Posts by Gayle

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how many bethels are left

by pepperheart in

with the news these past days that bethels in both rome and belguim are being closed does anybody know how many bethels are left worldwide?

Gayle

Thanks wannaexit! The 'drop down' shows 85, still including Italy and Belgium. Don't know how up-to-date it is.

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"The Bunker" WT Conventions 2016 (Gag Me)

by Poztate in

in the very near future the gang will be down in a bunker,cellar awaiting the police,military to break in and take them away to camps or executions .

(paranoid much) this is the foretold "prophecy" of the governments turning on religion and saving them for last.since the couple portrayed as simplifying their life by getting rid of a lot of material things is shown to be (about) the same age in the bunker we know it must be any minute now that it will happen.

i have been out for over 35 years and things seem to be getting more bizarre each year.. when did this doctrine really become main stream?

Gayle

The new WT building committee project? Must pay up-front in full, of course. Will build according to necessary schedule, soon, very, very soon, imminently, no later than the 'last hour" -- god's schedule proven and true.

http://atlassurvivalshelters.com/

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2016 "Loyalty" Convention

by Gayle in

jw
friends

english .

belleville, mi assembly hall of jehovah's witnesses .

jersey city, nj .

Gayle

Highlights from the Sunday program of the 2016 Spanish Regional Convention at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego
https://www.reddit.com/user/timdrake1914 (thank you)
Attendance for Sunday AM: 15902
Baptized: 68 (.4%, especially low for Spanish Convention)
Attendance for Sunday PM: 17184

Anymore reports on the other 10 conventions??

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Someone anonymously tipped the elders?

by raven in

so here an update on my current situation, in a nutshell i've been trying to quietly fade for the past 5 months.. well, my mom somehow found out that i am currently fading and that i live with my boyfriend (for more info on this check my previous posts) i told her yes i live with him and yes i no longer want to be a jw.

anyways, yesterday she met my boyfriend.. awkward.

and after lunch she pulled me aside to tell me that the po came up to her (he was part of my jc when i was reproved) he said to her "someone came to me and said - i cannot say who so they will remain anonymous- but that your daughter is living with someone" my mom confirmed and apparently he told her that i have one week to confess this, and if i don't my parents are obligated to tell them everything.. what kind of nonsense is that?

Gayle

Something about a letterhead from an attorney, throws in a protocol, lawyer to lawyer process and privileges. Then that letter must be sent to the WT Legal Department. Slows things down. I know of a few cases where, though there wasn't a 'formal announcement' made from the platform, there still is under the current 'shunning' done. However, at least some JW parents then feel justified to speak with their grown child, since it wasn't 'announced formally.'

Timing is the key too, as once the announcement is read, then it's too late.

Best wishes!

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JW's pressed the rain down in Ukraine

by oppostate in

jw brothersasamblea en ucrania 7.712 aguantando la lluvia que buen ejemplo para nosotros!

!que gran ejemplo y aguante!.

would you sit under torrential rain out in the open during a convention?.

Gayle

2015 Service Report showed a decrease 6% for Ukraine. A sizable drop. Also, a 142 congs. less than 2014. What is going on there?

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Convention coming to a city near YOU...

by Sugar Shane in

...and it's our duty to warn non-jws, or half awake jws about these events, as they start appearing in newspapers throughout the us, and abroad.

it almost comes out as a promotional ad for the jw convention.

the 'current events' editing staff of this paper likely has no idea what their promoting.

Gayle

for Londo, This is the ones starting tomorrow:

Belleville, MI 2016-05-20 English
Belleville, MI Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Jersey City, NJ 2016-05-20 English
Jersey City, NJ Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Oklahoma City, OK 2016-05-20 English
Jim Norick Arena - State Fair Park

Newburgh, NY 2016-05-20 English
Newburgh, NY Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Queens, NY 2016-05-20 English
Queens, NY Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Romeoville, IL 2016-05-20 English
Romeoville, IL Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Rosenberg, TX 2016-05-20 English
Rosenberg, TX Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Aurora, CO 2016-05-20 Spanish
Aurora, CO Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Long Beach, CA 2016-05-20 Spanish
Convention Center Arena

Denton, TX 2016-05-20 Spanish
Denton, TX Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

San Diego, CA 2016-05-20 Spanish
Qualcomm Stadium

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Picture of Stephen Lett in 1976!

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

https://macsdowell.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/1976-9-17-new-bethelites.jpg.

Gayle

Steve Lett was at Bethel in '69 already. He was my Book Study Conductor in the Brooklyn Heights Cong. for 6 mos. while I was in "Primary." That picture doesn't look like him.

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The Congregational Make Up Research Project: WTB&TS wants to know you.

by oppostate in

we have a bethel speaker on the english side.

they're pretty regular up here since it's only three and a half hours drive from nyc.. but this is a special kind of visit.. it turns out he's involved in doing a special research project and the christian congregation of jw's wants to know us better.. in order for the broadcasting to address issues more meaningful for families, they want to know the demographic make up of the congregations.. he spoke with the secretary about young single publishers and couples 20-35 y.o.

how are they employed.

Gayle

Why does a Bethelite need to go to a cong. for that? Can't the WT just send out a questionnaire to the cong. elders to answer that?

Maybe the WT is trying to understand why many (66%?) of that group are leaving the WT and trying to figure out why that is happening? And trying to understand how to improve their "guilt" and other processes to improve on that stat?

What would you say are the answers there with your particular cong.?

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Rogue Bro. exposing TTATT, becomes a huge hit in Japan. It boasts nearly 300,000 access each month

by nakanozzi in

a japanese bro.

in good standing in his congregation, exposing ttatt in his blog, boasts nearly 300,000 access per month.. he is nearly unstoppable.. shou-tan blog.

http://ameblo.jp/shou-tan-jw/entry-11719728036.html.

Gayle

How is Japan Bethel now? Size? Have they downsized as other Bethels? Is it taking on some of Australia Bethel's printing recently?

Albania	Dominican Republic	Korea	Rwanda
Angola	Ecuador	Kyrgyzstan	Senegal
Argentina	Ethiopia	Liberia	Serbia
Australia	Fiji	Macedonia	Sierra Leone
Barbados	Finland	Madagascar	Slovakia
Belgium	France	Malawi	Slovenia
Benin	Georgia	Mexico	Solomon Islands
Bolivia	Germany	Moldova	South Africa
Brazil	Ghana	Mozambique	Spain
Britain	Greece	Myanmar	Sri Lanka
Bulgaria	Guam	Netherlands	Suriname
Burundi	Haiti	New Caledonia	Tahiti
Cameroon	Hong Kong	Nigeria	Taiwan
Canada	Hungary	Papua New Guinea	Thailand
Central African Republic	India	Paraguay	The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Chile	Indonesia	Peru	Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia	Israel	Philippines	Uganda
Côte d’Ivoire	Italy	Poland	Ukraine
Croatia	Japan	Portugal	United States
Curaçao	Kazakhstan	Romania	Venezuela
Denmark	Kenya	Russia	Zambia
Which of these others are closed?			Zimbabwe