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Fifty years ago today
by JeffT in
1. jw
2. friends
october 6th 1974 debbie and i tied the knot.

the elder that performed the ceremony managed to personalize it a bit for us.

seems like something worked.
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Do you recognize this?
by Gorb in
1. jw
2. friends
thinking sometimes about my youth days and the stories my grandfather told me about our jw congregation.

do you recognize that your congregation was full of somehowe strange folks, very low educated, poor and simple?.

the po was an elder with some distance, with some personality acting intelligent and following the rules strict.. there was always a kind of scandal.
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The fading of a well known American religion. Could this happen someday to Jehovah's Witnesses?
by Balaamsass2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
new york times 9/5/24.

" there are only two shakers left.

they've still got utopia in their sites.. "by jordan kisner.
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Warwick sits on $70 billion?
by LaFrancia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
70,000 real estate properties at an average value of $100,000 and perhaps we can say (no one knows for sure) that warwick sits on $70 billion in real estate value.

in the video (deleted by jwborg but available on the avoid.jw website) of the 2018-19 coordinators' committee report (english) shown to all congregations at the mid-week meeting, we find several curious and interesting indications:.

- at minute 6.52 seconds you see some data .
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Watchtower in the NEWS. DUBLIN: "Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture"
by Balaamsass2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group".

slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group.

28 aug 2024. john mulligan.
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The World Health Organization Prostitude
by raymond frantz in
1. jw
2. experiences
https://youtu.be/ksw9ujgm2i0?si=ruesgp-s6evmpdik.

as a second pandemic is now in the horizon mpox or monkey pox as they like to call it, it is important to scrutize the advise the governing body provided last time around with covid and how they sided 100% with the governents and their medical directives and lockdowns and how they imposed one-sided narrative in congregations around the world even threatening elders who refused to obey their direction....
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MANY DIFFICULT YEARS AHEAD : PER CHRISTENSEN
by raymond frantz in
1. jw
2. friends
https://youtu.be/jsmbtv4nafi?si=ezj0dnudyjls4knc.

there was a time they preached the great tribulation was a short period of time between the fall of babylon and jesus coming back to save them, now they realize there are difficult years ahead of us, watch this latest morning worship video by per christensen on this subject .
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Crisis of Conscience available for free on Audible
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i'm unclear on how this has been achieved or if permissions have been given.

presumably, audible (part of amazon) have their own procedures to ensure legality, but here it is nonetheless;.

listen to crisis of conscience - raymond franz by crisis of conscience - raymond franz on audible.
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Ages of each user here?
by ukpimo in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm interested to know the age demographics here.

it must be significantly different to other exjw forums.

it would be a damning report for watchtower if most of us appear to have left for decades.. you don't have to mention your exact age, you could always say "in my 50s".. i am in my 70s.
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Celebrities Who Hate Jw's?
by Ron.W. in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you recall any?.

i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.

also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.