i recommend this book by a gal raised mormon.
but her father was more offshoot, more anti-government, anti-medicine, anti-institutional education ( list goes on) .
she never was in classroom till 17 years old.
I recommend this book by a gal raised Mormon. but her father was more offshoot, more anti-government, anti-medicine, anti-institutional education ( list goes on) . She never was in classroom till 17 years old. She went to BYU and Cambridge, awarded PhD.
Parts of her experiences, most exJWs raised in will relate.
Spiraling stats since last year. Greece 2018 peak pubs decreased 1.8%, decreased also in ratio pubs per population, decreased pioneers 3.4%, congs. decreased 3%.
No wonder the org not gonna publish much of their numbers anymore!!
last year was the first time i didn’t get an invitation to the lord’s evening meal.
i think they finally gave up on me..
According to WT. 2018 Yearbook?report about 50% of listed "Lands" showed a decrease in Memorial Attendance.
I expect at least that again this next year. (If WT. dares to report any decrease numbers in future.)
i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).
you can't write this stuff.
right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..
Maybe Morris got 'new light' to start 'giving gifts' at their one and only annual "holy day" coming up. He's starting with 8 bottles of real "holy water" spirits, with one bottle for him and 7 bottles for his 'Holy' compadres! After all, they are getting ready for their 'great persecution' with all these increasing court bombardments coming in from all the world. After all, he already sounds so depressed.
publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.
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coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.
Seems would be likely to stop publishing annual "Grand Totals." Especially, when Numbers on Branches down, Total Congregations down, Memorial Attendance, flat - almost half countries decreasing, Partakers increasing (WT admits many nut cases), the WT. ridiculously plays on 'Peak' & 'Average' Pubs., baptisms decreased, Hours in Field so meaningless at 2 Billion (half just driving around & @McD), Bible studies no doubt going down (now that there is a limit of up to 2 yrs. length). Reporting time or Bible Study on their children is ridiculous. This report would discourage any JW with a half-brain.
Perhaps no 'paper' reporting, but by computer, for elders, COs, and Headquarters eyes and controls only.
i attended a circuit arsesemblancey today.
melbourne, melton arsembley hall.
western suburbs area.. 1. re hearing negative reports in the media about jws.
" would you entertain a negative report about your spouse?" You love your spouse so you know it's wrong"
See how the GB twist such things!!! They turn on anyone who question them (GB); as suggesting if the spouse "loves" their spouse they would not have to be concerned about any accusation. Crazy illustration when there have been millions of lying, unfaithful marriage partners who have needed to be questioned!
https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.
interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.
no love for the person.. g..
2018 Average Bible Studies Each Month: 10,079,709. Only less than 3% on average graduated to baptism (281,744) Extremely poor production and any real school/schooling would shutter at such a record of graduates.
Yes, it's mostly only JW kids already that are even boosting this record at all and many JW kids are putting baptism off as long as possible or at all.
The GB leadership seem to acknowledge these 'empty' hours and 'empty' Bible Study (b***s***) reports.
It seems to me this 're-visited' restriction to discontinuing those long-term Bible Studies is a form of an organizational 'whipping' to many and especially pioneers.
2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
Near half of their JW "Lands Reporting" had 'decreases' in Memorial Attendance last year (2018)! "58%" of attenders are of the 'non-publishing' group/class :) ! Hopefully, many more of these 'non-publishers' do not attend this year!
without a doubt, jw life is boring.
and those meetings!
5 congregation meetings, meetings for field service, elders meetings, judicial meetings, meetings to figure out who was qualified to clean the toilets....🤔.
The list of things we 'could have done' that would have been more stimulating and valuable!
Very sad, but even just watching tv all those hours would have been more stimulating and realistic. All the WT hours spent were 100% pointless.
when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.the world of 1947--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.
everywhere you found telephone booths!
a call was a nickel.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.
Happy Birthday, Terry!! I am a couple months older than you. Our next birthday we will have lived in parts of "9" decades! Hey, we can make that, right?!! 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20's - Wheeeeee!
