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Request for Australian research: ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in 1941

by JW83 in

i am planning on revisiting my (academic) research into the banning of jws in australia in 1941, and was wondering if anyone would have contacts i could interview?

this is obviously a long shot (and it may be children/grandchildren) but i thought it may be worth a shot!.

i am an ex-jw and academic historian, you can see my former published work on jws here: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/shir/our-research/research-journals/fjhp/2008.cfm.

Listener

If you haven't already done so, a search in this site will give you some information about JWs history in Australia. This link is just one

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/286822/wtbts-assets-individuals-australia-1943

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What JWs do right, and what they do wrong.

by pleaseresearch in

so tonight i'm going to be having a chat with my brother and hes asked me what my thought are on the above question.. i could be wrong with what im about to say but i do think the door to door ministry is one thing they are doing right.

i think the cart work on the other hand is wrong.

just today i saw two sisters sat next to their cart with people going by.

Listener

Thanks Londo you make many valid points in your video.

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Great news!

by Half banana in

it's a case of two down and one to go.

my darling daughter has announced to the extended family that she has left jehovah's witnesses!

deep joy!.

Listener

That's great news.

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Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom

by minimus in

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friends

trump’s state department is having all sorts of religions and groups from around the world meet for discussions on how to insure that they have freedoms.. i wonder if jehovah’s witnesses will be there..

Listener

I wonder how they explain away the fact that they approach one Government claiming that another Government is not being fair as taking a neutral stand?

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The great 1914 turn around

by Sour Grapes in

i must say there is no other religion in modern times that has lied more to their cult followers than the watchtower company and no more brain dead, gullible cult members than the jdubs.. just three examples.

when russel was in charge 1914 was prophesied to be the end of the system of things with armageddon and the earthly paradise.

that didn't happen and poof now 1914 was not the end, oh no, it was the beginning of the end.. the second example, the generation that saw 1914 would not pass away before the end came, which meant in all jdubs minds that paradise had to be here in the late 1990's.

Listener

From the Watchtower 1966 10/15

More than thirty-five years in advance, by help of God’s holy spirit, dedicated Bible students calculated the Gentile Times as due to expire in the early autumn of 1914, but the religious clergy of Christendom criticized them and mocked them for publishing such a Bible time schedule. But the events of 1914 silenced the critics, though they were not converted.

I'd say that there are still plenty of critics around to this day, they haven't been silenced at all.

Amongst the many problems the Watchtower faces with this teaching is the fact that there is no one living today that can testify to, or be witnesses of, whatever the orgranization thinks happened in 1914.

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No new releases? How are the r&f taking this?

by purrpurr in

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is it true that there's been no new releases at this summer's convention?

if so it will be the first convention in decades perhaps ever to not produce at least a new tract.. how are the r&f explaining this to eachother?

surely they must have noticed the absence?

Listener

It costs money to produce new literature, it has to be translated and at least a certain amount has to be put in print. There's also the cost of having the writing committee to come up with it in the first place. It's produced at a loss.

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Mike and Kim updated thier Numbers and it looks like the Borg is watching.

by Crazyguy in

thier latest video they seemed to fix thier number issues and have made it look as though the borg only has about a half a million member now in the us.

also it looks as though the borg is watching because the borg has now made an adjustment on their website concerning their missing kh.

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Listener

Their maths is still wrong and they seemed to have accused those that mentioned it in their first video as being Watchtower supporters.

The above link to reddit has a very good post by Terry Lawton who has got made a sound calculation (as far as I can tell). However, there may a flaw in it and that is, he is assuming that the average number of seats in a Kingdom Hall is 100 and I would think that it is more than that.

Terry Lawton

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over 700 baptized yesterday at one convention in Africa

by dropoffyourkeylee in

there was a french language congregation this weekend in congo dr which had 44,000 in attendance and something like 730 baptized.

i'm not saying that is good or bad, just reporting the news..

Listener

Since it is so obvious where the growth is, undoubtedly there is much more work to do there. Land and building is cheap.

The Governing Body should set themselves as examples and move to where the need is great.

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