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  Remember when you could wear casual clothes to the congregation book study?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would get home from work,eat dinner,shower and put on jeans,a shirt and gym shoes to the book study.

  then,one day a letter was read where men would need to wear a suit and tie and the woman would have to wear dresses.

  it was stated in a letter that the change was due to, '' giving a better witness to anyone who would watch us walking into our local congregation or a neighbor's house.''.

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  Designer Stubble

  When was this? I attended the book study from early 70s and then already the dress code was there.
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  The Org's Chariot Rolls On - Over the Top of People!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  information just received from a reliable source.. here is an example of how the org's "expansion" is being carried out in 3 continents: .

  japan - special pioneers under age 50 are being told they will now only be regular pioneers.barcelona spain - the regional translation (catalan) office is being closed.mexico - special pioneers being told they will only be regular pioneers - no age specified on this one.. the scene of the org's world is changing - rapidly!.

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  Special pioneers get the same stipend as Bethel workers..so basically it is a round of cost saving redundancies.

  Amazing that while in the final milliseconds before Armageddon there is no money to continue preaching...guess the stones will have to speak up.
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  KM - another evidence for the leaked letter

  by fastJehu in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the december kingdom ministry (km) is online.

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  no schedule for the first week in january 2016 - as in previous december kms.. so another evidence, that beginning with january 2016 the org will change the mid-week-meeting.. -----> download link: http://download.jw.org/files/media_publickm/72/km_e_201512.pdf.

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  Interesting that they mention offering the Awake of January, while it will only be available in February. Unless of course they stock them all every other month (more efficient logistics)
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  C.O.'s Are Perfectly Safe...

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ... until they have fulfilled their role in the org's master plan to sit down with the bodies of elders in the circuits and ascertain which congregations should be merged or consolidated.

  this "culling" of k.h.

  's will now have to be accelerated - considering the panic to rake in cash.. after the c.o.

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  Less congregations = less COs

  One weekday meeting with CO = One CO can do two congregations in one week

  Potential CO reduction >50%
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  are there really 8 million jw's?

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last circuit assembly there was 700+ present and 1 baptized.. recently there was a foreign language assemble of over 500 and 1 baptized.. in the last 5-10 years i haven't been to one assembly where there has been more than a handful baptized.

  at the memorial all i see are the same old faces that have been coming since the flood.. the hall complex i attend has 6 congregation and several groups-there is negative growth.

  when you factor in the demographically aging folk and the many who have already passed away, i don't know where they get the 8 million.. i know that most of the growth is from the developing countries, but still i think they are fudging their numbers.

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  The numbers are kept up and the increase is artificial.

  Remember when they started to allow the elderly and sick report 15 minutes. This gave a sudden boost in the following year.

  Then they allowed not one parent, but both parents to report 4 hours each month, regardless of whether kids were getting individual study, as taking them to meetings and out in service counts too. Parents have no reason to be irregular or inactive anymore and the numbers went up.

  Further a lot of buzz was created when the auxiliary pioneer hours dropped to 30 hours.

  And of course the easiest hours can be racked up sitting quietly beside a cart.

  Finally as said, elders fill in often by default one hour for those who don't hand in their reports to prevent the CO hassling them.

  The 8 million is simply not true.
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  What is the most strange action of a witness while out in field service?

  by adjusted knowledge in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.

  he was very very strange.

  he was a nice guy but goofy.

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  We had one sister tell an experience of her making a return visit at 05:30 AM to make sure the householder was at home, as she had not been able to get hold of him for quite a while. You can't make this up.
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  Today's Special Day Assembly Expenses and the $10,499 Deficit. Silent Majority?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.

  i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.

  sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.

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  The reasons they continue to have assemblies is that these are a major profit center. Good to hear only $500 was donated. I think many are subcontiously starting to realize it is a scam for money.
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  GB worship on JW Talk

  by Lemonp in

  1. watchtower
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  for full res screencap.

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  I can only hope this is an apostate trying to stir things up...
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  What if an entire class of baptismal candidates said "NO"?

  by bradford in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  question 1 comes and the speaker asks for their response..they all yell no!.

  what would happen then?.

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  It would be better to answer the first question with yes but the second one with a load NO
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  "Getting Baptized Is A Protection...."

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm sure that most of us heard that line when we were young.

  i never could convince myself of that, other than that it hung a blade over my head that would then be on the chopping block should i err in some way and thus they would be protected from me, but i also knew that i needed to do so anyway.

  otherwise i'd be a pariah if i got older and didn't take the step, and i wanted to be good in their eyes.

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  It is a similar threat that the Catholic Church gives to parents if their baby isn't baptized...then it cannot go to heaven if it dies.

  The JWs are in many ways not too different from the churches they despise.