Posts by Brokeback Watchtower

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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 7, statistics charts

by neat blue dog in

here's some stat charts featured in the bethel talks:.

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Brokeback Watchtower

NBD,

Thanks for the charts. They need to be more transparent.

Since they are a US based Charity I think the IRS is going to require more transparency then these "leaked" to the public videos in the future. Anyway just hoping because these guys are liars, about were the money is going and it would be a human kindness to require even religious charities the same transparency as regular charities to avoid defrauding the public, religion or not, all should be accountable to share with contributors where their money is going.

They have cut down all printed material and made a bunch of failed investments in projects they had to abandon. It would be a service to contributors to have a transparency so they can give with confidence or refuse to give to pay pedophile lawsuits,, it just fairness.

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Charity Transperency And Legal Requirements, Are Watchtower Days As A Charity Numbered?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i know the irs is doing something about it.. and what if a charity is approaching bankruptcy and fails to inform its members about, instead they put a deceptive spin on every thing they are selling ,.

and give them a single clue as to where their money is going especially if it is going to pay lawsuits it is involved in on a worldwide scale.

would that be a clear case of fraud and subject the perps to some prison time?

Brokeback Watchtower

I think we may see a public disclosure of where the money when because WT corporation is a charity. I'm sure this thing is going on all over the world and all charities are being required to be more transparent as to where the money is going. That being the case I the WT is doomed as a charity.

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Charity Transperency And Legal Requirements, Are Watchtower Days As A Charity Numbered?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i know the irs is doing something about it.. and what if a charity is approaching bankruptcy and fails to inform its members about, instead they put a deceptive spin on every thing they are selling ,.

and give them a single clue as to where their money is going especially if it is going to pay lawsuits it is involved in on a worldwide scale.

would that be a clear case of fraud and subject the perps to some prison time?

Brokeback Watchtower

I know the IRS is doing something about it.

And what if a charity is approaching bankruptcy and fails to inform its members about, instead they put a deceptive spin on every thing they are selling ,. and give them a single clue as to where their money is going especially if it is going to pay lawsuits it is involved in on a worldwide scale. Would that be a clear case of fraud and subject the perps to some prison time? I think the GB's denial of lawsuits, and paid gag orders is going to bite them in the ass big time in some cases of defrauding it's members money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/washington/15charity.html

The Internal Revenue Service yesterday proposed a vast overhaul of the main tax form for charities, an effort to make it easier for the I.R.S. and the public to tell how much nonprofit groups are paying their executives and how much of their money goes toward fund-raising.

The proposed changes, to Form 990, also include separate schedules to help determine how much nonprofit hospitals actually spend on charity care and to provide more information about gifts of goods and services to charities.

Lois G. Lerner, director of the tax-exempt division of the I.R.S., said that although the revenue service had tinkered with the form from time to time to accommodate changes in laws and regulations, the last major revamping of it was more than 25 years ago.

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May 1 2018 my Ayahuasca Experience

by new boy in

jw
friends

it has been over a year and a half since my last ceremony.

which was way to long.

my son came up from scottsdale for the ceremony.

Brokeback Watchtower

I like turtles

Why do you like turtles so much?

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May 1 2018 my Ayahuasca Experience

by new boy in

jw
friends

it has been over a year and a half since my last ceremony.

which was way to long.

my son came up from scottsdale for the ceremony.

Brokeback Watchtower

I have a very hard time remembering any visions but I remember trying just to view them without any judgements as they would get in the way of adding ego mental outputs to what's happening. I remember re-experiencing a spankings I got from my father when I was one, two, and three, that colored my entire relationship with him till the day he died, which led me to feeling forgiveness for him and a deep sadness for him because of our never having a good relationship while living. Extending heartfelt forgiveness with and ending any malice I think is very therapeutic.

I think these personal visions help one to empty some of his shadow, owning our own evil and unrepressing one dark side leads to more wholeness because we are more in touch our real selves. It also unlocks talents we have tucked away in that shadow. This brew helped me to accept myself more and in turn other people.

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Plato's Noble Lie and the Trickster

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=carlbt2rjfo.

Brokeback Watchtower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWWspx11mvc

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Reaction to baptism figures

by neat blue dog in

talking about tomorrow's wt study, that mentions over a quarter of a million baptized every year, a jw asked how many that is a day.

i got out my calculator and answered over 778 a day.

of course they were amazed at the growth, but immediatly i googled another statistic and read it aloud:.

Brokeback Watchtower

The last conventions I went to was in the early part of year 2000. Always just 1 -5 getting dunked. I think the figures that the WT corporation give are very suspect and most likely heavily inflated as they try to : "Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative" in their published material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qk9o_ZeR7s

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Mexican drug lord El Chapo personally killed 4 Witnesses in the 80's

by Richard_I in

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friends

us prosecutors are reportedly considering charging 'el chapo' guzman with the killings of 6 us citizens and a dea agent.

"the first killings came on december 2, 1984, when four jehovah's witness missionaries, two men and two women, knocked on the door of a drug lord.

godoy, who was then also working as a body guard for ernesto fonseca, another guadalajara kingpin, said the missionaries were tortured and the women raped.

Brokeback Watchtower

They should put this JW witnessing experience on their web site to warn their members of the potential dangers one might encounter in the indiscriminate door to door work.

I see cart work as a much more safer work but will they even warn their members about this danger I think not judging how they let pedophiles run loose inside the congregation to molest children.

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New Governing Body member in video

by neat blue dog in

he hasn't been in the limelight before, so here's his debut:.

https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201804_13_video.

Brokeback Watchtower

What a very bad time to be made a Governing Body member. With all these lawsuits and closing & selling of KH and other real estate to maintain financial stability. Kind of like rearranging deck furniture on the Titanic after it bashed into an iceberg.

Should we congratulate him or send him sympathy cards?

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May 1 2018 my Ayahuasca Experience

by new boy in

jw
friends

it has been over a year and a half since my last ceremony.

which was way to long.

my son came up from scottsdale for the ceremony.

Brokeback Watchtower

Great insights. Although I never have taken the sacrament with a shaman, as I would make up a nice big batch of the brew that I mostly did it alone. My girlfriend at the time said that afterwards I would always be more kinder and generous. The greatest benefits for me was an uncovering of my Shadow(Jungian) and reliving childhood trauma that happened between 1-5 years of age which tended to make me more peaceful as the days went on as I slowly integrated it.