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.5 % seems to be the new average baptisms based on a reddit tracker of 2015 assemblies/conventions.
berrygerry
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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)
by OnTheWayOut ini don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .
org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.
instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.
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Minimum wages..raising the minimum question
by James Mixon inacross the u.s the minimum wages are $5.15 in wyoming to $9.50 in dc,.
average $8.00.
eve montes in california pick grapes for $9.50 an hour and she.
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berrygerry
minimum wage should be enough to support a person, not a family. If a person doesn't have the skills to earn more than minimum wage, then they need to get the skills or work for themselves and stop having kids they can't support. How hard is that, really?
For many people, it is hard - but it is possible. For the disadvantaged, it is an impossibility.
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Minimum wages..raising the minimum question
by James Mixon inacross the u.s the minimum wages are $5.15 in wyoming to $9.50 in dc,.
average $8.00.
eve montes in california pick grapes for $9.50 an hour and she.
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berrygerry
IMO, min wage should be no lower than the poverty line (divided by 2,000).
If poverty line is $16,000 for a single person, then min wage should be no lower than $8.00 per hour.
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Swift Current - Tough to watch, but extremely pertinent for WT victims
by berrygerry init's on global tv 9:00 pm mst.
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Just saw this video, just goes to show you how the elders lie...JW Elder's Response To My DA Letter
by goingthruthemotions insaw this video of a brave woman who gave a da letter and an elder tries to talk with her.
this guy comes across has full of shite, and you know he would be a different person if there were other elders around with him.
kangaroo court jokers is what comes to my mind.
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Apostate driven lies video removed?
by Ignoranceisbliss ini have seen several comments that this video has been removed.
i thought it was in one of the monthly broadcasts but i'm not sure which one.
was this video really removed?
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berrygerry
Can someone help me find this - was it during a monthly broadcast, and if so, which month?
And then, what is the time marker?
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Saddest thing about being DFd
by kairos ini always enjoyed being kind.
when someone genuinely needed a hand or what not, it felt good to help family or friends.. i don't really miss them anymore.
i faded over two years ago, so they long ago shunned me.i think about them less and less and have even forgotten some names.i did enjoy some of the friendships and the association.
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berrygerry
The Watchtower is so focused on the preaching work they fail to teach their followers this very basic principle.
Not preaching work - recruiting work.
Why join when the group shuns?
Information control - no unnecessary info without the victim having reached a certain level of commitment - Cult 101
See Orwell's book "1984" (The WT Guidebook) and Bending Truth
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Should Jehovah`s Witnesses be worshiping Jehovah ? or Jesus.
by smiddy injehovah`s christian witnesses , as they like to be known as , used to worship jesus in earlier times ,but now they do not worship jesus .
they worship a god named jehovah , who they admitted in the first edition of " aid to bible understanding " was not the correct pronunciation of the tetragrammaton `s four letter hebrew letters that represented god` name , by the way , a catholic monk of the 13th century came up with jehovah by just adding a couple of vowels.. to those four hebrew letters .which has since been revised to correctly translate the tetragrammaton as yhwh and many scholars put this name more accurately as yahweh or something more similar.. fact 1 .
the tetragrammaton does not appear in the " kingdom interlinear of christian greek scriptures " printed by the wtb&ts , a word for word translation of the greek scriptures.
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Re: Who Cares?
If God wants to be worshiped so badly, and the ONLY way to worship him correctly is by following the one true religion, which said one true religion has determined the precise definition and description of this God, and all other variations or understandings are wrong, so therefore all others deserve to be murdered, etc. etc.
Yup, count me in. I love you God, because you forced me to love you.
IRL, that's called abuse.
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Should Jehovah`s Witnesses be worshiping Jehovah ? or Jesus.
by smiddy injehovah`s christian witnesses , as they like to be known as , used to worship jesus in earlier times ,but now they do not worship jesus .
they worship a god named jehovah , who they admitted in the first edition of " aid to bible understanding " was not the correct pronunciation of the tetragrammaton `s four letter hebrew letters that represented god` name , by the way , a catholic monk of the 13th century came up with jehovah by just adding a couple of vowels.. to those four hebrew letters .which has since been revised to correctly translate the tetragrammaton as yhwh and many scholars put this name more accurately as yahweh or something more similar.. fact 1 .
the tetragrammaton does not appear in the " kingdom interlinear of christian greek scriptures " printed by the wtb&ts , a word for word translation of the greek scriptures.
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My first post
by thewalker inhi, i just joined the board and wanted to present myself.. i'm active, in fact very active in congregation activities serving "where the need is great" in a foreign language congregation somewhere in western europe.
as a young brother, i'm seen as an example as i'm doing all a good witness should do.. i had doubts years ago but i decided just to ignore them and move to another congregation to preach more.
that worked for some years but i'm now at the exact same point.
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berrygerry
Hey Dude:
What
Divergent and DOC said.
Waking up is indeed, hard to do. (A play on the song "Breaking Up is Hard to Do")
The lack of love bothered me for years as well. James 1:27 sums up what God wants in one sentence. WT - orphans and widows - well, widows if they have assets.
As many have said, take a deep breath, and then take another.
This post is worth a read for those waking up: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/2bh9eq/almost_exjw_in_a_very_diffucult_situation_need/cj5hvb8
BTW - Is your username for the song (I love the whistling)?
