Posts by TTATTelder

many stated they would never do that but i propose they could.. besides their real estate profit making business model, they have the conventions as cash generating machines.

they give directions to their members to which hotels/motels to use.

TTATTelder

They are indirectly and directly making money from the site. Despite their claims, the site is 99% for the members.

The members can make donations once logged in under their username. You can make a one-time donation or setup recurring monthly donations to take place on the date of your choosing - how kind!

The site is a big way to posture themselves as "preaching the good news of the kingdom in all the inhabited earth" and for delivering content to the dubs which creates reciprocity (we give you a new video - you give us a donation).

Whether they ever setup a donation button for the public remains to be seen. For now they are wanting to look like this is all a free service for the Lord (lol).

-TE

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New member count displayed on front screen would be so cool.

by goingthruthemotions in

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when i look at the front page of this site i wish there was a count for new members that joined.

that day, the month or even quartly.. the jdubs always brag about new members and how many are getting baptized.

but, yet they are still under 8 million with probably about half actually attending meetings.

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Article: Jehovah’s Witnesses holding classes at Palm Coast training center

by AndersonsInfo2 in

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http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20141226/news/141229531?p=1&tc=pg.

jehovahs witnesses holding classes at palm coast training center.

by tony [email protected].

TTATTelder

The training being done there is for the evangelizer school. I think they call it "School for Kingdom Evangelizers". I know one of the instructors.

They have done-away-with the school for single brothers and the school for christian couples etc. It's all combined now and even includes single sisters...gasp!

Lots of late twenty-something couples come out of there gung-ho for the WT. I know of a congregation near me that got like 3 of these couples at the same time. They basically took over the hall. All company men. Idealistic young people that think God sent them literally. They are all pioneers and on the fast track to more "privileges". They instantly begin being used on the circuit and district level - put on a pedestal.

So obvious what the org wants. They want people that are willing to be their go-boys. Dedicate your life to them. Wide-eyed zealots is what they want. Organization robots. True spirituality or love isn't important. The fact that they put these 30 year-olds on convention platforms when there are men in the audience much more sincere and probably have been studying the Bible since these kids were born, shows where the priorities are in the organization.

Become a full-time indoctrinated robot = get praise and pedestal.

Grow privately as a person developing real Christ-like qualities = take a seat in the audience.

Anyway, it is a school pumping out these robots. Why do they need another piece of real estate for this when they already have Patterson? GROWTH OF COURSE!

(it has nothing to do with real estate flipping ..*wink)

-TE

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LDC Semininar

by Sour Grapes in

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ldc semininar @ patterson nov 15-18, 2014 .

entire ldc dept included remote workers/design/legal/real estate/purchasing.

oversight.

TTATTelder

Magnum - good stuff. Adcms - hilarious.

apog - as long as you have idiots lining up to drink this kool-aid, the scam will continue. I know of a long time elder that closed his business, sold his house, and moved to work at Warwick. He's there now. When he speaks of the organization, his eyes get big and he takes on the look of a child talking about Disneyland. It's embarrassing to watch. When do you ever see the WT counseling people to keep their adoration of the org in balance? Do you think they ever turn down donations that would produce hardships on the givers? Doubt it.

It's disgusting how the organization takes advantage of groupie people like this. They accept their worship and then pretend to have humility. I'm sorry there's more to humility than not wearing pope outfits.

-TE

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Public Speaker Training stifled by wt, it's new 'school' programme.

by prologos in

the 2015 school setup, discussed this week eliminates the last "school talk" by brothers in favour of 'demonstartions" (a la sisters conversations) of family worship sessions and the like.. is this not a shift away from encouraging bright young ones to hone their (under-estimated) speaker skills ---to.

now using more of the die-hard, org-bound, --even elders in indoctrination demonstrations?.

do you see this trend?

TTATTelder

One other detail is slightly different from the opening post. The brother giving the Bible highlights actually only has TWO minutes to give his point. So one of the only times a brother has the opportunity to express his own thoughts about a passage of scripture has been cut in half.

I remember when the highlights were an unscripted 6 minutes for the brother - then it was cut to 4 and now 2.

Two minutes and he is only allowed to consider one highlight point. Information control much?

-TE

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Did you grow weary in "well doing"?

by compound complex in

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"and let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

" holman christian standard bible; galations 6:9.. i just now remembered an old wt article about the things that discourage us about our imperfect selves.

one such disappointment in ourselves is that we know we should continue doing good unto others, but we're simply worn out.

TTATTelder

Hell yeah I get tired of it. I had to conduct the damn wt study sunday. Hard to stomach the complete and utter BS.

Just say you're an effing real estate conglomerate and be done with it. We don't need any god damn ark references.

-TE

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From 1 to 10, how do you rate the value of the Internet in your awakening?

by Hidden-Window in

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as we all know, the internet is a real game-changer in allowing us to know the truth about the watch tower and its history.

i always had doubts and it was the internet that presented me with the ever-growing number of individuals who were going through a similar struggle.. i give the internet a 9 in my awakening.

what about you?.

TTATTelder

Damn straight Old Goat!

That was the first crack I saw. I finally said to myself - if this was a company I would blame the management. I then blamed the GB for the power tripped assholes in the congregations. I went to the internet then and started searching.

-TE

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New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)

by Simon in

the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.

of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.

i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.

TTATTelder

Cool ... Look forward to it. Thanks Simon.

-TE