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  Meeting attendance for elders

  by dkztcequ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the minimum meeting attendace for someone, who is of good health, has not children doesn't work in a job that requires travel and lives about 3 miles from the kh?

  is 50% for clam and 75% for watchtower acceptable?.

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  darkspilver

  TBH, it was a very poor OP in terms of explanation - but not that surprising considering the poster's one and only (so far) other post, oh, and their apparently random made up user name.

  The letter is primarily dealing with the field ministry, partly as that is the only thing 'officially' recorded - in unforgiving black and white - for all eternity on the publisher cards for all future other elders and CO's to view.

  Therefore the 'importance' of the letter dealing with field ministry.

  Meeting attendance is NOT recorded in the same way, at least not individually identifiably - but the letter stills highlights that elder's activity in other congregation activities (this would cover such things as meeting attendance, shepherding, elder's meetings etc etc) may be effected - and that other brothers can fill in for them.
  

  Their caring for this important work may affect their field service activity as well as their share in other congregation activities. Elders in their congregation can show appreciation for brothers caring for other organizational needs by filling in for them locally when they must be away.
  
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  Meeting attendance for elders

  by dkztcequ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the minimum meeting attendace for someone, who is of good health, has not children doesn't work in a job that requires travel and lives about 3 miles from the kh?

  is 50% for clam and 75% for watchtower acceptable?.

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  darkspilver

  Sanchy: 100%. Period.
  

  No.

  Read the 17 March 2013. Period.
  
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  Huge article(s) in Dutch media on JW child abuse

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.

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  other media are picking up as well.....

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  Anders Anderson: So today the well-respected and serious newspaper Trouw came with child abuse within the JW as their topmost frontpage article.
  

  Have you bought your copy yet?...
  

  Have you bought today's copy yet? (Saturday 22 July 2017)

  Front page again third day running - excluding Sunday....

  Have you manged to buy today's copy yet? (Monday 24 July 2017)

  OR have they been selling-out?
  

  
  
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  Meeting attendance for elders

  by dkztcequ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the minimum meeting attendace for someone, who is of good health, has not children doesn't work in a job that requires travel and lives about 3 miles from the kh?

  is 50% for clam and 75% for watchtower acceptable?.

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  Is 50% for CLAM and 75% for Watchtower acceptable?

  What EXACTLY are YOU actually complaining about?

  You joined this forum six hours ago - is the OP question related to your second, and only other, post you've made here?

  I ask this because this total knob of a Australian in Chiang Mai is a shifty little cunt who cannot be trusted.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/169424/_post/5661867093524480

  For starters: "75% for Watchtower"

  Yeah, that's NORMAL for Elders - after all that just equates to giving one public talk 'away', plus usual holiday time away.

  Also, read the 17 March 2013 letter to the Bodies of Elders
  
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  Huge article(s) in Dutch media on JW child abuse

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.

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  Anders Anderson: So today the well-respected and serious newspaper Trouw came with child abuse within the JW as their topmost frontpage article.
  

  Have you bought your copy yet?...
  

  Have you bought today's copy yet? (Saturday 22 July 2017)
  

  
  
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  Russia - Who Will Get the Property of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.interessant.ru/politics/komu-dostanietsia-imushchie.

  who will get the property of jehovah's witnesses?.

  the sect "jehovah's witnesses", recognized as an extremist organization and banned in russia, owned real estate worth 4 billion rubles.

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  thanks for uploading.
  

  but what about the 106 people who have ALREADY signed this...

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5434426186006528/petition-russia-transforming-kingdom-hall-into-cultural-space-young-musicians
  
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  Huge article(s) in Dutch media on JW child abuse

  by Anders Andersen in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so today the well-respected and serious newspaper trouw.nl came with child abuse within the jw as their topmost frontpage article.. the articles are well researched and aim primarily at the dutch jw situation.. afaik at least on member of this forum assisted the newspaper with the articles.

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  Anders Anderson: So today the well-respected and serious newspaper Trouw came with child abuse within the JW as their topmost frontpage article.
  

  Have you bought your copy yet?...
  

  
  
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  Jehovah's Vatican Scandal?

  by mrmagic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone sent this link of kelso law firm and their blog post on cardinal pell being australia's most hated man.

  the implications are very interesting, as this is the 3rd most powerful man in the vatican.

  the catholic church is no doubt much larger than jehovah's witnesses, however, the jw's incidence of child sexual abuse is about 4 times higher than the catholic church's child sex abuse (and subsequent coverups).. the main thread tying cardinal pell and the other vatican scandals to jehovah's witnesses is the australian royal commission.

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  The problem appears to be a mixing up of the statistical data.

  I'm just the messenger.... 1 + 1 does not equal 3, even if you want it to.
  

  In the UK - there are actually MORE JW Elders than Catholic Priests.
  
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  1950- present PDF Scans of original mailed or literature counter, WTs ?

  by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i think these exist ?

  has someone created pdf scans of original mailed or literature counter wts?

  or have copies of those pdf's?.

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  Ray Frankz: Do you guys know why would they cut these out? Doesn't look like the articles talk about subjects they changed later.

  The above articles are for space / layout reasons.

  There are also other examples of Watchtower and Awake magazine articles being edited to cut them down, shorten them etc - which are 'red-tape' related.
  
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  Aust Census: JW's and Divorce Rates

  by shepherdless in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this post is actually in answer to a question i got from jwfacts.

  i think the issue was also raised on a recent thread.. first, some data from the 2011 and 2016 censuses:.

  (a) 1,751,733 (7.5% of population) reported being in a de-facto couple on census night, but .

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  darkspilver

  A relevant question is, "What percentage of divorced JWs were divorced BEFORE they became Witnesses?"

  Also..... What about those that have remarried?

  How are they counted?

  28% of Australian marriages in 2015 involved at least one partner that was on their second (or more) marriage
  

  http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/3310.0
  

  28% is fairly significant statistical-wise - so I was wondering how is that accounted for in the OP stats?

  I note that apparently Question 6 in the Australian 2016 Census only asked "What is the person’s present marital status?" - with the options being either: Never married / Widowed / Divorced / Separated but not divorced / Married

  http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/2901.0Main%20Features802016/$FILE/2016%20Census%20Sample%20Household%20Form.pdf