Posts by freddo

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

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friends

i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

freddo

Now the sacked bethel middle managers and special pioneers are getting out into the congregations they will bring with them a strange mix. On the one hand they were once at the hub of the organization and they may be expecting some deference.

On the other they will be needing the congregations support for accommodation, association, work and ministry. So they need to be nice.

Then a third point comes into play - however it has been dressed up - they have been shafted. They will be fighting resentment towards their branch committee that chose them to be the ones kicked to the kerb.

Their confidence will be diminished. It is going to be an interesting time.

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New Generation Understanding gives further reasons not to watch Star Trek reruns

by pirata in

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friends

the new light on the generation gives us even further reason not to watch star trek re-runs.. the title "star trek - the next generation" misleads people about the real meaning of what is meant by a "generation".. evidently the lives of starfleet officers who served aboard uss enterprise ncc-1701 would overlap with those who served aboard the uss enterprise ncc-1701-d. since spock and mccoy's life overlapped with picard's, they were contemporaries, and thus of the same generation.. if the producers of the show were truly sincere in advocating the truth, they would have titled the show "star trek - the contemporary overlapping generation continued".. my dear brothers and sisters: let us be resolved never to be deceived the by the deceptive entertainment of this world!.

[ applause ].

freddo

Star trek has a lot of catching up to do. Only about 40 years of overlapping generations. The Borg (our Borg) has overlapped since about 1879!

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What date was set for our letters to be sent to KH in our communities.

by James Mixon in

who recall the topic.

we discuss ways to cause an uproar in the kh, sending letters we want.

out.....

freddo

Don't send it just to the elders - copy in a handful of witnesses you know by name at their home address so that a "buzz" gets going in the hall.

Sending it to the elders will mean it gets stamped on immediately.

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

freddo

@sir82

"Fumbuck" South Dakota.

Laugh. Out. Loud.

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

freddo

In the "1975" debacle and it's longer lived sibling the "Generation that saw 1914" debacle which ran out of steam in 1995, there were two things missing:

1. The internet being freely accessed by everyone below the age of 70.

2. JW's alive who remembered the last big "the end is nigh" debacle of 1925.

This time, with the "overlapping generation" nonsense:

1. There are plenty of jw's alive who remember 1975/1995.

2. The internet exposes their stupidity to anyone aged 12 - 75 who has a smartphone.

The memorial attendance has hovered just below 20,000,000 for four years. I see nothing coming that will make it increase.

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BOE 2015-11-03 Re: 2016 Convention Invitations

by wifibandit in

mirror via google.

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freddo

What a complete and utter waste of time. I am so glad I'm not an elder - especially on the service committee - with all this crap to deal with for no return.

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Looking for a certain image

by magotan in

hey, i'm looking for a certain image.

it's one of the more dopey series of images from about five years ago.

about a "sister" who goes off the rails and she gets counseled and she's dressing all "immodestly" which is really just a streak of color in her hair.

freddo

Yeah I know the one you mean. It was in the book study (sorry - congregation bible study) I think? Or a WT study article? Coupla years back not five. Someone will be along soon to tell us.

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Mummy's (Mommy's) Boys - Old school Elders are mummy's boys.

by freddo in

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friends

in the congregations i have been in there are many long time dyed in the wool elders who were the sons of women of a certain age.

let me explain - must you?

yes.. mom "finds the truth" (often because a loved one died in the war, or died when she was young and she bought into the nice ladies calling to offer the resurrection hope) sometime between ww2 and vietnam.

freddo

In the congregations I have been in there are many long time dyed in the wool elders who were the sons of women of a certain age. Let me explain - must you? Yes.

Mom "finds the truth" (often because a loved one died in the war, or died when she was young and she bought into the nice ladies calling to offer the resurrection hope) sometime between WW2 and Vietnam. Dad is an opposer or an unbeliever.

Little Johnny is indoctrinated by gullible yet firm mother. Little Johnny loves his mommy and follows her into the faith. Daddy is indifferent or mildly opposed and gives the family financial stability although credit often goes to Jah. During the cold war and the threat of Nuclear Armaggeddon the "truth" provides an anchor to little Johnny. He is convinced by 1975 and the generation that saw 1914 not passing away. He becomes an elder in the 1970's or 1980's. He may have gone on to Bethel or been a CO or Special Pioneer.

He is still there now serving away as he goes through his 60's and 70's, 80's and death. His hopes dashed but he knows nothing else and resignedly plods on until he sits in the corner and hands over the reigns of leadership to a younger less stable, less experienced and less/or willing group in their 30's and 40's.

Do you know of any of these?

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Correlation decline JW numbers and JW broadcasting?

by Gorbatchov in

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friends

i read some impressive figures here about the decline of the jw numbers in 2015.. could there be a correlation between this decline and the start of jw broadcasting?.

hence, that there would be an negative impact because the gb is standing so nearby, you can experience the idiot reasoning of their doctrines sitting in your own living room?.

the lett effect?

freddo

I'm not sure whether GBbroadcasting is a just a joke, just incredibly embarrassing, just plain crazy or just financially mad.

1. God answers prayers to find leaky water pipes to convince your mate to be a jw.

2. The dancing literature "if you could see what I could see" cart.

3. The generation chart.

4. Herd's clunking great Rolex and the GB's "man jewellery" while asking for donations.

It's either run by the most proud, stubborn blithering idiots with followers that have an "emperors clothes" complex or it's done by the cleverest apostates in history!

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Gas prices today & the book study

by LevelThePlayingField in

we all remember, one of the main reasons for removing the bookstudy was the high gas prices, well, have you looked at the gas prices today?

nationwide, the lowest is about $1.65, the highest is about $2.67.

isn't that right about the same gas prices as when they cancelled the bookstudy in the first place?

freddo

Now Now Nicolaou, play nice!

Anyway their gallons are smaller - 3.87L to our 4.54L.