I guess that as this is close to the border with Mexico that there is a high proportion of Spanish speaking brothers and sisters. If so then the baptisms are even lower than you might expect?
Posts by freddo
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11Assembly day - La Féria, tx stats
by StarTrekAngel injust quick post for stats.
1300 attendance .
4 baptism, 3 adults and 12 year old son of an elder from my cong.
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Question about an elder and if I am crazy
by life is to short inok so i have a question.
i was a very, very true believer until i saw the child molesters in my hall and how that whole thing was handled.. my husband is older than i am and had been an elder for 12 when we married.
so fast forward to 06, we are in a hall where i thought all the elders were ok at the worst and great at the best.
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freddo
Me again ... sorry to be a bore.
Don't forget that these elders will tell you that if you watch Scooby-Doo or Harry Potter then a demon will come and live down the back of your sofa.
That is how crazy they are!
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Adult survivor of sexual abuse as a child
by life is to short ini showed the video from the midweek meeting of september 12th to my counselor to get her take on it.
she said that it clearly was a propaganda video and was appalled that it was shown to an audience that had small children in it.
she said that they could have been way more generic in their way of portraying the women as having been abused.. the subject of sexual abuse and the way the video zeroed in on it would have small children asking questions that really did not need to be addressed.
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freddo
LITS - You have fought well and hard. You cannot make straight what is crooked. For your own mental health disengage from them. Especially the "Limping Lunatic" elder.
Ecclesiastes 1 v 15
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Question about an elder and if I am crazy
by life is to short inok so i have a question.
i was a very, very true believer until i saw the child molesters in my hall and how that whole thing was handled.. my husband is older than i am and had been an elder for 12 when we married.
so fast forward to 06, we are in a hall where i thought all the elders were ok at the worst and great at the best.
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freddo
What jeanniebeanzz said ...
Also - the man is a self obsessed lunatic. Stop engaging with him. DO NOT talk to him; DO NOT communicate with him in any way whatsoever.
Keep the emails. When he persists and you get your lawyer to tell him to "______ off" they can be referred to by him in his correspondence.
If you were my wife that elder would be lifted by his necktie against the wall and have it explained up close and personal to leave you alone.
BTW - You're not the crazy one!
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Oct 2021 Time Capsule
by LevelThePlayingField inwhat do you think the jw religion will be like in oct 2021?
if we go back five years from oct 2016 you get 2011. there was no jw.org, really pretty much no tablets, most people were using paper copies for everything.
now that's all changed.
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freddo
They will only change when outside events force them to. Remember they have a two-thirds majority decision making process at GB level.
These events might be:
A. Falling revenue stream via lack of contributions/law suits.
B. Falling membership which will feed into A.
Wildcards - very unlikely indeed - might be a really disgruntled "cell" of ex-jw's who do a terrorist act on a GB member or on HQ, or a grab for power/legal ownership or a schism by a faction in HQ or a Branch in a foreign country.
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Logical Problem with WT Anointed
by Vanderhoven7 inthe watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.
prominent throughout much of the roman.
empire, including the capital city.
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freddo
Good grief - so 7,000,000 plus die horrible deaths in waves of persecution from the "Devil's vicious assaults" and the vainglorious bastards aka Watchtower (sat on their fat derrieres in comfyland New York) say they were only "professed" Christians and not worthy of a heavenly reward.
(Which obviously only comes if you falsely predict the end several times, own two cadillacs, run a radio station, print millions of crappy books and build a non interactive website while protecting pedophiles in your midst. )
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What's Is The Goal Of This Religion?
by pale.emperor inwhat's is the goal of this religion?.
i mean, if it's for money they could do a lot more like other religions do: tithing, paying for prayers from the gb, selling "miracles", selling "blessed" items, selling courses.. if its for power then what are they hoping to do with that power?
they dont seem to do anything.
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freddo
I hope their goal is an own goal.
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Sound of Music actress passed away
by Tallon incharmain carr, the actress that played liesl von trapp in the film sound of music, has passed away at the age of 73.. r.i.p.. sound of music was one of the first films i saw.
really enjoyed it.. https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/charmain-carr-liesl-from-the-sound-of-music-dies-at-73-072733602.html.
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freddo
She was a stunning looking girl wasn't she?
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Easier to be a JW now?
by Xanthippe inreading konceptual's account of talking to cart 'witnesses' and it reminded me that when we left in '89 we thought the religion would do one of two things.
get more hardline, consequently lose members and eventually come to an end in some way.
or ease up on the members, fewer rules, less fs time, less meetings, just to keep them in.. all the recent apostate stuff, treatment of dfed kids and the hardline attitude to people who leave or try to fade has confused me, made me think they are harder on the r+f., but i don't think this is true.
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freddo
They still go plodding slowly - "in the most urgent work to save mankind" - door to door - but they choose the time that is least likely to meet anyone. Apathetic low end rank and file (typically one third of the cong) will go out on Saturday mornings or mid week mornings when people are in bed, at the shops, working or off for the day.
Keener rank and file (including retired elders and those that occasionally aux pioneer at a pathetic 30 hrs) will go on each others return visits and bible studies to increase their time and will stand next to a local dummy cart from time to time.
The regular pioneers increasingly stand like stupified dummies next to metropolitan crap carts too. Oh and they'll study with Sister Gotmoorkids children and teens to "help" them (and get their time in).
The only men that go out in the early evening to find people home are the odd ball keen slightly deranged type which average one or two per congregation.
It really would be a joke if it wasn't a complete waste of time.
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Big news from Kim and Mikey, they state in thier latest video proof the WT invested in the Nazi war machine!!
by Crazyguy inthis is big!
according to what they say if i'm correct an investigation was done back in 1998 in concerning what american companies invested money in to germany.
mike and kim state that a document they have attained shows a list of american firms that had invested into germany as late as 1943. on this list is non other then watchtower !!
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freddo
@Thisisme ...
What's the point of posting unsupportable allegations about the WT, especially when the documents clearly indicate otherwise? I saw the documents and read them when posted previously. They do not support what Mikey and Kim say they do IMO. To not call it out feeds into the "Apostates lie" lie that comes from WT.
They have been over eager. They should apologise. Just like Cedars did over a fake recording that he attributed to the WT when it wasn't so.
It takes big men and women to say sorry we got it wrong and they go up in my estimation when they do.