Posts by jookbeard

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2018-Annual Service Report!

by Atlantis in

if this has already been posted just disregard.. 2018 annual service report one in english and one in spanish.

other news included.

zipped folder.

riddled with lies as we all know, especially with their huge KH sell offs, how many interested/newly baptised ones are going to want to travel miles upon miles to KH's away from their homes? none I'd say, are there increases in the national reports of Japan, Germany, most of Europe? even without looking at it I know there isnt

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Do You Ever Wonder Where Certain Posters Are?

by minimus in

jw
friends

do people simply leave because the site has given them what they wanted?

are they now infrequent lurkers?.

did they go back to the watchtower?.

jookbeard

Outlaw hasn't been around for quite some time, got in a spat with Cofty and didn't come out of it too well sadly,seemed to lose it , wonder how Leolaia is, I miss an old buddy from many years back IssacAustin, Crumpet was another from all those years back

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Why are EXJWs so rude ?

by Not_Culty in

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jookbeard

any ruder than the 8 million R&F jw's worldwide? who in my opinion are the rudest group of people I've ever met

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The Reasons for Cart Witnessing

by Simon in

whatever we think of it, you have to admit that it's quite "genius".. the door to door ministry as done in western developed countries where the jw quirky religion has probably reached their saturation level was a complete and utter waste of time in terms of the effort expended to recruit people.. at the same time, it was rarely something that anyone enjoyed which led to people being labelled as inactive, being pressured to doing more and maybe ultimately deciding jwism wasn't for them and leaving.. there was also the issue that many jws are actually pretty bad at knowing and articulating their beliefs so were pretty incapable of getting any meaningful message across.. they solved all this with the cart witnessing.

the real point isn't to recruit, it's to make life easier for jws.

now they can stand and chat with their friend, have a coffee, not talk to anyone or make eye contact and still act as a walking billboard for jw.org.

jookbeard

I've noticed the two ladies that I speak with regularly have cooled off when I see them in my town, its just a Hi or a nod now, I wonder if my subterfuge has been blown?

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Did Ray Franz Help You To Get Out of “The Truth”?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i sneakily read his books at work.

it was written in such a way that no one could accuse him of being another bitter old apostate.. once it registered in my brain, especially after reading the second book, i knew i had to get out!.

jookbeard

instrumental, I read ISoCF firstly (early 1990's) , sneakily read it in the car and at work, it was the final nail in my jw career, there was no going back, the fraud was so clearly exposed for what it was; a lie and a fraud.

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A Message For JWAnswers

by cofty in

hi jwa.

i want to encourage you to engage in some genuine conversation.. i appreciate what you are trying to do.

you clearly have a passion for your subject — you must have invested countless hours in your series of videos.

jookbeard

I wonder if he's noticed this?

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kingdom halls

by pepperheart in

do you think the watchtower will sell off any more kingdom hall after the 3,000 have been sold of and why do you think that.

jookbeard

I sense it will continue, but if it does expect less meetings and more congs cramming into fewer KH's spread miles away, like the GB would care though

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Muslims and the Jehovah's Witnesses

by Tameria2001 in

first i want to say that i don't know very much about the muslims, and what i am going to say is not attacking anyone, but instead, it was something that was said to me by a muslim man a few years back.. back in 2004 my husband and i found ourselves in a homeless situation.

his job had ended because the plant that he was working at, had shut down, and was sent off to china.

at the time our two sons were still very young, so we ended up staying at a couple of different homeless shelters until my husband could find another job, which took a total of three months before he found a new job, in a new state.

jookbeard

heard the same and with Judaism, because of the monotheistic deity, they almost jump up and down with their so called brethren, talk about the trinity,born again and other evangelical Christianity issues they run to the hills, laughable.

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When did Cook, the new GB member, start claiming to be anointed, and what are the implications?

by jwfacts in

kenneth cook was a "helper" in the writing department, which is apparently a role for those of the great crowd.

watchtower 15/10/15 p.3 states that helpers are of the great crowd.

"since 1992, the governing body has appointed experienced, mature christian elders to help its committees carry out their work.

jookbeard

there is about as much elegance as Cooky being a member of the 144k , as you,me, Stalin, Mao,Pal Pot,Hitler,or any other degenerate through human history being one, Cook, dont be such a knob.

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Family is now reaping what they sowed and they don't like it.

by Gemmel in

i resigned from the jw's in my 20's over 30 years ago, i was immediately shunned by my entire family and it's remained that way with a few exceptions ever since.

one of those exceptions was being contacted by a cousin a few years back and during that conversation i discovered that my mother had been and still was the prime mover in my complete and continuing shunning.

i then used what contacts i had left to confirm it.

jookbeard

my feelings exactly Gemmel