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  Watchtower — emergence of the business end

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  watchtower emergence of the business end .

  today i uploaded a new article to my blog addressing the emergence of watchtower as a business.

  though watchtower had always been a business concern, something happened in the late 1920s that forced watchtower to project its business beyond the front office and far into the rank-and-file.

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  Reasons for Symposiums?

  by watson in

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  if this has been discussed, my apologies.. why all the symposiums??

  big part of the district conventions this year, more than any other.. just curious what your thoughts are..

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  Has anyone, other than me, tried to get your friends/loved ones to prove 1919?

  by garyneal in

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  has anyone, other than me, tried to get your friends/loved ones to prove 1919?.

  did they really try to prove it to you or did they write you off as hopelessly lost or somewhere in between?

  as some of you are aware, i have been trying to get my wife to prove it to me, and if not her, another believing jehovahs witness.

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  I just became a Return Visit (!)

  by simon17 in

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  been sick all week and for the first time i had jw's visit me since i left (actually the second time, but the first time it was just two people who asked "are you turkish" and left when i said no lol.

  very strange).

  anyway, since i had no voice and little strength i just let them go through their presentation with a smile, took the mags, and that was it.

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  The Convention Pretty Much Sucked

  by Franklin Massey in

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  i feel better now.. but just in case you are wondering why i think it sucked, here you go:.

  - it was clearly an "insider's only" convention.

  why invite the public if you are just going to engage in crazy talk that only jws can decipher?.

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  How do you make a living?

  by paulnotsaul in

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  since most of us believed it was right around the corner, how many of you went to any secondary schools or training?

  what do you do now to survive?

  are you working or unemployed?

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  Angels are taking the lead in the preaching work

  by mankkeli in

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  consider one experience in which two kingdom publishers were accompanied by a small child.

  at the end of the morning, the two witnesses were about to stop their preaching work, but the child was unusually eager to go to the next home.

  in fact, he went by himself and knocked on the door!

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  JW’s are obsessed with persecution

  by life is to short in

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  over the weekend i was around a group of jw's.

  i have not been in such a setting for along time so it was sort of surreal.. so this one older jw woman started to talk about her neighbors and their little girls and how much she liked them.

  she said they were a nice family, etc, that they watch each other homes when they go away on vacation, etc.

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  Positives of Growing Up JW

  by Pig in

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  i dont think any of us are glad we grew up in the org.

  but i was thinking about people who get cancer, and if they are lucky enough to beat it often they will say that they were better for the experience.

  before they got cancer they were stressed because they had to work extra hours in a shitty job to make ends meet, the kids were nothing but trouble and they spent their lives wishing that time would go faster, that week would be over, that the year would be over.

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  THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: What if the Governing Body ... ?

  by 00DAD in

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  as part of my post-exit recovery, i've been doing quite a bit of thinking, trying to figure things out, trying to make sense of it all .... in the form of a "thought experiment" this question came to my mind, .

  - matthew 24:34 .

  i mean, i don't know what he meant and i'm ok with it.

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