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  Jehovah's Witnesses: A Clear Decline

  by Hadriel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it is rather clear that the internet is to put it mildly, wrecking the world of the watchtower bible & tract society.

  if not for foreign language i doubt there would be much growth at all.. digital trends and analytics are very real.

  i live this analytics world i assure you to some degree you can take it to the bank.

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  freddo

  And notice how even in average joe's link it peaks around August/October 2014 and drops steadily down to February 2016.

  Is this because jwdotorgasm was really pushed in the summer of 2014 and now interest is already waning?
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  Watchtower December 15th issue caught lying again!

  by freeman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower caught lying again in the december 15th article “a living translation of god's word”.

  more like a lying then a living translation of god”s word if you ask me.

  but i digress... .

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  freddo

  Nice catch!
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  Actively Fading and The Memorial

  by All for show in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  those of you fading- with the memorial approaching are you going to appease family?

  not going and making up an excuse?

  acting like your going but not really?.

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  freddo

  Maybe if you feel you "have to attend" or "truthfully say you have attended " you could go to:

  Another congregation in your hall as "the time suits better" = less love bombing/awkwardness

  A congregation in another town "where your relative/friend who's invited you attends" - just go to a hall where you know no-one at all.

  Or if you want to lie and make an excuse:-

  Go away for a short break and "attend in London/Edinburgh/Cardiff" or some other plausible late winter citybreak type of place where there are several halls to choose from. You need to know the town well enough to blag it mind!

  Be "really really sick" and use the phone in link (which didn't work again) and ignore the phone.

  The best one tho' has to be jwfacts "don't go - they can't df you for it!"
  
  
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  YOUNG PEOPLE ASK Should I Grow a Beard?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. social
  2. humour

  ok, ok, so the actual title of the article released today on jw-org is "young people askshould i get a tattoo?

  ", but i thought i'd replace some words and phrases from the actual article, as follows:"regardless of the motive, you should think long and hard before deciding to have anything growing out of .

  your skin!

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  freddo

  @pale.emperor

  Your last paragraph in bold strikes me as strange coming from somebody from the UK.
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  What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

  by Funchback in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.

  it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.

  the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..

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  freddo

  My parents weren't real jw die-hards when it came to TV watching in the UK.

  In the 1970's the UK only had 3 channels and Colour TV was only transmitted on one of them part time from 1967 and by mid 1970 all 3 were full time colour.

  My family were fairly early in getting a colour TV and I remember that my normally frugal parents spent £250 on a Colour TV set (about £3000 in todays values!) in 1970 from an inheritance. I distinctly remember my mother saying we might as well spend it as "it would be all over by 1975!"

  So programmes - Bewitched was allowed although other jw's felt it was "wrong".

  Scooby-Doo was my favourite which I always got away with because as I said "it was always the fairground owner or the museum curator in a sheet"

  Smurfs were never big over here and were just viewed like the seven dwarfs in my area - no one to tell us they were demonised!

  Dr. Who/Star Trek/Star Wars - no problem. A bit of concern over Lord of the Rings and in later years Harry Potter seemed to be a no-no but I always took the view it was fantasy and watched it without telling anyone!

  Soaps

  Dallas was big over here and a cause of debates. The UK Soaps of Coronation Street and especially Eastenders were watched and condemned in equal measure by the moderates and the self-righteous.

  I remember my mother being told by a self righteous elder relative that she shouldn't watch soaps and she told him that as long as he watched James Bond films with "sex and violence" he could keep his nose out!

  Superman and Batman was OK and Disney fantasy stuff like Beauty and the Beast was too so in a jw way it was quite moderate.

  
  
  
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  Favourite Comedy Quotes

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i wanted to post a serious, profound quote in stillin's thread but my mind went blank and i'm pretty crap with serious quotes anyway, so i put a jokey quote from the red dwarf computer holly: .

  it's better to have loved and lost than to have listened to an album by olivia newton-john.. when a bemused lister asks why, holly replies "because anything's better than listening to an album by olivia newton-john!".

  this got me thinking, what are everyone's favourite comedy quotes?.

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  Blackadder is entertaining his relatives Lord and Lady Whiteadder - extreme protestant puritans - in the hope of getting an inheritance from them.

  He offers Lady Whiteadder a pair of earmuffs to keep out the cold.

  Lady Whiteadder: "No, thank you! Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics!"
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  Trying To Leave - Im Going Crazy

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is my first post.

  i really feel i need to leave the jw's rather than go along pretending everything is perfect etc.

  no friends, me at work.

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  freddo

  Get some professional medical help p.e. You mentioned that being dead might be a relief to you. That is a concern.

  You are tied in to this weird family (even by jw standards) and you and your wife must break free and I reckon to move physically a fair way away is the best option.

  How old is your little girl and what kind of work do you do? Is it a transferable skill if you move.
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  Who Picks The Governing Body?

  by millie210 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey everyone,.

  just a simple straight forward question on exactly what the process is.

  if a gb member died tomorrow, do the remaining ones choose who gets to be next?.

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  freddo

  Pretty much yes. Just like an elders meeting where they say "Billy's good but his wife's a fruitloop; how about Cecil?" "Yeah, he won't rock the boat - two thirds in favour? Aye!"

  Except they don't have to ask the CO if it's OK!
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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  freddo

  S&L is now "Formerly SandL" - he's posted under his new name in the post two back from this one.

  For what it's worth he has now convinced me to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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  Does anyone know the themes of this year's circuit and district conventions?

  by mamacita29 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm trying to get a jump ahead for my colleague.

  i am making progress though and she is now willing to listen to logic.

  logic and reasoning is like kryptonite to jw's.

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  freddo

  Any circuit assembly reports anyone?

  As in number baptised/number attending?