My "Houston, we have a problem!" moment, when I realized I was smarter than the GB, and I wasn't bragging!
Posts by Gayle
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In one sentence, can you pinpoint a single event that woke you up?
by Brian J inmy turning point: serving on a child abuse judicial case.
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"Get Out" - Best Picture Nomination for 2018 Academy Awards
by Gayle inabout a type of cult - not religious.
just a movie.
however, about had several earmarks of a cult.
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Gayle
About a type of cult - not religious. Just a movie. However, about had several earmarks of a cult. Mind control, falsely making friendship for gaining sex slaves, willing to kill, even slaves willing to kill, false fronts.
Many, after one finely discovers a cult, one can spot others, of any kind, more easily.
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The Perfect Storm in 2018?
by Wild_Thing ini have been sadly watching as the number of jws in other countries are decreasing (for the most part), while the numbers in the us are strangely increasing.
while i question the organization's self reporting numbers, i think 2018 may be the year for another mass us exodus.
leah remini's show will be focusing on jws in her show on a&e.
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Gayle
The WT is like a wild beast that needs 'new' blood. Without that it will only be ravenous, turning on their weak.
Religion can be a religion without converts for maybe a generation. It doesn't have much draw to keep their young. It seems most 'second' generation JW kids don't have the same strickness, not much WT idealism on their kids, than as how second generation were raised. Do you notice this?
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2017 Service Year Report Worldwide - INDIVIDUALLY LISTED LANDS and COUNTRIES
by darkspilver innow available:.
2017 service year report worldwide: table with individually listed lands and countries.
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Gayle
Do I understand correctly, on this new Service Report, are Aux. Pios. & Reg. Pios. combined?
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2017 Service Year Report Worldwide - INDIVIDUALLY LISTED LANDS and COUNTRIES
by darkspilver innow available:.
2017 service year report worldwide: table with individually listed lands and countries.
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Gayle
dark silver,, thx so much, but I think with this update, we'll "need a bigger boat," I mean it's own new thread??
By those numbers, no way U.S. had 1% increase,,even for their peak. This can't even by rounded up to that. increase of 684 divided by last year's peak is .06%,,( not even .1% )please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Don't you think that some people are just better off within the org?
by paradiseseeker inthis is my first post, i will introduce myself later.
first of all, i must say that english is not my mother tongue (i'm spanish), so excuse me if i make any mistake.. do you think that some people simply can't cope with being outside the jws?
some of them are too worldlyphobic to be around non-jws, too dependent on a fixed set of rules in order to carry on with their lives, too dependent on the hope of paradise and resurrection, too unable to leave their personal comfort zone within the organization.
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Gayle
The organization selling this security blanket needs exposure. It is full of holes, thread-worn, filthy. This false sense of "security" has only 'doped' individuals, taking their money, and more, all their time. It requires them to go out and get others, family and strangers to join them in this scam. They are to cut off family if necessary, they are denied any education that would free them of some of their maladies.
Some people 'need' their self-righteousness, but lets not protect it.
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Greek Bethel up for sale: video - 77 Kifisias Avenue, Marousi, Athens
by darkspilver inthe greek bethel at 77 kifisias avenue, marousi, athens, is up for sale.
below is the sales video:https://vimeo.com/242230932see also: http://www.danos.gr/property-sale-in-marousi/.
from the bethel tour brochure:.
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Gayle
not rebuilding another one, cheaper, w/free labor, and still coming up with sizable profit?
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Congregation dwindles
by wannaexit ini think we are going to be seeing lots more of this stuff.
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http://www.capjournal.com/news/pierre-jehovah-s-witnesses-put-up-smaller-kingdom-hall-to/article_e05d9c36-d8b9-11e7-acb3-9f63fb65c896.html.
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Gayle
That KH looks like a pre-fab warehouse.
I lived in Pierre '59-63. A teenager then. We went there to serve "where the need was great." Ugh.
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284000 baptized in 2017
by jw-verite inseen in the 03/2018 watchtower study :.
"during the 2017 service year, more than 284,000 “rightly disposed” individuals symbolized their dedication to jehovah by water baptism.".
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-march-2018/baptism-requirement-for-christians/.
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Gayle
"a cult mostly of Africans."
JW.org will burn out these ones even more quickly. The organization will teach them to "eke" out, when the most are already doing that. The org will teach them not to seek higher education when just getting 'some' education is necessary challenge. The WT won't help them to get basic education. Health needs are a challenge.
The GB will not have any sympathy for the populations in the African continent. It will stand out how much the GB asks for money all the time. Some of the African governments might not be very WT.org friendly either.
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Higher Education
by Brian J injust spent 8 hours in a 1 day elders school last weekend.
clarification given: "moving forward any elder, ms, or pioneer who themselves or someone under their roof enrolls in higher education, may no longer qualify for privileges in the congregation.
their qualifications will have to be reviewed by their boe.".
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Gayle
Yet, if the individual already has a four-year degree that the WT can utilize at headquarters, and they will work for free. then the WT has no problem using them.