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  Slimboyfat: Why did you decide to write a topic on this site saying you were going back to the Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by silentbuddha in

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  the topic concerning why the other user allows jw's by to eat is what prompted this thought in my mind.

  maybe i am not remembering this correctly, but seem to remember a number of years ago that you decided to stop posting here and then all of a sudden you posted that this was an apostate website, you didn't want to be here, and that you were returning to jehovah.

  ( i may be slightly off, but it was something along those lines.. i am just wondering if you ever offered an explanation of why you did that?.

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  sbf has been one of the most entertaining posters on this site. I do miss his series on 'SBF joins the Mormons', 'SBF joins the Christadelphians', and several more. I'm still waiting for 'SBF joins the Scientologists'; that'll be a coup.
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  More on Mrs. Russell

  by vienne in

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  see latest post:.

  https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.

  excellent i think.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Thanks, an interesting read.

  I find your posts and your uncle's research to always kshow me something new (to me)
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  Why "Removed" instead of "Disfellowshipped or Shunning"

  by blondie in

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  i was mulling this over last night...too much free time, i know.

  both disfellowshipping and shunning indicate the action of avoiding someone, taking them out of your sphere of associates.

  probably is a better sound bite to say "removed.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The 2020 US Religion Census, which the JWs participated in, uses the word adherent for all religions. Here is a screenshot of their into page at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/ :

  LEARN ABOUT OUR DATA

  U.S. Religion Census data includes...

  • Congregations - the gathering of persons who meet together regularly for worship
  • Members - persons with communicant, confirmed, or full membership status
  • Adherents - members, their children, and the estimated number of other participants who are not considered members
  • Average weekly attendance - all those who participate in weekly services
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  Fancy dress up parties were banned by Elders after our 2nd one

  by Witness 007 in

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  so i grew up in a small town with lots of witnesses so being bored we had two fancy dress up parties now some brothers came with swords and fake guns as pirates or cowboys one brother who was a pioneer came dressed as a woman!

  the elders smashed us in a talk they gave and these fun parties were cancelled..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I think it fair to say that JW children and teens are starved for fun things to do. It is a great failing on the part of the WT to not provide outlets for them, and to squash the things they like to do.
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  Why "Removed" instead of "Disfellowshipped or Shunning"

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was mulling this over last night...too much free time, i know.

  both disfellowshipping and shunning indicate the action of avoiding someone, taking them out of your sphere of associates.

  probably is a better sound bite to say "removed.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I am reminded of a Bing Crosby movie from the '70s called 'Dr Cook's Garden', where the town doctor would put an 'R' for 'removed' in his patient's file before murdering them. I wonder if they are going to put an 'R' on the publisher's record card.
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  Unbaptised publishers

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
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  if a child grows up in a congregation to jw parents, they can go in the ministry even if they get to teenagers and they still haven’t become an unbaptised publisher they can still go on the ministry.

  if someone comes into the truth at an older age, they’re not allowed to go on the ministry until they are an unbaptised publisher only then can they put their first report in.

  what if the child grows into his late teens and he still hasn’t become an unbaptised publisher?

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  I seem to remember (someone correct me if I am wrong) that they first began to use a term 'approved associate', which lasted maybe a year or two, then that designation was replaced by 'unbaptized publisher'.

  I think it came about because of the inherent ambiguity of the WT definition of 'who is a member'. First they say a member is someone who is baptized, then they would say a JW is someone who reports time, ie; a publisher. The two designations do not always jive, so they had to come up with an 'unbaptized publisher' designation. Part of their strategy to keep one step ahead of the draft board in the case of young men facing selective service, in my opinion.
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  How Did Watchtower Sell the "Jonadab" Concept ?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  simply put; gullible people were told if they chose life on earth instead of heaven, they wouldn't have to die.

  that's how they sold it.

  the watchtower lied to people in the 1920 booklet and convention series titled "millions now living will never die!

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  The “Jonadabs” were not even considered to be “Jehovah’s witnesses” originally. (See The Watchtower, August 15, 1934, page 249

  If I remember rightly, even in the '80s they were still saying the great crowd

  were not 'Jehovah's Witnesses', but were their associates, or some such term.
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  Maria Russell

  by vienne in

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  2. beliefs

  some of you may be interested in the latest post here: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Interesting, thanks.
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  Predictions for the next decade?

  by jehovaxx in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as it’s nearly the new year my prediction over the next decade or so will see the sense of urgency dwindle.

  then some huge huge changes.

  for example by 2034 in a decades time, they will have address the 1914 issue and will come out and say we can’t be dogmatic.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Lots of people self-identify as JWs but don’t report time or check the box. Why they do so is a curiosity, but typically the census numbers are greater than WT-reported figures
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  Hotel Bossert, a storied hotel on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, was sold

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  2. experiences

  memories..... a 1970s-1980s meetup location to grab a ride to local trips on the subway...or a bite on montague st.. brooklyn heights hotel to be turned into homes.

  the hotel bossert, a storied hotel on montague street in brooklyn heights, was sold to someraroad, a new york city and nashville-based real estate investment and development firm.. bk reader staffmay 31, 2025 10:00 amjun 2, 2025 9:20 am.

  photo: supplied/jim.henderson via wikimedia commonslisten to this article00:01:23. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  My first visit to Bethel included the unique opportunity of meeting Sister DeCecca. She was quite old at that time (1976 or so) and didn't say much. At the time I didn't know who she was, but later I learned that her husband had been one of the seven sent to jail with Rutherford in 1918.