sparrowdown

Joined

• started 56 topics
• posted 5,668 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by sparrowdown

• 
  62

  Meeting Attendance levels

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i attended a sunday meeting today after missing a couple due to a bout of chronic apathy.

  out of 74 publishers we had a grand total of 33. wonderful.

  for those that attend, how are you finding the numbers?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  I think A Believer might have meant to say "Those in attendance at the KH were high."

  That's the only thing that makes sense out of that statement.
• 
  11

  Let me get this straight I can greet a stranger who may be ax murderer

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bit i can't greet or say hello to a poor soul at the kh that's df please help me with this..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  That's right, you got it. If you are a baptized witness you can greet and talk to anyone on earth including axe murderers and pedophiles but you cannot talk to disfellowshipped JWs.
• 
  38

  "We Had No Idea How Manipulative He Can Be!"

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  very stressfull and upsetting evening was had last night.

  i dropped my 2yo daughter off to my ex-wifes home.

  all seemed good until i got home.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  I hate the way JWs expect everyone else to dance to their bullets. Everyone else is supposed to just tiptoe around their beliefs like no one else is entitled to have any without being spawns of satan.

  They blow every little thing up into a federal case when it 's just life.

  Stand your ground you have rights too they're being petty, intolerant, and judgemental.
• 
  62

  Meeting Attendance levels

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i attended a sunday meeting today after missing a couple due to a bout of chronic apathy.

  out of 74 publishers we had a grand total of 33. wonderful.

  for those that attend, how are you finding the numbers?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  I have felt for some time that the org is letting individual congregations die a natural death so they can continue selling off halls.

  By introducing cartwork, a website to direct people to and videos slowly, slowly replacing talks by local brothers I think they have sent the message that " kingdom workers" are not needed anymore and when people feel not needed except to be constantly berated over who they associate with and what they wear it's only natural that attendance would drop off thus creating a problem.

  The answer to the "problem" is clear merge congregations and sell KHs which only adds to the problem by creating logistical issues for those attending a KH that is farther away causing more discouragement resulting in further shrinkage and drop-offs and so on and so forth it goes until ........ until.....endgame unknown at this point.
• 
  46

  If You Could Ask the GB Or One Of Its Members...

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...one question about anything and get a straight answer, what would it be?

  historical, philosophical, theological, eschatological, anything.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Even if I could ask them anything I wouldn't waste my time I've seen the way they dance around questions.
• 
  19

  FYI: "Leah Remini's Anti-Scientology Documentary on A&E is scorching." Airs Tuesday the 29th, etc.

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  leah remini’s anti-scientology doc: former celeb wrangler admits how tom cruise was “surrounded” and isolated.

  http://www.showbiz411.com/2016/11/23/leah-reminis-anti-scientology-doc-former-celeb-wrangler-admits-how-tom-cruise-was-surrounded-and-isolated.

  "leah remini’s anti-scientology documentary on a&e is scorching.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  I agree Mr Flipper I thought it was great and the whole disconnection thing just like disfellowshipping.

  Same sort of shit different assholes basically.
• 
  19

  When 2 JWs have the same call...

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was driving past a certain gas station today, i recalled that the family who own it are called on by a friend of mine, and in a territory where it's hard to find interest.

  it reminded me of an incident months back when this friend, brother d, discovered that another friend, brother b, was calling on that family too.

  hey, gotta make your time.. those two went at it.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Having calls and studies provides cred in the brownie points currency of Witnessworld.
• 
  43

  Australian Jehovah's Witnesses are ignorant of the Australian Royal Commission

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  many here have asked how the average witness in australia is taking the news of the arc findings and conclusions.. is it affecting them?.

  sorry to say, hardly any are even aware of the facts.

  those that are, have been convinced that all the publicity is "apostate lies and satanic propaganda".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Well Australia is a big brown land with lots of people and I 'm sure we couldn't possibly speak for everyone. These kinds of things have a way of slowly dripping into public consciousness.

  You never know what's happening in the minds of people. To help things along I have printed out some key pages of the ARC report and have placed into the letterboxes in the street of the local KH. I have also supplied the local sexual abuse support centre with info because the CEO wanted to know more about the beliefs and practices of the JWs they see.

  I prefer to think of the glass being half full at this stage, nothing happens overnight.
• 
  19

  When 2 JWs have the same call...

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i was driving past a certain gas station today, i recalled that the family who own it are called on by a friend of mine, and in a territory where it's hard to find interest.

  it reminded me of an incident months back when this friend, brother d, discovered that another friend, brother b, was calling on that family too.

  hey, gotta make your time.. those two went at it.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  With a large geographical area and a small population territory the competition over RV's was fierce and call poaching was common. The cong had three middle aged non- working, no-kid lady pioneers who felt all interest belonged to them by default because of their pioneer status. Plus the COBE's wife who thought the same thing.

  If a householder told them another witness called they would interogate to find out gender, age, what they looked like, how often they called how long etc and then walk up to that piblisher at the next meeting and say something like

  "You call on so and so?"

  "Why, yes I have been calli....."

  "Well you can stop because that's my call." Marches off to continue conversation with the groupies who have been watching the exchange from the other side of the hall.
• 
  48

  Jehovah's Limp Witnesses Pointed Me to JW.org When I Was Willing to Talk

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several months ago i approached a nice young couple who were standing by a jw literature stand in my local community.

  they were pleasant and polite but incredibly stilted when it came to answering my "innocent" questions about their beliefs.

  this was the occasion of jws featuring the article headlined "is religion dying?".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  It seems like the WT's how to create a mind control slave program is complete and successful with witnesses like this couple.

  That stare into the middle distance you observed is caled the lights are on but nobody's home look.

  What a waste.