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  Decrease of numbers in Jehovah's Witnesses via Deaths, DFings, or Turning Inactive

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  so i'm sure a good number of us saw the chart that i believe the poster splash put on another thread of figures since 1990 regarding how many baptized and % of increase each year .

  i started analyzing it ( and i know some referred to it briefly on the other thread ) and guessing of reasons the % of increase didn't match the number of newly baptized.

  and of course common sense tells us that either jw's leave the cult each year through death, fading into inactivity, or getting dfed.

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  possum

  Do they count inactive/faders? if you don't formally leave,
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  Now you don't even have to go to the Kingdom Hall - ALL meetings to be recorded & available on jw.org (if you have a password)

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  latest boe letter:.

  october 22, 2015. to all bodies of eldersre: use of jw stream.

  dear brothers:we are writing to inform you that arrangements are being made for video recordings ofcongregation meetings, circuit assemblies, and conventions to be uploaded to jw stream (accessibleat http://stream.jw.org) in various languages.

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  possum

  The purpose of meeting in the kingdom hall/christianity? is because people want to belong and have meaningful face to face conversations and authentic communal relationships. Jehovah witnesses already have extremely high rates of mental illness such as depression. Isolation by making meeting available electronically is a terrible, lazy and unloving way to build and sustain a religious community........
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  EPIC!#%* NOVEMBER 2015 WT VIDEO "Welcome Home My Friend, Now Your Life Can Start Again"

  by NoMoreHustle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well i just watched this "epic" video, i would have to say this is probably the most disturbing video yet.

  there campaign to get people back is just pathetic in the most mind-manipulating way.

  "welcome home" or "come back home" are they serious?

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  possum

  Nauseating! Like watching people in North Korea talk about the great leader "Jehovah" paralyzed by indoctrination to cult............................Music video is patronizing syrup. Rubbish!

  stuckinartut

  Notice that there was NO acknowledgement of any teaching errors? ...NO...it was all "YOUR fault" that you left....

  agree!!
  
  
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  Are You Easily Offended? 😠

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sick and tired of everyone claiming to be "offended".

  if you are not politically correct, you will need to apologize for some perceived slight.. when i was an elder, i purposely avoided as much as i could, anybody that got easily offended.

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  possum

  One of the great pleasures post/cult is being able to learn to THINK freely again. Forums such as this provide the opportunity for the first time in years to enjoy sometimes robust debate,humor,venting re the JW experience. As a women spent so many years silent in submission pandering to the great and the good. Lot of pressure and pretense to "play nice" in cult. Big difference in intelligent robust debate and being offensive.
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  Shunning is psychologically terrorizing

  by poopie in

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  its barbaric.

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  possum

  Great points from all!
  When any organized cult such as Scientology JWS, and the list goes on institutes shunning between family essentially breaking that family apart, who have a crime against humanity plain and simple When you look at the loving/ upbuilding/counsel/come talks they are just thinly disguised HATE speech designed to terrorise the membership into submission. The hypocrites state that christendom frighten people with hell. While they require families and friends to treat former members as dead even though they are living!! Disgusting!
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  Too Much Discontent in the Congregation Part 2

  by Simon Templar in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  here is part 2..

  so you will have some understanding of the boe i will reference in future posts, the following is who they are:.

  the coordinator.

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  possum

  Sooooo glad to be away from corrosive/petty/patriarchal....meetings...sorry!...........cult indoctrination sessions...................................
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  So I'm Minding My Own Business at McDonald's

  by truth-or-consequences in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i'm minding my own business at mcdonald's, reading bonnie zieman's book.. i was sorely tempted to read it at the adjacent table.. would have liked a co-hort to video the subsequent emergency evacuation.. .

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  by the way, this was one of the nicest november saturdays ever, and they're wasting this precious time fraternizing.

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  possum

  Sad waste of time and energy

  
  
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  Pause for a minute!

  by username in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  for all those who are still on the fence regarding this evil cult i present one image that tells a thousand stories.

  i just took a screenshot of this months cult indoctrination broadcast.

  although i have watched the "faith in action" video before and it still has the same effect on me as it always does, this image is the most evocative of them all.

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  possum

  But of course those 23 persons who lost their lives are "ALREADY IN THE NEW SYSTEM" as my hardline cult aunt would always spout..........now its up to all who loved them to stay OBEDIENT to publishing empire if any hope of seeing them again.
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  Watchtower Policy Claims Another Teenager

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  a tragic story of how the watchtower unduly influenced or brain washed a 14 year old jehovah's witness into martyrdom.

  the real irony here is the synthetic blood that failed was a hemoglobin solution, and red blood cells are nothing but tiny doughnut shaped bags of hemoglobin.

  any thinking person will conclude that if red cells are blood, then so is hemoglobin.

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  possum

  making a child be a martyr to their misguided/dangerous interpretation of scripture will NEVER be seen as a good witness. A policy Enforced by fear ......of being disfellowshipped/shunned. STUPID and a waste of a lovely young life full of potential.
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  I Hate the Sound of the Word Jehovah

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  listening to clips of the latest manipulative video from the watchtower i realised how much i detest that word - jehovah.. sometimes i have thought it would be interesting to observe a meeting or part of a convention.

  every time i heard that word i would be unable to stay in my seat.. i have a visceral reaction every time i hear it.

  it stands for so much that i have contempt for.

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  possum

  3rdgenan hour ago

  I agree Cofty. The word sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. So glad I'm no longer around anyone ho uses it.

  
  

  ditto!