Posts by millie210

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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

by Drearyweather in

2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.

see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).

millie210

No.

It has been a long slow extraction of myself from them. Mostly to keep the waters calm with all my family/friend connections.

I did go to Memorial last year, as a concession to elderly family members. That is the extent of my going in a Hall. It seems to not matter much to "in" JWs what I do as long as I dont rock the boat too hard in any one direction at any one time.

I do have several JWs who work for me so I get to see and hear a lot without the drudgery of having to actually go in to a Kingdom Hall

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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

by Drearyweather in

2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.

see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).

millie210

These figures belie what I see with my eyes.

Congregations are closing.

Attendance at meetings is down.

Service is mostly perfunctory and token

Building projects have tanked and are just "not discussed"

On a positive note, conventions still appear mostly the same

Thats what I see.

Then there is what they "report"

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What JW Beliefs Did You Find Difficult To Explain?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there are a lot.

anything blood related was difficult to reasonably prove from a witness perspective.. 1914 was another one.

what can you add to the list?

millie210

Inviting people to a Kingdom Hall while steadfastly refusing to accept an invitation to their place of worship.

This applied to giving them literature while refusing theirs also.

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Abuse Survivor's $4M Judgment Against Jehovah's Witness Umbrella Organization Upheld by Court 12/10/18

by Not_Culty in

https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2018/12/10/court-upholds-abuse-survivors-4m-judgement-against-jehovahs-witness-umbrella-organization-389-52222/?slreturn=20181111101406.

millie210

Oh the irony of using a " a pool party is not a Watchtower sponsored event" argument.

They work the point hard at every meeting watch your association, to segregate their members from the "world". ESPECIALLY for association their children are allowed.

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Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson

by LoveUniHateExams in

i gotta say, i wasn't particularly impressed with peterson in his debates with sam harris - way too much waffling about 'the spirit of the logos' xd.

but here is a nice, interesting discussion with douglas murray.. i think there's mutual respect between the two men.

during the debate with harris in london, peterson reached across and adjusted murray's mic.

millie210

I am so glad to see this thread. Much appreciated LoveUni!

I have been deeply impressed and influenced by Jordan Peterson in my walk away from the JWs

I think my soul was starved for deep intellectual thinking after dining so many years on what amounted to food from a table posing to be intellectual with very little content.

I like knowing the "why" behind the "what". Jordan Peterson gave me things to look at as to why religion seems to be so important to people. What the archetypes are actually providing for people and why they sadly swallow so much dogma in order to fill those needs.

He has helped me formulate my own detachment from religion as a whole, in a systematic thoughtful way.

Perhaps for people needing to cross from the deep time they spent as a witness to a world where they can be detached and objective, he provides a bridge.

I am not familiar with Rubin but I will be now, thank you.

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Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Bother You At All?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i faded from the religion and simply didn’t go back.

once people understood that my family and i left, people in the congregation didn’t know what to do.

should they call me, visit me, leave me alone?

millie210

Only the leadership!

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Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

by George One Time in

on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

he mentions health and viewing pornography.

those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

millie210

What would be really funny is if everyone would answer the pornography question with strict honesty.

An immediate severe shortage in volunteers!

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Russia=King of the North, USA=King of the South? New info coming in from Annual Meeting 2018

by Jules Saturn in

it was announced in this year’s annual meeting that they believe that the king of the north is russia and the king of the south is us/britain.

for me this is the first time hearing from the society actually identifying the identity of the king of the north.

very interesting times!

millie210

Didnt Russia confiscate their property?

Bad Russia!

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The Silver JW Bible

by caves in

the year was 2010. .

this has always infuriated me.

i was pomi ( but didnt know it).

millie210

Power tripping elder sounds right to me.

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FYI- Some KH Annoucements Aug 2018

by stumbledbyothers in

some of these kh letters may have been mentioned already:.

starting sept - $14 per publisher toward taking care of the needs of the co in us.. love never fails 2019 regional conventions.. memorial april 19, 2019.. there will be jw contact cards with blank space to write notes..

millie210

Lost in the fog
and a free car, all expenses paid for, servicing and gasoline. And unlike regular elders who have to do different meeting parts every week, the CO. just has to learn one set of talks and regurgitate those over and over again for the whole circuit.
"Nice Work if you can get it!"

And dont forget the green handshake!