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  'Jehovah will provide' / some fish(y) stories! - WT April 15, 2014

  by bats in the belfry in

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  eduardo & family with kids will pioneer and survive on 10% of his regular income.. .. .

  page 24. .

  sort of reminded me of this guy: father of four quits job after attending annual meeting.

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  Brother NVR2L8 can I borrow your phone to google jw.org? ...jehovahs witness.net keeps popping up! Brother NVR2L8 are you an apostate?
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  Wow... you WERE right! The KH was to teach you how to SELL!!

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  as you can see from the picture, in the kingdom hall there was a board with "publishers, books, booklets," etc... aparently for the entire congregation.

  not sure what the other line is, maybe it is a goal?.

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  To add to Pete's comment there were black and red numbers to indicate in which activities the congregation did or didn't achieve their monthly objectives...I remember cutting each digit from large printed sheet provided by the society and pasting them on the board. In our hall the board was set on an easel stand at every Tuesday night meetings.
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  Were People Surprised When You Left The Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  mine was a gradual going away.

  but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.

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  I have no idea because after stopping going to the meetings suddenly no one contacted me! For a time my still active wife would say that so and so says hello. Now, nothing. I guess they don’t miss me that much and I don't either. As for my JW family, they live 6 hours away and believe my inactivity is linked to a midlife crisis and that one day I will return. I am going through a crisis...a crisis of conscience and sooner or later they will figure it out.
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  Worst yb experience I have ever heard heartwrenching

  by Skinnedsheep in

  1. jw
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  he sold his bicycle.

  malachi, an elder who lives in burundi, earned his living by farming and by transporting loads on his bicycle.

  in order to support their kingdom hall construction project, malachi decided to be at the construction site every day.

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  Andre has a well paying union job in construction and he decided to leave it to volunteer for the construction of the new WTS headquarters. He sold his car so his wife can use half of the money so she and their 2 children can survive while he is away and he contributed the other half to the society...Jehovah greatly blessed Andre as he qualified to be an elder when he returned to his home congregation....Yearbook 2017
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  Will this Memorial be our last?

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  they just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.

  most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?

  upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .

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  Question about 9/11 and the WT.

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  some friends familiar with wt gossip have told me that the decision to move out of ny was in part accelerated by the tragic events of 9/11.. my take on this is that decision to relocate was made a long time before, however they counter that a move was planned but not the total detachment that is occurring.. i wonder if anyone here has an opinion or information on this.. thanks.

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  ldrnomo...I agree with you but the WTS conduct their business in the least conspicuous way...What would the sheep think if their society got involved in property management...unless one of their obscure corporations took care of it.
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  French Club in Las Vegas

  by Mum in

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  i learned of a french club in las vegas.

  they posted on facebook that they were meeting this morning at a french pastry shop/cafe.

  i have never attended one of their meetings, so i decided to go meet them at the cafe.. it was great!

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  Tomorrow I'm flying out to Las Vegas to attend the CES and during the week I will go for lunch at mon ami Gabi in the Paris Hotel and then go to the pastry shop for a millefeuille and espresso. I've been there several times and it would be amazing if the Hotel staff spoke some French to add to the experience. I know that many Quebec people work in Vegas with Cirque du soleil and Celine Dion.
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  Question about 9/11 and the WT.

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:saveifxmlinvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:ignoremixedcontent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>en-us</w:lidthemeother> <w:lidthemeasian>x-none</w:lidthemeasian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>x-none</w:lidthemecomplexscript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/> <w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> <w:word11kerningpairs/> <w:cachedcolbalance/> </w:compatibility> <w:browserlevel>microsoftinternetexplorer4</w:browserlevel> <m:mathpr> <m:mathfont m:val="cambria math"/> <m:brkbin m:val="before"/> <m:brkbinsub m:val="&#45;-"/> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispdef/> <m:lmargin m:val="0"/> <m:rmargin m:val="0"/> <m:defjc m:val="centergroup"/> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"/> <m:intlim m:val="subsup"/> <m:narylim m:val="undovr"/> </m:mathpr></w:worddocument> </xml><![endif].

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  some friends familiar with wt gossip have told me that the decision to move out of ny was in part accelerated by the tragic events of 9/11.. my take on this is that decision to relocate was made a long time before, however they counter that a move was planned but not the total detachment that is occurring.. i wonder if anyone here has an opinion or information on this.. thanks.

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  My take on this is that the WTS needs to turn the equity value of their buildings into liquidity they can invest to generate cash flow. Although the value of their real estate may continue to raise, they don't generate any income. By selling the old buildings and relocating to a new location built by slave labour the WTS will dispose of hundreds of millionsmwhennit is all said and done.

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  Elders and spying eyes

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it normal for the elders in your congregation to spy on you through your wife?

  texting her to see whats up with you and what your doing or saying etc.

  using her as the in house spy???

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  I am inactive but my wife is still in. I am sure the elders questioned her on the reasons why I suddenly stopped going. But knowing her she would have told them to ask me directly, something none of the elders had the guts to do. If my wife would have talked to them, I'm convinced they would haved used anything she said to corner me regardless of the effects this would have had on our marriage or family. Elders will use any means to out anyone who won't play according to their rules, regardless of the cost for others.
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  The most disturbing Watchtower quote in 2013.

  by never a jw in

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  i am trying to put together the worst of 2013. the first quote that comes to mind is possibly your "favorite" too.

  do you have any other disturbing quotes from the publications in the wt?.

  elders who are reading this article can draw some useful conclusions from the account we have just considered: (1) the most practical step that we can take to prepare for the coming attack of the assyrian is that of strengthening our faith in god and helping our brothers to do the same.

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