Interesting how it is now stay close to the congregation...while up to a few years ago it was stay close to your bookstudy group. With the end so near, they dropped the bookstudy due to fuel prices.
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The Watchtower 11/15/2014
by wifibandit inhttp://bayfiles.net/file/1jpu5/qhxxxl/w_e20141115.pdf.
select "premium download".
(thanks breakfast of champions).
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Did the organization admit declining growth and stagnation in today's watchtower?
by kneehighmiah indid anyone catch this quote?
"over seven and a half million witnesses of jehovah really have found him and they truly love him.".
why are they no longer touting "nearly 8 million" witnesses?
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Actually after giving it some thought, this is probably a smart move.
Surely some dubs in each congregation are aware that they have passed the 8M mark...And surely in many congregations at least one will answer up on how the work is being speeded up by big-J, along the lines of this: "As you can see in the paragraph, at the time the FDS was preparing this article we were only 7.5M publishers. At the Regional Convention, we now heard that we have more than 8M brothers and sisters serving Jehovah. Here we can see how close Armageddon must be; Isn't it great to have the truth."
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Did the organization admit declining growth and stagnation in today's watchtower?
by kneehighmiah indid anyone catch this quote?
"over seven and a half million witnesses of jehovah really have found him and they truly love him.".
why are they no longer touting "nearly 8 million" witnesses?
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Great catch!!! (Page 13, Paragraph 5 of the June 15, 2014 WT)
Normally "nearly 8 million" is used. Perhaps the numbers are under pressure.
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"I don't want to believe. I want to know." - Carl Sagan
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Evolution is just a theory
by venting inthis ticks me off!
last sundays watchtower talked about how organised the heavens are.
how it works so acuratley.
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance , it is the illusion of knowledge.” - Stephen Hawking
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Surreal experience last night.
by objectivetruth inrecently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".
her response went something like this, " we are all out!
everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..
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Wow - thanks for sharing! Great news!
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Convention visit observations
by Gorbatchov inthis weekend we visited the convention.
my findings:.
- no jw.org marketing here at this moment.
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My aging JW-mother attended the convention recently and told me (her apostate son) that she was not impressed. No real new publications, everything electronic, which she can't comprehend. She really came back exhausted and not refreshed. Sad - if she was younger I would try to wake her up.
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Banner seen at convention in Miami
by Indian Larry incomments?.
[img]http://i59.tinypic.com/dfx6y9.jpg[/img].
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This seems to be another religion than the one I grew up in...
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Something Big is Coming...
by notsurewheretogo inthe annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.
"at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".
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144000 to become symbolic. 2014 to pass with nothing happening. More need for money.
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Tech49: Mini RC 2014 Review
by Tech49 ini attended the regional convention (district convention) over the last weekend, and thought i would spend a few minutes putting down some thoughts, for your amusement.
i will bounce around a bit, as my notes and thoughts were a little craaaaazy.. we met at one of the smaller venues on the west coast, with attendance around 7,000.
(28 baptized.... <.04%) we were tied in to the international convention in arlington, tx.. my first thought, only about 2 hours in, was how much this sounded like a plain old sales meeting!
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http://jwfacts.com/images/millions_rutherford.jpg
Note the text at the left-side bottom. Here Rutherford himself states that it is to be taken literally.
