Jehovah's Witnesses accept money from Norwegian Gambling Authority

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @GoatlikePersonality
    @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +29

    Important:
    I said in this video that JW "accept money from the gambling authority" and that this authoroty also have money from OTHER sources then gambling. I did NOT say Watchtower have a direct stake in the national lottery because THEY DO NOT. My critisism is about WT double standard.
    This is personal to me because what happened to my father. He was publicly humiliated by Watchtower and had to step down as an elder because he worked at a Cristmas Market. The naming was not done by my father and he did not sell anything xmas related. But watchtower said the word "christmas" was all they needed to know. Well what about "gambling"? Why is it ok to throw all their prinsiples out the window when it comes to money for them? But other rules aplied to my father?
    Also from a christian perspective:
    Watchtower ask the JWs to pray for this matter of potentional persecution in Norway. How would this work? 8.000.000 JWs would tell almighty god what they wanted him to do... and none of them know the actual details of the matter. Would not that be wasting Jehovahs time with spam? Jehovah would know the facts about the matter, while 8.000.000 christians would tell him what to do based on Antony Morris missrepresentation. How would you react if you were god and got spam from Jehovah Witnesses 😀

    • @BJBTJF54
      @BJBTJF54 Год назад +4

      As part of the governmental decree in withdrawing the jw registration have they also lost the authority to conduct weddings? It would be interesting to read the court documents submitted by the jw legal counsel as to what grounds they are challenging the government action. I know at this stage only an urgent injunction has been granted suspending any government action and this has yet to be argued in court. It may well be dismissed or it may proceed to an appeal. Interesting times.

    • @Caracaraorangeberry
      @Caracaraorangeberry Год назад

      third try. I doubt 8mm JWs are even still alive. 95% of them took the (thing you cannot say on youtube that pokes a vial of poison into a body with a syringe) under the “loving guidance” of the criminal gov body.

    • @dianekrstulovich2777
      @dianekrstulovich2777 Год назад +6

      You are too funny. Sorry about your dad.
      Hope he has found a more loving Christian community.
      "It is a crime to shun a child in Norway"
      Norwegians are THE BEST!
      Thank you!!!

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty Год назад +2

      I hope your Goats are doing well. They are such beautiful creatures.

    • @vintage6346
      @vintage6346 Год назад +2

      Hi goatlike,
      I believe you about what elders did to your father. When I was JW, I was a complete believer. During an extremely difficult time in my life, I worked cashiering, and then fast food. I wasn't young and my feet were swollen. A JW friend, also in financial straits, took a job packing mistletoe, which was sold as a Christmas novelty. I asked her if the elders knew she had taken that job. I don't think she answered my question. She said she wasn't celebrating Christmas, but only putting mistletoe in boxes. The elders may not have bothered her about it. They may not have known about it. In other places, I think the elders would have gotten involved and pressured the JW to quit the job. She was supporting five daughters.

  • @theowarfare7525
    @theowarfare7525 Год назад +57

    Hypocrites like the Pharisees. It's the same here in Australia. Great video as usual.

    • @patriciapitt4228
      @patriciapitt4228 Год назад +5

      A Big YES 2 that and also those IN the Government have all been to Uni, thankfully, that's Well done, I'm sure we all Enjoy LIVING off THE benefits from the GB (Not) that would be 1 way to get rid of the JWs, Thank Goodness for the Power's that Be, Thanks again Lol ***...

    • @justinthyme5382
      @justinthyme5382 Год назад +4

      Hi from Perth.

    • @Jeron_Benton
      @Jeron_Benton Год назад +2

      @@justinthyme5382 hey I’m from America 🇺🇸 but I’m going to WA in March

    • @Lisa-x3n5x
      @Lisa-x3n5x Год назад

      Hi from Queensland. It's not just the JWs who receive gambling benefits. The Governement gives ALL religions money; the income from gambling contributes to this largesse. They're ALL a bunch of hypocrites.

  • @tmolotsi47
    @tmolotsi47 Год назад +27

    Wow, I can't wait to hear their justification of this! 😳

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +4

      I norway many would know. Then they will say that all other religions does it

  • @nesbo7578
    @nesbo7578 Год назад +19

    Brilliant exposé! Hypocritical, indeed.
    I remember feeling extremely guilty as a JW when I got a FREE lottery ticket. No gambling involved, but my conscience still wasn’t happy with even being part of such a thing 🙄

  • @elliemay5004
    @elliemay5004 Год назад +16

    It's like that old saying do what I say, not what I do.

  • @_CinnamonKitty
    @_CinnamonKitty Год назад +15

    you'd think they'd have learnt something about optics by now but evidently not

  • @donyboy73
    @donyboy73 Год назад +16

    Great video Jonas! every jw needs to see this

  • @KimMikeyex-jw
    @KimMikeyex-jw Год назад +36

    Excellent video!!! Great find

    • @robinkish-miller2990
      @robinkish-miller2990 Год назад +10

      This accepting gambling funds is something else! what a joke.

