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  How old is old?

  by joey jojo in

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  2. beliefs

  having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

  i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

  so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

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  Old is "20 years older than I am now". It's been that way for 50+ years
  
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  Is it me or does Stephen Lett come across......

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i get the feelings that stephen lett tries to come across as mr. rogers but there are times it oozes through that he is a lot more dominant and controlling then he lets on.

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  It's a thin line between "congenial" and "smarmy".

  Lett bludgeons the line with a paint roller.
  
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  Everybody's getting old

  by neat blue dog in

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  at an assembly in texas is it me or are there not too many young folk about 😉.

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  It would be interesting to see an accurate demographic study of US JWs.

  I suspect that the percentage of JWs would be normal for ages under 20 and ages 50+, but I suspect that it would be much lower than expected for ages 20-50.
  
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  Advertising and the Melbourne International Convention

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  they keep confirming that religion is big business.the melbourne international convention is this weekend and i wish all the best to the activists who will be present.i came across this website set up for jws in attendence with comprehensive guides and information.

  it's obvious that it has been created by the jws since they write this under the rooming tab.

  we are all now free to book accommodation using the recommended lodging list (rll) which is provided on the rooming website!.

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  With no higher education and high paying jobs, how do they manage to come for international convention?

  There are pockets of surprising well-off JWs around the world. For them it's just another vacation.
  

  That, and some folks literally save for years to attend one of these things.
  
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  Stephen Lett

  by NoAbuse in

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  he knows what god wants you to do.. .

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  Madame Tussaud's called, they want their wax figures back....
  
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  My first encounter

  by SB10 in

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  2. experiences

  i don’t know if the woman i met yesterday will ever see this.

  but i will forever remember that day for the rest of my life.

  my grandfather has been in icu for the past 3 days.

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  I'm glad you found a measure of comfort.

  Just keep in mind, JWs don't really care about you or your grandfather. Their interest is primarily to recruit you to join them (other interests may be "getting their time in, "getting a good experience they can relate at an assembly", and so on).

  Your delicate emotional state makes you an especially inviting & vulnerable prospect. Tread cautiously.
  
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  10 Year Growth Chart

  by HiddenPimo in

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  2. beliefs

  here are some visuals to help show what is going on with the jw numbers game.

  i am not a numbers guy and there maybe a few errors (info directly from grand total pages on jw.borg).

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  Hmmmm wasn't about 2015 when the generation flip flopped

  No, that was 2007.

  It was described in detail in the 2/15/08 Watchtower (after being announced a few months earlier at the AGM in October 2007).

  Wow, 12 full years with the same definition for "generation". We're probably overdue for "new light".
  
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  Double Standard of Proof

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  there's a new article about john the baptist (not sure why they reverted to baptist instead of the modern english 'baptizer'), and it goes into several areas of his life followed by quotes from josephus showing that these specific things were historically documented.

  the article is summarized by saying:.

  the first-century historian josephus viewed john the baptist as a real person.

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  LOL.

  Yep, that's their MO.

  Same sort of thing where they say we can have full assurance that 539 BCE is the date that Cyrus defeated the Babylonians, due to astronomical measurements and contemporary historical accounts....

  Which precisely identical astronomical data and contemporary historical accounts provide a date of 586 for Jerusalem's destruction, not 607.

  The WTS - putting the MO in MORONS for 140 years.
  
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  Why does he stay in?

  by Probablyshouldrun in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i was seeing a jw man for about a year and a half until l broke it off with him last week.

  we met on a dating site.

  he shouldn’t have been on there, of course, but he was lonely.

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  I've noted this before....

  There's been literally like 40 or 50 of these "I'm a non-JW dating a JW and I don't understand why he does XYZ..." threads this year.

  Always it's the poster's 1st or 2nd post, after they joined a short time beforehand.
  

  Either it's a run of incredible coincidences, or.....
  
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  What does "The disfellowshipping of xyz is now rescinded" mean

  by cognitivedizzy in

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  2. experiences

  it has happened somewhere i know.

  what is it and what does it mean.

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  The person who was DF'ed called the local Bethel to complain.

  There must have been some colossal screw-up not only by the original judicial committee but also the appeal committee. The DFing does not apply, the DF'ed person remains a part of the congregation.
  

  Somewhere out there, there are at least 6 elders who are getting a thorough reaming by the Co, as well as receiving nasty nasty letters from their local Bethel.