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  Just sittin' and mindin' my own business...

  by Distracted in

  1. watchtower
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  i was sitting at a local city event enjoying watching an activity.

  a friendly looking woman dressed in blue jeans and a floppy hippy looking top came and sat down besides me.

  she notices i am sketching and says she likes to do this too.

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  Are Dubs trained to do this? No, not at all.

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102001099?q=witness+show+interest&p=par

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102001066?q=witness+show+interest&p=par
  

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102001083?q=witness+show+interest&p=par

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202011445?q=witness+show+interest&p=par

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202011405?q=witness+show+interest&p=par

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202010286?q=jigsaw+puzzles+beautiful&p=par

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202014204?q=witness+show+interest&p=par
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  I'm giving up in 2017! (More steps in my fading)

  by Skepsis in

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  2. friends

  when i joined this site at the beginning of this year, i was serving as an uber-zealous regular pioneer and ms in a foreign congregation where the need is greater.

  i was giving public talks and having parts at regional conventions.

  had started to have doubts but i hadn't time to focus on them, i simply was overcharged with so many activities and things to do.. i started by quitting pioneering but couldn't think i would give further steps for a long time.

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  weeks after you start to fade, you start to think straight and you realize that all these rules and regulations are designed to keep you locked up in the organization. It's really about money.

  Eons ago, a CO told the pioneers in our congo that it only takes missing meetings for three weeks to fall out of the truth. Which makes no sense. It is either the truth or it is not.

  The steady bombardment of indoctrination is what keeps people hanging on by their fingernails to a fantasy.
  
  
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  Russell's Pyramidology Originated In Edinburgh Scotland

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  the edinburgh city observatory sits atop calton hill at the east end of the city centre adjacent to burn's monument, scotland's national monument modelled on the parthenon, and nelson's monument with the time ball that falls at 1pm every day except sundays.. .

  the second astronomer royal of edinburgh was charles piazzi smyth (jan. 1819 - feb. 1900).

  smyth was a man of many and varied interests including meteorology, producing weather observations that still form an important part of uk climate records to this day.. building on the work of james taylor, smyth became fascinated by the great pyramid of egypt at giza.

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  berrygerry

  Maybe somebody else also won't be aware of that and might find the OP interesting.

  Yes.
  
  
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  Eloise Dupuis' husband gets medical files (Quebec, Canada)

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this article is in french but it translates fairly well:.

  the husband of a jehovah's witness who died after giving birth.

  the husband of eloïse dupuis, a jehovah's witness who died after giving birth at the hôtel-dieu de lévis, may have the complete medical record of the deceased.a text by yannick bergeron.

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  I wouldn't be surprised if he has been receiving "spiritual direction" from the WT's spiritual legal/medical team. They will be looking for ways to counteract whatever the coroner finds in his investigation. It isn't just Eloise's husband who has a stake in this. The HLC, their bloodless experts who took over medical treatment advice, and the WT - all have an interest.
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5724718164344832/does-anyone-recognize-this-canadian-elder
  
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  Yup !

  by berrygerry in

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  what would mean about 2045

  No extensions THIS TIME. (This time we really mean it.)
  
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5632557269909504/jw-video-armageddon-occur-before-2040
  
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  Yup !

  by berrygerry in

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  5791

  Someone has been transposing the numbers. Makes more sense now.

  Better Call Saul.
  
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  Yup !

  by berrygerry in

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  Comparing Total Numbers Baptized During the 1990s and the Last Ten Years:

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes, comparing raw numbers provides a more clear-cut numerical picture of growth or otherwise than percentages.

  below are the numbers for peak publishers (rounded off so that 4,1 represents more than 4,100,000) for each year throughout the 1990s and those for the last ten years.. year: peak* baptisms.

  * peak publishers abbreviated - simply to show annual baptisms in relation to peak publishers.. the main point: .

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  No way not going to happen, yes great growth in Latin and maybe some African countries but really I don't believe they make up for the loss.

  If you are in an urban Western congregation, how many African and Latino families have become members?

  IMO, this is an active strategy by WT to keep their numbers from totally cratering in the West.
  
  
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  cleveland ohio convention results

  by nowwhat? in

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  of 3 in cleveland: avg.

  attendance 7500 baptised 27 a robust growth of 0.38%!

  not my convention so no details..

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  A fair number of 2015 convention attendance and baptism were tracked here:

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/392far/2015_convention_locationdatesattendancebaptized/

  Ballpark was about 0.5% of attendees were baptized.

  2016 numbers appeared to be about 0.4%

  So far, in 2017, there appears to be slightly less than 0.4% (but not by much).

  The 2018 Yearbook numbers for the west should likely show slight overall declines in average publishers.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=120417d3885200081425bb76fa549c306e1e6&mode=embed
  
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  WT Library being edited

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i thought that wt would have started doing this, but i have not noticed any posts before.. can anyone confirm (post is from fb)?.

  so i have been looking up these different articles to read for myself...one problem.the last time we got a disc was 2015 and i used my mil's disc to down load it to my computer.

  they did a update to it last year over the internet, the program updated it's self.

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  Some months ago the wt asked that old copies of Library be disposed of.

  Any reference source available?