James Thomas Rook Jr.

@Sean Migos you are not "newbie".  :)))
Please go to G. Jackson testimony before  Australia Royal Commission. He said something that whole word was heard - you are free  to disobey GB instructions and doctrines, if you, as one of JW member, find in  your personal reading  of your own Bible something that your understanding and conscience  tell you is different than GB has said. 
Of course, you will be dfd because of that at the end of a day :))) 
BUT he, as Legal Representative of WT, JW  and GB said, you are NOT obligated to obey Them IF YOU THINKING DIFFERENTLY. In other word you are free to Think in Critical way of Thinking. In other words - to testing spirits -  this wording is for those who have issue or problem, if  hear words "Critical Thinking"

Well you've got to be reasonable.  The question is; is our employment closely and consistently tied with false religion. One off things don't count I'm sure.  One thing is fixing a church HVAC, and another is specializing in polishing church steeples.

You jw's are really missing out on Chick fil A chicken and Hobby Lobby.

Apostates do not really need to destroy the GB's credibility ... the GB  does a comprehensive job of destroying their own credibility, with no help from anybody.

Little is known about Bro. "Judge" Rutherford's small screen TV fetish, circa 1939, because back then there was only one channel, and you had to know Morse Code.
 

Little is known about Bro. "Judge" Rutherford's small screen TV fetish, circa 1939, because back then there was only one channel, and you had to know Morse Code.
 

Little is known about Bro. "Judge" Rutherford's small screen TV fetish, circa 1939, because back then there was only one channel, and you had to know Morse Code.
 

Sniff, sniff, sniff.....I can smell Allen Smith

It's ALL about credibility.
It's a constant battle between WANTING to be obedient ... and not being an obvious moron.
Roughly the equivalent of not buying lunch at Churches Fried Chicken, for religious reasons.

...and for those Brothers and Sisters that I have not already stumbled, and who have cast themselves into a fiery pit of outrageous indignation, here is a racist depiction of illegal aliens ......
 
Sesame Street_ The Martians Discover a Telephone.mp4

It's ALL about credibility.
It's a constant battle between WANTING to be obedient ... and not being an obvious moron.
Roughly the equivalent of not buying lunch at Churches Fried Chicken, for religious reasons.

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Help with the bags.mp4

Apostates do not really need to destroy the GB's credibility ... the GB  does a comprehensive job of destroying their own credibility, with no help from anybody.

...and for those Brothers and Sisters that I have not already stumbled, and who have cast themselves into a fiery pit of outrageous indignation, here is a racist depiction of illegal aliens ......
 
Sesame Street_ The Martians Discover a Telephone.mp4

I am glad you removed that GIF of the man killing a cow with a sledgehammer.
It was very upsetting.
That's why I get my hamburger as God intended ... on a Styrofoam tray wrapped with cellophane.

So, if I am a HVAC contractor, and a church calls me up to fix their furnace or air conditioner, I can't do it?
That is insanity on parade, and total nonsense.
It is also DANGEROUS, because that perspective warps minds.
OURS!
WE BUY CHURCHES, chop off the steeple and cross, and rededicate it as a Kingdom Hall.
I went to an OBVIOUS converted church-to-Kingdom-Hall, when I was a young boy, dropped a bag of marbles at the back, and they rolled all the way to the front, on a tile floor, in South Richmond, Virginia.
False religion got "our" money, for the sale.
We got the building.
 
 
 

It's ALL about credibility.
It's a constant battle between WANTING to be obedient ... and not being an obvious moron.
Roughly the equivalent of not buying lunch at Churches Fried Chicken, for religious reasons.

Here's what I've got so far as an introduction:

One Saturday night in the spring . . . . Albert had gone to bed early in the dormitory of the YMCA, where he was living while working in Chicago. Later, his roommate burst into the room to explain a difficulty. He was invited that night to the home of a Mr. and Mrs. Hindman, and their daughter Nora was to have a girlfriend there at the house. Two girls would be too much for Albert’s roommate to handle by himself. With alacrity, Albert rose to the occasion. During the course of the evening, Albert’s roommate was getting along quite famously with the two young ladies. But Mr. and Mrs. Hindman concentrated on Albert . . .
 

