@ splash - I sure hope so. This beast is long past due for the grave.
1rebelheart
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Massive Growth in Dub Numbers???
by 1rebelheart inso, i left about 5 years ago and at that time, the official ruling on number of members was a little over 6 million.
i google jw out of boredom the other day and find they are now claiming 8 million members.
sooooo.... hold on 2 million increase in 5 years?
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Massive Growth in Dub Numbers???
by 1rebelheart inso, i left about 5 years ago and at that time, the official ruling on number of members was a little over 6 million.
i google jw out of boredom the other day and find they are now claiming 8 million members.
sooooo.... hold on 2 million increase in 5 years?
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1rebelheart
So, I left about 5 years ago and at that time, the official ruling on number of members was a little over 6 million.
I google JW out of boredom the other day and find they are now claiming 8 million members.
Sooooo.... hold on 2 million increase in 5 years? That's approximately 400,000 every year? That's... impressive... or fraudulent.
Thoughts? Opinions?
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Do you ever feel strangely drawn towards Conspiracy Theories?
by JW_Rogue inafter mentally awakening to the idea that jws don't have the truth i strangely found myself delving into all encompassing conspiracy theories.
not that i believed them but something about them seemed quite fascinating.
i was especially drawn to the idea of a new world order/one world government.
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1rebelheart
One World government and the phrase "New World Order" was used heavily by Churchill and other leaders in the WWII period, which might explain why it became part of Dub terminology around the same time. It was a pretty common idea in the early 20th century. People really thought the UN was going to be the new world government for a while, but today it has evolved into an international peace keeping and aide organization not a replacement for autonomous government.
Unless you have some first hand knowledge of plans to wipe out the 207 sovereign nations of the earth and establish one worldwide Orwellian-style tyranny, I'd ignore this stuff.
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Do you ever feel strangely drawn towards Conspiracy Theories?
by JW_Rogue inafter mentally awakening to the idea that jws don't have the truth i strangely found myself delving into all encompassing conspiracy theories.
not that i believed them but something about them seemed quite fascinating.
i was especially drawn to the idea of a new world order/one world government.
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1rebelheart
Well, you lose you main conspiracy theory with the Dubs, and now the world is just what... a chaotic place ruled by evolution and chance? Nawwwww, no way, not possible.... Many people as they leave or when they are fresh out find conspiracy theories attractive because it gives order to the world in a familiar fashion - a secret order that few others know about.
The truth is much less comforting. Let's avoid it and believe in UFOs and divine intervention. :D
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Ran into some JW's.......but this time I did the teaching ;) x
by snare&racket inso i went out today with my broken leg and got accosted by an old lady, with some magazines.. it was my first ever encounter with a jw in ten years, and i had said 'i know you are jw's, i'm not interested thank you.
" twice.....then she started talking about my broken leg and how wonderful we are made and how amazing the healing process is.... and that's when it all started...."i used to be a bethelite pioneer, now i'm an atheist doctor...".
she was with me a good 30 mins, her elder husband left very annoyed but she stayed, and she was dying to hear everything i spurted out, despite aggressively defending every point, from military engines to paedophilia.
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1rebelheart
I begin to think that we ought to measure JW intelligence by this formula:
Number of years In - 20 = Level of Intelligence
Higher is better. I take 20 to allow for adolescent confusion.