in sorting insurances out updating , i just mentioned to my wife who is 'in' that in the event you have to claim "dont give any of it to anyone else".. there was a pause i didnt like.. comments by others on this site indicated the wts has been beating the drum for $$ i fear what she may have agreed to.. to those who have insurance it is not.. not to go, not a cent to the wts as they have belittled anyone taking out insurance or retirement benefits.. my insurance has been created to keep her and our handicapped offspring not the gb on a building spree..
wow. thanks all but dont miss the point that the wts and its eternal 'trust in jehovah' and dont prepare for lifes ultimate eventualitys is lightening quick to put the hand out for peoples estates or the latest thing that as i say i fear she has 'signed up' to.
Take a look at
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todays posting speaks of the"Watchtower money machine"
in sorting insurances out updating , i just mentioned to my wife who is 'in' that in the event you have to claim "dont give any of it to anyone else".. there was a pause i didnt like.. comments by others on this site indicated the wts has been beating the drum for $$ i fear what she may have agreed to.. to those who have insurance it is not.. not to go, not a cent to the wts as they have belittled anyone taking out insurance or retirement benefits.. my insurance has been created to keep her and our handicapped offspring not the gb on a building spree..
In sorting insurances out updating , i just mentioned to my wife who is 'in' that in the event you have to claim "dont give any of it to anyone else".. there was a pause I didnt like.
Comments by others on this site indicated the wts has been beating the drum for $$ i fear what she may have agreed to.
To those who have insurance it is not.. NOT to go, not a cent to the WTS as they have belittled anyone taking out insurance or retirement benefits.
My insurance has been created to keep her and our handicapped offspring not the gb on a building spree.
QED
russel is burried under the pyramid.
according to none other than frederick franz himself, in his own words!.
i read some wt trolls on here trying to say that he is under the marker a few feet away.. that is not true.
My hearts thanks to the 'old goat' and the 'village girl'.
watchtower has said that jesus is not the mediator of anyone but for the anointed.
then they tell you that they are jehovah's organization and that the flock should obey them.. basically, the watchtower corp. and it's governing body is taking the place of jesus as the mediator for people.
christianity, even by it's name, focuses on making jesus known.
Idolise Paul ? of course he had a low (typical of his day) opinion of women.
my mother in law (in her 80's) just told me that she had the elders around to pick up her 'donation' pledge.
it was 'suggested that $20 a month was the average amount pledged but she could pledge more or less.
so, rather than an anonymous amount they have a signed document stating the amount of her pledge.
When she gets hit with an unexpected bill and comes crying for money suggest she direct her concern to the elders.
i haven't been on here long but i found this site a couple days ago and quickly realised it had a lot of posts by people going through similar experiences as me.
i read some of the answers and it helped relieve some inner anguish i've been carrying since everything i came clean to my parents about everything i've been reading about.. .
i just have been going through a rough patch right now; that might be an under or overstatement depending on your own personal experiences with this kind of stuff.
I can not improve on the help available here But just a couple of things.
If you are the youngest then your 'velcro' parents will cling like the said to hold you. I was the last of a big family and i was born to be the perfect child and cosseted and smothered along the way and we didnt know the 'truth' at that stage of life so your M & D just dont want to let go.
There were some Awakes that stated it is not a bad things to scrutinize your beliefs but i cant recall which awakes said that. Others here can no doubt.
Well you are out for a bumpy ride and this site is your seat belt.
ps. Guilt is what we allow others to do to us. The WTS thrives on guilt trips.
so i am sitting here at the meeting during the "book study".... the study is all about gods protective power!.
oh, yes, protective power....for righteous servants of his.....but what about all those who are trying to be good witnesses, serving the gb, who are not protected from harm?
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It is a bad bad thing they do talking about "protective power" like it is some sort of force field. It is very similar to one nation of African soldiers who are taught that by eating certain herbs makes them bullet proof.
What the hell are they trying to put over? What of those killed on the way to a convention? did the PP get flicked off that day.?
russel is burried under the pyramid.
according to none other than frederick franz himself, in his own words!.
i read some wt trolls on here trying to say that he is under the marker a few feet away.. that is not true.
FFtruther144: Thank you for putting up the track by Franz. a few points;
He spoke of the 'genitile times' genit i l e? and his dropping out of education, well he did that alright.
"The Finished Mystery .." book complete with the wings of Horus across the cover.
"Rutherford being the second president of.." He was the third.
1925 would see the awakening of the ancient. Abraham, David. Abel and so on. There was one report that people ran around the US convention site looking for them! and of course they would be resurrected in a land they had never known the USA?
In reference to the realization of the 'great crowd' in 1935. Until then he described Great crowd had been considered as "failures". What a judgement!
Hearing this man speak indicated to me he was in early stages of dementia; any other health professionals may agree.
Summary; What a side show religion. Even the bully Rutherford had to admit his predictions were often wrong as he made them. The obvious would be take a dose of humility and stop looking for all these hidden meanings and making predictions by them.
I say again what a sideshow religion its appearance and evolution would be a funny footnote on religious history if it hadnt ruined the lives of so many.
the collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.
the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.
theres nothing to stop it now.
Dig a ditch near City of Adelaide to the ocean and let the ocean flood into central Australia and Australia becomes an atoll once again. Anyone for fishing off Eyres Rock? I have read a small book by Vaclav Claus a professor of Physics and (I think) the former president of the Czech republic, He stated that venus and Mars are also heating up.
His conclusion is the sun is in one of its cycles but also warns we have nothing to be smug about.
I saw a brief report that the US Navy on Antarctic patrol was checking on a large ice sheet to find it was ..gone. Instead there was a new bay miles accross with land as its shore!
For me? plant trees!
