty the property and another team would clean it up and put it on the market to sell it for the worldwide work.. all the possessions were sorted into trash or possibly valuable .

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  Investment departments in Bethel

  by Mikejw in

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  2. scandals

  i was a bethelite in london for many years then got reassigned to the field and then went on brd from the start of chelmsford right upto covid.. during my years at the branch i was sometimes asked to be on a team who went to homes donated to the branch when some older one died.. this happenes an awful lot, everything is left to the branch in the will.

  the unbelieving family is furious they didn’t get left anything and sometimes they tried to get their elderly relatives possessions and there was a legal battle .

  but in the end a team of us would go and empty the property and another team would clean it up and put it on the market to sell it for the worldwide work.. all the possessions were sorted into trash or possibly valuable .

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  Symbolism OF their rings, not symbolism ON their rings.

  In other words why does this brood of GB wear an extra gaudy gold ring... some GB helpers and other career WT men wear similar. Why? What is the source? Seniority rings? Elite symbolism? Who inherits those rings after death? WT vault? Passed on to new leadership?

  
  
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  No pension no preparation for retirement

  by Mikejw in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

  no children no money no home.

  it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

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  WT is placing a growing number of lower rank bethelites into government funded healthcare programs... having Satan's wicked system pay the medical costs to help "simplify" in-house expenses for the WT fiscal budget. This is certainly further proof of "Jehovah's rich blessing"
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  Investment departments in Bethel

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was a bethelite in london for many years then got reassigned to the field and then went on brd from the start of chelmsford right upto covid.. during my years at the branch i was sometimes asked to be on a team who went to homes donated to the branch when some older one died.. this happenes an awful lot, everything is left to the branch in the will.

  the unbelieving family is furious they didn’t get left anything and sometimes they tried to get their elderly relatives possessions and there was a legal battle .

  but in the end a team of us would go and empty the property and another team would clean it up and put it on the market to sell it for the worldwide work.. all the possessions were sorted into trash or possibly valuable .

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  Now, if we could just expose the source and symbolism of those curious WT finger rings...
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  Elder Arrangement

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi everyone, (including the person who down votes all of my posts).

  as some of you know, i'm working toward my master's degree.

  comments from those associated when the elder arrangement was introduced would help me with a research paper.. what was the reaction among adherents?

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  @V

  In your master's thesis, or whatever work it may be, please do not continually refer to it as the "elder arrangement"... that is cultlike terminology from a PIMI perspective.

  All schemes that WT fabricates are pitched as "the arrangement"... "Jehovah's arrangement"...

  From an external/secular perspective, there are more comprehensive descriptions for the "elder arrangement", one of which is: CLERGY

  others might be:

  elder rank

  elder echelon

  elder schema

  et al...

  
  
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  No pension no preparation for retirement

  by Mikejw in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

  no children no money no home.

  it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

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  If that is your idea of "very well taken care of"... it sounds pathetic. Mediocre at best.

  We've all seen the life of JW special pioneers..... it is nothing special.
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  Booster shots required for Bethelites and special full time servants?

  by PimoElder in

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  it’s a shame the gov body did a big u turn on vaccines .

  if they continue with the rule that only fully vaxed can go back to the hall then i could have stayed on zoom.

  but the term fully vaxed is a moving target, if it’s been like six months since your last shot you are just the same as those of us who are unvaxed .

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  Booster shots required for Bethelites and special full time servants?

  by PimoElder in

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  2. beliefs

  it’s a shame the gov body did a big u turn on vaccines .

  if they continue with the rule that only fully vaxed can go back to the hall then i could have stayed on zoom.

  but the term fully vaxed is a moving target, if it’s been like six months since your last shot you are just the same as those of us who are unvaxed .

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  Vaccine R&D utilised "fetal cell lines" derived off cells collected from unborn humans voluntarily aborted in the Netherlands 1973/1985. There are more.

  Certainly, Christ's modern day brothers, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, have an unhypocritically high regard for human life & safety.
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  Investment departments in Bethel

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was a bethelite in london for many years then got reassigned to the field and then went on brd from the start of chelmsford right upto covid.. during my years at the branch i was sometimes asked to be on a team who went to homes donated to the branch when some older one died.. this happenes an awful lot, everything is left to the branch in the will.

  the unbelieving family is furious they didn’t get left anything and sometimes they tried to get their elderly relatives possessions and there was a legal battle .

  but in the end a team of us would go and empty the property and another team would clean it up and put it on the market to sell it for the worldwide work.. all the possessions were sorted into trash or possibly valuable .

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  Repulsive how WT has for over a century jugmentally criticised "Christendom" and other religious sectors for amassing properties and great wealth.
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  Nicholas King at a gay bar

  by neat blue dog in

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  seriously, when will this guy come out of the jws, and out of the closet?.

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  If King has lost good standing, WT will eventually remove or edit the videos/publications in which King appeared.