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  Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

  hope link works.

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  Though the door to door work might be left has an option just like before the Virus problem.

  Yeah, I could see it remaining a seldom-used option for old-school try-hard JWs. Organizationally, a fizzled campaign to re-start door-to-door might do more damage than leaving it alone as-is.

  For that reason, I think leadership would be wary of trying to rally troops that it doesn't have a lot of confidence in.

  They are better off sliding focus to cart witnessing and other endeavors, rather than risk a ministry rally where half don't show up and perform, in my estimation...

  JWs aren't zealous anymore. The ORG squandered all that energy, plus householders have too much info too easily available. Zealous JWs are going to come across information that makes them uncomfortable. Better to spend 3 hours sitting next to a literature cart, hoping you can make it through without having to seriously speak with anyone. I know I'd opt for that alternative...
  
  
  
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  Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

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  Even if/when d-2-d resumes...

  What's the energy and enthusiasm level going to be?
  

  The JW 'ministry' was seriously flagging on its own...BEFORE COVID...

  Literature carts grabbed a market share for JWs interested in getting their hours in via a new lower-effort method.

  Give them all months and months off from proselytizing directly....

  Is there gonna be a huge rush of JWs back into neighborhoods, knocking on doors, trying to engage religious discussion?

  I think any effort to resume will fizzle.

  It's just too easy not to do it, and now they all know it...
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  How to tell my parents that i dont want to be a jw?Please help, im begging...

  by ihatemylife in

  1. social
  2. family

  fist of all my first language is not english so i apologise for any mistakes.i am 17 my whole family is jw.i am so sick of this i cry all the time i wasted my teen years doing nothing, no friends, no parties, no going out, no fun.i am scared for my life because if i tell them they will kick me out, i have no money to move out.i am curentlly studying the bible with my mom just because i am scared to tell her that i dont want to.please help me with some advice im begging.my life depends on this......

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  AGREE with OTWO!
  
  Getting baptized would help NOTHING -
  
  And hurt EVERYTHING!

  If you are at such a point of doubt to be HERE, and talking to US about your concerns, then you must know that you would NEVER be at peace within the confines of this 'religion' and its restrictions.
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  Sound Familiar?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

  the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

  "it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".

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  Who says all citizens have equal value? You talk about it as if it were a foregone conclusion, but how would one prove it?
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  Sound Familiar?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

  the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

  "it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".

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  hybridous

  Money is just a tool to facilitate trade.
  
  But, now....consider the power to issue it...to be the recipient and beneficiary of it, without any outlay of product or service...
  
  Now THIS is power. This is power enough to fight and kill for.

  We are becoming less a society of 'live-and-let-live', and increasingly one of 'rule-or-BE-ruled'. Thus, the desperate grasps for power, or else be dominated by rivals and enemies. My observations...
  
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  2020 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

  by Joker5 in

  1. jw
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  the 2020 report has been out for a few days.

  2020 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

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  Nevertheless, persistent increases in Memorial Partakers is a good sign.

  It's a clear example of the WT leadership not being able to get the troops in line.

  I don't know if it's a case of JWs being too dense to 'get the message' about partaking...

  Or maybe these folks just don't GAF about earning the WTs approval on this matter.

  Either way, I suspect that if these numbers don't get in line, the Tower will either have to start directly falsifying them, or stop reporting them, entirely.

  At this point, these partakers should be clocking in at ~25% (IMO) of where they are now.
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  2020 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

  by Joker5 in

  1. jw
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  the 2020 report has been out for a few days.

  2020 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

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  Have you seen Steven Lett on JW Broadcasting.

  Yes. Of course, as all despots they desire to be the exceptions to the rules.

  I don't know how a JW could comfortably show him and JW Broadcasting to a 'worldly person' and not be embarrassed. This religion they are supposed to advertise has become something to hide.

  Throw a basket on that candle, JWs.
  
  
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  2020 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide

  by Joker5 in

  1. jw
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  the 2020 report has been out for a few days.

  2020 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 87. .

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  What's confusing about it? Jehovah is calling the last of His sons.

  Confusing because the WT has made it clear that these people are to be regarded as mostly crazy or liars.
  
  
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  Are You Satisfied To Let The Government Take Care of You?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some people want limited government involvement in their lives.

  the less government, the happier they are.

  others feel there’s not enough government intervention.

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  If the government takes care of you, you don’t have to work.

  Right. Perhaps, YOU don't have to. But someone else does for you. There is no FREE anything. There are only transferred/deferred costs.
  
  
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  Is it possible for any Country to have “Reasonable” Gun Laws? What would they be?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so the new biden/harris gun policies are starting to appear.

  it’s not clear yet, what they will be.. some suggestions; confiscate all guns.------buyback programs in each state.. there is much talk on social media that if this happens, the pandemic, + all the riots, + all the damaged property, + all the annual murders in america, - put together-will be like a sunday afternoon picnic, compared to all the deaths and property damage that will result because of “civil uprising” by millions of 2nd amendments advocates and just plain gun lovers.

  americans love guns!.

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  “If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very pro-gun; you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small political elite and their minions.”
  
  - S. Molyneux