  • @ronnycorea2660
    @ronnycorea2660 Год назад +23

    And the naive rank and file whole hearted believe,they are in the only one true religion(Jehovah’s organisation”.)
    Great work,Jonah.

  • @EfrainRiveraJunior
    @EfrainRiveraJunior Год назад +39

    Bravo, Jonas! Time is always on the side of the real truth.

  • @hudsonchalmers6504
    @hudsonchalmers6504 Год назад +11

    I knew many ultra rich JW in Johannesburg. That did not worry me. What did is how Bethel members including Head Honcho got many Gifts . Ultra Rich guys had some very bad associates in the world, but were immune from Elders Judiciary

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +6

      The rich JWs exsist and can sometimes be immune to the ordinary rules… at least they can thrive in the gray areas

    • @tothejudgemental8299
      @tothejudgemental8299 Год назад +2

      Thought the Ex-JDumb line was all JW's are poor.
      Strange my time in Lusaka, Zambia I can across many weatBlack

  • @heinimikkelsen7386
    @heinimikkelsen7386 Год назад +41

    They have absolutely no shame. Thank you for showing their double standard. It is so important that people like you continue to inform the public about JW.

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +9

      They have many excuses. But excuses are ordinary, JW claim to be extraordinary.

    • @TheFugitive2
      @TheFugitive2 Год назад +6

      @@GoatlikePersonality if it weren't for double standards Watchtower would have none at all. I remember years ago that Watchtower told us investing in the stock market was considered gambling, but they have the Henrietta Riley Trust which is a massive stock portfolio!!

    • @terridovey7648
      @terridovey7648 Год назад +2

      @Metal, Magick & Mayhem They also own millions of stocks too, like Cinemax, HBO, Disney, companies that make weapons of war, tobacco companies, alcohol companies, oil companies, etc.
      They're total hypocrites.

    • @vusimngomezulu2500
      @vusimngomezulu2500 Год назад

      Jesus christ sent all different churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses?????????

    • @terridovey7648
      @terridovey7648 Год назад +2

      @Vusi Mngomezulu Jesus Christ sent out His Apostles to preach and teach about Him and the kingdom of God.
      The jw's do not believe God's word. They only believe their gb. You're spreading lies Vusi. God will repay.🔥

  • @fromashesphoenixrose
    @fromashesphoenixrose Год назад +11

    Wow wow wow hot expose!! On a tangent: investing in the stock market is basically gambling... as is any kind of insurance 😅.

  • @cedarpoint2plj374
    @cedarpoint2plj374 Год назад +17

    Thank You, Jonas! For your research and the very clear presentation of this matter! From Holland, with love, Peter

  • @judgeflems
    @judgeflems Год назад +32

    Thank you for making this video Goatlike! 👍

  • @despertando101
    @despertando101 Год назад +18

    This is fire, ☄️Jonas, thanks so much 👍.

  • @mrsmartmouth8393
    @mrsmartmouth8393 Год назад +11

    I love how when Tony Morris says, "We're certainly not going to do that." He leans in with all his authority and whiskey gut. And here I thought Jehovah was the one to decide whether or not a practice or rule should be changed. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂😂

    • @terridovey7648
      @terridovey7648 Год назад +3

      When he leans in like that, I always expect another hate speech.😕

    • @dianekrstulovich1582
      @dianekrstulovich1582 Год назад +1

      I believe his macho attitude is the reason Tony Morris is no longer there!

    • @terridovey7648
      @terridovey7648 Год назад +1

      @@dianekrstulovich1582 I agree with that... plus his voice made me want to lick a cheese grater.😲

  • @markweatherill
    @markweatherill Год назад +40

    This is dynamite! Well done Goatlike!

  • @rationalrabbit797
    @rationalrabbit797 Год назад +26

    Got to applaud you for making the Pharisees look much more moral than the JW's. I fully agree with you that if watchtower were genuine they certainly would not act in this way. But they behave just as if their conscience had been "seared with a branding iron" and is completely dead. Their behavior just goes from bad to worse. I think the end of this appalling religion is just around the corner.

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +5

      I think it will breake up into smaller pieces.

    • @johannpascher
      @johannpascher Год назад +2

      @@GoatlikePersonality let's hope, but I think it just will change, but not to the better. It's all about money. They will get smaller, but the want disappears. It anyway all changed, if I compare it to the 1970is. Unfortunately, it changed to the worst.

    • @vusimngomezulu2500
      @vusimngomezulu2500 Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality Jesus christ sent all different churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses????????????

    • @vusimngomezulu2500
      @vusimngomezulu2500 Год назад

      @@johannpascher Jesus christ sent all different churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses??????????????

    • @vusimngomezulu2500
      @vusimngomezulu2500 Год назад

      Jesus christ sent all different churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses???????????

