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  Dunkin Donut style KH

  by GreenhornChristian in

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  has anyone seen one of the new design kh's and taken pics?

  i'm curious to see.

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  Dunkin Donut style KH

  by GreenhornChristian in

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  has anyone seen one of the new design kh's and taken pics?

  i'm curious to see.

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  This is one of the first new Kingdom Hall designs they completed last November

  
  
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  Printing presses, bye... bye...

  by sp74bb in

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  bye... bye.... no more new printing presses for jw.org... the growth is so tremendous (irony...).. all printing work in europe will be arrange in the next month only in selters (germany), but no renovation or upgrading in printing presses is expected... it will be a full outsourcing :).

  a worldly company axel s******* will be used.

  this company is known to be printing bild newspaper... the interesting part of it is the logistics will be as well outsourced.

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  Wow. A bethelite who works in the audio/visual dept did say several months ago that the audio/visual dept was going to be "jehovah's printing press for the 21st century." He made it sound like that's what the higher ups at bethel had said during a meeting there. Sounds like that's the direction they're going in.
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  JW Video Armageddon to occur before 2040

  by Listener in

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  2. bible

  sorry i thought it was a new morning worship video but it is 6 months old and has already been discussed on here..  it is presented by gb helper k flodin and about this generation.

  the delusion and hypocrisy runs deep.. he reminds the cult members not to speculate because they aren't supposed to know the day or the hour.

  then he proceeds to speculate that armageddon will occur before 2040.. https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201511_3_video.

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  The funny thing about this whole generation teaching is; in 20-30 years, when they do "receive new light" and change the teaching. It will be buried in paragraph 8 of a watchtower study and 95% of jw's wont notice it. 

  "I thought we always taught that" is what you'll hear
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  Are there more ex-witnesses than current witnesses?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  for years the society has said that over 40,000 a year are disfellowshipped.

  add to that the 10's of thousands who simply disassociate or fade.... so by that logic, would it be correct to assume there are actually more former witnesses on the earth than the number of current active witnesses ?

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  I think it would depend on what you consider a former witness.

  if you combine people who were baptized and publishers, just unbaptized publishers and people who were raised but left before ever becoming a publisher, yeah I think there are way over 8 million.

  If your only talking about people who were baptized, and then faded, df, da..then no I don't think they outnumber active witnesses.
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  Resolutions at Kingdom Hall

  by sieborg in

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  anyhow i got to thinking today about my days in the borg and the resolutions that would intermittently be made in the announcements for co visit expenses, sending a donation to society www fund etc.

  my point is that while i was in (almost thirty two years) i never once saw anyone put up their hand to vote against a resolution that the body of elders proposed.

  on a couple of occasions i heard a few hushed murmurs but i never saw one person vote against.

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  I saw two votes that were contested. The first was when I was a teenager. The KH was being totally renovated, we had windows, and the vote was wether to get rid of the windows. It was pretty much split down the middle, the congregation was small, about 30-35 publishers. The vote was taken suddenly on a midweek meeting night, when some of the pro-window people were absent. We voted to get rid of the windows. I remember this was used as an example as to why you should never miss meetings, you might get screwed on a vote!

  The other time was several years back when we voted on changing the meeting times. A few of the older elders wanted to move the midweek meeting up from 730 to 7pm. That went over like a lead balloon. We voted and it wasn't that close. Still it was a strange sight to not see a unanimous vote in a KH.
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  NEW BLOOD CARD w/ FORCED COMPLIANCE also LEGALISM

  by apocalypse in

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  2. beliefs

  i have looked around and i don't see this covered, so i am starting a thread.. 1) the new "blood card" goes beyond being just a "blood card".. 2) a new edict concerning compliance.. pay attention to the changes.. first, the new card is termed "advance decision to refuse specified medical treatment".

  the big change with the card itself is that it includes an 'override' of your "power of attorney".

  this is huge.

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  It sounds kinda like the card we've been using in Oregon for years. I got rid of mine a few years back but I'm pretty sure it had a DNR attached with it. I remember being told our card had to be different from everyone else's because of Oregon laws. Anyone else from Oregon remember this?
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  A blog post on my 65th birthday

  by JeffT in

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  putting this out there for everybody.

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  http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/.

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  Happy birthday Jeff! I really reading your blog, looking forward to your novel.
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  How JW ignore the help Felicity Sneesby got from the "World"

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lately, in the february broadcast program, at the 46 minutes mark, the watchtower provides the story of felicity sneesby.

  this report focuses on how, despite her serious illness, she, along with her family, has always placed her faith in jehovah and how happy she is for being part of jehovah’s family.. i am shocked by how this jw’s report completely ignores the help that this family has received from this system of things through the years.

  for instance, they slept at the ronald mcdonald house on at least 6 separate occasions and for long periods of time.

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  Just thought I'd pass this along, via a a guy from bethel who is a cinematographer for JWB-

  Phelicity, the Australian sister from this month's JW Broadcast, has passed away. Hope to meet her in paradise to thank her for her faith! 😭
  
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  Are JW's heading for the exit?

  by pandorasbox1914 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  are jw's heading for the exit?

  after lurking on this site for a year or so i have noticed a number of new poster's including me.

  but does this indicate a massive departure for the exit?

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  Interesting post. I believe we're never going to see a mass exodus. Why? The cost of leaving, for most, is to high. You lose your "friends" and for many your family.

  what I do see though, especially amongst the 25 and younger crowd, is they aren't becoming as mentally invested in the religion as previous generations. Sure, they still pioneer, help with construction projects, and many still reach out to become servants or elders. Ask them anything related to doctrine? 607bc what? Jesus isn't my mediator? What's a mediator? They aren't invested in the doctrine anymore. They don't follow the rules as strictly as older ones did. Yeah they'll follow some rules, but if rules inconvenience them, well then not so much.