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  My impressions of the cart witnessing

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have watched tons of youtube videos of our exjdub friends approaching and talking to the jdub manikins at their carts as they give a great witness to the world by sipping their hot lattes, updating their social media, chit chatting to each other, and the most important thing of getting their time in, counting their hours.. when the jw's see someone approach with a camera they do several things, they will turn their backs on the person, or look at the person with a frown and act like the person isn't even there.

  the witlesses refuse to answer simple, clear, and precise questions.

  when i was an elder i loved to get into discussions and debates with trinitarians, priest, clergymen and those who were born again.

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  In my part of the world, they set up the literature cart under a tree, along a fairly deserted cycling track near a river.

  Literally very few people walk past!

  It is THE most pathetic thing to observe, as two jws sit in fold up chairs in a lonely spot in the middle of nowhere, with just a few ducks to look at and talk to....

  Still it's better than the spot they used to use: two middle aged brothers in large overcoats would sit near the netball courts while teenage girls in short skirts ran around playing sport! Now THAT looked really creepy!

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5167417279905792/cart-work-picture-speaks-itself
  
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  Wasted A #@$%&!** Day

  by FedUpJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well i got to waste another day.

  for the sake of still in family i attended the circuit assembly.

  they say a joy shared is doubled, and a burden shared is halved.

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  GREAT points Pale! Well said
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  Wasted A #@$%&!** Day

  by FedUpJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well i got to waste another day.

  for the sake of still in family i attended the circuit assembly.

  they say a joy shared is doubled, and a burden shared is halved.

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  Duuuuuude! Wow! How did you stomach sitting through all of that?

  I feel smothered just reading your review! I feel like I was there.

  It really seems like "wash rinse repeat"....
  
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  Early 70's JW POP Music: All Over, No wonder. By: The Great Crowd

  by I quit! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  going through a box of old records in my garage i came across this 45 by the great crowd.

  it was given to me in the early 70's when i was living in crestline, ca.

  i had no way of playing it because i haven't had a turntable in years so i googled it and found this link.

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  So maybe THIS track can be used by jwbroadcasting one month?

  I mean, they have just used a "Barry White" esq sexy times track in the april broadcast! Now they can use this rip-off of "hair" ballad tracks!? or more like "age of Aquarius / let the sun shine in"!?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
  
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  Early 70's JW POP Music: All Over, No wonder. By: The Great Crowd

  by I quit! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  going through a box of old records in my garage i came across this 45 by the great crowd.

  it was given to me in the early 70's when i was living in crestline, ca.

  i had no way of playing it because i haven't had a turntable in years so i googled it and found this link.

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  OH MY GOD!

  That was amazing on so many levels! Thanks for sharing.

  What a great snapshot of the huge ballad tracks of '71-73! Wow!
  I have never heard of this before.

  BUT yes, they actually use "theocratic" language and terms!

  #mindblown #groovy
  
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  2018 Courage Convention video invitation

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the video invitation for the 2018 convention is just creepy.

  i thought it was some parody at first as it seems 'dark'.it begins with a young man being pushed whilst standing at his locker and the voice over says that 'in critical times we need courage more than ever'.

  next, comes a clip of a male putting his hand on the shoulder of a female worker, the look she gives him would be enough to give him nightmares for the next year.

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  Instead of the 'sister' at work being "touched inappropriately", why didn't the video show some member of the congregation wrongly touching a young person ? I mean that HAS occurred WITHIN the organization, - so it would be a more realistic storyline!

  Try writing a convention talk to actually deal with that elephant in the room!
  
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  JW covering child abuse in UK

  by Alex Bogdanov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/25/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-silencing-victims-of-child-abuse-uk.

  a year ago the government found that jws from manchester were involved in a child abuse, but the local congregation did everything to hide it and be in the way of the police investigation.

  this situation is getting worse now.

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  Disgusting!

  (Yet it is of no surprise, as the bible contains many accounts where God was ok with abuses against women and children! In fact he even instigated many of the acts! So if "humans are made in his image", then its no wonder this stuff occurs...)

  Yet, how comforting it is to know that it is all coming out in the open finally!

  The great god Jehovah is having his organization brought into line by "Satan's old system"?
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  "Wondrous expansion is now taking place!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we have all heard the worldwide reports about khalls being sold off and congregations being amalgamated etc.... of course, jws are being told that these actions are a sign of "just how much the work is progressing, and how jehovah is blessing the increase and expansion!".

  i can share the following from my part of the world too!.

  in perth, western australia the following has occurred.. three "new" congregations have been formed!

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  Thanks to pepperheart for starting this thread with an update of the money made on the sale of this one property:

  $2.175 million!

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5383747462496256/watchtower-growth
  
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  Watchtower growth ?

  by pepperheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in perth western australia the watchtower have sold a kingom hall to hindus for $2 million aust dollars and they have a second one up for sale in the same area embleton .

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  Ah yup! So the Society made off with millions!

  I personally worked on that Embleton Kingdom Hall, and know of the years of sacrifice average witnesses put in to saving up huge $ to build it... Of course none of them got their money back on it!

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6232834495741952/wondrous-expansion-now-taking-place
  

  So the Dianella hall is also up for sale?? That makes two halls sold off within a 15 km area . Wow.... "Jehovah certainly is speeding up the work"
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  JW's - Are you in a "THEOCRATIC arrangement" or an AUTOCRATIC one?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i now know which system i was under!.

  theocratic/theocracy: a system of government in which priests rule in the name of god or a god.

  (oxford dictionary).

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  Great thread! Thanks for starting it The Fall Guy!

  Cofty! Perfectly said. As soon as a leader(s) speaks as "God's Mouthpiece", and people believe their claims, they can get away with murder .... literally as is sadly seen by many religious fanatics around the world! Even JWs look forward to mass murder when the big A happens!