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  Introduce myself

  by John Moro in

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  dear,everybody,how are you?my name is john moro i join jevoah wittness.com this year 2018 in april in order to be jevoah wittness i live in yokine wa australia,i like to meet friends and share jevoah message to evangelize the word.thank you may god bless.

  yours sincerely john moro.

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  bamse

  Welcome John

  If you, despite the information above, still want to join the Jehovah’s witnesses, you need to go to jw.org.

  Bit I think you have fun with this. 😊
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  Are older women holding the congregations together (at least in the US)?

  by Spiral in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i went and had a facial yesterday, and the aesthetician (and business owner) was a 30 something women, and we got on very well from the start.

  the conversation came around to how many new churches are being built in this area, and i said i was surprised by it all.

  she had a very interesting take on the situation.

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  What will happen to the congregations once the older generation of women die off?

  There will always be older women in the congregations.
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  British Psychological Society Research Digest Article: What are the psychological effects of losing your religion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/04/06/what-are-the-psychological-effects-of-losing-your-religion/amp/.

  what are the psychological effects of losing your religion?.

  bps research digest.

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  bamse

  Very interesting. Thank you, Barbara.
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  Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

  in one sentence tell why you left the org.

  not 2 sentences.

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  bamse

  The hopelessness about common right and wrong lead me to read «Crisis of Conscience».
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  Pope Francis: 'There Is No Hell'

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wow, now this is interesting.. in another interview with his longtime atheist friend, eugenio scalfari, pope francis claims that hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear.

  " this is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the catholic church about the reality of hell and the eternal existence of the soul.. https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell.

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  bamse

  One pig to another: «Do you believe in a life after Christmas?»
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  Famous Last Words

  by Blueblades in

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  2. friends

  sooner or later it happens to all of us.the time comes for us to draw our last breath and pass from this life into the next.over the years history has recorded some fascinating "famous last words"...here are a few.. "i've never felt better".douglas fairbanks,sr.,actor.. "iam about to----or i am going to-----die;either expression is correct".dominique bouhours,french grammarian.. "don't let it end like this.tell them i said something.

  "pancho villa,mexican revolutionary.. "all my possessions for a moment of time!

  "elizabeth 1,queen of england.. "everybody has got to die,but i have always believed an exception would be made in my case.now what?

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  Don’t stay on my oxigen tube!
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  JW Jokes

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  they don't want you to donate blood because..... .....it might be within the erection of a homosexual act at any time.

  watchtower tried to become the internet service provider of their members...... ......but their virus software kept deleting all but 144,000 select files.

  what do you get when you cross a devil worshipper with a jehovah's witness?

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  Two mosquitoes met after several years. It was a cordial reunion. But after som mutual greetings and hugs the one said: "Oh, you look so skinny and miserable. What's happened with you?" The other one said: "Oh, you see I have become a Jehovah's witness."
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  Cong accounts analysis?

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  anyone on here an ex accounts servant?

  i’d be interested in a projection of what percentage of contributions come from elderly jw’s.

  i.e, money that will be diminishing over next 5 or 10 years as these ones pass on.. i estimate that in one of my previous congs 50% of the contribution totals of approximately £400 each month were being made by the over 70’s demographic.. within the other 50% were pioneers and low paid workers who put in regular but small amounts.. i guess when the accountants ring the alarm bells you start cutting the biggest costs; full time servants, buildings, printed literature.

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  I am not so sure. The young ones get older and then they start contributing.

  There is also another phenomenon. I was an accountant and noticed the strange thing that when a «heavy» contributor moved out (like myself) or died, it didn’t affect the total contributions. Like someone else picked up the baton. Maybe it was a coincident for my old cong.
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  Could You See A Kingdom Hall Getting Shot Up?

  by minimus in

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  i would never want to see that happen but i’m surprised it has not occurred at this point.

  there are many disgruntled people who have had bad experiences with the witnesses..

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  Security is expensive by money and man hours. It’s an excellent excuse for the Society to merge more congregations and sell surplus halls.
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  So my husband got a letter

  by Lost his mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, he received a letter that i am wondering if it is one of those open letters that are out there to denote time given.

  it starts out with the name of the person sending it, then goes into the spiel...do you know our god's name?

  when i was shown what it is, i kind of got upset.

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  bamse

  Sorry, when I read EndOfMysteries' contrubution, I unintenionaly pushed the dislike button. I then tried to push again to remove the first, but it only got another "dislike". Then I tried to neutralize it with a push on Like, but then it just got several likes Anyway, I liked it very much I thought it was a automatic that didn't allow several clicks