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Good point - even the "industrious", "dedicated" or whatever JWs in Japan (in the 1980s, the WTS seemed to run out of pleasant adjectives with which to describe them!) could not keep up the pretense forever.
Bill.
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Japan closed down 638 Congregations losing 5,337 Publishers....any ideas why? Internet?
by Witness 007 injapan had incredible increases in the 80's and 90's of 20-30 thousand publishers a year until it collapsed in 1998....figure since then till 2011 have been going down.. 1998 -222,912 publishers -3,802 congregation.
9 years later.. 2006 -217,519 publishers -3,164 congregations {loss of 5,357 publishers closed 638 congregations} .
{note that japan publishers average 31 hours a month compared to world 15 hours}.
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Watchtower 1973 - "Scientific" article explains there were Dinosaurs on Noahs Ark! = College Education??!
by Witness 007 inthis article must have been written by bethels most advanced scientific mind......this is why we need a college education.. .
watchtower 1973 july 15 p.7 "question from readers.
when did the dinosuars become extinct?
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Bungi Bill
I have got my Bachelor of Stupidity displayed on the wall, above where I am currently sitting:
- courtesy of reading such scientific journals as Watchtower and Awake for 28 years!
Bill.
PS: That would have been / should have been a Bachelor of Engineering, but for The Cult's interference when I was seventeen.
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2011 district convention
by obarac insomebody know the theme of this years district convention or is still top secret?.
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Room 215,
I agree with you all the way - who gives a ####!
Bill.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Take Pride In Being Ignorant
by minimus inwitnesses love to say they are in the best school available---the theocratic ministry school.
witnesses don't want you to express research on a subject when giving a comment during a meeting.
just read verbatim what is in the paragraph.
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The Watchtower is a scientific publication, and reading it - together with all the other WTS literature - will give a person the equivalent of a university degree:
- Well, the equivalent of one certain university degree, anyway.
i.e. A Bachelor of Stupidity, from the University of Bulolo (Frog Hollow Campus).
This I have been assured by the university's chancellor, the Reverend Harley Davidson!
Bill.
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Observation -- Posters Don't Seem Clueless
by Band on the Run ini'm impressed with sophisticated thinking on this site.
after all it is an ex-witness site.
i wonder what changed in the former witnesses.
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Reopened Mind,
Your getting involved with this cult quite closely parallels mine;
- a teenager in the late 1960s / early 1970s, impressed with how "Bible Prophecy" appeared to be acting out in "World Conditions" etc. etc. etc.!
However, the penny started to drop when all this did not continue on as it was supposed to;
- then the penny definitely hit the deck with a crash once I learned that this outfit had done the same things over and over in the past; and with similar results! (i.e. they were False Prophets, pure and simple!).
From that point onwards, I just could no longer keep up the pretence - after finding myself in the position of having to try and defend that which was indefensible.
Bill.
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False Prophets or Just Poor Interpreters?
by Vanderhoven7 inis the wts a false prophet organization?
are it's leaders false prophets?
or have they simply been guilty of poor interpretation from time to time?.
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Bungi Bill
They are both!
Bill
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Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?
by Witness 007 ina couple years ago district convention - a pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out witnessing they saw a vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "jehovah provided in our time of need..." i felt like yelling get a job you bum stop starving!!
not encouraging.
this week an elder with pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching!
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Bungi Bill
Notice that oftentimes, these "we did not know where the next meal was coming from" - and by extension "aren't we superior" types are in fact the next ones to give the whole JW thing away:
(i.e. in JW-speak, go "out of the truth.")
Sooner rather than later, they discover that they cannot continue forever to keep up the pretence!
Bill.
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The end is coming on May 2011
by I need a lot of help in.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re/us_rel_apocalypse_soon.
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Thanks for the tip off;
- I will now have to try and jam the next 30 years of living into just three-and-a-half months.
(Could be fun, actually!)
Bill.
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Papua New Guinea Witnesses praised for risking life during Witnessing! Idiots!
by Witness 007 inport moresby in p.n.g is a very violent dangerous place.
some witnesses told me how much the witnesses on this island "love jehovah.
" "every time they go witnesing they think it might be the last time..." due to the crimes, killings, and kidnappings, but these idiots still go door to door as ordered!!!!
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Bungi Bill
Stephen did not throw his life away peddling literature for a multi-national book publishing concern, while deluding himself into believing that he was doing the Lord's work.
Bill.
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Thay just do not want you to do anything that is fun
by I need a lot of help inall they want you to do is anything that will make you feel depressed..
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Bungi Bill
Sad - but only too true!
Watching TV, playing sport, hobbies, music and other cultural activities; in fact, everything except:
- attending meetings,
- preparing for meetings,
- hawking WTS literature on people's doorsteps,
Add to that the 40 hours a week you have worked at your "secular job" (how I loathe that expression!), very little time for any thing else, anyway.
Bill.