The Watchtower Society has the whole developing world to feed on. It ain't going nowhere anytime soon. And even if it did, there are plenty of other scams to take people's money, time and lives away from them. There is a sucker born every minute. People want easy answers to life's very difficult problems, but they just aren't there. Its a jungle out there. Nature is a cruel master and we are all slaves to nature and its random acts of violence against individuals and large numbers of people.
joelingeorgia
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The Erosion Of Governing Body Faith
by metatron inlet's think about the subtle effects of the watchtower's newfound appeals for money.
traditionally, the society avoids doing anything that might expose the reality of how much of a facade the whole thing is.
they fear incidents that undermine their carefully crafted image of invunerability - and, indeed, the reality is much different.. beyond deceiving the witlesses in general, there is another reason for care because they must deceive themselves.
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1975 For Deniers
by Farkel in1975 for deniers.
most of today's jws were not members in 1975 or in the 9 years prior to 1975, so they were not eyewitnesses to what really went on during that period.
i was a pioneer in that period, and i was an eyewitness to what went on.. those jws who are still active today and who were around in that period will typically say it was the "brothers" who "ran ahead of jehovah" and "read more into" the 1975 prediction than what was actually stated.
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joelingeorgia
they are like any group who prospers by manipulating others whether it be religion, politics or business.
what is traumatizing to many, including myself is that we really really believed what they told us.
my short stint at Bethel was filled with eye opening moments of pure shock.
I remember my mom talking about the 6 month rule, but she didn't follow it. she would study with
people for years.
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Fun with numbers (or the Watchtower running out of steam) Statistics
by Aussie Oz inhaving a look through the march wt pdf and noticed the graph showing the growth of jws and did a little basic math.
now math was not my strongest subject at school so i can stand some correcting on this if need be... but anyway, a little fun with numbers:.
1970; 1'483'000 is a growth of about 390% (av 19.5% per year).
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joelingeorgia
1. percentages of growth always go down as the numbers go up. This is true of any numeric progression.
2. the fact that they are reporting peaks seems a bit desperate to keep the number growing.
3. a much smaller percentage of non witnesses have any clue what witnesses believe now that did 50 years ago.
4. what about the GB member who said the preaching work was done?
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February 2010 Study Watchtower - Millions Now Living 'May' Never Die
by Marni Mai injust noticed that in the february 2010 study edition of the watchtower, they refer to the "millions now living will never die" talk in 1918, but they have changed the title to "millions now living may never die".
only problem, they included the picture of the invitation to the talk, which says 'will'.. ooops.
it's on page 16. enjoy.. .
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joelingeorgia
the light keeps getting brighter as we reach the day.
the explanation for all wording changes, all doctrinal changes, all administrative changes, all changes.
how can you lose with a slogan like that.
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Who believes in the POWER OF PRAYER?????
by whereami in.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lms2au476os.
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joelingeorgia
nothing that I have sincerely prayed for has ever happened. I'm batting .000
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Logistical problems of the new system...
by highdose injust supposing that you belive in it... i used to always wonder, how on earth are we going to get from one country to the other?
i mean old type ships used to take months to get around!
what about land travel?
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joelingeorgia
people will live in small communities and walk wherever they want to go
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What WAS written by the finger of God?
by Doug Mason ini know this subject probably does not interest most here, but i thought i would share the result of my study, anyway.. http://www.jwstudies.com/written_by_the_finger_of_god.pdf.
doug.
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joelingeorgia
mene mene tekel parson
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A sad call from an older brother
by life is to short inwe got a call a couple of days ago from this older brother in the hall.
he is a great guy who is in his eighties.
he has a very hard time walking and just getting around because of old age but he is the kindest man.
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joelingeorgia
well i have to tell ya. my mom is 83 and her greatest joy in life is going out in service. the witness work is really all she has ever known.
when i call she loves for me to ask about her service experiences. now, i went another path. i don't want her judging me for the path i
took, and i as well do not judge her for the path she took. i am sorry she is not happier. but i do know that the things that do make her
happy are her witness friends, meetings and going in service.
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To you what was the Watchtower Socity's biggest lie ?
by The Almighty Homer inyes, what was the biggest lie that you can think of, that persuaded you to realize that they were not who they said they were ?.
for myself it would have to be the year they picked as the destruction of ancient jerusalem 607 bc.. i have an assumption this was done purposely to coincide correctly with making 1914 an a important pivotal date.
in human history, which by all factual evidence it was not.. unassuming and deceiving manipulation for self marketing purposes.
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joelingeorgia
The Chronology Lie has made sooooo many people change their life plans, put off needed surgery, sacrifice their dreams, on and on and on.
The worldly are wicked lie. Yeah, well in my experience there is wickedness everywhere, in every organization.
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Why does the media leave JW alone?
by Aussie Oz inlargly, i found over the years, the media seldom runs stories on jws.
sure there is the odd sensation in a paper about a child not having blood or something or some brief mention.. why has the media not got hold of the child abuse situation?
with the mainstream church's in australia and globally, they had a field day.
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joelingeorgia
i would love to see South Park's take on JWs