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  Threating to Sue

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the wt doing these days if someone das but threatens to sue if the elders make an announcement that leads to shunning?.

  i know the elders are supposed to notify the legal department, but what is the legal department telling them to do?.

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  Vidiot7 hours ago

  Whatever did Sue do to you???

  She gave me the runaround.
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  The Wwatchtower turning into a real laughing Stock

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  over the years watchtower has turned into a real joke in the world scene.

  with the lawsuits, downsizing and decreasing numbers.

  what they use to be is gone and they will never recover the numbers they once had.

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  I’d be curious to know the percentage of born in Jehovah’s witnesses and converts. By my observation born ins go through the motions to be part of the club. Converts are the real believers because they gave up everything(family, career old religion) and need to rationalize their sunk costs.

  Field service has been a joke for the last 20 years. Driving to the furthest territory, knocking on the door of an empty house to turn around and have a double double at brother Tim Hortons. But you can count 2 hours.

  They are in major decline because no one cares. It happened the same in the USSR. No one believed anymore, not even the leadership.
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  Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

  hope link works.

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  The bar has continuously been lowered for the last several decades. Pioneer hour requirements have gone from 100, 90, 70. Now there are no hour requirements for pioneers because of covid and average joe publishers can report as little as 15 minutes per month. I think vidiot is on the right track. The jws are running scared and need to keep the numbers of active publishers up.
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  The Holy Spirit made a mistake in selling off KHalls ?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a couple of years ago the wt began their program of selling off dedicated kingdom halls and consolidating congregations into fewer halls.. had they kept these halls, more sparsely occupied as they were, they could by now be bringing everyone back while respecting the distancing laws.. jw’s love to find reasons how jehovah foresaw something and guided them, but it never works the other way when they make a decision that later on turns out to have been a bad idea..

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  3rd generation businesses fail at a rate of 90%. This is where the jws are at now. Most companies gave up on unprofitable door to door sales in the 1970’s but the jws continued until 2020. Businesses that rely on a bricks and mortar presence are also on the way out. The watchtower is so big and has such an ineffective bureaucracy that they can’t react fast enough to market signals. One of our elders is an HVAC tech and had to get permission from a committee to fix the broken furnace in the Kingdom Hall.

  Kodak

  Eatons

  Sears

  Blockbuster

  They along with the watchtower failed to adapt quickly enough to changing times
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  Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.

  hope link works.

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  Stopping door to door might work in their favour. Let’s face it. No one under the age of 50 really wanted to do it anyway. The zealous old timers are nearing the end of their lives. Reporting hours was a game of creative accounting and because of privacy laws it is now illegal to keep record of not at homes and return visits. The amount of hours of door to door to make a convert is staggering. It is an outdated sales tactic that is inefficient. Without door to door and in person meetings at the Kingdom Hall it is so much easier to be a jw. With a few tweaks on policies they can retain more of the born in witnesses and grow or at least maintain membership that way.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses are a breakaway

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  let me follow the trial.

  in 1931 rutherford started jehovah's witnesses.

  be before that.. bible student and they merged before 1917 with russelites and they merge with adventists, and then miller in 1844.before that be disperse into baptist and other denominations.

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  The franchise business model is what led to the Jws success. Go to any McDonald’s restaurant in the world and the Big Mac is consistently the same hamburger. Go to any Kingdom Hall and the watchtower study is the same world wide.
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  The Craziness of JW's.

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my dad and i would work on different "pioneers" vehicles in our kingdumb hell.

  and to nuts and bolts they where real "hoopties" anytime ready for the crusher.

  both my dad and i would work with our skills to keep their cars running since they don't have a real job to get a real working car.

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  I helped out pioneers who would ask for my money out of one side of their mouth while saying I was spirituality weak out of the other side. Talk about craziness. I just don’t help anymore. Time to look after me. Get a real job or find some other sucker to mooch off of.
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  Just invited to a zoom memorial.

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  walked away from the trooth years ago(over 20) my older sister sends me an invite to the memorial via zoom.

  i have no interest in jwism at all.

  should i ignore or respond?.

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  hoser

  Should you respond to a used car salesman? Enjoy your jalopy!
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  Memorial Prep question

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so are individual witnesses being told to prepare bread and have wine on hand for the zoom memorial?

  are they saying it’s “vital” or is it just a “suggestion?” .

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  It is virtue signalling. Making an external appearance of spirituality. It is the same as wearing a convention badge to the zoom meeting last summer to be seen by others. It is the same as having a visible share in the ministry when we used to go door to door.

  This religion is a joke. If they could just see themselves from the outside they would realize how shallow and superficial they really are. Jehovah’s witnesses wouldn’t know spirituality if it hit them in the side of the head.
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  Suggested Songs for this year's Memorial

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a memorial-worthy song...at least in my books.

  got any other suggestions?.

  https://youtu.be/5fa58v6lrto.

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  My generation by the Who