  • @jerryholmberg135
    @jerryholmberg135 Год назад +9

    They have their members conditioned to believe that we are no part of the world but They are not telling the members that we want to get paid by the world

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +5

      Money is the most important doctrine

    • @patriciapitt4228
      @patriciapitt4228 Год назад

      Everyone who gets a pension is reliying on the Government for money, and the money that comes from Tobacco Tax, support Hospitals, that would surprise many * ...

  • @rmayerCPA
    @rmayerCPA Год назад +24

    Great presentation. I always learn something from your videos - and always leave with a smile.

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +3

      Thats what I aim for. Thanx for commenting

    • @dianekrstulovich1582
      @dianekrstulovich1582 Год назад

      ​@@GoatlikePersonality LOVE your humor AND your LOGIC and your WISDOM AND your COMPASSION!
      Norway must be very proud of you.
      Norwegians are SO COOL!
      Thank you
      😊

  • @checkthefacts.
    @checkthefacts. Год назад +15

    A brilliant expose 🎰🤑

  • @danielecolla5767
    @danielecolla5767 Год назад +9

    Proper worship: HOLY MONEY.................. please give us money

    • @MariaNunes-po5rc
      @MariaNunes-po5rc Год назад +2

      Not even the pharasies accept that money for the temple box.

  • @RegieWipesWall
    @RegieWipesWall Год назад +11

    Pure gold!!! I would compare this discovery to the one with UN connection!

    • @compositioncompilation
      @compositioncompilation Год назад

      These things took place that PRIPHEVY MIGHT BE FULFILLED where it says
      Those HAVING THE MARK OF THE WILD BEAST IN THEIR HAND ..
      Rev 14
      Without that membership ..
      Everyone that can't help but be reminded of it..gets away with it
      But Jah knew many were to blaspheme
      Many HAD to leave..(rev16:8-11)
      The TWO WITNESSES /Jahs representatives
      were ahead of it
      After all...they were the cause of it...according to the plagues they struck the earth with( as Moses did)@
      Rev 11:6

    • @compositioncompilation
      @compositioncompilation Год назад +1

      Helps if you look at prophecy in reverse..
      That becomes instructions for Gods representatives

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +3

      They probably do a lot of stuff like this in different juristictions

    • @compositioncompilation
      @compositioncompilation Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality
      But very few If any resolve to NOT EXCHANGE GIFTS as rev 11:10 says.
      That is required of those who OPPOSE the TWO WITNESSES.

  • @momstuff3489
    @momstuff3489 Год назад +12

    The smoking gun. Well done.

  • @starbrite1121
    @starbrite1121 Год назад +3

    wow, this fake organization never cease to amaze me, the more you dig the more you find. So glad we opened our eyes to this scam.

  • @calebelverdadero2029
    @calebelverdadero2029 Год назад +14

    Now all makes so much sense! Thanks for this brother! You earn a suscriber 👍

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +4

      Thanx. I have to goal to be a fulltime activist so every subscriber counts!

    • @calebelverdadero2029
      @calebelverdadero2029 Год назад +3

      @@GoatlikePersonality Count on me, you did a great job with this video. The proof is clear.

  • @Markomarka3065
    @Markomarka3065 Год назад +13

    This world is bad but money from worldly organisations are welcome.

    • @MariaNunes-po5rc
      @MariaNunes-po5rc Год назад

      Exactly.
      2-- Timothy chapter 3,1--5
      Is very clear about saying of people,s behavior in the end times.
      Man will be lovers of money
      Proud of themselves
      Very religious appearance.
      But...
      From this people ......Stay way.
      The inspired bible counseling is not talking to the gentiles...
      Rather is talking to the Cristians...
      So this verses apply directly to WT..
      Aren't they who proclaimed to be the True Cristians??
      So applys them very well.
      Notice:
      Verse 5 doesn't say: hate them.
      Only said stay away from them.

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +1

      If Jehovah was real they would not need satans money

    • @Markomarka3065
      @Markomarka3065 Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality for Governing Body Jehovah is just trademark

  • @jenniferm6141
    @jenniferm6141 Год назад +16

    Thanks Jonas! I shared the video with my faded JW parents .

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +5

      Say hello from brother Goatlike in Norway. The way I see it we are still brothers and sisters

    • @dianekrstulovich1582
      @dianekrstulovich1582 Год назад

      ​@@GoatlikePersonality
      Such a loving person you are!

  • @JWEscape
    @JWEscape Год назад +8

    Great job, my friend. Thank you for your work.

  • @lh1673
    @lh1673 Год назад +3

    What a double standard org I was trusting! The innocents must know!

  • @rhecb
    @rhecb Год назад +19

    Well done Jonas 🙌🏻

  • @alanrogers8535
    @alanrogers8535 Год назад +11

    Million thumbs up

  • @gmeister5260
    @gmeister5260 Год назад +14

    Great video. I always enjoy your approach and candeaur

  • @lorenaarellano2825
    @lorenaarellano2825 Год назад +1

    WT double standards exposed. Rules just apply to the rank and file to keep them controlled and blind. THANKS Jonas!

  • @stasacab
    @stasacab Год назад +3

    That is sickening.

