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!.
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.
Madame Tussaud's called, they want their wax figures back....
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.....
it has happened somewhere i know.
what is it and what does it mean.
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.
a request we received to show older memorial outlines compared to the most recent.. comparing memorial outlines-2002-and 2020!.
https://docdro.id/orelroq.
the watchtower wants our personal data,....ok!.
The Memorial outlines prior to 2002 were much different, I suspect.
Would be interesting to compare them from the 80s & 90s too.
I remember the Memorial outlines from when i was a little kid - lots of detail on the Jewish passover, and how it corresponded to Jesus' ransom.
I dunno, maybe I was just young & impressionable, but the old outlines (40+ years ago to qualify as "little kid" for me) seemed to make the occasion "holy", somehow. The latest ones are as dry & crumbly as the wafers they pass around.
all of the local congregations are going to use hourglass app for publishers to report their time.
i’m not sure if this meets privacy laws in our province.
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What country?
Or at least what continent, if you need to protect privacy.
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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Indeed, "normal" JWs from relatively wealthy countries are in general leaving, and being replaced, and slightly more than replaced, by thousands of new recruits from very poor countries.
Result?
The numbers look decent, but contributions continue to dry up, hence the near constant drumbeat to give more, give more, give more, along with branch closings, less literature than ever before, and congregation consolidations allowing for the sale of Kingdom Halls.
