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  Evolution of a congregation 1978- 2018

  by joey jojo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our whole congregation was excited as we stood in front of our brand new kh and smiled for the photographer from the local newspaper.. for years we had been travelling 30 mins each way to attend the meetings and now, after a big effort of donations and hard work we finally had our own kh in our own town.

  in the picture, there were 45 smiling faces of all ages, from the newborn to the old brother that had turned 100 and everyone in between.

  the year was 1978.. the congregation grew and shrank over the years, probably hitting its peak during the 80's and 90's, there was even a renovation in the early 90's that the local brothers donated towards, for the benefit of the local town to hear the good news about the imminent arrival of the end.

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  pepperheart

  might this be one of the 3,000 propertys that the watchtower is selling off.

  3000 propertys thats like one a day for the next 8 years
  
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  No new releases? How are the r&f taking this?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it true that there's been no new releases at this summer's convention?

  if so it will be the first convention in decades perhaps ever to not produce at least a new tract.. how are the r&f explaining this to eachother?

  surely they must have noticed the absence?

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  pepperheart

  I think that the writing committee will be the next group of people to be kicked out.The watchtower will be printing the new format of the watchtowers and awakes for the next two years then i think they will just keep on reprinting the same stuff and just changing the dates eg issue 1 2018 will become issue 1 2020 and so on
  
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  over 700 baptized yesterday at one convention in Africa

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there was a french language congregation this weekend in congo dr which had 44,000 in attendance and something like 730 baptized.

  i'm not saying that is good or bad, just reporting the news..

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  pepperheart

  In 2012 the watchtower did close 20 branch offices around the world and sam hurd did say in 2015 that ALL bethels have reduced the number of people who used to work there
  
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  Why are JDubs scared to death of apostate websites?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was an elder back in the 1970's i loved to debate and challenge ministers, preachers, and holy rollers.

  now you can be a loyal jdub fully indoctrinated for 30 years but just take a peek at an apostate website and you are doomed.

  yes, satan now has you by the gonads and all of the years of being at the meetings, all of the family worship nights, all of the conventions, and all of the personal study just go up in a cloud of smoke.

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  The watchtower is scared because they are a weak cult,who have to blackmail people so they wont leave the watchtower
  
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  Org's "rearranginging deck chairs on the titanic" serving 2 purposes

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in 2 weeks we will be announcing major changes in northern ohio congregations and there is quite the buzz in the area about it.

  just talked to a jdub from the detroit area that just underwent similar changes, and they mentioned it has been "quite exciting" to get to meet new brothers and sisters.

  so besides the cash benefit of selling a couple kingdom halls in the process.

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  I think its good that in selling off 3000 propertys they are making it even harder for new people to get to a kingdom hall
  
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  Sells out of KHs

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just wonder about the 3000 buildings that are gonna be sold out.

  seems like a lot.

  but how much is it in percentage of the buildings they own that are gonna be sold?.

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  i think its great that the watchtower is making it even harder for new people to start going to kingdom halls but they cant have that much more now to cmake savings apart to sell kingdom halls off
  
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  The changing retail Industry - will your job disappear?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the smart phone is a major factor in the changes that are happening in china's retail industry.

  will your country also change?.

  in the usa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cscl9f2bvgs.

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  Out of town wharehouses are doing so much damage because

  they like to have robots rather than people if they do have people they treat them like crap

  and because they are out of town they dont pay the local councils as much money for rates

  and if everybody did that the local councils would not have as much money to pay for the local police ambulance and fire brigade
  
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  Drop Off in Mentioning 1914

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

  paranoia rules supreme!.

  curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.

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  using your brain cells hurt some people
  
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  Spiritual "Protection" - a Menace on Psychological Development

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not quite a week ago, @lost in the fog created a thread entitled: do you have this illness?.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5187824140681216/do-you-have-this-illness.

  in my year of being on this forum, i have browsed many a disillusioned thread of ex-jehovah’s witnesses expressing similar symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder when detailing their awakening - my own story included.

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  when you have been involved with a non christian cult that is as as high control as the jws are then it can be a big shock to a persons mind
  
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  Who helps the most - POMO or PIMO

  by Ray Frankz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was recentely talking to my girl who is also awaken about if there were any chance of the org to lose at least its power and authority since i believe to expect a destruction of the org is unreal i came to the conclusion that the best way to help jws is by means of the pimos.. if we take the own jw logic (the world is bad but we need to live among them in order to bring them to our side) i think that if a good part of the people who left when found ttatt stayed in they we could have much more awaken people today.

  when you are out it gets extremely hard to gain the trust of any jehovah's witness to begin with.

  every totalitarian government had to fight rebels among them.. im not being numb to the causes of anyone who decided to leave.

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  If all the PIMO people trashed a teaching book a week thet would be a total of many !000 of books a week