  • @richardschiller7803
    @richardschiller7803 Год назад +1

    WT declared stock market as gambling and many of us have no stock. At age 9 in 1966 i loved McDonalds.

  • @jamesgastaldo4710
    @jamesgastaldo4710 Год назад +11

    Nice work Jonas, exposing the greedy hypocrisy in Watchtower

  • @thesacredmom2784
    @thesacredmom2784 Год назад +8

    Seems to me you work very hard to find all the info to tell us the truth... I would never call u a liar! Thank you for all your hard work! 🐐 perfect song choice by the way.

  • @jamjam4822
    @jamjam4822 Год назад +2

    They don’t want JWs to gamble, because they want
    That $ in their contribution boxes.

  • @amandabomination691
    @amandabomination691 Год назад +8

    Watchtower Bible and Tract is getting money as well 😂

  • @EfrainRiveraJunior
    @EfrainRiveraJunior Год назад +25

    No, Uncle Tony. No one is challenging your freedom to worship. What Satan's Government is making sure is that you do not act in a criminal way and get away with it. Because, you see, it takes Satan's Governments for the Watchtower to do what's right.

    • @vintage6346
      @vintage6346 Год назад +6

      Lol. Efrain, I first read your comment and thought, "Hey! I like that." Only after mentally "liking" your comment did I see that it was "you" who had written it. :)

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +8

      They cant live up to «satans» high standards

    • @vintage6346
      @vintage6346 Год назад +4

      @@GoatlikePersonality
      It may seen off-topic, but if it weren't for Caesar's divorce laws, elders would be dumping wives that don't please them and giving them nothing.

    • @phoenixrising7397
      @phoenixrising7397 Год назад +1

      They already beat and rape them with no consequence…. But they can hide that so that will just keep on keeping on. I wish Satan would hurry up and teach them a lesson. 😂

    • @vusimngomezulu2500
      @vusimngomezulu2500 Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality Jesus christ sent all different churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses????????????

  • @darrengreen9273
    @darrengreen9273 Год назад +4

    Look at ole Morris, doesn’t look like he’s missing any expensive whisky or steaks!!

    • @nazmountaingirl
      @nazmountaingirl Год назад +1

      Yeah, that whole Gluttony thing is so yesterday...

  • @jtstanway4537
    @jtstanway4537 Год назад +5

    Literally I was disfellowshiped for gambling, f#@k that religion, I'm so grateful to be out

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад

      Being disdellowshipped for gambling is the only big winn you will enjoy thru your live. I hope you have the gambling under controll, and enjoy your freedom! Thanx for commenting!

  • @DavidBrown-iy3sy
    @DavidBrown-iy3sy Год назад +6

    Brilliant Goaty , I can use this

  • @xjwfurious
    @xjwfurious Год назад +4

    Greedy, greedy Watchtower. They will take money from anywhere they can get it. Unrighteous riches.

  • @debraalexander9535
    @debraalexander9535 Год назад +10

    Thanks you for another informative video.🔥🔥

  • @Letts_prey
    @Letts_prey Год назад +2

    Excellent coverage, yet again Jonas.
    I really appreciate your insightful technique of holding the mirror up to them, reflecting their hypocrisy back at them.

  • @danielecolla5767
    @danielecolla5767 Год назад +8

    No matter what Bible says, forget about Jehovah follow the greater God = MONEY.

  • @pamelaruth7400
    @pamelaruth7400 Год назад +7

    I always believe you!

  • @antoinette9212
    @antoinette9212 Год назад +3

    You are a Pharisee and a thorn in their conscience!!!!! Keep it up , you are a hero! I have all the paperwork from the companies they are financially involved with! But any one that comes mistakenly to my door generally does not return !hihihi, ya got to laf Jona!!!!!!

  • @sandraclark2235
    @sandraclark2235 Год назад +3

    When I was a JW, I once bet 25 cents on a baseball game. A JW co-worker gave me a big lecture. I was in the process of waking up and simply ignored him.

  • @Jatoli
    @Jatoli Год назад +7

    Takk for at du forklarer dette så tydelig, Jonas!

  • @dogsdroolllquinavancepasre6756
    @dogsdroolllquinavancepasre6756 Год назад +2

    Being that, it’s in Norway, they never thought they’d get caught there. Seems like a very inconspicuous place.

  • @robinkish-miller2990
    @robinkish-miller2990 Год назад +8

    This isnt bullcrap. I believe you

  • @toddhayes3506
    @toddhayes3506 Год назад +14

    Great Job Jonas

  • @nowandafter3258
    @nowandafter3258 Год назад +6

    Cult CULT

  • @jasonuren3479
    @jasonuren3479 Год назад +1

    My notifications had been turned off for some reason (shadowban?🤔), so would've missed this if I hadn't seen Kim Mikey's video.
    Great info as always 👍

  • @lk1590
    @lk1590 Год назад

    Anthony Morris has since been removed from the Governing Body. Also had to read Hugh Urban’s book on Scientology for a university module and found a striking resemblance between how Scientology and Watchtower are run.

