Topics Started by Beth Sarim

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The Shocking Truth Behind the Menlo Park Congregation Takeover
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
the brother & son of 2 of the original elders in the menlo park takeover tells us what really happened.

part 1. https://youtu.be/ypgadyu1nbk?si=g2tcfg21gynq0tfi.
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Is There Some Sort of Campaign On?
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. friends
on friday, i walked to my doctor's to pick up a couple of prescriptions*.

from there i walked in to town to the chemist's (pharmacy) to get the scripts filled.

it's winter here, and my town can get get colder than is average for my state**.
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Baptismal Failure Rates Among JW Bible Teachers
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
the 2024 data from the jw website indicates that jw teachers have an over 96% failure rate with their students : .

2024 average bible studies each month: 7,480,146.

2024 baptisms:296,267. number of bible studies it takes to produce one baptism : 25.25. this means that jehovah's witnesses have an over 96% failure rate with people who want to study the bible with them.
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Former Jehovah's Witness sentenced for child sexual assault
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
6/3/2025 former jehovah's witness sentenced for child sexual assault shaun sheffer, 47, of harmony was found guilty in january of three counts each of rape and indecent assault, including assault of a person less than 13 who had a mental disability.

he also was convicted of corruption of minors.... https://triblive.com/local/regional/former-jehovahs-witness-sentenced-for-child-sexual-assault/ .
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2025*S*147*06*June*English*German*French!
by Atlantis in
1. jw
2. friends
2025*s*147*06*june ( next elder manual is due in september ).

english*german*french.

https://app.filemail.com/d/rausnpplnmhsemj .
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Remember using the term BORG to refer to the WTS
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
it's interesting that when watchtower is referred to as the borg, it immediately brings to mind the scenes where individuals such as captain piccard are held prisoner within a vast collective hive type prison and unable to leave.

they are then turned into drones.

in fact here is how wikipedia explains it.. the borg are a fictional alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the star trek franchise.
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Guess who's coming to dinner.. Elder and nosey wife!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
so my wife ran into a elder i new 10 years ago and invites him to dinner!!!!!

he arives and gives me a bear hug...love bombing!

he started talking about armegedon is really very very close.
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Where r we now?
by sparrowdown in
1. jw
2. friends
post covid, post trump, post cedarsgate, post tony morris, post arc… where r we now?.
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WT AUGUST 2025: NEW LIGHT ON HAILSTONE MESSAGE : IS IT BIBLICAL OR JUST CONVENIENT?
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/n_fttvylm-m?si=l44406ohysubkajr.

so today we are considering, the watchtower's new take on the "hailstone message", and if you don't know what that is , they used to believe that according to revelation 16:21 they would be preaching a hard hitting message during the time of the end.

now, let's read the verse first from the new world translation: "then great hailstones, each about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven on the people, and the people blasphemed god because of the plague of hail, for the plague was unusually great" now this is their new understanding as it appears from the 3rd paragraph from their new watchtower study edition for august 2025 and their article:when will the preaching work end, has this to say: "our clarified understanding of matthew 24:14 also adjusts our understanding of the hailstonelike message foretold at revelation 16:21. further examination has revealed that the two scriptures complement each other.
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How many Ends are there?
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
when will the current preaching work end?

(remember, i am reporting not supporting wts teaching).

questions from readers august 2025 p. 31 (how many wts teaching have been clarified?