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  Article: Witnesses Portfolio ‘Better Maintained Than The White House.’

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://www.bisnow.com/new-york/news/commercial-real-estate/what-makes-the-jehovahs-witnesses-portfolio-special-and-what-the-latest-property-to-hit-the-market-could-become-60632 .

  “i’ve never seen any properties kept in better shape,” tim says.

  “anyone who buys them will be happy that they did and they won’t need to spend a dime on upgrades to infrastructure.” tim, who tells us he attended a breakfast at the white house about a decade ago, goes as far as to say the buildings are better maintained than the presidential residence..

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  Gayle

  The WT makes slaves out of ALL colors, races, etc. They are not prejudiced!!
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  Attendances & Baptisms at Summer Conventions

  by steve2 in

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  there have been very informative threads on presentations and audience reactions ("thrilled", "emotional") at this summer's regional conventions (formerly district conventions) but little on actual attendance numbers and numbers baptized.

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  or could i be directed to current threads discussing these aspects - i searched but found nothing.

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  Gayle

  Can only assume it's low numbers, since the WT is quiet about it.
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  My 2016 RC Experience

  by wannabefree in

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  2. experiences

  i'm at the water park with my five year old in green bay.

  she was so happy to be spared another boring day like she endured at thursday's propaganda feast with her mother.

  after breakfast we drove by the convention site.

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  Gayle

  Hope the baptism number is very low today. Many will be JW kids, having no clue to their future reality, serving only a manmade organization out for free labor and money. Will be taught to pay and obey.
  
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  RUSSIA: Jehovah's Witnesses face possible liquidation

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2181.

  24 may 2016. russia: jehovah's witnesses face possible liquidation.

  by victoria arnold, forum 18. if prosecutors proceed with their threat to liquidate the jehovah's witness headquarters near st petersburg, thousands of local congregations across russia could also face prohibition of their activities and individuals could be vulnerable to criminal charges for expressing their beliefs, forum 18 notes.. the jehovah's witnesses' principal body in russia is under threat of dissolution as an "extremist" organisation after the deadline in an official warning from the general prosecutor's office expired on 10 may, forum 18 notes.

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  Gayle

  Many Germany JWs during WWII found great disappointment how the Watchtower didn't help them in any way while in concentration camps. The Watchtower only degraded many of those that came out of the camps and how many left the 'truth' and became 'materialistic.' I don't expect Russian JWs to get that same treatment from their government now-a-days. However, they'll find themselves quite on their own. The GB sure aren't going to help them. The GB are of the least empathic people on earth.
  
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  May 21, 2016 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: Annual Items for 2017

  by wifibandit in

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  may 21, 2016 to all congregations re: annual items for 2017.

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  Gayle

  So even 2017 yearbook to be out early October already? Will it include 2016 Service Year Report w/stats already? Or maybe not tallied up yet by then?
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  how many bethels are left

  by pepperheart in

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  2. bible

  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?

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  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
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  how many bethels are left

  by pepperheart in

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  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?

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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?

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  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

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  english .

  belleville, mi assembly hall of jehovah's witnesses .

  jersey city, nj .

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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?

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  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!