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  Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year

  by ComingOutaMyCage in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.

  https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.

  https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.

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  So, when there are doctrinal changes, there won't be anything in print to prove it.
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  IMHO the finest TV interview with Ex-JW's ever broadcast!

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  quite effective and enjoyable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijzvt_jptx8&t=1306s.

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  Thank you. I have watched many ex-JW videos, including many by Kristy Ann, but I had never seen this one.
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  Date a JW student

  by Renee86 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  can a witness date and court a jw student if he intends to get baptized?

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  As long as you can keep it a secret, anything goes. I personally know a young woman of the Orthodox faith who has an "illegitimate" child fathered by a JW. Did he marry her? No. She is rearing the child as a single parent. Apparently, none of the local JW's know about the "relationship." What a bunch of hypocrites!
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  My Eyes, My Ears ... arrrrrghhhh!!!!

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just saw this ..... https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/uzfp4q/what_in_the_hell/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share.

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  Mum

  Wow! I got a glimpse of my former self - euphoric on a delusion. The idealist in me loved seeing the international flavor of the graduation and made me wonder if JW's in other countries are having the problems of JW's in the west. The "music" was horrible; it reminded me of the comments made in Gary Botting's "The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses" about the "barking rhythm" the JW "songs" have. My heart goes out to these lovely people who have been deceived by the governing body ogres and slick Madison Avenue tactics of the Watchtower. The Thai children were just adorable!
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  Michael's Story (JW commits suicide)

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the story of michael.

  a 4th generation jw.

  elder, husband, father with relational ties to marley cole.. pimo, stepped down as elder, and the body went after him tooth and nail.

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  The problem is that good little witnesses set a trap for themselves. They only marry witnesses; they brainwash their children; they don't even create an "escape hatch" for unforeseen occurrences. No one knows for sure what was happening in Michael's personal life to lead to such despair and hopelessness. I read that the elders were harassing him and encouraging his wife to divorce him. It got to be more than the poor man could bear. What a tragedy!
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  WT resumes public ministries*

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from jw org news alert:.

  breaking news | resuming public witnessing.

  on may 31, 2022, the governing body informed all branch committees that they may now resume all forms of public witnessing with the exception of the door-to-door ministry.

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  There was a time when people, mostly women, were at home. This partly accounts for the oversupply of female JW's. These days, people are at work, dining out, participating in "extracurricular" activities. The door-to-door method is antiquated at best. Maybe JW's need to be more like the churches in trying to make converts, with old-fashioned ice cream socials and the like.
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  Last nights Zoom meeting: Watching a nine year old on stage reading Bible passages

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my nephew called me sunday night to tell me that his nine year old son was giving his first talk.

  he gave me the zoom i.d.. and password for his congregations in-person tuesday night meeting.. i haven't been to any meetings in nine years.

  many things have changed.

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  Brainwash them while they're still young and think you know everything! Don't teach them critical thinking, but how to be a good drone. Never mind great poetry, great prose, great books, great music, learning in general. The important thing is bare survival and regurgitation of fantasy beliefs.
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  Who do you think the DEMONS are?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower teaches that the demons are the angels that came down here on earth right before the flood but research shows otherwise in this video i consider the identity of demons.if you never looked in this subject you will find this interesting ,let me know what you think.

  https://youtu.be/m1zfyhmlyx0.

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  The demons are the leftover figments of the imagination of ancient, ignorant people who had no explanation for disease, bad behavior or unexplainable occurrences. They give an easy explanation of things we can't understand.
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  New Religion

  by crios in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i need a new religion.

  it can't be trinidadian and it must be a christian church.

  it's been a while since i've been to the hall (and i'm not interested in returning either) and i need a new religion.

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  Start your own religion. I understand it can lead to great wealth.

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  What have you forgotten you ever even knew?

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at a certain point, as the years tick by, you start to realize that you have forgotten a lot of things.

  typically, something you learned, some knowledge or skill you used to have, that you just haven't used for so long you no longer remember anything but that you once knew it.. i saw an article about electrical resistors the other day, and how the colored bands signify the rating.

  now all i remember is that i used to know it, and that resistors do something with, erm, electricity ...

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  Mum

  I can easily remember things that happened or that I learned in the 1950's, but what happened last week - forgotten!