End of the World Near? Watchtower Builds Luxury Properties
(I-Newswire) – For over 125 years the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society has been proclaiming the end of the world is nigh. It is to be replaced with a New Order where only those espousing their beliefs will live.
Yet the Watchtower Society continued to build in Brooklyn, expanding their smaller headquarters to contain several large properties in the exclusive Brooklyn Heights section next to the Brooklyn Bridge. In spite of several failed prophecies for the end of the world, the last disappointment being the year 1975, the Watchtower is a multi-billion dollar landowner all over the world. Income from their New York City corporation ( one of many they own ) is one of the top 40 in New York City, with just under $1 billion per year.
Not content with owning large blocks of properties and a 30-story residential building in Brooklyn, the Watchtower Society is planning to build a large 20+ story complex in DUMBO ( Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass ), a trendy neighborhood that is not happy with their plans.
A watchdog organization called 85 Jay Street.org was formed to oppose this major influx of non-taxpaying residents, who want the project scaled down and altered to at least reflect part of the local community instead of having another huge religious dormitory like the large factory and residential buildings already dominating Brooklyn Heights.
Why So Much Construction When the End is Near?
Currently Jehovah’s Witnesses are attending summer conventions all over the world, and part of the scripted assembly program is focused on this “time of the end” we are living in. One play drama focuses on not worrying so much about getting a higher education because the “end is near.”
Why are so many buildings being erected when the numbers are down and Witnesses are apathetic about pressure to do more?
It could be an advance move to make sure their are enough funds to cover the ongoing litigation over child abuse scandals now mounting.
The large payouts the Catholic Church has made in the last few years over pedophile priests and those who cover them up has Watchtower attorneys worried for similar reasons. This is largely due to a “biblical dictate” that says in order to take action against any allegations of sexual misconduct or pedophilia there must be “two witnesses” to the alleged crime. Since that is rarely the case in the real world with pedophiles, large numbers of them have been left unpunished and go unreported, even though the elders and the leaders of the Watchtower Society often have knowledge of such allegations, and in fact have covered over many confessions of sex abusers – not wanting adverse publicity on their organization. This “ecclesiastical privilege” means that the Witness coming to your door to talk about the Bible may in fact be a known pedophile among his elders but has never been prosecuted by the sect OR the law, and they are out there talking to your children.
The law firm of Love and Norris is currently seeking prosecution for several such cases among the Witnesses, hoping to build a class-action suit that will force the Watchtower to change its policies ( they are still holding to the “two witnesses” rule ). The Watchtower Society is building all of their new properties to be easily converted into luxury apartments should the need arise. They already have several large properties up for sale in this multimillion dollar neighborhood. Buy low and sell high! But if the end is near, Why?
I’ve been a jw’s for decades and can honestly tell you that the’re satanic ruined my family life
@Woelf
Pray show me where the Bible says the Earth is a sphere. It does not, the closest you get to this is when Isaiah 40:22 describes a circle. The people of the time believed the Earth was indeed flat as the Bible describes in many places, but was a flat round like shape similar to a disc.
Cheers,
Markus
watchtower people have been given over to believe the lie,because they refused to belive the truth and be saved.They chopped the bible to pieces in the late 1800s on the whim of russell and is satanic bablings,and unless they repent they will perish
@Paulo
The earth is not flat in the bible. They call it a sphere.
The bible says that the earth is flat , you realy want such a book giving you advice?
Go and live in a whale man
if someone raped your daughter and their was only one witness i guess you wouldnt file charges? you know why witness are blind? the light getting brighter has not one thing to do whith knowledge at all. they just blindly accept. old watchtower 1975 the world is ending dont go to college.inspired by God. also i call my father ,father i dont call by name do you say mr. president or do you call him by name if you could talk face to face. GOd is A title used out of respect and the cross. its used in showing that you believe jesus died for us all would you hang a bullet around your neck is getting old and makes no sense witness are blind because they just repeat what they have read in watchtower dont think on their own. i had to go back i left the A out before title but wait yo can add an a in the new world translation if you want the bible is pretty clear on adding or taking away . the light got so bright their blinded
Jehovah did not make religion on earth…He made the Man!…Jesus is the Second Man…everybody needs to follow him as person….and not as religion!You are responsible as individual and not as group!!@Fred Hall
You’re very ignorant James.
