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  Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

  org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

  instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

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  ShirleyW

  What All Time Jeff and Flipper said . .
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  The worst mistake in my life

  by outofthebox in

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  i did a cartoon (in spanish) about the worst mistake everyone makes.

  i hope you like it.. http://tejotitas.blogspot.com/2015/11/el-peor-error-de-mi-vida.html.

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  ShirleyW

  I just find it interesting that you post the cartoon in Spanish and don't offer a translation of it.

  Simon had to post for you to do so
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  What would happen ??

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there is a certain elder in my wives hall that has seemed to developed a real interest her.

  first he seemed to feel a need to make sure all her blood cards were signed before she gave birth to our child.. he sends her text messages if she misses a meeting saying how much " we missed you last night ".

  he finally sent her a text wondering where her oct hours were , knowing she had some pretty serious tears from child birth and could hardly even walk, much less do field service ".

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  ShirleyW

  We had a situation in our Hall about 30 years ago, an Elder who was in da troof for decades,married with grown children, took interest in a sister who was bringing the kids to the meetings with an unbelieving mate, the relationship wasn't sexual, but the elder was removed from elder privileges, can't remember if he was put on probation or not (what's it called when not Df'd, can't remember) but nothing happened to the sister
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  Where's Mouthy?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. jw
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  it's been a while since she's posted.

  i'm hoping she's ok.. for those who are new here mouthy (grace) is our forum's adopted grandma.

  she has been posting here since the beginning.

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  ShirleyW

  One of the regulars that

  e listen to Rick Fearon confrence call told me he spoke to her two weeks ago and she's doing alright.
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  This just in new policy bethel

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i called bethel recently asking a question.

  the question was do you have a bible example of someone that showed pricipled love to anothet human by giving them the silent treament for months?

  answer well bro are you a jw yes well we will aens the elders over to help you.

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  ShirleyW

  we will "aens" the elders

  One of the key words in your post is misspelled, what is aens supposed to be.
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  The Bible is a funny book. Names

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  isaiah 8:1 the lord named this person"mahershalalhashbaz".. king of babylon 2 kings 20:12 "berodachbaladan or merodachbaladan".

  king of assyria 1 chronicles 5:6 "tilgathpilnesar".

  and then we have "do do" in 1 chronicles 11 :12. i never heard those names mention in the ministry school.. i wonder who had a hand in naming do do, satan or god..

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  ShirleyW

  Well I never knew the name DoDo was in the Bible. I remember finding out when I was kid in the mid 60's that the name Gomer is biblical, it was the same time that the show Gomer Pyle was on TV.

  When the name Salome came up in one of the meetings and a child was doing the reading our answering the question you just knew they were going to pronounce it "salami", and a few adults pronounced it that way as well.
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  Lets start a "Go Fund Me" for those special pioneers being kicked to the curb by the GB,.

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  lots of great potential to help those sp that are being sent off without any financial help from the wtbts.

  i think that it would be a great way to get some exposure on this topic and how the wtbts thats those that dedicated their lives to the wtbts only to be sent packing at a late age.

  then someone can take the funds to one sp couple, possibly, and give it to them in honor of the apostates that know what is really happening.

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  ShirleyW

  notjustyet - Are you Band on the Run (BOTR) using a new log in name or something, because I can't follow the two different things you're saying in your title and first post and what you're saying above
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  Lets start a "Go Fund Me" for those special pioneers being kicked to the curb by the GB,.

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  lots of great potential to help those sp that are being sent off without any financial help from the wtbts.

  i think that it would be a great way to get some exposure on this topic and how the wtbts thats those that dedicated their lives to the wtbts only to be sent packing at a late age.

  then someone can take the funds to one sp couple, possibly, and give it to them in honor of the apostates that know what is really happening.

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  ShirleyW

  notjustyet - Are you serious? Apostates donating money to SPECIAL pioneers? You know the way regular pubs at the trolleys will act if they found out you're just Df'd but you wanto to donate money to special pioneers, tell h ow you figured this out.
  
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  How have you felt since you learned TTATT?

  by tornapart in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's been 4 years since it happened to me.

  an almost overnight experience.

  i read ray franz coc in 3 days and that was it.

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  ShirleyW

  I was born into it, but never baptized, I haven't attending a meeting since the 1980's, way before the internet, but what REALLY sealed the deal was when I read Crisis of Conscious, really breaks it down on how it's nothing but a cult. THe internet helped as well, there were certain boards around in the 90's. I remember being a part of Tisihie's board, probably some folks here were on her board too.
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  Honestly, Do You Still Act or Think Like a JW?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or do traces or attitudes still rear its ugly head of your past involvement with the witnesses?

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  ShirleyW

  No motherf*^*g way to think I act like a JW now. I hate them for who they are and what they stand and how they totally destroyed many, many lives. Be it just having a normal childhood or those that gave their lives because of the blood issue, but now, "Jehovah" (as in seven old guys in Brooklyn) says you can have blood fractions. . . give me a break.