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  Do They Still do Door-to-Door as Much as Before?

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of jws still go door to door like we used to?.

  do they still have meetings for field service on sat mornings and sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?.

  with the reduction of printing wts and awakes what will they offer at the doors?.

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  freddo

  Round my way, as Slidin Fast says "the morning starts well but after the first half hour ..." (I paraphrase)

  Midweek:

  The Pioneers and their "spiritual" friends man a trolley three times a week or soon disappear to do "calls" only to surface at the coffee stop which is typically an hour after they have met and left the meeting for field service.

  Any other "average" publisher that turns up and who hasn't tagged along with the group above will struggle through about 45 minutes of first call before hitting the coffee stop.

  After 30 mins to 45 mins of coffee the keeners go off to their trolley stint or a bible study with some needy/lonely/vulnerable/simpleton (any or all of these) or "calls" on some kindly/tolerant/lonely route call. (If they are NH it is a bonus because they can "try" a few more times in the coming weeks before stuffing a magazine through the letter box with a note)

  The "also rans" just mumble about doing a call on the way home and disappear.

  Saturday Mornings:

  As above with less of the keeners (who are on trolleys/metropolitan trolleys or not out) and more "averages"/"also rans"/"bottom feeders" who traipse around ineffectively - occasionally with an elder driving by to ask "do you need more territory?".

  Some will show up at the coffee stop which dissipates about 30 minutes to an hour later.

  Sundays - virtually non existent (except Metro shifts)

  UTTER WASTE OF TIME
  
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  January 2018 Watchtower

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the cover page shows a photo jws loading a small plane with watchtower literature to take to a remote area in bolivia.the first study article introduces the 2018 year text isa.

  40:31 "those hoping in jehovah will regain power".

  according to them, you may leave home to do field service or attend a meeting feeling exhausted but you return home refreshed and 'jesus' yoke is kindly indeed!

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  freddo

  I wonder if the "executive from a large company" worked for MAN Roland printing presses and was buttering up what was then a good customer?
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  January 2018 Study Watchtower - if only J.W.'s knew the truth!

  by The Fall Guy in

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  2. bible

  page 19, paragraph 12: "with prayerful consideration, the governing body strives to be faithful and discreet with regard to how the organization’s funds are used.".

  yeah, i "prayed" too - that more and more j.w.

  's would discover that millions of dollars of their hard-earned cash were being misused to shut the mouths of j.w.

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  freddo

  I'm surprised your CoBE even asked if there were any questions, NBD.

  Any resolution I have ever sat through didn't have an invitation for questions included.
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  ANNUAL MEETING LETTER - To Zimbabwe congregations

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a nonprofit corporation .

  watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania .

  private bag wg-5001, westgate, zimbabwe telephone 08677 004 012; 0772 472 403/4 .

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  freddo

  I hope it's not so much an exciting decision as an exiting decision.
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  JW Rumor: End of the Traveling Overseer

  by Edison Trent in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a friend of mine has contacts to a family with several circuit overseers and special pioneers.

  they have good connections to bethel.. he told me that the latest rumor from bethel states that the cos should be abolished in their present form.

  they have also recently begun to take cos back to bethel.. over the same channel i have already heard of the car fleet program and that the dos should be abolished.. has anyone else already heard of it?

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  freddo

  SBF - The regular CO change (under the three year system) isn't until Sept 2018 for the UK.
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  Simplified study watchtower

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there seems to be some confusion over what is happening with the study edition of the watchtower - i notice it isn't mentioned in the letter to be read out.

  if, as seems likely, it is going to be dumbed down even further then i think this could be the first step to shortening the watchtower study (to 30 mins?

  ) - it is the only meeting not to have been reduced in recent years.

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  freddo

  SF said ... I think this could be the first step to shortening the watchtower study (to 30 mins?) ...

  Oh please God, yes!
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  happy people.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have opened thesite to relate this part of my day.. yes the jw are such happy people.

  yeah right... my wife has come home after an extended sunday meeting in a foul mood.

  to be around her is like feeling your way through barbed wire.

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  freddo

  You can probably offer him better assistance than me Xanthippe.
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  happy people.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have opened thesite to relate this part of my day.. yes the jw are such happy people.

  yeah right... my wife has come home after an extended sunday meeting in a foul mood.

  to be around her is like feeling your way through barbed wire.

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  freddo

  Hi zeb,

  I haven't read through your back posts so forgive me for asking but is her "cold shoulder" due to her being a jw and you being anti-jw?

  How about saying "I was going to watch a film at the cinema (nice light non-controversial film) do you want to join me?"

  She doesn't have to join in conversation much and nor do you but you are doing something together.

  Baby steps.
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. social
  2. current

  this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

  1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

  6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

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  No more Yearbooks - with those pesky charts which would be showing "negative" down-turns in baptisms and growth.

  They are as transparent as to their true motives as looking through a window pane.

  And all that saved loot too. More sackings once the paint is dry on War-wick and Chelmsford methinks.
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  How Often Do You Come Here?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i regularly check in to see what's happening but i'm not here like i used to be.. are you here every day?

  are you here as much as before?.

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  freddo

  Most days.