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  3 New Letters Arrived!--2019-December!

  by Atlantis in

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  2019 december brd newsletter.

  https://docdro.id/odvxhqr.

  2019-s-1-e-congregation field service and meeting attendance report.

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  sir82

  I just looked at that "WTResource" website.

  They're selling a (literally) 21 year old 4-cylinder Mitsubishi SUV for 2800 pounds, about $US 3600.

  That seems awfully high for a car built last.....century.
  
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  105 yrs.of Jesus Christ Rule is About To End ....What has Been accomplished ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.

  been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?

  and what he has accomplished ?.

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  sir82

  "The last days" have become "the last centuries".
  
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  Have you heard of a Jehovah's Witness on federal SSDI disability Pioneering ? How common is this ?

  by BottleGate_ in

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  asking 4 a friend.

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  sir82

  I do know someone.

  For what it's worth, I do believe he is really disabled. He's a complete mess, healthwise.

  On the other hand, if you can go out in service daily, sometimes at 7 AM, couldn't you find some sort of work to do?
  
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  Kingdom Hall schedule

  by Jerryh in

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  i never was a jw.

  my question is pretty simple.

  this watchtower is for january.

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  sir82

  Look at the front cover of the magazine - it says "Study Articles for March 2 - April 5, 2020".

  The first article will be studied during the week of March 2 (actual date will be March 8 for 99% of JWs who have their meetings on Sundays), the 2nd article the week of March 9 (actually March 15), etc.

  Study article 5 will be studied (for 99%) on April 5, just before the Memorial.
  
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  2034 - A Future History of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.

  back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.

  those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.

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  sir82

  It's been on a couple of their monthly broadcasts - or maybe one of their Gilead graduation talks or an annual meeting talk. Not in print.
  
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  2034 - A Future History of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.

  back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.

  those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.

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  sir82

  I doubt they would ever explicitly state a date, but I'm sure they have been tempted to at least "hint" at one.

  So far they've resisted the urge.

  However, they have explicitly stated, and more than once, that the GT must come before the current crop of GBers die off. The only one under age 60 is Sanderson, but his obesity will shorten his life unless he starts taking significant action soon. The other guys are in their 60's & 70's with Herd in his mid-80's. So the implication is that the end "must come" within 15-20 years....so 2034-2039.

  Hmmm...come to think of it, maybe they are "hinting" at a date after all.
  
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  What The Fossils Say

  by cofty in

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  the old creation book had a lot to say about the fossil record.

  if i remember correctly it was some lie about all the fossils ever found would fit on a single table.

  the reality is that there is an embarrassment of riches illustrating the evolution of life.

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  7.77 million species of animals

  Noah, upon reading this: "I'm gonna need a bigger boat"
  
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  2019-11-25-BOE--Watchtower Wants More Money!

  by Atlantis in

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  2019-11-25-boe.

  donations in support of kingdom interests worldwidehttps://docdro.id/mqpxklf petra!

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  sir82

  Also, in the USA most charities send out requests for donations at this time of the year.
  

  Obviously, in virtually no sense of the word is Watchtower a "charity", but they are considered as such for tax purposes.

  The Watchtower always makes a pitch for donations in November, just before the end of the year, trying to snare donations from the handful of wealthy JWs around who want to increase their charitable giving before the end of the year so as to get a tax break.

  Most JWs of course live paycheck to paycheck and certainly don't itemize their deductions, but what few "big time" donors there are, are mostly living in the USA. So every year they send out the reminder "give us money so you can have a slightly smaller tax bill" directed primarily at that elite group.
  
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  Dropped my family off at the thought control assembly 🙄

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  well that's my family dropped off at the assembly for their mind control charge up.

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  from what my 2 sisters (non witnesses) in ireland said about my mother (pioneer) after her assembly, was that she seemed to more fanatical and that they couldn't change the subject as obsessed with the end etc.. i hope their mind control coercive talks don't have too much impact on my family.

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  Assemblies psych people up for a couple of months and then everything gets back to normal.

  That's awfully generous.

  In my experience, the "spiritual high" lasted less than a week - by the time the next regularly-scheduled Kingdom Hall meeting finished, everything was back to the same ol' drudgery, tedium, and mind-numbing routine.
  
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  Hypocritical elders

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i used to work with an elder every day for several years.

  one thing that helped me out of the cult was his hypocrisy.

  our work was in construction and it would often run us late for meetings.

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  sir82

  "Hypocritical elder"?

  Isn't that like saying "wet water" or "alcoholic whiskey"?