Posts by jookbeard

i am going to make the prediction, here and now in mid 2006, that there will be a significant drop in the number of jehovah's witnesses in the year 2014, the one hundredth anniversary of 1914.. the only way this drop in numbers might be avoided is if the watchtower society can think up some way to stir up the rank and file and get them motivated to do more, like they did with the 1975 fiasco.. .

i doubt very much that the watchtower magazine is going to proclaim loudly in the year 2014 anything about the "generation of 1914" not passing away.. --vm44

jookbeard

VM was pretty spot on, they continually use creative accounting to publish their world wide peak publishers but the falls in Europe especially Poland and Germany and Japan were surprising, I personally would not have predicted that, the next couple of years will see more falls though, Slimboyfat would have us believe that they are the worlds fastest growing group!

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Reflections on 1 year WT Free-breaking the chains...

by MissFit in

hi everyone.. i just realized that it has been over a year since i discovered this site and started to recognize i was shackled by invisible chains.

i am still in the process of chipping away on those chains.. i posted on another thread how these threads here are like little time capsules.

the moment, the emotions, the attitudes are all there frozen.. .

jookbeard

another milestone passed, wonderful isnt it?

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Your views and ideas on forum areas and organization?

by Simon in

this may come as a shock to some people, but the current forum structure was kind of thrown together without much real thought and then evolved a bit over time.

there are a few things that particularly grate on me and areas where i don't think the subjects work particularly well.

'friends' is a bit vague and becomes a dumping ground, news & world events vs politics & current affairs is hard to decide sometimes, child abuse is a scandal but isn't contained withing 'scandals & coverups' etc.... with a new forum platform imminent, it's a good time to solicit ideas to improve things.

jookbeard

Could we have a option to edit out profiles ? I'm not Bob Grimbo when I signed up some years ago I suppose I wanted to have some subderfuge as I was still in contact with family members still in, since the shunning has been stepped up severley I really counld not care who knows who I am now, plus please make quoting and posting pictures far easier

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My Story: from JW Elder to Born Again Christian to Agnostic

by passwordprotected in

i first posted here on 3rd june 2008. at the time i was an elder, appointed the previous october, i was 36 and i was a born-in.

at the time i'd become disillusioned with the society due to the governing body's letter explaining why the book study in private homes was being abolished.

april 2008 saw me start questioning this decision, privately of course, and this eventually led me to this site, to jwfacts and to many youtube videos, all of which began to errode my faith in the leaders of the organisation.. in july 2008, having discussed my doubts with my wife, i attended the district convention, deciding to give the society one last chance to convince me it was the truth.

jookbeard

Thanks for sharing a wonderful journey PWP, we have had a similar journey sadly my ex jw wife stayed loyal to the Borg, the experiences when you became an Evangelical christian were also similar to mine although I never made the step to become closely associated with them, I call it "jumping out of the WT frying pan into the Evangelical fire" and as the years pass reading testimonies from yourself and Cofty etc and realise the this form of worship and belonging to something is often the very worst thing that exiting JW's need, they are full of judgment and condemnation and use as much "hate speech" ridicule and downright insults if you simply disagree with them, that qiuet little friendly church around the corner isnt what it seems, be warned.

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An important message from a PRACTICING Jehovah's witness

by Sparks in

jw
friends

hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!

i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.

i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.

jookbeard

the usual hate filled bile from your lot, nothing to see here , next ?

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A JW encounter in Hong Kong

by Listener in

last week i was in hong kong on a holiday and ran into some jws.

i was in a large shopping mall and noticed a number of jws holding out a pamphlet to passerbys.

before i knew it there was one walking towards me and stopped right in front of me stopping me from moving forward.. the jw was virtually shoving the pamphlet towards me and said i would like to offer you this pamphlet that directs you to a web site that will answer all your questions that you have about life.

jookbeard

brilliant work!

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The long weekend of B.S begins - UK.

by quellycatface in

jw
friends

isn't going to be wonderful??.

not being there..

jookbeard

the heavens opened just before 6 last night when the ass'embly crowd would have dispersed! clearly divine intervention, weather looks clear , cool and and sunny today, wonder which Pope will speak today?