Posts by snare&racket

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This Forum. Has it changed? For the better or for the worse? Or not a at all?

by ThomasCovenant in

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when i post i try to imagine that i am at a social gathering or sometimes in someone's house as a dinner guest.

that way it is easier to follow the community guidelines and posting rules set out on the site at the bottom of the page.

i wouldn't want to make a fool of myself in public.

snare&racket

I'm an ex-jw and I love politics, but I find it out of place here.

I imagine the JW's swinging by, lurking, pondering ......seeing all the "lack of harmony" from their perspective and running back to the JW's.

This forum has definitely changed. We all owe Simon and Angharad much for its existence, though I do wonder how I would have felt coming to a site with such polarising political voews when searching for a soucre of TATT.

The polarisation is just a reflection of society today, we all seek our confirmation bias and echo chambers.

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Even my old KH for sale...

by snare&racket in

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i happened to be in my old town last week, i decided to drive past my old kh in n.wales,.

to my suprise there was a large 'for sale' sign hanging off it!.

this is a semi-remote area with the nearest other kh's a good 30 mins in every direction.

snare&racket

I happened to be in my old town last week, I decided to drive past my old KH in N.Wales,

To my suprise there was a large 'For Sale' sign hanging off it!

This is a semi-remote area with the nearest other KH's a good 30 mins in every direction. The KH was built with and renovated via local funds and local efforts (including mine).

I looked in the local paper and saw that another nearby hall had been sold too and another auctioned off, all in recent years.

Looks like the congs are being squished together globally.

Money grab indeed 💰!

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Do you have a Facebook account, important message

by Tameria2001 in

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i'm not sure where to put this under, but i got a message from my anti-virus service.

they were informing me that facebook left everyone's password open for any employee of facebook to see.

they strongly recommended people to change their password to their facebook account.

snare&racket

Apologies, however.....

"Facebook said that it had found no evidence of abuse and that it would begin alerting millions of its users and thousands of Instagram users about the issue. The company said it would not require people to reset their passwords."

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Do you have a Facebook account, important message

by Tameria2001 in

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i'm not sure where to put this under, but i got a message from my anti-virus service.

they were informing me that facebook left everyone's password open for any employee of facebook to see.

they strongly recommended people to change their password to their facebook account.

snare&racket

Just think for a second.........

Someone is trying to scam you.

ignore it.

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Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

by Simon in

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climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

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?.

snare&racket

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.