Posts by berrygerry

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

i 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.

berrygerry

Flipper, I don't think that they'll admit old doctrines were wrong any time in the immediate future

ARC

27 Q. Is that something that you foresee might happen ‐ in
28 other words, that an apology at least be considered?
29 A. The Governing Body has apologised on other matters, so
30 for me to say ‐ I can't speak collectively for everybody,
31 but we have apologised on things in the past, in other
32 areas, so it is perceivable.

BULL-F***ING-SHIT.

These pompous pieces of excrement have NEVER apologized for a single thing, and never will.

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

i 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.

berrygerry

Then there are the 15 regular pioneers and 10 auxiliary pioneers (on average) in the congregation! You'd think that with that many full time 'ministers'--meeting attendance would be on the rise, with a new face here and there on a regular basis....nada, zip, zilch! No newbies, no interested ones and definitely very, very low baptism numbers!

I am also aware of uber-congos with 20 RP's and the huge AP's during the "special" campaigns.

Results? ZERO new faces.

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

i 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.

berrygerry

5 newbies added

.5 % seems to be the new average baptisms based on a reddit tracker of 2015 assemblies/conventions.

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Minimum wages..raising the minimum question

by James Mixon in

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across 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.

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 in

jw
friends

across 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.

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.

Swift Current - Tough to watch, but extremely pertinent for WT victims

by berrygerry in

it's on global tv 9:00 pm mst.

berrygerry

It'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 in

saw 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.

berrygerry

"He'll never be an Elder or a Ministerial Servant AGAIN."

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Apostate driven lies video removed?

by Ignoranceisbliss in

i 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?

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 in

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friends

i 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.

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 in

jehovah`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.

berrygerry

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.