Tefferin Laux

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  Time Mag: JW's Experience Lots of "Masked Churn"

  by pseattle2 in

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  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1716987,00.html.

  last week we learned that jw's are the fastest-growing religion in america, with between 2-3% growth nationwide.

  but the survey in question also noted that the turnover rate in jw's is alarmingly high:.

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  Tefferin Laux

  Which means 63% of people learn to reject mind control after extended periods of time.

  Personally, I find that encouraging!
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  Enjoy a Merlot and a cracker...I may have to attend the Memorial to see....

  by oompa in

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  2. beliefs

  just how much the talk has to change this year...and this for the first time in my life.

  otwo and snakesinthe tower and i are supposed to miss this year for the first time ever, but i may go just to see this first hand, and use it as ammo.

  i guess if i attend i may be considered to be one of the "once a year hypocrites" but the local dubs need more bad things to think and say about me!

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  Tefferin Laux

  Nah, just stand outside with signs saying 'Congratulations, you are number 144,001!!!!! You win a FREE TOASTER!'

  I read somewhere online that the WTS doesn't give out the figures but something like 200,000 people partook in a memorial that was fairly recent.

  Gee, God's arithmetic SUCKS. Maybe we should buy him a calculator????
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  Something I learned from being born-in

  by dinah in

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  2. friends

  been thinking and painting today.. anyway, my mind started wandering and settled onto this: being born in has made me more understanding of people since i woke up from the cult.

  i came here, met a bunch of other born-in peeps who immediately understood.

  we have all kinda branched out in different directions.

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  Tefferin Laux

  Hallo all! I can't see that there's a specific new member forum so I guess I will just jump right in.

  I wasn't born in but my mother converted when I was two, and it took me til about 14 to get out. So I have far too much time invested in having been constantly judged and judging. I have always liked non-JW's better than the JW's so it wasn't a real problem for me socially getting out. I do enjoy talking to other ex-JW's though because as you all say, we definitely have a shared experience.

  It is difficult to explain to my other friends that I was raised honestly believing I would not live past about 22 so there was no point in trying to achieve my goals and ambitions. It's difficult to explain that I was raised believing I was a bad person who was not going to have an afterlife no matter what I did. Only ex-JW's know what fun the doomsday experience is.

  Nowadays, I look forward to my 80th birthday, far far into the future. It's a nice change :)
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  Question from Newbie Chris Cross, JW accounting & money trail

  by horrible life in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this was on another thread.

  since that thread died a slow death, i thought this question from this newbie, needed to be answered.

  i have an extra topic to give away.

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  Tefferin Laux

  well, in doing other research I found it interesting that several members of the Governing Body were visiting overseas and decided to stay in a four star hotel rather than at the homes of JW's. Also several ex-Bethelites have talked about the huge amount of waste created by purchasing machinery without knowing how to use it, purchasing machinery that needs to be updated, etc. One mentions a $2 million art machine that NO ONE actually knew how to use. Niiiiiiice. Remember too that Bethel is in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world, and they make beaucoup money from sales - I think Rick Ross pointed out the last sale should be worth like $110 million or something.

  So basically, if people at the top aren't living like kings, it's because they're too dumb or fake pious to really work it out. Sounds like most of the JW money is just squandered on poor business decisions which is permitted because they are tax exempt and don't actually have to figure out how to make the ledgers balance.

  There's some other good stuff online showing that the vast majority of money the WTS gets is NOT in fact from contributions but from their publishing empire which encourages both members and novitiates to pay for the literature (twice).