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  My old congregation is being shuttered

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just found out from my jehovah's witness cousin that my old congregation is being shuttered due to lack of elders, less than 20 members attending, and that the congregation cannot meet their monthly expenses.. here is a congregation that was started in 1975 with less than 15 members.

  it grew to 185 members in the 1990's.

  the congregation grew so large that the elders decided to split the congregation in two.

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  HappyDad

  There is a Kingdom Hall at 2401 Raven St. in the Carrick neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa that is owned by a deceased "brother (died 2006) and two trustees. This is on the Allegheny County property website. The image shows the picture of the building with a Kingdom Hall and www.org sign on it. I remember the story that the said "brother" donated the land and the money to build the Kingdom Hall many years ago. I guess that since everything is in this "brother's" and the trustees names, the WT Society cannot confiscate it. The county description shows it as being a place of worship.

  Google Earth shows it as being the Pittsburgh Mandarin Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Very interesting!
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  My old congregation is being shuttered

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just found out from my jehovah's witness cousin that my old congregation is being shuttered due to lack of elders, less than 20 members attending, and that the congregation cannot meet their monthly expenses.. here is a congregation that was started in 1975 with less than 15 members.

  it grew to 185 members in the 1990's.

  the congregation grew so large that the elders decided to split the congregation in two.

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  HappyDad

  This is the best description of all Kingdom Halls that I have ever read.

  'a boring, depressing souless place'
  
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  My old congregation is being shuttered

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just found out from my jehovah's witness cousin that my old congregation is being shuttered due to lack of elders, less than 20 members attending, and that the congregation cannot meet their monthly expenses.. here is a congregation that was started in 1975 with less than 15 members.

  it grew to 185 members in the 1990's.

  the congregation grew so large that the elders decided to split the congregation in two.

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  HappyDad

  Shades of the Worldwide Church of God founded by Herbert Armstrong. Today, there are dozens of offshoots of that church. Maybe one day, there will be many offshoot JW "churches".
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  HappyDad

  The Governing Body is a cult within a cult. The Cult of Personality. I saw this among the elder body when I was an elder. It was sometimes blatant, but mostly very sneaky. If "certain elders" didn't care for "certain elders", they were always watching to see how they could throw that person under the bus. There is always one or two who wants to be king of the hill.
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  A Jehovah's Witness in a relationship with a non-Jehovah's Witness

  by KShelton in

  1. social
  2. family

  my name is kevin shelton.

  my wife is a jehovah's witness.

  my two children are jehovah's witnesses.

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  HappyDad

  All of you need your heads examined if you think it is ok for 13 year old CHILDREN to be in a "romantic" relationship. WTF????
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  Unwitnessing

  by Biahi in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i “unwitnessed” at work yesterday.

  in case anyone doesn’t know, i retired last year from the post office.

  after being home for 5 months, i got bored, so i went back to work where my husband works.

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  HappyDad

  LongHairGal,

  Most likely they were Mormons. Two young guys with backpacks and saying they are missionaries is the norm for them.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  HappyDad

  Everyone is missing the main point. slimboyfat is the self-proclaimed font of all knowledge and you are forgetting to bow down to him.

  Chill out slimboy. You're making a complete ass out of yourself.
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  Hailstone message.....June 23 WT

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  new jun 23 wt....elders to follow gideon example, even if instructions doesn't seems practical, gideon reduced army by 99 % and he obeyed, it could be changes in theocratic direction similar to this.

  what that means?.

  elders will need the courage to follow instructions "may relate to delivering a symbolic hailstone message...".. in another section "major world events may raise some from spiritual slumber".

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  HappyDad

  I remember over 30 years ago, Watchtower had the tract campaign where we delivered a new tract about every othe month. If I am correct, this was to continue until the "end". Hmmm, what happened to that message? Most likely, it was just psychological conditioning to keep us busy and not think about what we really could be doing with our time.
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  COVID 19 - DISSOCIATION LETTER

  by gavindlt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear friends,.

  i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.

  it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.

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  HappyDad

  It is good that you have seen through the deception of the organization.

  I have doubts that anyone at JW headquarters will read your entire letter because it is much too long. They will determine in a few paragraphs that is negative information about them and just discard it.
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  Governing body 12 from 1914 generation are dead who are the new members?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  HappyDad

  scholar,

  The Gentile Times Reconsidered is available as a PDF

  https://www.academia.edu/44185416/THE_GENTILE...