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  My favorite Cooking Pot

  by Wonderment in

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  although cooking pots are not directly "religious" subject, perhaps not many will deny that a happy belly can lead to wholesome religious thoughts and peaceful spiritual discussions.. that said, through the years i have tried most major brands of cooking pots - all the way from all-clad to cast-iron skilets - including some with the most extraordinary claims in between.. however, the one we have used the most in our kitchen is one brand from denmark, specifically, the 5 quart pot called "scanpan.

  " it is now approaching 40 years of daily use, and it has held-up surprisingly well.

  the handles are as tight as day one when we bought it.

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  I prefer a well used Jamaican Dutch pot. You can cook almost anything in it.

  And if the food you cook in it is Carribbean, too, well even better.😋
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Some thoughts...

  Wow he has lost weight!

  Yes, he's absolutely trying to up his dating game by organising these open mic and speed dating nights.....

  ....but all of that will come to naught the moment he opens his mouth to sing....😂😂

  Sorry Cedars, of all the things you could potentially rebrand as, singer ain't one. You've got an off key drone that the local alley cats would thumb a nose at!! 😬
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  The real numbers for yearly report.

  by Hellothere in

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  what do you think are the real numbers for yearly report?

  they can't be real the ones watchtower published.

  last 20 years i have seen large groups of young people in my area abandon watchtower.

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  They were reporting to the media their numbers "approach nine million"?!! Very strange. I really don't believe that.
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  Serena Williams baptism pics

  by blondie in

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  https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news-serena-williams-baptized-jehovah-s-witness .

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  Interesting that she named her daughter Olympia !!

  Whilst it's the perfect choice for one of the greatest sportswomen alive, I'm not sure Jeeeehover would approve her naming the child after the mountain top home of the Pagan competition!!!
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  2022 WTS Numbers

  by blondie in

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  2022 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 86. .

  number of lands reporting: 239. .

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  ALthough he was generous locally, he seemed to have enough sense not to leave anything to WTC headquarters. If I am wrong, someone please correct me.

  Fortunately his sister was his hier and I don't think she approved of watchtower. She made sure they didn't get a dime. I think because he died so suddenly (and relatively young), he hadn't written a proper will or at least watchtower hadn't had time to start turning on the screws.

  Let's just hope billionaire Serena doesn't leave her fortune to them. I've got a good idea her daughter will definitely not get indoctrinated, since her father's a non believer and no doubt she'll attend a good private school who will teach her to think critically. Serena probably never had the time to really investigate all this during her youth/career and didn't have time to attend uni. Maintaining your game at that level is a more than full time job.

  Blondie Sorry for diverting the subject and so nice to see you back!!
  I think the poor numbers and big decline will be buried under the COVID excuse. In fact it's a bit of a gift to watchtower in that sense.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  I cannot tell you how infuriating this is. Typical black & white thinking from a man with zero ability to think for himself, despite his protestations to the contrary. Anything not left is "far right" yet the whole point of democracy is the right to personal views and freedom of speech. If you put those "aside" & only have the left....well, we know what that is. It seems Lloyd is only comfortable living within an authoritarian framework where contrasting views are forbidden....a media informed utopia instead of a Watchtower one.

  Kim S HOWEVER as a casual observer, I have noticed the black and white, defend to the end, if your not with me your dead to me culture that is created by the paradigm ….. and yes it is culty…..why can’t people just get informed and make their own decisions …. You make a very interesting point !

  Kim they call them "The New Puritans", which is interesting in and of itself!
  
  

  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  seriously ,the reason i post this I thought it was funny how this have NO Covers charge , but didn't he charge one ,when he release is first book , and he was on a book tour ? I guess the freeloading is just for the Ex-jw community

  😂 Toblerone5 that's quite a funny (and you are right he did have a cover charge for his book tour) but this word is called a homograph - "covers" in this sense means a cover of a song. A cover being an interpretation of someone else's (usually famous) song. They must play their own original music.

  And yes, someone mentioned this may be an attempt to diversify. It's either a foray into becoming a music/events promotor OR it's a good way to meet the local "talent" (talent being another homograph? 😜)
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  I see Richard Carrier went on his channel. I wonder how many people have turned him down for interviews in the last year.

  Carrier doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to women, too. Anyway his patrons would have paid for that as you have to pay their appearance fee.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Would he have resigned to protect his Father's position in Watchtower?

  I think if that were the case, Vintage, he would have resigned a long time ago. As LMsA said it's an inactive company and probably always has been.
  I also agree with Simon that if Dijana divorced him (and there was any bad blood between them) getting child support wouldn't necessarily be a straightforward thing, particularly if he left Croatia. Establishing his having regular, reliable income could be tricky too.
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  Newly Awake JW- Recorded Talking to Elder

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  https://youtu.be/-wae3q_01me.

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  Powerful stuff.

  Interesting that he had two positive responses. That probably wouldn't have happened twenty years ago. What's happening in Spain is really encouraging too. If we can assume he sent it to everyone in his congregation at a minimum and that his congregation was 80 to 100 strong, it might be useful to assume around 3 to 4 or even 5% of Witnesses on average are either Pimo or well on their way to being so.