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  Cognitive Dissonance and my JW Mum!

  by lurkernomore in

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  so, my mum is a massively obedient little dub!

  i knew this before showing more negativity towards the borg.

  i recently fell into the trap of shooting my mouth off about all the things that i felt were wrong with the borg, after her ass kissing comments got the better of me.. my other half's grandmother has also learned ttatt over the past few months as has most of her immediate familly in fact.

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  lurkernomore

  So, my Mum is a MASSIVELY obedient little dub! I knew this before showing more negativity towards the Borg. I recently fell into the trap of shooting my mouth off about all the things that i felt were wrong with the Borg, after her ass kissing comments got the better of me.

  My other half's Grandmother has also learned TTATT over the past few months as has most of her immediate familly in fact. She calls every so often and always tries to keep us in the loop of new 'developments' she has heard about. I'm sure one of her sons is on here somewhere ;)

  She phoned us last week to inform us of the fact that there will be an announcement in the 1st week of September to ask for 'MORE' money from the R&F, this time to build the new Bethel faciities in the UK. I hadn't heard about this yet so was waiting to hear my darling mother blab on about it when she next pops over to see her grandaughter.

  Low and behold just as expected she mentions the new pledges that were asked for at the Thursday meeting. At this point she has already spouted off for minutes about some other boring and pointless information about the Borg. As you can imagine by this point i had already heard enough and made my feelings known about this so called arrangement.

  Now here's where the Cognitive Dissonance really came into play. She states that she admits she didn't really like the idea of it when she first heard it. I jumped at this and reminded her of how the Borg always said: ' We will NEVER ask for money like evil Christendom'

  You should have seem her face. Something ticked over and you could see her thought process kicking in, only to then make her come out with the the following statement 'But i do suppose that when Solomons temple was being built they all brought their valuable things'

  This is the same BS they go on about for normal contributions for goodness sakes!!!

  I left her with the sentiments of Luke 14:28-30, which plainly sets out the principle to 'calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it'.

  I said clearly they did not calculate the cost but instead hoped the R&F would once again cough up the money for yet another building project. Surely the sale of prime property on London would easily cover the cost of the new build what with the free labour and all.

  It's so frutrating because she clearly has issues with certain aspects of the 'truth' but always finds some circular reasoning to answer away her negativity. I know others have come across this in their dealings with die hard dubs, but just wanted to vent i guess.

  I'll have to learn to hold my tongue better as we've now gone cold turkey from meetings for the best part of 3 weeks now. Wish us luck
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  PART TWO of AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE BY A PRACTICING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS

  by Sparks in

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  while you are sitting there reading this, there are literally hundreds of thousands of young males and females all over the world [ mostly in america / canada and england] sitting in their grotty little smelly bedrooms or flats, designing computer viruses that they will up-load onto web-sites to cause anonymous innocent peoples computers to malfunction.

  these creeps spend literally weeks,months or even years hoping to make a computer viruses that will get into peoples computer bios to completely destroy their computers.

  they never see the peoples anger, frustration and distress.... the damage can cost each person about 1,000 [ $1,660.74 ] or more to replace a basic new laptop or tower.

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  Couldn't agree more jgnat!!! The last thread started by this blithering idiot received far more responses than it deserved, which btw is 0.
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  ALERT! - 144,000 is about to CHANGE!

  by nicolaou in

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  any moment now .

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  Only 40 miles off of 78k. Can't wait ;)
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses THAT Bad?

  by minimus in

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  i'm not fond of any religious fanatic.

  islamic fundies can be downright crazy.

  mormonism seems silly to me.

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  Totally agree. There's too broader spectrum of individuals to pigeon hole everyone in the same box! I know some extremely liberal if not hypocrytical witnesses and then I know a few that go abroad to pioneer or go on building trips so it's difficult if not nigh impossible to speak of the group as a whole.
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  AnointedJW Response On Df'ing

  by metatron in

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  https://anointedjw.org/qr_august_2014.html#qr_082914c.

  so, they are claiming that these new partakers associated with their site are not being df'd.. i understand that two witness guys run this site.

  can anyone confirm that they are not df'd?.

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  What's the Urantia book all about then?
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  Is The Governing Body Afraid To Slam Muslims???

  by minimus in

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  they boldly spoke against the catholics.

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  i'd love to see them rail against the muslims..

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  I keep thinking about this. It's always Christendom this, Catholicism that, but never do we hear anything specific about any other religions except for in a general false religion context.
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  Hello

  by ladystellas in

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  hello i m ladystellas, new here.. greetings to all.. .

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  Welcome! All the best in your journey :)
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  AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN

  by steve2 in

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  here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.

  as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.

  it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.

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  www.alexa.com/siteinfo/watchtower.com

  Give the above link a try. Not sure if it's come up as a link ok otherwise copy and paste into a new window. You can also search jw.net to make some comparison although there are a lot less details.
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  AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN

  by steve2 in

  1. jw
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  here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.

  as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.

  it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.

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  Hey steve that was supposedly up to date till last night! Not surprisingly jw.net figures were massively positive for the same period. I'll try and get the figures.

  Also found some stats revealing the male to female visitor ratio which showed something like a 2/3rd male majority which ties in with others thoughts about main traffic being elders signing in for general duties.
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  AS JW.ORG TRAFFIC GOES UP, DOOR-TO-DOOR TRAFFIC WILL GO DOWN

  by steve2 in

  1. jw
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  here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.

  as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.

  it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.

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  I hate to disappoint you but a quick Google search shows a 12% decline in jw.org site viewings over the last 3 months, so I guess this 'special' campaign is gonna have to be done on the roll over.... indefinitely!!!