it seems as if the year text theme for this year, "keep on the watch" is having little effect on the jws in north america.
here are the figures for may 2004. spl pioneers: 260. pioneers: 90, 751. aux.
pios: 61, 673. publishers: 839, 095. total: 991, 779. .
For May, the aux. pioneers went down by almost 20,000; the number of regular pioneers dropped by 1150 and total number of publishers dropped by about 15,000.It seems there is a drop off in zeal
As I recall, it was in May that gas prices really began to shoot up to like over $2. So perhaps, JW's with their heavy dependence on oil, need to switch to a different technology.
as i wrote in jwd i sent my da letter and am now officially out.
since i have moved they have announced it in my current home congregation where nobody has ever heard of me.
but now i have been told that they usually inform the boe of all the congregations you have ever attended and those decide if they announce it there as well.. do you have any information on this?
So technically you are only DF'd in that congregation, not by the whole organization.
Actually, that does seem to make sense because I remember I guy who was DF'd in our KH, moved away to Georgia or something and I never heard anything else about him until like two years later when they announced from our KH that he had been reinstated.
I was curious if anyone one would want to join me in DA'ing themselves on like on set date? Just think, if we could get like 100 people to all DA themselves in the same day writing a letter to Brooklyn and their local KH, it would be like a whole Congregation disappearing at one time, like poof.
hi folks.. i have been lurking on and off for about 2 years now and before i did post a couple threads under my old alias but it wont accept it for some reason so i had to re-join.. anyway there was a singles site called jwsingles.net by a nice fellow who wanted to help other lonely jw single folks meet but he is about to shut it down despite some success stories which i guess makes the elders upset.. i had joined two years ago and was on the mailing list(i,ve been inactive for about 5 years now)thats the short version,anyway,i got this e-mail from him the other day and it really infuriated me because he did nothing wrong but again the organization wants to control every aspect of their lives,including not letting jw,s put up harmless websites for singles to meet.after all in many many congregations there is a severe shortage of available singles right?and,if they dont even want you to look for a mate in their own organization (on the net) then they will look outside of the organization but i guess they are too dense to understand that.. his letter wreaks of guilt and he hangs his head in shame at congregations.i fail to see how he has stumbled others here.its none of others business what adult jw,s want to meet someone.. i understand the heartache of being all alone for many many years with no one and no suitable mates there as they were too stuffy and i felt like i could never match up no matter how hard i tried.i shed too many tears to count as im sure many here have as well.. anyway here is the e-mail.. greetings friends.. this will most likely be the last message you recieve from jw singles.net.. the site has been running for several years now with its main goal to help those of like faith find and if they wish contact each other.we,ve met that goal with several success stories.im very glad to say that an old friend of mine from a congregation in maryland met a wonderful sister from california.after months of phone calls and trips and bible studies over the phone,they were married.both are extremely happy with their new mates.. there are other stories the friends have shared when asking to have their profiles removed.. however i cannot continue to justify the site against the councel of the wbt society.i am tired of sinking in my seat at assemblies and conventions when they mention websites to avoid.it is also not my place to second guess the faithful and discreet salve and the connection they have with jehovahs spirit in guiding the organization in these last days.while i believe that with proper theocratic guidelines this site can be used ,like many have demonstrated to a good cause,i will not possibly stumble my brothers and sisters.. i have thought of selling the site to help recoup the expenses i incurred while developing and running the site ,but again i dont want the responsibility of passing it off to someone else,possibly a wordly company or person.. after the last paying members subscription has run out,i will open the full site with access to every member .this will be the last chance to try and contact some of the 2000 members we have.right now im targeting september as the final month the site will run.our information on the site will be deleted as the database of users is erased.if you care to make a donation of any size while the site is still open to everyone our paypal address is _________ or contact me for a mailing address.. thanks to all those who have tried to help and build the idea i had into a functioning and useful program.i wish you all well and continued strenght in this time of the end.all of the friends are tired and are struggling just to make it to meetings instead of staying home with a headache or working a little late.be upbuilding to each other ,help to show love amongst ourselves and continue to walk with god until the end.. agape.
brian.
jw singles.net'.