  • @johannpascher
    @johannpascher Год назад +4

    Yes, very well done! Hope some JWs will listen to this!

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +1

      They will make up excuses for why they are just doing the same as everyone else. But excuses are common, JW claim to be exceptional

    • @johannpascher
      @johannpascher Год назад +1

      @@GoatlikePersonality Any way, I did tell my wife and as you did say, somehow she also tied to make excuses, but in the end more mental discrepancies should come up “cognitive dissonance”. Let's hope she or others relays it sooner or later.

    • @MrCanis4
      @MrCanis4 Год назад +1

      they'll put their fingers in their ears and go La La La.

  • @tammyg8031
    @tammyg8031 Год назад +4

    Jonas. You are an absolute genius 👏!!!! Thank you 😊 for everything that you are doing. Your reward will be great. Watchtower will pay for everything that they have done. Very soon. Hope everything is going well with your wife's pregnancy. You will be a great father.!!!! I think you should set up a go fund me or something so we can gift to the new arrival.

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад

      Sadly we lost our baby. But thanx

    • @tammyg8031
      @tammyg8031 Год назад +1

      @@GoatlikePersonality So so sorry 😞. Please let your wife know that we are so sorry, for your loss.

  • @suzannep
    @suzannep Год назад +1

    I love your comparison in the description of the "Winter Market" and this topic of accepting money from gambling sources and having association by name. It seems the organization is able to do things that the individual JW is not, very hypocritical of them
    .

  • @Mabeylater293
    @Mabeylater293 Год назад

    When I was younger, I was rolls not to eat candy from a birthday party. Then accepting this money is eating that candy.

  • @dianekrstulovich2777
    @dianekrstulovich2777 Год назад +2

    "it is a crime to shun a child in Norway"
    FABULOUS
    Norwegian people are SO COOL!
    Thank you!!

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +2

      Its probably a crime were you live to. Its neglect, psykological terror and emotional violence. Are you allowed to organise this against a grown up? No. So obviously its a crime against children aswell.

    • @dianekrstulovich1582
      @dianekrstulovich1582 Год назад

      ​@@GoatlikePersonality
      Where I live we are loving your courage and your example.
      Watching. Thinking praying
      Xox

  • @rainydays1105
    @rainydays1105 Год назад +5

    Excellent!

  • @MariaNunes-po5rc
    @MariaNunes-po5rc Год назад +3

    This is excellent.
    The Prophetic book of Daniel chapter 11:35
    States : there will be a refinament before the end times.
    A refinament means a separation between true Cristians and false Cristians.
    Crist is the Appointed judge for mankind including the GB.
    And Crist is doing a great job by exposing All this corroption.
    Thank you Crist you already started to clean Almighty GOD,s Holy Name.

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +1

      I am not Christian at all. I follow almighty bob the shiny bucketeer. But I like jesus love for children and the outcasts in sociaety

  • @jamesgastaldo4710
    @jamesgastaldo4710 Год назад +4

    Stay tuned for the apostate driven lies video by Steven Lett

  • @MrCanis4
    @MrCanis4 Год назад +1

    Religious leaders, it's all about money and power.

  • @dawnbehatin1224
    @dawnbehatin1224 Год назад +7

    Well presented, Goat Baby!!!!

  • @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111
    @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111 Год назад +3

    The Trickster n the Twisters can never change, they will do what they want to do. It's like half empty glass and half full glass 🤣😅😂 anyways 🙏

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +2

      Money Money Money

    • @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111
      @PrincessMargaretJoacquim1111 Год назад +2

