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  Jamica JW's Spend $1 million Cleaning up Stadium

  by kwr in

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  2. scandals

  us$35m trelawny stadium not being maintained.

  jehovah's witnesses forced to spend $1m on clean-up after renting facilitykeril wright, business observer staff reporter.

  wednesday, july 04, 2007. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/business/html/20070703t230000-0500_124968_obs_us___m_trelawny_stadium_not_being_maintained.asp.

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  This is about the only good those JW's have done for their local community.
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  My act of disobedience at the DC (pathetic, but thrillingly satisfying)

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  saturday, i am with my son, my sister-in-law, and my 2 1/2 year old nephew, trying to walk out of the arena to return my lunch cooler to the car.

  the exit we use is a "one way only, no re-entry permitted gate.

  ok, i'm fine with that, i just want to leave the building through this corridor, not re-enter the same way.

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  LMAO at Open Mind
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  New Aust Census - other Christians growing, JWs falling

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following figures are from the australian census 2006 as found at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/home/census (30th june 2007).

  very interesting to see that the number of people admitting to being jehovah's witnesses has fallen over the last 10 years by 3%, whilst baptists have grown by 7% and mormons by 18%.

  looks like jws are not the only ones preaching afterall.. .

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  Remember that illustration JW's use at public talks where they describe this system as a sinking ship but it is sinking so slowly that no one in the world can tell it is sinking?
  
  The JW's are the same. They are slowly but surely sinking statistically but it is happening so slowly that the Governing Body have so far been too blind, complacent or stubborn to act.
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  Child sacrifice

  by veen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so everyone always goes on about how terrible baal worshipers were, sacrificing their children to him etc.

  do not parents therefore, of children who die from not accepting blood, carry out a very similar act.

  essentially, they allow their children to die just to please their god, and would be praised for standing firm right to the end, as they stood by and watched their child slowly slip away, knowing that they could save their life at any time.

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  It's a very strong accusation to make but it seems disturbingly true.
  
  I'm certain that Jeremiah 7: 31 expresses how Jehovah feels about the JW babies and children who have died as a result of the WTS's fanatical blood policy.
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  When will the JW's annual publisher growth rate finally hit zero?

  by yaddayadda in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  about 10 years ago i did a simple projection for when the organisation's annual publisher growth rate would hit zero.

  the date i arrived at was 2009. my rough projection was based on the preceding 20 worldwide annual reports.

  obviously my projection was wrong.

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  Actually I expect the annual percentage figure will remain steady for the next few years and possibly even go on a bit of an upward curve between now and 2014. However, from 2015 onward I think the figure will rather quickly drop to languish consistently below 1%, until eventually, in about 10-15 years after 2015, it reaches zero/negative.
  
  I know that if I was still a dub I would secretly be looking for the end to come before the 100th anniversary of 1914. Lately many JW's seem to have an especially heightened sense of expectation that the end is so very close now. Most JW's who are now aged about 35 up expected the end to come around 2000 and are thus sure that it can't be too much farther away. It's just human nature to have a time-frame in mind and most middle-aged and older JW's were conditioned to look to a date, explicit or not (1975, 1984).
  
  Steve2, yes, I think they will have no choice but to soon publish a truncated version of the annual worldwide report. It will no longer show the annual % publisher stats increase/decease. I doubt they would drop the worldwide report entirely as it may signal alarm bells for too many JW's who are already demoralised and barely hanging in there in the forlorn hope the end truly is just around the corner.
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  are Jehovah's Witnesses a cult? You decide...

  by under_believer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are no new thoughts in this post, but i felt like this topic was timely, what with it being convention time again, and with the anti-education rhetoric they've been spouting lately.. .

  there are many definitions and lists of criteria for the concept of "cult.

  " this is only one of them, so your mileage may vary.

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  Not another 'JW's are a cult' thread. How many of these have I seen in the last few months? Two dozen?
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  When will the JW's annual publisher growth rate finally hit zero?

  by yaddayadda in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  about 10 years ago i did a simple projection for when the organisation's annual publisher growth rate would hit zero.

  the date i arrived at was 2009. my rough projection was based on the preceding 20 worldwide annual reports.

  obviously my projection was wrong.

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  About 10 years ago I did a simple projection for when the organisation's annual publisher growth rate would hit zero. The date I arrived at was 2009. My rough projection was based on the preceding 20 worldwide annual reports.
  
  Obviously my projection was wrong. The dubbies continue to get modest % increases every year of their publisher numbers, although as a percentage of the total worldwide publisher figure the annual growth rate seems to be slowly but surely reducing year by year.
  
  Has anyone else attempted to predict when the growth will finally hit zero. Will it be 5 years, 10 years, 20? Or will they always get some kind of increase, no matter how small?
  
  Obviously the dubbies future growth or otherwise is contingent on many things, for example, future wars, terrorist attacks, etc, and how much doomsday spin the Society excites in the publishers. But it appears the trend is firmly set for the annual growth rate to finally bottom-out in the not too distant future, at least judging by the fall-off in growth in many developed countries.
  
  Yadda
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  Proof: Watchtower "Following Christ" is a Fraud (wt8/1/07)

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the august 1 watchtower contains a life story by a sister stigers "who finished her earthly course on april 20, 2007".

  if you think that this cult.

  has suddenly re-found jesus, forget it.

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  They don't need to mention Jesus because slaving for for the organisation is the same as slaving for Jesus. The organisation IS Jesus.
  
  The May 15, 2007 Watchtower has an article called "Why Meet Together?". The article is all about why we should go to the meetings. The whole thing is written as a clever spin on Jesus words found at Matthew 11:28-30, with the following subheadings such as "Come to Me", "You Who Are Toiling and Loaded Down", "My Yoke is Kindly and My Load is Light", I Am Mild-Tempered and Lowly in Heart", "You Will Find Refreshment for Your Souls." The article concludes by saying that by going to the meetings we are responding to Jesus invitation to "Come to Me"!
  
  How nauseating can you get. The sheer audacity to equate going to the organisation is the same as going to Christ. They are truly completely out of touch with what it means to really go to Christ.
  
  The article is a classic example of how completely deluded and out of touch the Watchtower writers are with what is going on in the congregations. They truly are living in a fantasy world if they think going to all those endless meetings 3 times a week is a light, kindly yoke and is refreshing. On the contrary, all those boring meetings so many times a week are nothing but a tiresome chore to an increasing number of JW's. The Governing Body are nothing but a bunch of heartless taskmasters who only bind up heavy loads on the backs of JW's but do nothing to budge them as they revel in their apostle-like status at Patterson, New York (Matthew 23:4). And then they have the cheek to say that sticking to their burdensome programme of organisational works is what it means to come to Christ.
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  Claims about decreasing donations.

  by proplog2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  every so often it is mentioned that donations are decreasing.

  i have never heard that directly from the publications or from the platform.

  this is the only place where i have seen this claim.. is there anything factual to this?

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  There was a thread started by JWfacts (I think) not so long ago where it was stated that official figures released by the Society showed that donations in Australia last year were about 33% down.
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  My act of disobedience at the DC (pathetic, but thrillingly satisfying)

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  saturday, i am with my son, my sister-in-law, and my 2 1/2 year old nephew, trying to walk out of the arena to return my lunch cooler to the car.

  the exit we use is a "one way only, no re-entry permitted gate.

  ok, i'm fine with that, i just want to leave the building through this corridor, not re-enter the same way.

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  yaddayadda

  You're right, the JW's and the former communist Kremlin have very much in common in how they treat and control people.