It looks like there is a pattern of a major cutback every year or so for the past several years.
From soft cover binding, no more subscriptions, 30 min public talks, members only WT magazine, book study meeting elimination. Maybe I missed some others. I'm sure they are not done cutting back at this point.
What do you predict they will cut next for the next few years?
Here's my take (roughly in this order):
- Dump the Awake magazine
- Dump the special assembly day
- Circuit assembly cut back to 1 day.
- Dump the Friday session of the district convention
- New releases no longer announced at the DC annually
- Elder and MS consolidated to 1 title
- Reg and aux pioneer consolidated to 1 title with reduced hours
- Dump the weeknight meeting
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Let's predict what the WTS will cut next
by unbrainwashed init looks like there is a pattern of a major cutback every year or so for the past several years.
from soft cover binding, no more subscriptions, 30 min public talks, members only wt magazine, book study meeting elimination.
maybe i missed some others.
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Elders and MS who give public talks - please help
by unbrainwashed ini'm in the middle of doing some research to help some people in my family see through the hypocrisy of the org.. do any of you have the current public talk list that speakers are using to choose their outlines from?.
if so, would you be able to send me the text or the scan via this thread or via pm?
i wouild really appreciate it.
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unbrainwashed
Perrrrrfect!
Thanks a lot!
Apostates can be so helpful.
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Elders and MS who give public talks - please help
by unbrainwashed ini'm in the middle of doing some research to help some people in my family see through the hypocrisy of the org.. do any of you have the current public talk list that speakers are using to choose their outlines from?.
if so, would you be able to send me the text or the scan via this thread or via pm?
i wouild really appreciate it.
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unbrainwashed
Hi all.
I'm in the middle of doing some research to help some people in my family see through the hypocrisy of the org.
Do any of you have the current public talk list that speakers are using to choose their outlines from?
If so, would you be able to send me the text or the scan via this thread or via PM?
I wouild really appreciate it. Thanks.
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Cancel Your Credit Cards Before You Die!
by Sad emo ini hope this reads ok when i post it!
i couldn't change the formatting.
family member: "i'm calling to tell you, she died in january.
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Wow...just more proof how braindead our modern society has become.
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JWs are gossip mongers
by unbrainwashed inonce i left the jw social scene and started hanging out with "worldly" people a lot more, i realized that these "worldly" people don't gossip nearly as much as the witnesses.. i didn't realize it at the time but now i can see how much of a gossip-based social structure it all was.
jws absolutely thrive on gossip.
has anyone else noticed this?
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Once I left the JW social scene and started hanging out with "worldly" people a lot more, I realized that these "worldly" people don't gossip nearly as much as the witnesses.
I didn't realize it at the time but now I can see how much of a gossip-based social structure it all was. JWs absolutely THRIVE on gossip. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-6-2006 WT Study (CHOSEN NATION)
by blondie in"it is you jehovah your god has chosen to become his people.
are jw children born into god's chosen nation?
after pentecost 33 c.e., every individual...had to make a personal dedication to god and be baptized.
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One of the subheadings:
Rejected as a dedicated nation
They are talking about the Jews right?
This is totally contradictory to what is said in Romans chapter 11.
But of course it doesn't matter since the WT magazine holds more weight than the Bible in WT-land.
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True, but then high oil prices (reflective of increasing demand verses static or decreasing supply) portend serious consequences in almost every facet of our lives.
That's right. It goes down with everything else. I guess it's not really something to look forward to then.
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What book are they studying at the book study these days?
by unbrainwashed inhaven't been to one in a couple of years.
i know they just finished the daniel book.
what are they studying now?
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unbrainwashed
Revelation book AGAIN??!!
Actually that's great news! It sounds like organizational suicide to me.
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If oil price shots up,I wonder if WT RUNNING COSTS WILL GO UP,MEANING MORE LAY OFFS,MEANING MORE SPECULATION ABOUT ENDTIMES.
I have always thought that this would be the catalyst to the end of the WTS which we are looking forward to. They simply can't operate with oil at $6 a gallon. Remember when oil goes up everything else goes up. They would be able to survive if donations were flowing in at a proportionate rate but that's not gonna happen.
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What book are they studying at the book study these days?
by unbrainwashed inhaven't been to one in a couple of years.
i know they just finished the daniel book.
what are they studying now?
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Thanks!
That's a funny name for a book released by a bunch of people who say they've had the 'truth' for over a century.
"What does the Bible teach?" - Armageddon is coming in 1914
"What does the Bible really teach?" - Jesus returned invisibly in 1914
"What does the Bible really really teach?" - Armageddon will come within a generation of 1914
"What does the Bible really really really teach?" - the generation has nothing to do with 1914
"What does the Bible really really really really teach?" - Whoever said anything about 1914?
"What does the Bible really really really really really teach?" - Just shut up and do as we say!