Has anyone come across detailed 2017 JW org statistics so we can compare them to previous years? Or are they now obscured in a soapy film of praise to the demi-gods at Warwick to disguise the decline?
Half banana
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Most recent JW statistics
by Half banana inhas anyone come across detailed 2017 jw org statistics so we can compare them to previous years?
or are they now obscured in a soapy film of praise to the demi-gods at warwick to disguise the decline?.
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WT productions - suggestions for a name???
by sparrowdown inhow bout ..... jehollywood or just jollywood.
mad sacred cow productions.
big brother productions.
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Half banana
Liars incorporated
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Divine Retribution Film Company
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Jolly Corpse Productions
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Sex and Love, Advice? Regrets and Stories?
by Letty indo you guys have any advice on dating worldly people?
how do i not freak out during my first date with my boyfriend?
how can i avoid being awkward?
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Half banana
One of the big problems with having been a JW is that our sense of self was very distorted, What we did was let an organisation dictate who we were, what we should do and how we should think AAAAARG! ...........instead of being ourselves.
To do anything outside of the old religion requires that we learn who we are first.
There was a limited feeling of security being a drone within the hive but successful humans never live this way, we have free will, which we were deprived of and a right to determine what we want to do and a right to be who we want to be.
The reason I say this is because having been used to rules for everything, it takes time and thought to get free of those enslaving beliefs courtesy of the Watchtower.The fact is that it is our birthright to make up our own rules.
Nevertheless all humans live in societies where we share a collective custom of how we do things which is called morality.
So .........1 find out who you are
2 set your own boundaries
3 be yourself.
Dating should be fun!
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Special Day of Service be a Pioneer for a Day
by Sour Grapes inmy wife's kingdumb haul announced that next saturday is a special day of service.
we can pioneer for a day in seldom worked territory.
everone is to pack a nice brown bag lunch.
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Half banana
It's dressing up the unappealing idea of witnessing door to door as is if it were a jolly social event.
Why bother? No one's interested in listening to JWs anymore.........just have the picnic!
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Update on my life as a Jehovah’s Witness Teen after running away
by Letty inhey.
without them i felt...so...alone.
so i went back.
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Half banana
Letty you poor thing, whatever has happened it's not your fault, don't blame yourself! You had the misfortune to belong to a highly controlling cult. The JW organisation does not care about people it cares imposing its will on its unthinking flock (mainly it cares about its investment funds).
The elders were disgusting putting you through that and quite unnecessarily. What does count is your wellbeing and your future.You have the promise of a good job which is excellent and you should work to become financially independent, you are an adult even though your parents think you are not.
Do keep in touch here and all the best to you --we are all on your side here.
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How were God’s true worshipers to determine virginity of pagan girls?
by Ireneus inin the genocidal instructions supposedly given by god we find this interesting command: “now kill all the boys.
and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (numbers 31:17, 18).
in the midst of killing and plundering, how were the israelites to determine whether each girl “has slept with a man” or not?.
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Half banana
At the time of writing Numbers, the Jews, just like most of their neighbours were Iron Age peasants living a simple desert life using social values which favoured patriarchy. The archaeology of Israel seems to indicate that their material culture was rather behind the times in its primitiveness.
The fact that these objectionable regulations were projected on to their Idol Yahweh just shows how the prevailing human mores were used to describe their totemic god. If a compassionate and all powerful intelligent god truly existed, surely he would have enlightened them with more compassionate and intelligent ideas? But no, the Bible only reflects the contemporary base human values of perpetual warfare and territorial gain, men first and girls as commodities, slaughter all those who don't believe in your god. The Bible is uninspired.
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Why go back to the Old Testament?
by Lost in the fog inwhy do jws insist on still quoting from the old testament to back up some of their wacky ideas?
such as on blood, beards, abortion, tattoos, etc.
surely if the mosaic law code was nailed to the torture stake all of its parts were cancelled.
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Half banana
It is because most people in history, those not in authority, were illiterate so that those who could write told the peasants that their written word was sacred...........what a con trick!
For example who says that the law was hung on the torture stake?
Well it was written by the leaders of the early Jesus cult which was in the process of adopting and adapting all forms of religious belief to create is own orthodoxy. This included apostate Jews who had fallen for the latest "Christ" story fictions, by bishops who wanted numerical support for their movement--because more members made for more money in the coffers and lots of money meant political power.
Remember that the early Christians met not only in houses but in temples and used exactly the same hierarchical orders and religious organisational methods as the groups who were later to be condemned by the RC Church as "pagans". The Bible gives an extreme partisan view of Christian events in the early centuries including a conjectured account of the Christ hero, magical happenings and a sanitised account of its own history with the emphasis on divine blessing for itself and a bunch of failed prophecies.
The legacy of which is a devilish distortion of reality in the minds of millions right up until now!
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Great news!
by Half banana init'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!.
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Half banana
Thanks good people for your comments! I am of course delighted with my daughter's decision to leave and the great thing is that she is also.
I have not gone into detail with her on the whys and wherefores since I don't want to look like an interrogator at a jc! I am not talking religion with her at all, it is not the issue now-- but I am enjoying the fact that she actually answers her phone when I call her as well as responding to text messages.
My daughter has had a really difficult childhood emotionally, all bound up with JW imperatives imposed upon her by her mother and it was her private awakening to the realisation of this history that has to do with her exit from the org.
Maybe I could elaborate at a later date but for now I'm so happy that she is happy and part of my family once again.
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Bad teachings for kids
by Freedom rocks induring my time in the cult i sometimes sat during a talk thinking why on earth are they talking about topics like this with kids in the audience.
talking about sex and masturbation was probably the worst one i heard and my daughter was only 5 at the time.. what inappropriate talks or comments have you heard over the years that children should not be exposed to really?.
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Half banana
Why is the JW org so insensitive to the feelings to their audience being notably indifferent to sexual content with young children present? No other group that I know of would be so lacking in compassion and understanding of their listeners.
The first thing it says is that the content of the material is so important that however disgusting to normal ears it must be transmitted at all costs. This is a fallacy of cult leadership and their prideful sense of self importance.
How many times did we have to sit and listen to uneducated zealots spinning the Watchtower line using malapropisms, irrelevant illustrations, fairy tales read as if they were fact, inappropriate sexual material for children, portentous events to come which never did etc.-- and to an audience which was groomed not to question the authority of the speaker?
Jehovah's Witness are an ABUSIVE cult, it's just as well their influence is declining.
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Cart work faces headwinds.
by lastmanstanding inmy little bethel bird has whispered in my ear some encouraging news.
it has been reported to the canadian branch that some witnesses doing cart work had police stop them from carting in public parks.
the direction sent to the southern ontario congregations is to cease carting until further notice.. this is no joke.. have a jw-free day..
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Half banana
I was in Berlin last week and saw one cart without people taking notice of it and the same a few days before in Torun in Poland. However outside of my favourite haunt in London at the British Museum there were Chinese JWs flogging their message at a cart stand with several curious Chinese tourists. Mind you the Borg will have to work fast to go witnessing to 1.4 billion Chinese before the imminently promised Armageddon strikes most of them dead.