I am not a JW but Catholic but I had Jesus appear to me some 20 years or so ago & HE heals people instantly & miraculously through my Hands & Speech as in John Chapter 14. I have witnessed from the Blind, deaf to Cancers being healed to Depression & Fibromialgia to New Organs – from hearts- lungs, livers, etc…to Drug & Alcohol abuse. I have Dreams that the Anti-Christ is about to make his appearance very soon. He will be 40-45 years old, be Middle east look, have a clean shaven mustache & beard, wear expensive suits & ties, etc.. be Military Genius, etc…. & I saw him in Jerusalem – standing near his Throne Chair. That chair will rise at 45 degrees- with intermittnely spaced Fancy Wood- & it will have Expensive Jewels embedded into the chair- Diamonds, Sapphires, Rubies & Emeralds & other stones- to show his importance to the world. Yes – we are CLOSE to the Rapture & so I say ” Be Ready ” — for the Time is Near! Alleluia! Jesus – the Son of God is returning soon…..
This question has a simple answer. According to the bible, in the “end” not everyone and everything is going to be destroyed. Only the people that are not following gods word, the bible, are going to be destroyed.
So, they might need these buildings later. Maybe its just some careful planning.
I wonder who posted this. Was it Satan or a JW?
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK FOOL!
My parents became witnesses when I was around 12 or 13 and if anything, it saved their marriage as he really put an effort in to apply Bible principles and became a better father and husband.
Yes, there has been a focus on the end of the world, as have other religions, but I never suffered any abuses, etc and I went to college receiving a bachelor’s degree while still following the religion. So sometimes when I see these websites, I wonder how balanced the input really is.
DrinyDiluer,
YOU ARE A PARASITE. YOU ARE A PARASITE. YOU ARE A PARASITE. YOU ARE A PARASITE. YOU ARE A PARASITE. YOU ARE A PARASITE. DO YOU GET MY DRIFT?
If it is such a waste of time being on this site, why are you here? Oh, I forgot you just stumble on it.
I gather you were just reading the WT and suddenly upon turning the page you came across the website. Stupid and pathetic is the word to describe you. Pretty sure you have your doubts on the cult and was doing some research, right? The truth will set you free.
YOU SHOULD ALL FIND BETTER THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR TIME, NOT JUST SIT AROUND AND GOSSIP. . . LIFE HAS MORE TO OFFER THAN YOU CRYING … IF YOU DONT LIKE THEM , LEAVE THEM. it is unfortunate i stumbled on this site… you guys justsucceded in wasting my time…God PaSS Una!!!
The watchtower is a corporation. It doesn’t think…it exists at the expense of something else. Why do people incorporate? One primary benefit to incorporating is avoiding personal liability. Without liability there is less accountability. Without accountability there more irresponsibility.
As a corporation, the watchtower is a legal organism. All organisms are primarily concerned with their own survival. That works fairly well in the material world…not so well in the spiritual. Jesus said: “No one has greater love than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends.” (John 15, NWT) A corporation has no friends and no feelings.
The watchtower, inc will do what all incs attempt to do: profit…even if it has to cannabalize itself to do so.
take a deep study in to them write whats the same and whats diffrent you might be suprised. I don’t have a religion I have a real relationship with ABBA, if you don’t know what abba is look it up. my abba has another name yaweh
talk to the Lord direct, his power can undo all wrongs ,may you be blessed and comforted
I just want to say to whomever …I was raised Jehovah’s Witness from birth my father an elder and watchtower conductor. I am now 25 . I quit going to meetings when I was 18, I could go into detail but will not. The point is, just this year 7 years after I quit attending I had a nervous breakdown and began remembering things from my childhood that my mind had blocked. My parents are still devout, they do not know anything about me and do not want to know me. They ignored me and my brother during our youth due to their obsession with their religion.They gave me no life skills. The world was “ending”. My brother has serious emotional problems as well as do I. Unfortunately, I have no other family to talk to on this matter because I wasnt allowed to have a relationship with any of my “worldly” blood family as a child..and now all I have are my parents who dont even know who I am and don’t want to know.