A year or two after I was baptized, about 1968, our Circuit Overseer (called the "Circuit Servant" back then) gave a talk on a Tuesday that railed against giving our old junk to the Salvation Army. (We used to give up the Book Study night for the first meeting with the Circuit Overseer.) This didn't bother anyone too much because we didn't have a Salvation Army around the city, and most of us only BOUGHT things at the local GOODWILL STORE which was huge in our city, and it was unlikely that any of us gave anything to any of these stores, anyway. But someone was bound to ask, not during that meeting, but sometime before the Thursday night meeting, so that the Circuit Overseer mentioned the question, and that he had left out the fact that even BUYING at these stores is supporting false religion, and he added that the GOODWILL STORE was founded by a Reverend So-and-So. 
I know that my mother was like . . . "Why did that person have to ask?" It was her favorite place to shop, spoiled by someone asking the wrong question. 
Fast forward 50 years, and I'm cleaning out junk for my parents at their house in California to move them into an apartment last year. We've got 3 Witness families happy to take quite a lot of the stuff, but there was still quite a bit that no one took. So I boxed it up and told them that I'd drop it off at the local GOODWILL STORE. My mother said, "Fine." And I reminded her of what Brother Kent Karras (the Circuit Overseer) had said. She remembered, and told me that his counsel "lasted all of about 2 weeks." I told her I didn't know she was such a rebel.

I included a large portion of the page where the paragraph in question ends. This is because there really is a bit of a change in the overall message here. The idea that a Witness MUST make sure that his or her secular employment has NOTHING to do with Babylon the Great had been a very strictly enforced rule in the past, and it has been relaxed somewhat in the last 20 years.
I have no idea what's right or wrong in this regard, because there are some statements that still allow for this to be a matter of conscience, to some extent. Even the paragraph above uses the words "a Christian who is employed by some other business would not want to do extensive work at a facility that promotes false worship."
This starts to bring up quite literally THOUSANDS of examples of work that will become questionable again. How much work is extensive work. My son graduated high school in 2011 with a person who went to Italy to learn how to restore artwork for museums. If she's working on 10 projects and has just been given a statue to restore that was partially burned at Notre Dame, would she refuse, or consider it only one of 10 projects and therefore "not extensive"? If she can finish the piece in only two weeks and not have to step foot herself in the church, then is it "extensive?" (This young woman is not a JW, by the way, so she's happy for the work.)
We went through so many of these legalistic ideas in the 1970's, where brothers lost their privileges and were put on "probation" or "public reproof" for taking on certain kinds of work, that I just hate to see it become Pharasaical again.
 
 

So, if I am a HVAC contractor, and a church calls me up to fix their furnace or air conditioner, I can't do it?
That is insanity on parade, and total nonsense.
It is also DANGEROUS, because that perspective warps minds.
OURS!
WE BUY CHURCHES, chop off the steeple and cross, and rededicate it as a Kingdom Hall.
I went to an OBVIOUS converted church-to-Kingdom-Hall, when I was a young boy, dropped a bag of marbles at the back, and they rolled all the way to the front, on a tile floor, in South Richmond, Virginia.
False religion got "our" money, for the sale.
We got the building.
 
 
 

If none of those systems work ... we lose services ... BUT THEY LOSE A LOT OF MONEY BY NOT BEING ABLE TO SELL THOSE SERVICES.
I strongly suspect they do not want their income stream truncated ... and in the next ten years will completely fix the problem.
Of course, this was before the Snowflakes took over, but the United States fought and won a Global World War on two fronts on opposite sides of the planet .......... in less than ten years.

Millions now dead never lived.

The following quote is from page 94, chapter "How to live forever".
The church systems would have the people believe that only those who become church members can be saved. The Bible never taught any such doctrine (!!!). The Lord never organized the nominal systems, and the true church is but a little flock, who shall inherit the kingdom of heaven, and the others of the world do not in- herit it. To the church Jesus said: 'Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom'. (Luke 12 : 32) Jesus died not only for those who will constitute the members of the church, but for all. St. John plainly stated: 'He is the propitiation [satis- faction] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.-1 John 2: 2.

Found it.