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  New KHs Still Being Built!

  by blondie in

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  https://www.thereminder.ca/news/local-news/new-home-under-construction-for-jehovah-s-witnesses-1.23964617.

  flin flon, ca.

  according to statistics supplied by jehovah’s witnesses canada, about 85 jehovah’s witnesses live in flin flon, with around 100 people coming to each of the group’s biweekly meetings.. “we needed a new hall because the congregation has outgrown the old hall,” said congregation elder kelly flodell in a press release..

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  That Mark wasn't even an MS yet and in his late teens partaking of the emblems.

  Always wondered when he started to partake.

  In a sense, you have to admire his tenacity, being such a young kid and enduring all the side-eyes & snickers when he reached for the plate, year after year, but keeping his head down and not doing anything overtly goofy. Lots of self-discipline.

  There was no guarantee he'd grow up to be a GB member - in fact, in the 80's, everyone expected the end "soon" because of the [old light] generation teaching and it had been 70+ years since 1914.

  Don't get me wrong, he's just as delusional as any of the on the GB, but it's kind of impressive that he "stuck to his story" despite undoubtedly intense scrutiny & discouragement at the beginning.

  It's a shame he didn't / couldn't channel that tenacity to do something at least vaguely beneficial instead of following a silly "theocratic career path".
  
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  The Great Tribulation must be at least 3 years away

  by BourneIdentity in

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  2. experiences

  since they’ve announced the dates for the next 3 memorials, no talk about this “may be our last one!”.

  since they’ve announced the patterson construction project will take 3 years to complete.

  let’s also not forget when they designed warwick, they spent money on expensive energy saving technology to save millions in the long run, years and decades in the future.

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  with the Warwick compound serving as the de facto planetary capital.

  That's going to be a pretty miserable place to live without electricity.

  Generators? Someone will have to produce oil, refine it, transport it, etc. Where does the power to do all that come from, with virtually all Armageddon survivors having only a high school education?

  Well, it may be a miserable place to live, but at least the windows will be clean.
  
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  The Great Tribulation must be at least 3 years away

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since they’ve announced the dates for the next 3 memorials, no talk about this “may be our last one!”.

  since they’ve announced the patterson construction project will take 3 years to complete.

  let’s also not forget when they designed warwick, they spent money on expensive energy saving technology to save millions in the long run, years and decades in the future.

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  It's been "3 years away" for the past 110 years.
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  When is the AGM for this year?

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure that the agm is in october but has a date for it been released?.

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  Whenever it is, it will surely be the best one ever!
  
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  KH sale resolution, alternative

  by waton in

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  2. beliefs

  to the be read from the podium 2 weeks after the initial proposal, command from gb/branch :.

  we the central hall*** congregation resolve, in the forced sale, that the hall at no.

  1 first avenue *** be bought back from wtbt corp inc. and continue to be used by the current members.

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  If the elders & members of the congregation would be that anxious & willing to disobey the "faithful and discreet slave", what would be the point of continuing to attend meetings, whose primary objective is to convince the listeners to mindlessly obey the FDS?

  And if they're not going to attend meetings, why do they need a Kingdom Hall?
  
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  Satan is abyssed for 1000 years and when released, immediately asks...

  by The Fall Guy in

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  ... "has brexit been sorted out yet?

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  That is a really good one.
  
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  You May Now Embrace the Bride!

  by jp1692 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just yesterday, a pimi jw that i've known for years told me that at the end of a wedding they recently attended in pennsylvania, usa, the "brother" that officiated the ceremony concluded by saying to the bride and groom, "you may now embrace the bride.

  no kissing.

  just a hug.

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  It's been a while since I've been to a JW wedding, but I've never ever heard of this.

  It's not hard to imagine, though, some little podunk town with a something-seriously-stuck-up-their-collective-patooties BOE making up a rule: "no kissing allowed in the Kingdom Hall! Think of the children!"
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Came to My Neighborhood

  by Juan Viejo2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  for nearly two years i have not seen any jehovah's witnesses going door to door in my neighborhood.

  that was not the case when my wife and i first moved here (north central oregon).

  in fact, our neighborhood was visited at least once every 4 to 5 months - even in the coldest winter months.

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  Sounds about right.

  It's hard to imagine a more colossal waste of time than JWs engaged in their "lifesaving ministry".

  How do they get their hours?

  The apathy carts are a big thing now. There are a bunch of cities around the world which have "special metropolitan public witnessing programs" - which is just a bunch of carts that are manned by shifts of 3-5 JWs over the course of 10-12 hours per day.

  In my city, for example, there are 5 "metropolitan witnessing" locations, manned 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. A shift is 2-4 hours. I.e., there are thousands of "hours" per month to be had just standing mutely at a cart watching people ignore you all day.

  There are a ton of pioneers who get, I would estimate, 30-50% of their "time" per month at these apathy carts.
  
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  Merger aftermath

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a couple of months ago, i reported on my congregation being disolved and merged with another.. on sept 1, cong b merged with cong a using the same hall, thereafter using cong a's meeting times.

  also nearby cong c moved into the hall using cong b's meeting times and cong c's kh is being put up for sale.. i've since been to both sunday meetings and both midweek meetings.

  at all, the parking lot is totally full, cars have to park around the corner and on the street.

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  Yeah, that's a good point: They've pretty clearly telegraphed that they expect next-to-nothing growth, if they have rejiggered the congregations such that every meeting is overcrowded.

  This sends an unspoken but unmistakable message: why bother with the "lifesaving preaching work" if even the top guys are absolutely certain that nothing will come of it?
  
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  Highlights from Book Studies: Other Sheep & Disfellowshipping

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a couple of highlights from recent "congregation bible studies" (book studies):.

  in one chapter of the jesus book, they spin the part that disproves the "earthly hope" into saying the exact opposite of what is obvious:.

  “most truly i say to you, i am the door for the sheep.

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  They must be totally un-self-aware to write these paragraphs,

  Oh it's far worse than that.

  They are fully aware of the difference between what those verses clearly express, vs. their (the WTS's) explanation.

  They are intentionally and cynically misleading their adherents because (1) it benefits themselves and (2) they know they can get away with it.