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  The 2020 Census of American Religion 07.08.2021

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/.

  more than one-third of muslims (39%), white mainline protestants (37%), buddhists (37%), and the religiously unaffiliated (36%) have at least a four-year college degree.

  another 19% are catholic, 2% are latter-day saint, and less than 1% each are jehovah’s witnesses or orthodox christians.

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  Balaamsass2

  Thank you, Barbara! I always enjoy your posts and information. :)

  While I take all self-reported numbers from the borg with a HUGE grain of salt, I look forward to 2022 and 2023 activity reports. While it has become much easier to be counted as a "regular" publisher recently, I find it hard to believe that with all the extra time these last few years to read "outside" information on the internet, more members have not become aware of the truth about the truth.

  Will the more "woke" members become officially inactive...or simply turn in a couple of hours to not rock the boat with family and friends....only time will tell.
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  So the liberals are lying about people moving out of Kalifornia.

  by mickbobcat in

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  my wife works in real estate here in the midwest.

  people are moving in so much from kalifornia its crazy.

  she said her client told her that they had to drive to nevada to get a rider truck.

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  It is tempting to move from California to a place with a lower cost of living. If 3rd gen and I moved to Nevada or Arizona our cost of living would drop by almost 30%. An identical home would cost half of our current one. I would miss our snow-covered mountains and our green yard, but I could take some photos and hang them on the wall. :)

  If you stay out of high-crime cities, crime is not a big concern. Certainly safer than New York City. The Mrs does have pepper spray on her keychain, and it is easy to buy a gun if you don't have a criminal record.

  Every place has negatives. Hurricanes, floods, Tornados, sub-zero winters, constant rain, droughts, are all things I like to avoid.
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  Do any of you ex JW`s ever feel ashamed or embarrassed to admit you were once a JW? To your now friends / associates ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  i ask this now because i have been living in this town for the past 14 years and the circle of friends i have now i have never let on i am an ex jw.. i`m talking about 30-50 people at least.. not that the subject has ever really come up , but i think they would be shocked / amazed that i was a ( i hate this word ) a "devout" jw for 32 years going around knocking on peoples doors trying to convert them to the religion .. yet every now and again i get tempted to.. how say you ?.

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  I am not ashamed, but I don't broadcast it. In business and professional settings, I believe it may create some concern about your ability for rational thought.
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  If the Almighty, Powerful, benevolent God had a book written for humans, what would it contain?

  by pistolpete in

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  i know for a fact it would not start off with a talking snake, magical fruit, invisible beings that desire beautiful women to have sex with.. and it wouldn’t end with a flying dragon, a two horned lamb, locusts that resembled horses with men’s faces, but with women’s hair and teeth of lions.

  and the book wouldn’t allow for hundreds of millions of religions to spurt from it.

  i think the first thing a book written by god would have, is that it would be written in a way that all languages could understand without being translated.. regardless of what language you would speak, we could read it and understand what it said.

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  I would expect clear, correct, consistent advice on Science, Engineering, Nutrition, Medicine, Psychology, and law.
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  What do you do before making a very hard decision?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?.

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  Balaamsass2

  Now as an oldtimer, if money is involved, paper, a sharp pencil, and a calculator (or spreadsheet). I try to use RELIABLE experts for advice and basic data.

  I spent 2/3 of my life basing important decisions on Watchtower's BAD information and emotional blackmail.
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  how long after a fade does the local hall keep your records?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i have not been to a kh for 26 years.

  if i wanted to dissociate what would be the procedure and is there any gain in doing it so long after i left?.

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  Balaamsass2

  As a former "Cong. Secretary" ten years ago, I never tossed cards. I just took them out of the current box the C.O. would look through every visit. After about a year of inactivity, I took them out and added them to a stack of inactive/moved cards with a rubber band buried in the back of the Congregation Files. Reason? C.O.s would ask about every inactive publisher and push for a "resolution" during each visit. "Resolution" meant pestering the person with "shepherding calls" and unannounced "visits" with the C.O. afternoons. C.O.s had questions like: "How much effort have you Elders made to re-activate this publisher? Does the publisher have secret sins? Sometimes resulting in "Investigations".

  If no one is bothering you, why wake a sleeping dog? Enjoy your life. :)

  My 2 cents.
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  Are you less judgmental after you became ex JW?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?

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  Less judgemental with family, myself, and individual people. More judgemental with organizations that lie and bilk people out of their life's savings.
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  Pilot program for in-person meetings for the vaccinated

  by Vidqun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  pilot program for in-person meetings to resume, to be launched in hong kong in nov. 2021. only fully vaccinated publishers are to be invited.

  it's going to be a fader's paradise.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/q9e9pg/and_so_it_begins/?%24deep_link=true&correlation_id=fb861c4a-8c7e-4bad-b1e3-4c86b3254daf&post_fullname=t3_q9e9pg&post_index=1&ref=email_digest&ref_campaign=email_digest&ref_source=email&utm_content=post_title&%243p=e_as&_branch_match_id=936859150293933406&utm_medium=email%20amazon%20ses.

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  Balaamsass2

  Interesting letters. I imagine the first attendees will be elders and wannabee elders. Brother attendant...don't you BELIEVE ME! you want to see my vaccination card?! I have to sign in?? Contributions are counted after EACH meeting (Yikes! now they will know I am cheap).

  After a month I can see letters going out to halls with council about spiritual slackers not covering "financial obligations" of particular Kingdom Halls. "Perhaps certain halls whose members are not shouldering spiritual ($$)responsibilities will be sold and servant bodies will need to requalify at the new halls".

  Meanwhile, "slacker" halls will be sold "because the members didn't appreciate their "spiritual responsibilities".
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  My 20 year anniversary

  by new boy in

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  after being a jehovah's witness for 52 years, today marks my 20 year anniversary of being out of the borg!

  i turned in my letter of disassociation on september 18th 2001. it was read to the congregation on september 19th, my wife's birthday.

  of course the years have had its difficulties but it has also had many wonderful experiences and epiphanies.

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  Balaamsass2

  Congratulations! We enjoyed your old thread, and I will be reading your book soon. Former 70s 124 Homeboy. :)
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  "How Awful This Place Can Be!" Life at Bethel by Keith Casarona

  by Dogpatch in

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  remember the video of all the nice dudes who were on the governing body in the 70s?

  (here's a refresher).. well this is what their lives were really like - the same as when i was there.

  by the time it got to the end, all was left was chicken backs.

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