Here is a ‘guide-line’ for those of us who can’t define
how dangerous a religion can be:
1st. They have a god that says he is the only god.
2nd. They have a ‘only begotten’ son .
3rd . They have a ‘religion’ that teaches that they
are the ‘only’ true religion and every one -
else is ‘apostate’.
Ok where have we all heard this before? Osma bin Ladin?
well the Mormon’s think that way too , the Catholic’s , Jews and Muslims . Those three axioms define a ‘false
-god , messiah and religion .
salo, vai meter a tua cabeca no cu da watchtower.
to all u apostatas
ahora que no son testigos de jehova les pregunto algo…..viven con alguna esperanza?the gehena is waiting for u all….
To Fred Hall,
When someone makes a statement like the JW’s are the only true religion it really does not hold any water.
It is a very simple thing to say, unfortunately very difficult to prove. You might believe your religion is the one and only, but what makes you different from
the charismatic Christian? You undoubtedly think you have a greater understanding of the Bible than he does.
You are making the same mistake I made many years ago. That is listening to crap spewed out and believing it without checking it out for yourself.
I say the JW denounced inoculations as they do blood transfusions today. You deny this, because you cannot grasp the fact that you newly found religion could be so stupid. I unlike many Christians do not speak with a forked tongue. Read the following, but do not take my word for it, do a google on Jehovah’s witnesses inoculations, add Watchtower to this you will be amazed. Here is one I found:
“During the 1930’s and 1940’s Watchtower publications denounced vaccination as a procedure that was not only worthless but actually harmful from a medical standpoint, and that was morally wrong from a religious or biblical standpoint. The latter, of course, was the deciding factor for Witnesses. The organization had made clear to them that “Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood.” (GOLDEN AGE [former name of AWAKE! magazine], February 4, 1931, p. 293)
So JWs routinely refused vaccinations for themselves and their children. If the inoculation against smallpox was required for admission to public school, some would have a friendly doctor burn a mark on the child’s arm with acid to make it look as if the youngster had been vaccinated. Others went so far as to have papers made out, falsely certifying that the child had been vaccinated. JW publications dropped the ban on vaccinations in the early 1950’s, and today they recommend the procedure and credit it with curbing disease.” Unquote.
A small who cares flip flop? Maybe the folk that died cared, so why should we care now?
Spare a thought for the good folk who chose to sell their homes at a loss and go on pioneering trips preaching the word and selling magazines which make up the billions your beloved organization has made. The same folk are now mostly paupers but still believe strongly, because they have nothing else.
Think on my favourite scripture:
“However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak… that prophet must die. …How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken? When the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak”. From your good old own NWT.
Deuteronomy 18: 20-22.
Cheers,
Markus.
Ok,
so we have established that JW is a religion. Yesterday you said it was not…
Then, if you say, if someone goes to a church or a mosque, they are wrong. If you ask those people, they would say they worship God.
Agreed, not all can be right in every way. But is God petty? Does He set some kind of exam for us, and if we can tick the right boxes, everything ok, otherwise not? Or does He look into our hearts? He made all of us, and gave us freedom, to seek Him out by our own choice. Why would he send us away if we come to Him?
Do you really think there are “No smoking” signs in heaven? Again, it boils down to this: Is God petty? Smoking is nothing to be proud of, but then nobody is perfect.
About blood transfusions, can you point me to just one incidence in the bible where the words “blood transfusions” are mentioned? The passages usually cited by JW talk about EATING blood (and “things strangled”), and say nothing about medical emergency procedures.
Also, if the old law of Leviticus is in fact still in force, I take it you also observe the rules about mentruation, kosher food, keeping the Sabbath, no wearing cloth of mixed thread and so on?
Is the rule about blood transfusions not something JW TEACH, their UNDERSTANDING of God’s law?
About Gabriel, my mistake,sorry, so it’s Michael. This is most curious… the fundamental Christian message hinges on the Gospel message that Christ was both God and man. If he was an angel, he was not a man. If he was an angel, he was created, so he also was not God. Therefore, would I be right in saying that the JW religion, logically, cannot be Christian as such?
If doctrines change, and peope’s lifes are affected, surely this is a problem? Markus asked you this, I would be interested in what you think…
>If you don’t see how doctrinal flip flops can be bad, >how do you answer to the families whose loved ones >died because they refused a simple inoculation?
