Posts by snare&racket

it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

It seems quite odd to me, to have a scientific question of whether man made contributions to CO2 contribute to climate change..... and to offer the option of skeptic or believer. Especially poignant on an ex religious site.

i very skeptically believe human pollution is likely contributing to climate change and that it is indefensible to not try and reduce that possible contribution, for our childrens sake.

It takes decades to become an expert in this field, armchair opinions are exactly that and dangerous no matter which side they stand by.

By far the majority of experts are in agreement that it it taking place, dangerous and that time is of the essence. That will do for me.

Non expert opinion has already seen me lose nearly three decades to a cult.

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Attendance Figures

by snare&racket in

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i was a jw in the 80’s-2000’s and probably saw the peak of uk attendance.. anecdotally, many here appear to have a view that attendance has reduced significantly.

our kh would have around 90-110 for a meeting, at worst maybe 75 and the highest was 144 (for memorial lol).. small circuit assembly had about 1000 people and district had about 8-12000. .

i know kh’s and circuits/districts have variance, however in the uk i attended many of these various gatherings and the numbers above tended to be reasonably average.

snare&racket

I was a JW in the 80’s-2000’s and probably saw the peak of UK attendance.

Anecdotally, many here appear to have a view that attendance has reduced significantly.

Our KH would have around 90-110 for a meeting, at worst maybe 75 and the highest was 144 (for memorial lol).

Small circuit assembly had about 1000 people and district had about 8-12000.

I know KH’s and circuits/districts have variance, however in the UK I attended many of these various gatherings and the numbers above tended to be reasonably average.

So what kind of numbers are you seeing today? Are there any actual attendance figures available anywhere?

snare

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Awake 1990 "I'm Afraid I'll Get Disfellowshipped.

by Fabian in

again cleaning/organizing my huge collection of jws books, i happened to go now pick up the 1990 awake and stumbled on this march 22, 1990 page 27. .

it is true that one cannot back out of a dedication to god.

(compare ecclesiastes 5:4.

snare&racket

Don't worry, you didnt't.

It's very easy to undedicate yourself from a book publishing, fascist organisation though!

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Diversity is White Genocide

by corrie54 in

asia for the asians, africa for the africans, white countries for everybody!.

everybody says there is this race problem.

everybody says this race problem will be solved when the third world pours into every white country and only into white countries.. the netherlands and belgium are just as crowded as japan or taiwan, but nobody says japan or taiwan will solve this race problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.. everybody says the final solution to this race problem is for every white country and only white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.. what if i said there was this race problem and this race problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into every black country and only into black countries?.

snare&racket

Remember back when,,.... there were those Neanderthals in the East with slightly darker skin who would grunt at a slightly faster pace when communicating ! They also ate their berries without washing them and have taken all the club making jobs of the local Neanderthals..... terribly sad time wasn't it.

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Did Jesus exist? Probably not

by The 12 Apostates in

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threads about this have been made before, but none have been made for a few years.

i was very much on the fence with this one, i never really cared.

but i became curious recently, having had a few interactions with street preachers.

snare&racket

Did L. Ron Hubbard really exist? Probably doesn't matter........what's true is true, what is not is not.

Be it a scienrology pamphlet or the book of Acts, what matters is what's true in the document, not whether the characters within them existed or not.

If you could find out with certainty that a man called Ieshua/Jesus existed at that time, in that place, with those teachings..... would it matter at all as to what is true?

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What new cuts might be coming

by pepperheart in

what new cuts might be coming for the watchtower ?.

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They may start partitioning off land, for example where a KH sits in a lot of land, they may sell the excess land, It may only be 5-10% of KH's but that is free money for them. They could encroach on their car parks too.....again free money.

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THIS IS IT Tony Morris Identifies King of Norht

by scotoma in

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this is the announcement we have heard “about” but now it has been released to the whole world.

its in the 2nd of a three part serries about the jw annual meeting (oct 2018).

to minute 52. .

snare&racket

Idiots ..... they should have gone with Islam. Its the fsstest growing, most relevant religion to modern times.... no mention of it anywhere in JW doctrine

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"This system will probably be over in about 5 years"

by john.prestor in

i don't think i shared this story yet, it's strange and although i did a little detective work trying to figure out who said what and when i never found out much, big surprise, jehovah's witnesses love their secrets as we all know... but i thought other posters might find this interesting both in and of itself, because of what an elder told me one sunday back in 2011, and because of what it could imply as to high-ranking jehovah's witnesses prophesying the date of armageddon.

specific dates went out the window in 1975, although governing body helper ken flodin hinted at 2040 in a talk uploaded to jw.org a couple years back, and the governing body hinted at 2034 in a watchtower back in the 90s.

but it might be, just might, that more specific date-setting still goes on behind closed doors in certain circuits.... so after i went to "meetings" and talked to witnesses for a couple years at a rural congregation in the eastern united states an elder pulled me aside one service into the vestibule at the hall, in other words, into a private area where no one would overhear us.

snare&racket

I heard it all my life..... idiots

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2018 Closes With an Islamist Terror Attack in Manchester

by cofty in

three victims, including a policeman are in hospital with serious knife injuries after a frenzied attack on new year's eve.. the suspect is a somalian immigrant - according to a bbc reporter who happened to witness the incident he was shouting allah as he knifed his victims.. the conduct of the british transport police officer was outstanding.. bbc report.... a woman in a hijab was pictured assisting the victims.

here in one image we have the dilemma of islam.. .

snare&racket

Having many Muslim friends I am glad that I have experienced a different life and know otherwise.

Believe what you wish.