Hmmph... no wonder why I haven't read an Awake! article in over 10 years... even while I believed the WTS shit, I never read it. It was so... so elementary.
Soldier77
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Scratching my head over "Watching the World", March 2011 Awake. Ideas?
by Open mind inanyone familiar with the awake!
magazine knows that "watching the world" often gives little news snippets with no further analysis or spin-doctoring from the writing dept.
this is because for the jws reading it, they can do their own spin-doctoring and for any potential converts, it makes them think the awake!
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Brotherdan seems like he really DID leave
by sabastious inhe was an interesting presence on this board.
he had integral knowledge about bethel and the like.
i am an emotional guy too so i can kind of relate to why he left.. but, you gotta get thick skin on the forum.
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Soldier77
Yup, sure do miss Brotherdan. Wish he would come around and drop every now and then.
Here's to you BroDan:
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...Watchtower World..A place where "Stupid is Better!"...
by OUTLAW in"watchtower world"... "a place where "stupid is better!"...
the wbt$ is always doing something stupid..from the begining of the wbt$ to this very day... stupid is on the menu,in watchtower world... .
it never ends..there is always something stupid happening within the wbt$... these are bethel one liners..bethelites have posted on jwd/jwn... that i have collected over time... .
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Soldier77
I was told by an elder that I have been demoted to sister once.
I asked him on what grounds? He said, because we haven't heard back from the society yet, so we are taking away all of your "extra privileges' until we do. So I tell him, well, that's really encouraging, makes me want to continue being a witness, any other words of wisdom? Oh yeah, rely on Jehovah. Rely on Jehovah? I don't think Jehovah has anything to do with this. Elder, just wait on Jehovah. Ok, bye.
Seriously, WTF?!
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WTBTS Elder & Ministerial Servant Problems
by JW GoneBad ini attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.
in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.
the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.
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Soldier77
It's all part of their tighening grip, the harsher words being spoken, brow beating and what have you. They are in crisis mode and when cults go into crisis mode they go into harsher rules, tighter grip, punish and enslave the R&F.
This will continue to get worse imo. 2014 is right around the corner, I expect them at the rate they are currently going, to make that year a target of somekind. It may be all part of the 'sifting work' that has been used before to designate periods of slow to no growth.
JWs do not know their own history and as we all know those that do not follow history or study it analytically will just repeat itself.
WTS is in crisis mode.
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What Will the New Year Bring For You?
by Think About It infor me..... (1) new job.. (2) moving to canada.. (3) continue to hit the gym most days.. (4) no armaggedon.. what will the new year bring for you or what resolutions will you make?.
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think about it .
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Soldier77
No more attending the Memorial, no more CA's/DC's/SAD's. No more reporting fake FS time and turning it in. I am going to go from faker to fader. I also hope to drop the bomb on my mom that I no longer believe the WTS is "God's chosen organization."
That's what the new year will bring for me.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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WTBTS Elder & Ministerial Servant Problems
by JW GoneBad ini attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.
in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.
the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.
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Soldier77
"Who wants that job, if something goes wrong, you get blamed, when you were only carrying out Watchtower instructions."
That is, imo, the concensus amoung the brothers. They are seeing more and more of the work load that is being put on them or others and it's not appealing.
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ex-special pioneer
by ex-Special Pioneer inhi to all, i have been on this site some years ago and have contributed articles exposing the hypocrisy of this organization.
i was brought up as a jws.
served as an elder and special pioneer attended the ministerial training school been an instructor of the pioneer school till disassociating myself from the borg in 1994.. being an active jws is not an easy life and involves all your time, hardly you have time for yourself.
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Soldier77
thanks for posting the encouragment ex-SP!
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WTBTS Elder & Ministerial Servant Problems
by JW GoneBad ini attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.
in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.
the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.
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Soldier77
what is the quality of those average 7 elders?
metatron, you bring up a good point. Of the 5 elders in my hall, only 2 should actually be elders. The other 3 are idiots, dissorganized, selfish, power hungry, hypocritcal asshats.
Let's see, CoBOE was just replaced with a slackass dissorganized passive guy. Should never have been appointed as an elder, according to his former hall and some friends that knew him.
Secretary was just replaced with a holier than thou hitler. Former secretary is now the current CoBOE mentioned above.
Service Overseeris a freeloader. He's never at the hall, hell, he isn't even in the area half the year. He's off galavanting all over the world doing some stupid shit trying to get himself killed checking off his bucket list. Arrogant SoB.
Backup Elder #1 is a happy go lucky, tree hugging eccentric, but over all nice guy, he's the guy that showed up on my door one morning on accident (I posted about it).
Backup Elder #2 was the former CoBOE. Got demoted since his wife has cancer. This guy is a total tool. Rich prick. Uses his money to influence the CO/DO/Branch and proudly tells people that he has clout.
On average, only 2 elders are at the meetings at any given time. NONE of their wives are regular. One is a regular pioneer and misses more meetings than I do and I am irregular! Oh wait, Hitlers' wife is regular.
Don't even get me started on the 2 MS's we have too...
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Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.
by Lion Cask inaccording to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.
that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.
the world is about to change, again.
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Soldier77
I don't have the demographics of the numbers, but where is the largest growth? What countries? Third world? I guess I should Google it... but I'm going to bed.