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  My old congregation Auckland New Zealand

  by karter in

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  in 1991 we build a 250 seat hall and had 125 publishers so about 175 in attendance and filing fast.. just spoke to someone from my old congregation they now have 50 to 60 publishers and 100 in attendance on a good day.. very few pioneers.. seems this is happening everywhere.. karter..

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  SBF I think if t they reversed the shunning policy and completely dropped the the blood ban it would give a little increase and they'd be back to the norm in a couple of years
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  My old congregation Auckland New Zealand

  by karter in

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  in 1991 we build a 250 seat hall and had 125 publishers so about 175 in attendance and filing fast.. just spoke to someone from my old congregation they now have 50 to 60 publishers and 100 in attendance on a good day.. very few pioneers.. seems this is happening everywhere.. karter..

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  I bet you would never have predicted that Karter!
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  You Know You're Starting To Wake Up When...

  by pale.emperor in

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  you start listening to music deemed "unsuitable for christians".

  you pretend to knock on the doors.

  you explain a jw teaching to someone and realize how ridiculous it sounds.

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  your name is removed from the congregation bookstudy list
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  Do any of the JWs go out door to door with a territory any more?

  by Spiral in

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  i actually had a neighbor ask me that the other day (she knows i'm an "ex" jw) and i didn't really know the answer.

  i know there's a bit of cart witnessing going on (small town) and a lot of driving around to return visits.. but are they actually doing territory, not-at-homes, all of that?

  the neighbor said that eight years ago, when she bought her house, the jws were by "all the time".

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  I've seen them less and less this last year walking around the residential area I live in
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  Cart witnessing at the Toyota Grand Prix

  by Dagney in

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  picture 185,000 people on the streets attending the biggest event in long beach.

  there is a main downtown street which is the only way into the grand prix.

  it’s chaos because it is not private property that can be contained; these are working boulevards with cars and people vying to get where they want to go.

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  every singe method they've ever used in preaching this life saving message is a waste of time
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  Loosing your Privleges and Scumbag elders

  by Addison0998 in

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  so 9 months before i started pioneering, i had a hot and heavy moment with this player witness who was just trying to string me along and talked to a lot of different girls.

  we made out and he grabbed my goodies a few times you know the regular stuff all teens do at least once.

  anyways i never saw him again because when i refused to send him nudes he dropped me.

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  its like those privileges actually meant something, I remember losing mine and then I was "marked" (hand refused to be acknowledged etc) I was out of there shortly after.
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  Lies from the watchtower

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  i am interested in getting a list of lies that the watchtower has said or wrote in the past that could actually be proven to be as such, or, for the very least, deliberately misleading.

  1. in a morning worship lecture in 2015, stephen lett said .

  "rejecting false stories designed to separate us from jehovah's organization.

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  the creators promises fulfilled by the end of the 20th century, what promises?

  you will never grow old in this present system of things

  the generation that lived in 1914, all dead

  why you should look forward to 1975.
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  With the ramped up talk are the governing body trying to coerce Jehovah to bring on Armageddon?

  by nowwhat? in

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  i loathe hypothetical questions on this forum.

  but i got the honest impression that they are so delusional they can bring on armageddon with all their talk and jehovah will have no choice but to act.

  ( not that i believe in armageddon anymore).

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  perhaps if we all pray hard to jeehovah he might bring it on next week, lets get a couple of things straight Nowwhat, there is no Big A, there is no jeehovah looking down on us from the sky, there are no demons/angels and we will all die one way or another in the coming decades, live your life and enjoy it and stop worrying about such stupidity.
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  Life during the 1,000 reign???

  by Joliette in

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  me and my brother recently got into a discussion about the 1,000 reign.

  i told him that even after armageddon, you know that you still have to work for your salvation??

  he says yes, that he is prepared to work for jehovah (wth), and that it will be a wonderful time.

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  just wait til Satan gets released from the Abyss, bound to go wrong
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  Which post has he just read, and what's he thinking?

  by Fay Dehr in

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  its all bullshit