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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  joe134cd - "...But they are also going to lose the level of control they can exude on the rank and file..."

  100% agree.

  Rhetoric and propaganda only go so far in maintaining internal cohesion and discipline...

  ...actual, tangible group-oriented activities such as regular in-person meetings and the door-to-door work - regardless of how tiresome or unpleasant they may be - serve as the most effective tools for sustaining that.

  I even remember an elder who, for all intents and purposes, spelled that out for me when I was a kid.
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  Vidiot

  Strange Days ahead, to be sure.
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  WT Says Don't Contract with False Religion, But Does Just That

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

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  let's all open up our crystals to 2 facet 1: 1 - here we lean about how buddha escapes prism.

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  I think it's at least partly a zoning issue, 'cause I've seen it before.

  In a small city I'm familiar with, a little-used KH was bought by a local Sikh congregation (who proceeded to refurbish it accordingly), and an older one was also sold to an evangelical church, who turned it into a Christian bookstore...

  ...whilst the congregation(s) who'd been previously using it built a new KH right next door (admittedly, kinda weird).
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  Vidiot

  Drearyweather - "...'the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually'..."

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5Z6C5T9BE

  
  
  
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  Vidiot

  I had issues with the hard-ass OT God and Revelation as a pre-teen...

  ...a little less so as a result of certain experiences as a teenager, though.
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  Losing My Religion - America's progressive estrangement from organized religion

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article on the latest gallup survey:.

  https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html.

  in 1937, 73% of americans would be affiliated with some organized religion; that number remained steady until 1999: (70%); the 21st century brought about a major shift: 50% in 2018; 47% in the latest survey.. children who grew up in households without organized religion are less likely to affiliate to some form of organized religion.. it's not only a generational difference; the growth in those who express no religious preference is also on the rise in generation x (those born between mid 1960's and early 1980's).

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  truth_b_known - "Humans are wired for religion. Rationalism has caused a declined in Judeo-Christian religions in the west..."

  That's it!

  I'm a Born-Again Rationalist!!!

  
  
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  joe134cd - "...They said they were been used to build halls in Africa where people don’t have access to JWdot borg on the internet..."

  You mean like this?

  
  

  Bitch, please (not directed at you, joe).

  This isn't much more than dialed-up gazebo built with local materials and elbow grease.

  There is no fucking way a quarter-mil from a KH sale in the US or UK was needed to build this.
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  john.prestor - "I don't think there will be a mass exodus..."

  There's more than one kind of exodus.

  As far as I'm concerned, we are the exodus.
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  JW's getting creative (or desperate) to preach during the pandemic ....

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, there's this social game called second life.. there one creates an avatar and can lead a parallel life.

  there's a bit of everything, from general environments to adult.

  it can be a hub for creative people, it can be a magnet for creeps.

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  Eden One - "...when I asked about it, they claimed that their congregation Elders were aware of their initiative on Second Life and approved of it..."

  I believe that's called "lying".
  ('Cause there's no fucking way that's true.)
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  JW's getting creative (or desperate) to preach during the pandemic ....

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, there's this social game called second life.. there one creates an avatar and can lead a parallel life.

  there's a bit of everything, from general environments to adult.

  it can be a hub for creative people, it can be a magnet for creeps.

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  Eden One - "...Fast forward. Another person comes in, pretending to be a curious visitor. In a couple of minutes the mask falls of. It’s another JW (pretending to be a student)..."

  I believe that's called "stealth evangelism".