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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

by Drearyweather in

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).

Gayle

"During the 2018 service year, * Jehovah’s Witnesses spent over $214 million in caring for special pioneers, missionaries, and circuit overseers in their field service assignments. Worldwide, a total of 20,331 ordained ministers staff the branch facilities. All are members of the Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah’s Witnesses."

Yet, 'more' money (+6%) ???into their "staff" (while closing 3 branches) when they admit they are putting more money out than they are receiving ???

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2018 Service Year Report up

by Gayle in

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https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

Gayle

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/

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Another Interesting conversation with my father today

by joe134cd in

dad - sister x had been visiting a lawyer as she is wanting to write her disfellowshipped daughter out of her will.

apparently her lawyer told her that if she leaves the daughter just $1000 then she can’t contest the will because she has been given her inheritance.. joe - oh thats unfortunate for the daughter as sister x is worth many times that.

no doubt despite been dfed she has still got to pay bills and survive.. dad - sister x isn’t happy about the life style her daughter is living.

Gayle

Didn't GB Morris suggest recently that if kids don't get baptized, then they shouldn't be allowed to get their license to drive either (a strong-arm method, true).

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If you are reading this Courtney and Helene

by newsheep in

please please contact us by private messaging us.

we didn't know what to put this under so sorry in advance but this is why we are here.

courtney was a co serving in another country when his father was dying.

Gayle

Wow! Sure wish that could have been videoed!!! Certainly Courtney planned this and hope he and Helene have found personal peace and continue now for more exposure of this hateful organization. Great if they could be on Leah Remini's next A&E about WT org./JWs. (I hope Leah will do another).

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"Follow the Money"

by Gayle in

https://www.metro.us/entertainment/tv/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath-season-3.

this season 3 about scientology by leah is to "follow the money.

" it will be interesting on how she goes about this.

Gayle

https://www.metro.us/entertainment/tv/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath-season-3

This season 3 about Scientology by Leah is to "Follow the Money." It will be interesting on how she goes about this. She wants to challenge the 'tax status' of Scientology. Will it be possible? Does the IRS have responsibility to verify such religions as being truly helpful to members and in what way? Can unsatisfied members/ex-members have a say about their treatment?

Will that be possible for the Watchtower to be challenged?

Why shouldn't all claiming religions be required to be transparent and honest about their money, receiving and expenses?

Could she accomplish such an event?

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Apostasy Movie - Available on Amazon Prime Video (plus Review)

by Simon in

in case anyone is looking for a way to watch it, it's on amazon prime video.. (apologies if it's already been mentioned).

Gayle

I watched on Amazon a few weeks ago. By the end of the movie, I felt the 'suffocation' of JW life. Sucks the life out of people.

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Apostasy Movie - Available on Amazon Prime Video (plus Review)

by Simon in

in case anyone is looking for a way to watch it, it's on amazon prime video.. (apologies if it's already been mentioned).

Gayle

I watched it a few weeks ago. I realized at the end I was hardly breathing. It showed the 'suffocation' of the JW life. Lifeless, empty.

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Maybe more will follow.

by Jayk in

in a nutshell.

a group of about 6 women who have been friends practically their whole lives that i personally know are leaving there jw husbands.

my understanding is they're starting to see the hypocrisy of the .org.

Gayle

If only it would be the wives of the GB!! Of course, they would all just disappear? like wife of Miscavige of Scientology?!

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In search of custody hearing advice ...

by dubstepped in

i don't have kids, but i recently found that someone with kids that lives in my town is also an ex-jw.

she just happened to post on an apostafest thread on facebook for an event that i attended, saw that we lived in the same place, and i met her for the first time tonight.

pretty cool.. she has a 14 year old boy that is super smart and very articulate.

Gayle

In Arizona, the judge gives "full" medical right/authority to the non-JW parent. Hopefully, the son is interested in extra-curricular activities at school and will have no time for JWism. Unfortunately, no doubt JW parent will have his right to take his son to JW meetings, but maybe not all, just on Sunday. In Arizona, the never JW mom was granted that the children can only have a Bible study only with JW father and no one else in JW cong. The never JW mom was counting on the father wouldn't really do a Bible study with kids for long, not a follow through type JW father.

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The Children Act - Emma Thompson - advertised on ITV One - prime time.

by freddo in

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as you probably know "the children act" is a film starring emma thompson as a high court judge deciding whether or not to transfuse a teen jw.

it is due to be on general release in the uk on august 24th 2018. september 14th usa.. its shortened trailer is being advertised in the uk on the biggest independent tv channel - namely itv - at prime time.

just seen it in advertisment breaks between 6pm and 7pm uk time.. thought you might like to know..

Gayle

I just rented the movie "The Children Act." (Direct TV)The movie shows clearly the moral/court dilemma of the JW blood issue with JW teenagers. The Court ruling for "blood" for JW teenagers and how it can cause of self-destruct for the teenager. How the JW teenager has been programed against the blood transfusion. How does the JW kid deal with the control by the Courts without a flood of negativity or the defilement taught by JWisms. Who can they go to sort out this kinds of spiritual/emotional (?) depressions.

This movie is based on a novel which is inspired on a 'true' account. A judge did make a ruling for the blood transfusion for a young JW young man, underage, around 17. He visited the kid and the kid loved football and they talked a lot about that. The judge later after when the boy had the transfusion and was well, took the kid to a big game and introduced all the players. Seven or eight years later the young man, then of legal age, denied the transfusion and died.

http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Film/2018-08-19/ian_mcewan_and_the_filmmakers_behind_the_children_act_talk_the_challenges_of_getting_serious_films_off_the_ground.html#.W32g6vA-Dok.email