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  Today's Special Day Assembly Expenses and the $10,499 Deficit. Silent Majority?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.

  i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.

  sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.

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  Was there a baptism? Hope low numbers too.
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  From November 2015 Kingdom Ministry Highlights

  by Gayle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when comparing the first nine months of this service.

  year with the same period last year, the united states.

  (the 50 states, including alaska and hawaii) had increases.

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  When comparing the first nine months of this service

  year with the same period last year, the United States

  (the 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii) had increases

  of 1.1 percent in publishers

  I know the Org. has their manipulation with statistics. A fact.

  This report states "first nine months of this service year" (Sept 2014 - May 2015), not indicating whether "Peak" or "Avg.". (t. Their Yearbook 2014 Report showed 2% increase, for 'full' service year (Sept 2013-Aug 2014. That was a round up figure, from 'their' numbers, without the roundup, would have been 1.6% increase (Avg. Pub). Often, the WT uses "Peak Pubs" (a fluffed up number by their own admission of double counting, especially in August)

  U.S. population increased near that anyway.
  

  
  
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  Friends of All Sorts....

  by wisdomfrombelow in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i hear people say that you can't keep your jw friends when you leave i can understand why they say that.

  however, i can also see how that is a generalization.

  i remember my life growing up as a jw and having good friends who were jewish and catholic and protestant and buddhist and hindu and muslim and atheists.

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  It's wonderful you had a moderation regarding what "friendship" meant to you personally. Fortunately, you did not let the judgmentalism of the Watchtower impact you. Most JW parents run a tight ship on association for their children. Many JW kids like to associate with non-JW kids at school. Extracurriculars, school or otherwise were forbidden by most JW parents with regular admonitions. Most JW kids find a personal contradiction wanting to have non-JW friends, but however, being taught and believing somewhat, that their God, Jehovah, was going to destroy all non-JWs soon. (oh, the pain of heart I had going door to door calling on a fellow students and even teachers - didn't know where they lived)

  How much a JW youth absorbs, takes to heart, lives with personal conflict, is complex, impacts each one differently. I saw very frequently, when one parent, often the father not 'in' at all, or not as devoted to JWism, leaves a window open for many children to be more independent of thinking and a very high rate of those leave the organization very young and not with much trauma.

  However, when both parents are very devout, father is an elder or ms, mother pioneer frequently, often, there is no or not much room for independent thinking on the part of the JW child. For this child, as one grows and matures, on into adulthood, there is much re-education, re-analyzation to go through, it can take time and a lot of effort.

  Certainly, it is worth it and when raising our children, we find much joy raising them with freedom of heart and mind.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses want to invite you to their newly refurbished hall!

  by username in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just seen this on goggle news.

  a report into a hall actually being refurbished!.

  http://www.thecomet.net/news/stevenage_s_jehovah_s_witnesses_celebrate_worship_hall_s_makeover_and_invite_public_to_come_along_1_4228859.

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  very stark,,do they not do 'theatre' type seats now-a- days?
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  TV.JW.ORG (September 2015) - Generation explained again

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  guess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend.

  david spane does his best to explain it again.

  the cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that fred franz died.

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  same- o slop,, re-hashed ,,their 'recipe' is indescribable.
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  Polish Publishers that became inactive in 2015 will be reported to Branch Office

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.

  i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.

  report).

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  I don't trust their motive in trying to round up info on ones leaving. A form of blackmail? An effort to shut the mouths of ones leaving, that are exposing the WT? Using deceit methods to try to get them to come back to kowtow to WT? Ways to try to deceitfully take back their "shunning" tactics and a ploy to deny that the WT ever had "shunned?"
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  Money, Money, Money...and Money, Money, Money

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made a post of this, but feel it warrants a thread.

  in central london ( paddington) the " property management company" we refer to as jehovers witnesses, bought a church building, which is now a kingdom hall, but with the outside appearance of a church.. i got an explanation from bethel " it's just a building".

  well let's give the organisation credit for its business sence.

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  what happened to their "clinical" design" Kingdom Halls they are promoting/promising to build for poor JWs that need a simple KH?
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  It is possible two new governing body members this year

  by rege brazzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last three years that mark sanderson was apointed(announced)september 1,2012.

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  Gayle

  So maybe they are bringing in two new GB, to delete two existing ones. One is over 80 (isn't there an age limit, for COs) and one has committed perjury.,
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  WE NEED MORE MONEY! (Letter sent to Mexico re: JW Broadcasting of May 2015).

  by avaddohn94 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know if they're making similar arrangements in other parts of the world but below you will find the letter (and the translation attempt) they're sending to all the congregations in mexico and central america asking them to modify their september 21 and september 28 service meeting programs.. after watching jackson's gold apple watch and lett's pinky ring one can only assume they are a bunch of brazen, shameless and greedy bastards!.

  the letter has already been uploaded at the spanish forum and you can find it if you click here or see the attached picture.. the translation "attempt" is as follows:.

  august 1, 2015. to all congregations.

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  Wiki:

  Mexico has approximately 59.2 million Internet users representing 49.2% of the population[2] and is currently experiencing a huge surge in demand for broadband Internet services. Mexico is the country with the most Internet users among Spanish speaking counties in the western hemisphere,

  How many 'Spanish' exJW sites are there? Hopefully, for those without Internet, their "word of mouth" is strong and active.
  
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  Watchtower lack of empathy for victim children stunned Royal Commission

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the comments and facial expressions of judge peter mcclellan, the chair of the royal commission and angus stewart, though subdued, clearly showed their disbelief and disgust at the lack of compassion and empathy by the org and the elders and gb jackson when questioned.. this link, is a sobering look at the emotions people should feel at the abuse of their children.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7vpdfqs0q.

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  Even tho at the end of the hearing , tho Jackson tried to express empathy for the victim, he still in the end wanted to caution the court, to be cautious as children some times are influenced by a parent ,(,as in custody cases for example). His motive to bring that up was an effort to suggest some youth could lie with assistance from an adult (as we know how Lett said "apostates" are making this all up against the organization). Did anyone catch that at the end of Day 8, Part 2?? He is so dishonest!