      @@GoatlikePersonality
      What Is the Love of Money?
      Who has it? Why is it dangerous?
      UNDER the present economic system how long could you live in your home without money? How would you be able to feed and clothe yourself and your family without it? Money is necessary for practically everything you need and do. In this world it is essential for daily living. But this very usefulness of money can have a damaging effect upon you.
      When your pursuit of money for providing the necessities and comforts of life changes into a consuming desire to be rich, money ceases to be your servant and becomes your master, your god. It becomes the thing for which you live. Like a degenerative cancer, greed for money eats away Christian qualities, plunging you to a bestial level where your only code becomes self-interest. It can cause you to lose sight of justice, truth, honesty, generosity and mercy. Because of money’s usefulness extreme love for it can develop. Against this wrong attitude the apostle Paul gave warning a long time ago. Writing from Macedonia, Paul told Timothy, who was in the city of Ephesus, a big commercial center of that time: “Those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many senseless and hurtful desires, which plunge men into destruction and ruin. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.”-1 Tim. 6:9, 10.
      It was not money itself of which Paul gave warning. He did not say money itself was the root of injurious things or the cause of hurtful desires and destruction. What he warned against was the greedy love of money, the avaricious desire to be rich. The same warning had been given long before his day and is recorded in the book of Proverbs: “Do not toil to gain riches.” (Prov. 23:4) This toiling for riches has caused no end of misery, unhappiness and bloodshed. Paul’s warning was especially appropriate for the Christians in the commercially prosperous city of Ephesus as well as Christians living in other prosperous cities, such as Laodicea, which was only forty miles east of Ephesus. Places such as these where there were big money transactions and lots of trade could be a materialistic quagmire for unwary Christians.
      Apparently the Christians in Laodicea failed to keep Paul’s warning in mind. By the time John wrote the book of Revelation, a little more than thirty years later, the Laodicean Christians had succumbed to the love of money. Because of it they had lost their spiritual beauty and spiritual riches. Addressing them, Revelation 3:17 says: “You say: ‘I am rich and have acquired riches and do not need anything at all,’ but you do not know you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.” They were spiritually poor and falling into spiritual ruin because they were placing a higher value on material wealth than on spiritual riches. Their attitude toward money had become bad.
      POVERTY NOT REQUIRED
      In some non-Christian religions it is thought that religious merit is achieved by seeking a life of poverty. Forsaking all material goods, Buddhist monks, for example, spend their lives in monastic contemplation. Their possessions consist of very little more than a garment, a begging bowl, a needle, a string of 108 beads used as a rosary, a razor and a filter to strain insects from their drinking water.
      A life of poverty is not required of Christians in order for them to receive the approval of the true God. He never instructed his worshipers to practice asceticism. A Christian is free to earn money and to buy necessities, even comforts and luxuries, with that money. He is not forbidden to purchase the material things he can afford.
      If a man with above-average business ability has succeeded in achieving a substantial financial income without succumbing to the dangerous desire to be rich, it would be a mistake to accuse him of being a lover of money. What indicates whether a person is a lover of money or not is not the amount of money he has or the number of possessions he has or the quality of his possessions. It is, instead, his attitude toward such things.
      WRONG ATTITUDE TOWARD MONEY
      A person can be poor and still be a lover of money because of his greedy desire to be rich and to have things he does not now possess. A person of average means in another country may seem to be rich in the poor man’s eyes, and yet that person may not have the wrong attitude of the poor man. Lovers of money, whether poor or rich, are condemned by the Scriptures because of their wrong attitude.
      At Jeremiah 9:23 it is written: “Let not the wise man brag about himself because of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man brag about himself because of his mightiness. Let not the rich man brag about himself because of his riches.” Jehovah does not say here that a man should not be wise, mighty or rich, but that a man should avoid the wrong attitude toward these things by bragging about them.
      The Laodicean Christians of the first century made the mistake of trusting in their riches and thus developed a wrong attitude toward them. They were like the able-bodied man mentioned at Psalm 52:7 “that does not put God as his fortress, but that trusts in the abundance of his riches.”
      The folly of trusting in perishable riches is repeatedly stressed in the Scriptures. By greedily reaching out for riches some dedicated servants of God have been, as Paul said, “led astray from the faith.” (1 Tim. 6:10) They have failed to maintain their Christian innocence and have been swept into the world’s law-defying course. “A man of faithful acts will get many blessings, but he that is hastening to gain riches will not remain innocent.” (Prov. 28:20) The man of faithful acts is the man who is hastening to serve Jehovah and whose toiling is chiefly for spiritual treasures.
      Storing up spiritual treasures is far more rewarding now and in the future than hungrily seeking to store up material riches as your source of security. Jesus emphasized this when he said: “Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”-Matt. 6:19, 20.
      Jesus was not condemning the practice of thrift. What he was telling his followers was that they should not store up in a miserly fashion material riches and put their trust in them. Not earthly treasures but heavenly treasures, such as the approval of God, bring eternal benefits. Death tears the money lover from his money, leaving it for someone else to use. It cannot save him. “So it goes with the man that lays up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”-Luke 12:21.
      RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD MONEY
      While this present system of things remains, money can be used by Christians as a useful instrument to supply their needs, to bring them some of the comforts of modern times and to further the ministry. Because of the many things it can bring them they must exercise self-control, always keeping money in its place as an instrument and not as an object of love.
      The apostle Paul stressed the right attitude toward riches in his letter to Timothy. After warning against the love of money he acknowledged that some Christians were rich in material goods, but, instead of condemning them and instructing them to get rid of their riches and live a life of poverty, he urged them to maintain the right attitude toward them. “Give orders to those who are rich in the present system of things not to be high-minded, and to rest their hope, not on uncertain riches, but on God, who furnishes us all things richly for our enjoyment; to work at good, to be rich in fine works, to be liberal, ready to share, safely treasuring up for themselves a fine foundation for the future, in order that they may get a firm hold on the real life.” (1 Tim. 6:17-19) Christians who maintain this right attitude, although they may be materially rich, are not lovers of money. Their trust is in God, not in their riches. If they had to choose between the two, they would gladly give up their possessions and choose the service of God.
      No amount of money can compare with the treasure of serving Jehovah with your complete attention, as did the apostle Paul. He had no financial obligations that required him to maintain regular employment in tentmaking; so he spent all his time in the ministry. Like him there are Christians today who devote all their time to the ministry as pioneers or special overseers in the New World society. Having the right attitude toward money, they consider the spiritual blessings they have of far greater value than the material possessions they could have if they were spending most of their time in secular business.
      Whether a person has a substantial income, a moderate income or practically no income, the rule that must govern his attitude is that set down by Jesus Christ: “Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness.” (Matt. 6:33) With the right attitude, a Christian can use money as an instrument and never succumb to the degenerating love of money that leads to spiritual ruin.

