"They just exist now and keep afloat by JWs having children."
Except now with no meetings it will be hard for them to find mates.
My old congregation still have nothing to show for all their efforts.
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Phizzy
" Except now with no meetings " it will be surprising if the married ones don't have the odd "slip up", what else is there to do ???
One "Sister" in our Congregation, many years ago, excused getting pregnant by saying " It was just one that slipped through the Net ", a Bro. overheard and said " You shouldn't have been using a Net!" LOL.
I am wondering how my old Congregation is getting along now, we too split because we had well over 200 Publishers on our books, officially, though rarely did all of 'em turn up for a Meeting at one time, but we had a lot of overflow problems, as fixed seats were about 180 I think.
So we split in to two, I wonder how those two Congregations are doing ? does the combined attendance ever exceed 200 ? maybe on Memorial night, but that is an exception, lots of non JW's there . Does the combined number of Publishers now exceed 200, some 16 years or so down the line ? I very much doubt it, even in my day, a lot of the "increase" was JW's moving in from elsewhere, I doubt actual converting has become any easier !
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Rocketman123
This situation of people seeing their funds that they paid for renovating their Kingdom Halls vanish by the persuasion of the money controllers of the WTS. is not unique.
Entire properties with buildings on the them have been sold and the assets forwarded to the WTS.
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Vidiot
Just remember folks...
...even though the Org can sell off KHs to stay afloat, sooner or later, the family silver runs out.
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Overrated
I have to laugh at Watchtower. Where is this great increase? More like a great decrease. And people don't see the bullshit.
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Phizzy
" sooner or later, the family silver runs out." Yes ! they can only sell K.H's for so long, eventually the Congregations shrink to a hard core who will never leave, and have to have a K.H to meet in.
They are also not profiting quite from these sales so much in an obscure way in some cases. They used to build new K.H's in rough areas of town, slightly industrial, or slightly out of town, and eventually the area would improve, as the town expanded and more houses were built around the K.H.
Now those areas are not being gentrified, many are becoming even more run down, so the Sale Price is not what it was, or might have been.
The Org. has a cash flow problem that is slowly increasing, they have squeezed the faithful until the pips squeak, numbers are falling in the richer Countries, and their Real Estate business lacks any more Billion Dollar sales. The Org. is moribund.
And as the Title of this thread says, many of the older ones particularly must be feeling that they have worked hard all their lives for the org., and have nothing to show for it !