Posts by tim3l0rd

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Need confirmation: WT bought an entire mountain in China to mine the granite needed for new WT HQ

by WingCommander in

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someone asked for a second source on this, so i'm putting this out there to those who may have visited the new wt hq lately and know it to be true.

i had read from others on the ex-jw subreddit that had taken a tour recently at wt hq, that they had been shown photos of a mountain in china, and told that this is where all of the granite is being mined from and shipped over to new york to use at the site of the new wt hq.

apparently, it was cheaper for them to do this and have the local brothers in china mine it, then having to by tons upon tons of granite here in the usa, even wholesale.

tim3l0rd

The WT has TONS of underground activity going on in China. It's easy for them to create a corporation that has no direct ties to the banned religion. They did similar things in the US when buying up property in New York. I personally know that they have corporations that they own/use in China for buying and warehousing all manner of Chinese made products to be used in other countries. I don't know the corporation names but I know some that have worked at them in China.

I could see them buying an mountain and using "need greaters" or Chinese JWs to mine the granite.

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Some amazing insights on why the the name Jehovah is no more used in the new testament scriptures

by paradisebeauty in

i read this blog post by a person i have no idea if she is still a jw or not, but it made me think and gain some new perspective on using the divine name.

please read it if you can, it will change your view!

and it totally devalidates the jw dogma that they are the only ones using god's name, no, they are actually orphans.

tim3l0rd

I liked that article. I read it a few months ago. Thanks for the reminder.

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2015-12-28--Insurance!

by Atlantis in

2015-12-28 liability insuranceclick the green download button.http://fileflyer.com/view/mazfoac.wtunderground!

(if fileflyer locks up this time i will just have to find another hosting site.

)

tim3l0rd

Any other source? File flyer has the doc locked.

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legal action to Baptism of minor annulled?

by cyberjesus in

let's imagine that a 10 year old gets baptized.

parents split and kid never goes back to the hall again.

15 years later kid celebrates christmas and gets df since some dub saw him celebrating.

tim3l0rd

Don't feed the troll. That's what Fisherman is.

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JW Statistics for "Britain" 2015 over 2014

by freddo in

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population listed.

peak pubs.

ave pubs.

tim3l0rd

Missed out pioneer figure. Worldwide was up a bit.

Regular pioneer numbers were up worldwide, but not Aux Pioneers. Here's a comparison of the numbers since 2010.

Year	Avg Pubs	Avg Aux Pios	Pct of Pubs	Note
2010	7,224,930	287,960	3.99%
2011	7,395,672	466,911	6.31%	30 hr/month introduced
2012	7,538,994	416,993	5.53%
2013	7,698,377	496,089	6.44%	CO visits included as 30 hr aux pio months
2014	7,867,958	635,298	8.07%	JW.org campaign
2015	7,987,279	443,504	5.55%

You can see by these numbers that they've lost 3 years of aux pioneer growth.

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Prediction: jw.org sign up with monthly subscription fee

by bohm in

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the wtbs is changing media from print to online.

if we look at other companies doing the same the obvious buissness model is subscription with a monthly fee people can choose themselves.

the wtbs can continue to offer everything for free, however subscribers might earn a button for social media or somesuch ("wtbs donor").

tim3l0rd

Recently I was told by an elder that if you're donating online you need to inform the elders so they can explain to the CO why contributions are low in the KH boxes. I just shook my head.

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2016 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses

by wifibandit in

the 2016 yearbook is now on the official site.

pdf.

it has been added to the archive of all prior yearbooks.

tim3l0rd

To clear up the numbers:

2014 Peak - 8,201,545

2015 Peak - 8,220,105

2014 - 2015 Peak increase = 18,560 = 0.23%

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Where the real abuse lies.

by ctrwtf in

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let me start with a disclaimer: i am in no way minimizing the horrific crimes done to children by pedophiles.

i'm not downplaying the number of lives lost due to the blood issue, or hearts broken because of shunning.

i do not want to discount the feelings of those who have come to the end of their lives with expectations of paradise postponed.. but to me the biggest atrocity committed by this awful cult is raising children from a small age to believe that soon god will kill billions of people.

tim3l0rd

I agree because that fear then causes kids to accept other abuse.

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Is zeal beginning to vanish?

by Caupon in

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it has to be starting to fade somehow.

the very last time i went out in field service, hardly any were out.

maybe just about nine people were out and man if you could just see their faces.

tim3l0rd

I can't speak for the zeal in service first hand as I haven't been in 2 months now. Woot! I can say that one of the last meetings I went to they said their congregation had between 30% and 40% of their publishers in the 1 - 5 hour range for the last year. If that doesn't say apathy, I don't know what does.

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Tv's in Kingdom hall

by dothemath in

so now that the borg has taken all of the congregations money, there was just a resolution to get all new tv's, etc for the stage for the new meeting format.. i wasn't there, but it was a large sum.

somebody mentioned over 3000$.. all the congregations in the city are likely doing the same thing, and are getting all the equipment from bethel.. i was wondering if this was happening all most everywhere?.

can't see it in third world countries( might not even have internet).

tim3l0rd

Everywhere that I know of. I think that KHs that can't get internet access will have to download the videos offsite and bring them to the KH.