Posts by wannaexit

if you build it, they will come, but some improvements to the surrounding neighborhood couldn't hurt.. community support for plans by religious officials to build a massive residential complex for their members in dumbo hinges on whether the group agrees to improve the local subway station, streets and parks, sources said.. "their expansion of the neighborhood will tax its infrastructure, and therefore i think it's incumbent on them to improve it commensurately," said councilman david yassky ( d - brooklyn heights ).. but community groups want more than what the watchtower bible and tract society -- the business entity of the jehovah's witnesses -- is offering.

yassky and the dumbo neighborhood association are asking them to pay for renovating the york st. subway station, local streets and a rundown park beneath the manhattan bridge.

wannaexit

Are the R&F at all aware of the Society's construction plans?

The R&F are in la-la land when it comes to the society's financial plans. The rumor around here is that the governing body is sensing that the end is very near and that the society will be simplifying its operations.

Meanwhile behind their backs (as usual) they are planning projects that will take years to complete.

Makes me sick.

Wannaexit

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Contributions? Wait On Jehovah!

by metatron in

jw
friends

clearly, there is every earmark of financial worries within the watchtower society.. even governing body members have expressed concern about falling contribution levels.

within congregations.

yet, for the faithful, the answer is simple: wait on jehovah.. .

wannaexit

They have NEVER had enough money to do all the things they would like to do.

Are you sure about this?

Wannaexit

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If You Won $117 MILLION on a Lottery, What Would You Do With It?

by minimus in

jw
friends

in lowell mass.

a 67 year old former janitor won the mega millions jackpot.

what would you do with all that money?

wannaexit

I'll tell you what I would not be doing with it. I would not give a penny to the Botchtower.

Wannaexit

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The Publications Look Like Crap

by Nosferatu in

jw
friends

not sure when they switched from hard cover books to cheap cardboard cover.

the publications don't have the same, fancy, expensive look that the previous hard cover ones did.

i used to marvel over the nice hard cover books, and the colors of them.

wannaexit

Truth is fluid and changes often, rendering old truth obsolete. It's part of the design.

Well said Walter

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Watchtower jewelry & bible decor

by DaCheech in

i have seen many brothers in the jw's including elders & ministerial servants using that silly tower symbol .

in their: bible covers, lapels, tie pins/clips, letterheads (personal) & many many more .

are they not idols?

wannaexit

Catholics have their cross

Jehovah's witnesses have their tower

On the first day of high school my girlfriend wore a cross and I wore a lapel pin of the watchtower and awake.

Idolatry! I think there is a connection.

wannaexit

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I had a visitor!!!!!!

by Sunspot in

whoooeeeee!

about 10 minutes ago i had a visitor!

she was a sister that we used to pal around with, we had several dinners together and she and her husband and my husband played cards together.

wannaexit

Good for them and for you. I hope that they have seen the 'light'

wannaexit ( who is looking forward to saying "I am not a JW anymore")

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Counting Time Question

by robhic in

i am a non-jw and have a jw girlfriend (strange as this situation can be).

since the end of 2002 she has essentially been confined to her house and mostly to her bed due to illness.

she has attended 2 memorials and maybe 2-3 meetings in the last 2 years but nothing further.

wannaexit

If she is sick and confined to her home the minimum she can count is 15 minutes.