are you people 'the watchtower'?.
no - we're an independent community site offering support for both current and former jehovah's witnesses and anyone else who has been affected by the beliefs, doctrines and practices of the jehovah's witness religion as governed by the watch tower bible and tract society (wtb&ts).. we are not affiliated with the wtb&ts in any way and we take your privacy and security very seriously doing our utmost to protect your identity and provide a friendly, tolerant and informative environment where you can ask questions, share information and make new friends.
membership is completely free and anonymous so why not join toda.
Richard,
Many of us have been hurt in several ways by the "org" and so our feeling towards it are raw. Many also would like to see it cease to exist, just as JWs would like to convert everyone if possible. Telling us to "move on" is the same as telling JWs to stop preaching. JWs would say that's ludicrous as they are trying to save lives. We feel the same.
Personally, I rarely engage on this forum any more as I prefer the reddit exjw community.
I hope you find what you're looking for. :)
hey all,.
looking for a video i saw a while back.
it was a computer generated video w/ a computerized voice.
How about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaUhR-tRkHY
Or one of his other videos?
my son asked me 40 years ago.
should we be glad adam sinned?
because if he hadn't, we would not be the person we are.. any opinions?
Looking at if from the standpoint of how DNA is transmitted from man to woman and the practically infinite possible combinations of DNA, I'd say that any small change (even position during the act) would significantly decrease the likelihood of your existence. So, I'd say it would be highly improbable that the same person would exist if any predecessor made even the slightest change in his daily activities.
You should watch "About Time". It's about a time traveler and it explores this idea a bit.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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").
the 2016 yearbook is now on the official site.
pdf.
it has been added to the archive of all prior yearbooks.
To clear up the numbers:
2014 Peak - 8,201,545
2015 Peak - 8,220,105
2014 - 2015 Peak increase = 18,560 = 0.23%
