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  It's been ten years since congregations surrendered their finances to HQ

  by truthseeker in

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  anyone have any anecdotal reports of individual congregation finances since the stealth takeover by the wt of their checking accounts?.

  are donations up?

  can they pay their bills?.

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  hoser

  The borg skim off the tops of the congregations but when the roof needs repair they solicit the congregation for more donations
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  Trump assassination attempt??

  by Diogenesister in

  1. social
  2. current

  it happened at a rally in pennsylvania, apparently.

  he seems ok i've seen a photo of him bleeding from his ear.

  this is absolutely nutso....if it's too it doesn't surprise me the way they constantly describe him as "far right" and that his supporters are "maga republicans".

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  Whoever is really running the USA doesn’t want trump to be re elected.
  
  
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  Awake 1976 - Should a Pocket Calculator Be in Your Pocket?

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.

  somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.

  anyone remember it?.

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  hoser

  2 Thess 3:11

  Another reason to “mark” the watchtower society as bad association and withdraw from them

  Meddling in what does not concern them

  My dad had one of those calculators for work. I think it was several hundred dollars. Not exactly pocket change in 1976.

  Money that could have gone to the borg
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  Givers and Takers

  by wanderlustguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had a teacher in jr. high in my advanced education class talk about givers and takers as a subject.

  looking back, perhaps she was going through a rough patchmakes me wonder.. this morning i had one of those moments of realization, basically from reviewing recent events, and even more so because i was mentally rehashing some conversations with someone who means a lot to me.

  it dawned on me the role she has come to play in one of the major events of her life, as well as who she became because of it.

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  hoser

  This is me.

  I was raised to avoid conflict and be a people pleaser. A good little jw.

  A perfect combination to be a victim of burnout and takers were naturally attracted to me. I had resources to offer that I gave up too easily.

  It took many years but I can now identify takers early on in the relationship and can avoid those situations.

  Most Jehovah’s witnesses are takers. They are friendly only if you are compliant to their demands. As soon as you step outside the box and do a little different they ignore you, hoping to shame or nudge you back into compliance.
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  Watchtower August leak: details from reddit user

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from reddit.. a summary of changes: .

  we are all sinners, so we have to be reasonable how we punish sinners.

  if elders and congregation do not quickly help someone come to be reinstated they would be imitating satan the devil, not jehovah (yes that actually is what is said in the tagalog version in translation!

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  Until the officIal English version comes out we don’t know the full extent of the changes.

  Disfellowshipping isn’t going away any time soon.
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  The "Baby Boomers" are starting to die off, and the effects

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was born in 1964, so, i was 10 when the buildup to 1975 was happening (and watched the subsequent failure of that).then, when i was a teenager, i got to see the fallour of the big apostacy events in the 1980s.during all of this, i was told by my parents and by people of my parents' peer group that "this old system won't last much longer, and won't the new system be great!

  "it is now 2024. i am going to be 60 years old in a few months.

  over half a century.my mom died two months after her 80th birthday last year, after suffering for years of chronic poor health (some of it brought on by a very sedentary lifestyle, but also plagued by emotional and mental issues and family drama which did not help overall.

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  hoser

  Part of the orgs downfall is the end of the boomer generation.

  Lots of old people in the Kingdom Halls and many younger ones don’t have the same zeal.

  Like many businesses a lack of labour will be their downfall
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  My guess for August WatchTower: GB claims we're in beginning stages of Great Tribulation due to World governments turning on JW's

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the september watchtower has already been released and is being discussed over on reddit.

  some highlights: .

  1. more hitting the flock on total reliance and obedience to god's representatives on earth today, the f&ds (the governing body, of course).

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  hoser

  I don’t think any of the rank and file dubs have noticed the august WT is missing yet.

  Thats how much they actually pay attention.

  Apostates and faders are more interested and knowledgeable about watchtower going ons than Jehovah’s witnesses are.
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  Assembly Attendence

  by Riley in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am in western canada.

  we use to have our assembly in saskatoon.

  our assembly has moved to medicine hat.

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  I haven’t been to an in person regional convention since 2019.

  I’m going this year to one so I’ll snap a few pics on my cell and see if an attendant shuts me down.
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  Assembly Attendence

  by Riley in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am in western canada.

  we use to have our assembly in saskatoon.

  our assembly has moved to medicine hat.

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  There used to be conventions in Saskatoon and Regina.

  Then it was Saskatoon only and it was at Sask place. If I remember correctly there were about 6000 attending.

  There was a convention in Saskatoon this year but at a much smaller venue. I’m not sure how many attended but the building only holds 2500 or so.

  Edmonton is coming up in a week or so. Maybe someone can comment on how many attend. None of the jws want to attend Edmonton Because the arena is hard to access for people out of town but I hear that the watchtower gets a good deal on the rent. It is all about the watchtower as you know so the individual jws can just suck it up.

  There used to be a convention in Grande Prairie in the early 2000’s but it hasn’t been there for ages.

  word on the street is that the building manager didn’t like Jehovahs witnesses so they couldn’t have the convention there anymore.

  That is the standard persecution spin the jws put on everything. I’m sure the building manager likes 💰 so it wouldn’t matter who is paying. My take is that the jws are so fucking cheap and hard to deal with that the building manager just rented it to someone easier to deal with.
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  Are the halls of the Kingdom filling up, are they the same as before the pandemic or are they emptying?

  by LaFrancia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i open a new topic, to find out how it's going in your area.

  from what i see as a southern european in my constituency the situation is patchy.. the congregation where i am now has 30% old people on zoom but also young couples with almost all their cameras off.

  no increase but a slight decrease in the total number of publishers.. circuit assemblies: before covid you couldn't find a free seat if you arrived 10 minutes before the start.

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  hoser

  Where I’m at they did mergers a year ago and took away one congregation and sent the publishers to different congregations. The Kingdom Hall is still empty when I attend.

  I think the higher ups are wondering where everyone went.