  • @DarthMagog
    @DarthMagog Год назад +15

    So Jonas I did some research about your home country. Evidently you only need 50 active members to be considered a religion. Your channel has 10,000. And you're also not violating human rights... sounds like the JW money would be better spent on your farm if you ask me 🤷

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +3

      I do have my own religion. Its called the norwegian goat cult. Google it

    • @terridovey7648
      @terridovey7648 Год назад +2

      @@GoatlikePersonality 👍👍👍👍👍

    • @Letts_prey
      @Letts_prey Год назад

      I’m in!
      I’ll be a goat to the GOAT 👍
      Where do we sign up? 😁
      If they can pull it off all these years, why shouldn’t Jonas.

  • @Gouzinstrumentals
    @Gouzinstrumentals Год назад +3

    Song #180 was my jam I won't lie 🤣

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +3

      Its a good song… I sometimes sing the old songs loud at the farm. The lyrics are weird after waking up.

  • @johannpascher
    @johannpascher Год назад +1

    Keep on I like your presentations, they come around a bit crazy but just as much that it gets one more interested. I am Austrian, and your accent also makes it a bit funny. Anyway, I like to see different people. Wisch, I would get around to something like you do.

  • @rubicktdo89
    @rubicktdo89 Год назад +5

    God gambled with the devil over jobs family....

  • @napoleonbonaparte2236
    @napoleonbonaparte2236 Год назад +1

    Thanks Johans...

  • @humbles19
    @humbles19 Год назад +1

    Great video, clear and concise, thank you!

  • @YimYimYimYimYim
    @YimYimYimYimYim Год назад

    @GoatlikePersonality do you know what the funding application was like? Did each KH have to apply individually? Was it done at Branch level? Would Elders in each KH have been informed when the funding was allocated? Is each KH a distinct legal entity in Norway?

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +1

      Yes, yes, no and yesish. Its a refund of vat. But the JWs must be in association with the gambling authoroty. This is the basis of my religious critique.

    • @YimYimYimYimYim
      @YimYimYimYimYim Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality It's a superb critique.

  • @Dnaliaht
    @Dnaliaht Год назад +6

    Nice job!

  • @Sittingstraight12
    @Sittingstraight12 Год назад +2

    I said to my active witness husband…
    When it comes to tax time and any money that is made under the table.. he wants to claim because it bothers his conscience.. “ pay back Caesar’s… and Gods blah blah blah.” Why then does WT not want to set the example and pay taxes. Was there anything that was excluded in that stupid scripture? Of course he gets defensive.🤣

  • @ZarobljenaIstina
    @ZarobljenaIstina Год назад +3

    Great work Jonas allready shared with my audience :)

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +1

      Thanx. In case you mention it on your channel, please remember that I never said that watchtower had a direct stake to gambling. I said they accept "money from" the gambling authority and that this authoroty also have money from other sources. Watchtower ask for a VAT refund, and have to do this thru the Gambling Authoroty. This video was a video about the hypocrasy. Like my father was publicly humiliated and had to step down as an elder because he worked at a Cristmas Market. My father did not get to name the market, and if might aswell be called a winter marked. But watchtower said the word "christmas" was all they needed to know. Well what about "gambling"? Why is it ok to throw all their prinsiples out the window when it comes to money.
      Also from a christian perspective:
      Watchtower ask the JWs to pray for this matter. How would this work? 8.000.000 JWs would tell almighty god what they wanted him to do... and none of them know the actual details of the matter. Would not that be wasting Jehovahs time with spam?

    • @ZarobljenaIstina
      @ZarobljenaIstina Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality Yes I understud what is the point in this case JW organisation have no problem to take money from Satan world. (Sorry about my bad English I can better speak then whrite)😁

  • @jwallaby7895
    @jwallaby7895 Год назад +5

    While i don't subscribe myself as a believer in the Bible, I will list 3 scriptures that would make one think twice before shunning a child.
    IN GENERAL, this is what Jehovah repeatedly had to say about children and reaching maturity to make adult decisions:
    Numbers 14:29: "...in the wilderness your corpses will fall, yes, the whole number of you from 20 years old and up who were registered..."
    Deuteronomy 1:39: "Moreover, your children {...} and your sons WHO TODAY DO NOT KNOW GOOD AND BAD, these will enter, and I will give it to them to possess it.
    (So children under the age of 20 at that time were seen as unaccountable to anyone because they did not yet know the difference between right and wrong, and so were excluded from the death sentence upon the 1st sinful Israelite generation.)
    Heb 5: 13-14 : "For everyone that partakes of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to mature people, to those who through use have their perceptive powers trained to distinguish both right and wrong."
    (That last verse implies that such understanding of right and wrong comes with training. There is a time in all of our lives before we understand right and wrong; when we feed on "milk." Most people generally agree that before age 18 you're incapable of making serious life choices. Jehovah set the age of accountability at around age 20. But we don't need the Bible at all to understand this. Anyone over the age of 30 ought to know that they didn't yet know themselves before their twenties.)
    {but knowing watchtower, they'll say whatever to strategically set up for themselves a long line of accountable young ones who will feel that they have no choice but to dedicate themselves to this religion. It's their biggest ace in the hole.)