That was not a doctrinal flip flop. That was a choice that the person made.
>Your religion, yes religion, did not allow inoculations >years ago but do now, a simple mistake made by >simple people guided directly by Joe Hover through >his one and only true channel to us earthlings.
No, the religion did not disallow innoculations. You may be misinterpreting some mentions of it in some older publications or articles, but that is not the basis for the religion and doctrine.
I have never heard of Joe Hover.
>So, if JW is not a religion, I suppose I could join them >and still attend a different church, or even a mosque?
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religion because a religion is people and how they believe in God. IF someone attends a different church or mosque for worship, then they would not be believing on God or in the true worship.
>Why do they have a baptism, a quite distinct one at >that, and a memorial service, if it is not a religion?
We are a religion.
>Also, if there are no doctrines at all, surely there >could never have been any “flip-flops”, as you put it, >right?
The reality of Jehovah, Jesus and who they are and what they have done and what they will do is not changeable. What we humans believe and understand about the spiritual realm, can change. But that does not matter.
>If there no doctines, what exactly is this rule about >blood transfusions? I smoke, is that no problem?
Doctrines are teachings. Doctrines can change and it is not bad for them to change. The reality does not.
The reality is that blood transfusions are against God’s law. That is reality. The problem with blood transfusions is that they are problematic as a whole.
Your smoking is a problem because it is a problem for everyone.
>Is it not true that Christ and the Archangel Gabriel are >seen as the same person by JW?
No , Christ and Gabriel are not the same. We believe that the Bible indicates that Jesus and Michael are the same.
Spoken like a true JW, factless, clueless & ignorant. That Christ like compassion & spiritual knowledge you all profess to have is working great isn’t it?
To Fred Hall,
If you don’t see how doctrinal flip flops can be bad, how do you answer to the families whose loved ones died because they refused a simple inoculation?
Your religion, yes religion, did not allow inoculations years ago but do now, a simple mistake made by simple people guided directly by Joe Hover through his one and only true channel to us earthlings.
I hope this makes more sense to you than it does
to me?
Cheers,
Markus
This is getting very strange…
So, if JW is not a religion, I suppose I could join them and still attend a different church, or even a mosque?
Why do they have a baptism, a quite distinct one at that, and a memorial service, if it is not a religion?
Also, if there are no doctrines at all, surely there could never have been any “flip-flops”, as you put it, right?
If there no doctines, what exactly is this rule about blood transfusions? I smoke, is that no problem?
Is it not true that Christ and the Archangel Gabriel are seen as the same person by JW?
James Non-JW:
Your comments are totally meaningless.
I still fail to see why the Watchtower Society is of such interest.
No, it is not a fact that pedophiles who are Witnesses go door to door in the ministry. It is a convenient accusation from opposers.
I don’t see that doctrinal flip-flops are bad at all. Why is that an issue? And the Watchtower does not have doctrines, as it is not a religion.
JW pedophiles have & still go in the door to door field service, that’s a fact.
Secondly please take a lot of your thoughts and apply them to the Watchtower with their doctrinal flip-flopping over the years.
By your own volition you should how naivety has no boundaries.
Please before stating comments that personify ignorance, do some research of this multi-billion dollar false empire and then come back with the facts to support your thoughts.
Thank you.
Nobody asked for your wrong opinion.
The Witnesses have the true religion.
I don’t know why everyone is against the Watchtower Society. It is just a publishing company.
Again, the question is asked. Why so much focus on the Watchtower Society?
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> Jehovah Witnesses Live in a Conflicting Environment
Why does Watchtowerinformation service write about Jehovah’s Witnesses? He is the one that is conflicted.
> Why So Much Construction When the End is Near?
Why not?
Oh I see. He just wanted a venue for his propaganda with the same old accusation that is not true.
Would a pedophile go out in field service?
This law suit will fail like all of the rest as the Watchtower has no policy or Two -Witness rule. The congregations hold to the policy that
two witnesses are needed to bring a case as that is what the Bible says that is fair to all. Earlier he said it was a Biblical dictate.
Now he wants it changed. So he wants the Bible changed.
That writer is so conflicted.