Posts by slimboyfat

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I am 2 B DA'd

by meat pie in

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well, not surprised, i have been telling them and others who ask that the org is hugely corrupt, apostate, blasphemers, hypocrites etc.

maybe because i told someone about the un thing and she may have told someone else, or maybe they're just spring-cleaning.

at any rate they(2 elders ) came round unannounced and beat about the bush in a pitiful way.i put them out of their misery eventually, by telling them that in no way did i consider myself a jw, nor did i believe the gb were god's mouthpiece.i said a lot more besides, i re-informed one, informed the other all about the un thing and offered him proof - no - he didn't want to see.

slimboyfat

Deevale is better than many others for DA.

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What's the difference between an elder and a terrorist?

by nicolaou in

well?

slimboyfat

you can reason with a terrorist!

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"to disfellowship" and is conjugations

by slimboyfat in

what is the noun that we should properly use for the process by which a person becomes disfellowshiped?.

i have tried to find out about this because, in reading andrew holden's book about jehovah's witnesses i came across some jarring phrases, such as "john was fornicator well before his disfellowship, and continued so thereafter".

i have never heard a jehovah's witness use "disfellowship" as a noun thus, and i suspect that the witnesses andrew holden spoke with did not speak so either.

slimboyfat

What is the noun that we should properly use for the process by which a person becomes disfellowshiped?

I have tried to find out about this because, in reading Andrew Holden's book about Jehovah's Witnesses I came across some jarring phrases, such as "John was fornicator well before his disfellowship, and continued so thereafter". I have never heard a Jehovah's Witness use "disfellowship" as a noun thus, and I suspect that the witnesses Andrew Holden spoke with did not speak so either. He no doubt intuitively assumed that "disfellowship" must be the noun for the process.

I searched the CD to see what noun form the society uses, and I found that it has changed over the years. In the fifties they were prone to talk about "disfellowshipment", in the eighties they talked about "the disfellowshipping" and in more recent literature they have avoided the problem altogether by using substitutory phrases such as "before he was disfellowshipped" - but I have never come across the society using "disfellowship" as a noun.

Which brings me to another point - do witnesses in (sorry Witnesses) in the UK use one p or two ps in "disfellowshipped"?

Such a complicated and fascinating subject.

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Does anyone know what an S-8 is? (hands up)

by slimboyfat in

can you remember that far back?

have you got any kicking around?

did you call them s-8s in america too?

slimboyfat

You would have had me disfellowshipped - that's for sure!!!

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Does anyone know what an S-8 is? (hands up)

by slimboyfat in

can you remember that far back?

have you got any kicking around?

did you call them s-8s in america too?

slimboyfat

Did you fill any out for anyone else, may I ask?

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Does anyone know what an S-8 is? (hands up)

by slimboyfat in

can you remember that far back?

have you got any kicking around?

did you call them s-8s in america too?

slimboyfat

A "house to house record sheet"?

Don't you mean a "hot gnome" form?

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Does anyone know what an S-8 is? (hands up)

by slimboyfat in

can you remember that far back?

have you got any kicking around?

did you call them s-8s in america too?

slimboyfat

I don't know Little Toe, let me guess -

Was it a disfellowshipment form???

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2004 Service Report - Analysis and trends for 2005

by truthseeker in

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by now, most of you will have seen the scanned images of the watchtower's service report for 2004. i do not have the feb 1st magazines, so i cannot speculate further on the reason for not issuing the report in the january 1st 2005 wt.

looking at the figures, there are some trends that should be considered very disturbing to the wt leadership.

although baptisms increased marginally by 3,571, the difference between the average number of publishers and the number of baptisms is eye-popping indeed.

slimboyfat

Mary's figures about 1 million leaving since 1997 is wrong...

A 1% death rate for all the seven year since 1997 combined is far too small. It should be more like 1% per year, possibly higher.

I would be surprised if even half a million have left since 1997. Of those some were disfellowshipped, others became inactive for various reasons and a few have disassociated.

So the number who made a pricipled stand to leave will be even fewer still. I can't imagine more than a few thousand since 1997.

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