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +2

      Excellent points

    • @terridovey7648
      @terridovey7648 Год назад +1

      That nwt is written wrong. It's a shame the gb doesn't care what it really says.😪

  • @FixingMyFaithExJWtv
    @FixingMyFaithExJWtv Год назад +2

    great video! we'll get you the numbers from Canada!!

  • @robertshaw8537
    @robertshaw8537 Год назад +5

    I bet you that JW's think we don't know

    • @joytoyouandme4593
      @joytoyouandme4593 Год назад +1

      Oh they know we know. That is why the gb works so hard at telling the rank and file to ignore apostates.

    • @robertshaw8537
      @robertshaw8537 Год назад

      @@joytoyouandme4593 True if only the rank and file were not brainwashed

  • @Katchancellor
    @Katchancellor Год назад +1

    Wow!!!! Watchtower is 💩. Thanks for letting us know, sharing this with all my JW family.

  • @jimmchemings6140
    @jimmchemings6140 Год назад +2

    So can I play lotto as long as I don’t make it a greedy endeavor

  • @KimF1
    @KimF1 Год назад +1

    AWESOME find!! ❤️

  • @stevejeffries1603
    @stevejeffries1603 Год назад +1

    I would believe you a 100% with absolutely no problem if you told me Watchtower accepted money from an organisation that makes money from gambling because I know how exceptionally hypocritical they are .

  • @ivorywilliams7110
    @ivorywilliams7110 11 месяцев назад

    I have a question if watchtower is involved in Norway gambling are they involved in USA gambling commissions? Would be interested in knowing?

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  11 месяцев назад +2

      Its money from the norwegian gambling Authority. Not directly from gambling

  • @dianekrstulovich1582
    @dianekrstulovich1582 Год назад

    Thank you again!

  • @dogsdroolllquinavancepasre6756
    @dogsdroolllquinavancepasre6756 Год назад +1

    The gambling Authority search will not open Jehova.

  • @gaetanodetorrice5555
    @gaetanodetorrice5555 Год назад +1

    I don't gamble anymore that's why I left the Jehovah's witnesses 😂😂😂😂 I never sit down with gamblers I'm only standing up 🤣🤣🤣 hey goat like thanks for the video 👍😂

  • @michaelmatracki1485
    @michaelmatracki1485 Год назад

    I was shunned as a child when I was as young as 6 for also having a 'goatlike' personality. I will throw a huge party when this cult is eliminated.

  • @jennydarling1368
    @jennydarling1368 Год назад +1

    Interesting. Hope you are well.

  • @maxjenkins7139
    @maxjenkins7139 Год назад

    What happened to Tony Morris. I he is no longer a governing body member

  • @sefride
    @sefride Год назад +1

    Brilliant

  • @thesacredmom2784
    @thesacredmom2784 Год назад

    Nice info ❣I bet the usa says that Norway had its own JW that flaked off the headquarters and are not associated with USA any longer... shun, shun, shunned

  • @gabecunningham837
    @gabecunningham837 Год назад +1

    Jonas, I did the math and I want to confirm something. I added up the amounts to each individual congregation, and the total is $3,189,309. Plus the amount to bethel headquarters of $996,540. Together the total is $4,185,849. Is that how much they received total in one year?!?! If so that makes the other funding of 1.6 million look like chump change!

    • @GoatlikePersonality
      @GoatlikePersonality  Год назад +1

      Please remember that norwegians use Norwegian Krona and not US Dollars. Your calculations will be off when you use the wrong currency. Sorry for not saying "norwegian krone" in the video but I thought it was understood. And the amount really was not the point. The point of the video was the hypocrasy

    • @gabecunningham837
      @gabecunningham837 Год назад

      @@GoatlikePersonality Ah yes, you are right. Thank you. I thought the conversion was much closer to 1/1 but it is more like 10/1. That puts the amount at about $423,000 USD. Still a pretty penny.

  • @gornser
    @gornser Год назад +1

    For the record, I believed you right away

  • @richardherrmann1954
    @richardherrmann1954 Год назад +1

    YOU WANT $$$$$$$ . I do it the old fashion way . "I earn it " . Work is good for the body and soul amen

  • @gaetanodetorrice5555
    @gaetanodetorrice5555 Год назад +2

    Watch Tower corporation uses God to get wealthy on Earth 👍👍👍😂😂😂