Then you've still got a lot to learn @ Paul from Cleveland. Long ago learned not to put anything past Watchtower. Happy new year's to you btw.
mrmagic
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New York Times article Dec 31 2015
by Gayle inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/nyregion/stalled-brooklyn-park-exposes-rift-with-religious-group.html?_r=0.
jehovahs witnesses have been criticized by community leaders for not fixing up parks in dumbo, brooklyn, as promised.
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Latest, SHOCKING JW Paedophile case.
by Phizzy inhttp://www.stratford-herald.com/45973-jehovahs-witness-jail...
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Lots of JW men get sexual arousal off beating and choking kids, usually their own. Sick bastards. -
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My RC hearing brought forward. Will be in two weeks
by umbertoecho inthrough this forum of wonderful freaks, i have met someone who is coming with me to my hearing.
initially i was slated for next year, but will be attending in two weeks time.
all is in place from travel vouchers, support, where to go ............very efficient and well done.
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How did the hearing go ? I missed this post up until now, so I may just write the RC with my own thoughts to this. -
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Boredom at the Kingdom Hall meetings
by RULES & REGULATIONS input aside all the stupid rules,beliefs,doctrines and practices of the jehovah's witnesses.this is one of the main reasons why i stopped attending all meetings!
boredom.
monotone speakers.
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New Book About Jehovah’s Witnesses Starts Creating a Buzz in The JW and Ex JW Community
by GodZoo ina recently published book, by best selling author eugene walker has started creating a buzz inside the jehovahs witness community.
in his new book, "jehovah's witnesses exposed - what really goes on inside the kingdom hall walls", eugene walker brings to light hidden issues that many jehovah's witnesses now face in the organisation.. .
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/11/prweb13083118.htm.
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Scientology Expose: Katie Holmes & Leah Remini are each the cover story for celebrity mags (People & in Touch)
by Faithful Witness inside by side, on the grocery store magazine display, i saw two celebrity magazines with cover stories about scientology.
i purchased both.
i find it interesting, how similar this "church" is to the organization of the watchtower.. i thought i'd share some of the interesting quotes from the articles, which are both mostly about leah remini's new book, troublemaker: surviving hollywood and scientology.
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Thanks for posting this. It is interesting to see the same patterns in other cults like Scientology and Seventh-Day Adventism. I've even seen it in business corporations (MLM's) -
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Aus Bethel reducing numbers dramatically.
by joey jojo insorry if this is old news but just heard that there will only be about 75 people left at sydney bethel after layoffs.
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mrmagic
These are "warm up" changes for the bigger changes to come. It's basic psychology. In sales, it's well known that if you can get your customer/prospects to agree with you on something over and over then you can gently lead them down the sales track. Cults know this too. Make enough trivial changes and get people to go along with them before you actually get to the big stuff. Give them a few truisms to nod "yes" to and then slip in the lies/deceit for their brains to follow the pattern. Only the most self-aware would notice and opt out. Sadly, Jehovah's Witnesses are not known for self-awareness at all. -
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2015--10/19-and10/29-BOEs!
by Atlantis indisregard if already posted.. .. 2015, 10/19/boe.
.. click the green download button.. re: service meeting part for week of december 21, 2015 .
http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/vistoa4.
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Can you give me a nutshell summary instead? I don't read any JW stuff anymore. -
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Taking bets on how long this cult will last and what will happen to it
by macys ini wanna make a poll here.
how many years do you think the jdub cult will exist as is and what will happen to it?.
i say the growth stops this year and starts to decline.
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mrmagic
It's hard to say how long Watchtower will be around. When you're talking about an organization like the Watchtower, you're talking about a system that is comprised of many smaller systems within it.
Additionally, you have ever changing uncertainty to deal with, as well as emergence of larger forces due to all those smaller variables.
You also have unexpected consequences to deal with and couple that with exponentially increasing computer/technology power and you have a recipe for some interesting probabilities.
Technology is the equalizer. It equalizes the power and the playing field. Now the average person can cause a ripple effect of positive change.
Most people don't really understand Moore's Law of exponential returns. Computer technology does hot advance the same tomorrow as it did today. It doubles the doubling of the doubling that was doubled by the previous doubling. (Example: So what used to take 20 years of progress in technology now takes a day. Tomorrow that same 20 years of progress will only take 12 hours. The day after that 6 hours. ) (The Age of Spiritual Machines. by Ray Kurzweil)
Everything has a life cycle and that includes religions/cults. One thing for sure...the organization has been forced to make change. Change is the crucial key. Although many of the changes have ranged from ridiculously lame to completely bizarre....it is still *change* that the organization has been forced to make. There is an interruption to their status quo and now it seems like they are in hot water financially.
I personally don't think it will even take 5 years for them to completely die out as they are now. There may be things within the organization that none of us know yet, that if we knew would change our opinion about the time frame to Watchtower's self-Armageddon. However, this is just my guess in the dark with absolutely no concrete evidence to support my theory/opinion