Yuck, his letter makes me ill and he seems cheap if you ask me. Why doesn't he just refund the money and end it now if the site is so wrong. I mean if your caught having unmarried sex, do you tell the elders you will quit in a few months, say September. Also, uh, the agape ending, makes me ill. I can say at least I never used that cheesy JW fake talk.
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Is it just me or does it look like this dog trick is being performed in a Kingdom Hall parking lot? I mean there are no cars, so it would seem like a KH parking lot and that carport with the two pillars just screams KH!
yesterday i tuned into espn sports radio and listened to a semi-political debate on several issues.
when "same sex" marriage came up one of the talking heads refrained that "all marriages are same sex.
" you get married and have the "same sex" over and over again!
................Two of my best friends whom I love dearly are lesbians and they do not publicly flaunt it
Ah, would you still support your so called "friends" if they were a little more vocal about it. Why do you think they aren't more vocal about it, could it be that they fear people like you? Do you publicly flaunt your heterosexual marriage, because to me that is just sick.
It doesn't really matter anyways because gay marriage will happen sooner or later.
in the spirit of minimus... .
what did you do in "the truth" (tm) for show???
looking back, i'd like to say i did everything independent of people.
Actually pretended I liked visiting all the old shut ins that smelled bad and also pretended I liked assisting at the literature counter, counting out all those fricking tracks and books for inventory. Man, I could have been in charge by now had I stayed in, what was I thinking?
do you ever get used to bumping into witnesses that you know.. i still go out in with the thought of it tin the back of my mind.
i hate the death stares i get.
i feel like walking uo to them and saying "i'm not the devil or a murderer, just no longer a witness".
I haven't seen anyone I know really well, like all my old friends for like three years now. From what I hear, they are all still losers with no real job or future. Funny thing is that they aren't pioneering any more, just trying to survive.
ok, this has probably been mentioned before in some manner but i was thinking it would be great if everyone on this board who wanted to disassociate themselves all did it on one set day.
i know many have already done this or some have carefully faded and don't wish to da for obvious reasons.
however, i was thinking it would be a great statement if say like 100 of us all da'd on the same day, postmarked are letters both to our old kh and to the wt headquarters.
Ok, this has probably been mentioned before in some manner but I was thinking it would be great if everyone on this board who wanted to Disassociate themselves all did it on one set day. I know many have already done this or some have carefully faded and don't wish to DA for obvious reasons.
However, I was thinking it would be a great statement if say like 100 of us all DA'd on the same day, postmarked are letters both to our old KH and to the WT headquarters. Then, every year you could have like a national DA day or something for the new ones, I don't know. My reasoning is that if one person does it hear and there, no one notices but if we did it as a large group, R&F might start to notice. I think at least 100 would be good number, because it would represent a whole congregation together, just all DA'ing at the same time, poof. Also, I wouldn't see the harm if a DF'd person also chose to DA themselves on national DA day, hey why not? Well, whatever, just my crazy thoughts for the day. However, I am serious, if we got enough people, we could pick a date and go for it.
i finally did it!
after 3-4 years of being inactive i wrote a da-letter and faxed it to the headquarters of the "christian congregation".
i am planning to be more active in helping ex-jw and i have become a member of the newly founded "netzwerk sektenausstieg" (cult exit network) in germany.
Way to go, I might do the same thing soon myself. However, from their letter, it still seems like they are keeping your name of file, could be a translation thing but it sounds like they still have you in their files?
yep, just got back from getting my morning coffee and they were across the street from my house talking to a lady that i believe is turning into a return visit.
i was frantically looking for the un letter, found it and then approached the car as they were just getting back in.
the old dub guy totally denied any un involvement and went into the speal about why the un and before that league of nations was so bad.
I don't think it will be that weird because I kinda know the lady across the street and know her husband even better. I will not get into deep WT stuff like Russel or anything but rather simply tell her my story, how I was raised a dub, and a few mentions about how dangerous and boring it is for kids, no sports, no blood donations, maybe even the two witness thing for child abuse. I will tell her it is her decision to keep taking the magazines or keep studying and that I simply wanted to give her a warning. Plus, I think it would be great if that dub guy lost a return visit because of me, bonus.
