I would like to see it, if you can post it with any personal names omitted.
dropoffyourkeylee
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Request----Federal Post Office Inspector!
by Atlantis inatlantis:.
do you have a copy of a letter that was sent out by a congregation overseer, with a complaint from the federal post office inspector, concerning letters being sent out by jw's?.
yes, i have it, but very few people show any interest in the letters anymore.
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JWN poster/forum member Jada known as 'serenitynow' passed away...
by Joliette infound out on fb friday .
not sure if anyone else found out, but i take long breaks from the exjws movement.
had to do a serious search for her name, because she wasnt as active on jwn anymore...not sure how she passed but her sister said (according to another ex jws) that she had been sick for a while.. i met her once here in milwaukee, had a great time hanging out with her.
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False members numbers
by asp59 inis watchtower faking there member numbers?
i live in europe.
for the last 15 year's probably 25 person i knew or more were df, pimo, left by own will, inactive.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Ditto Dreary,
The count of JWs is defined as the ones who are active publishers, which is in turn defined as those who have reported at least once in the previous 6 months. They have lowered the bar a bit in recent years to allow less than an hour to be reported (as little as 15 minutes, I think), but other than that the way they count has essentially stayed the same for years.
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King Richard
by Rattigan350 inthere is this new movie out called "king richard" staring will smith playing serena and venus williams father.
i don't know much about this, but i heard that they were raised by jw parents.
how does that factor into the movie and their growing up aspiring tennis stars?.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I had read that the mother was a JW but the father was not.
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How many states have you ever lived in? (USA)
by Iamallcool ini only have lived in 4 states!
michigan.
georgia.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Denial
Oblivion
Crisis
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What kind of job would you like to have?
by Iamallcool init doesn’t have to be about big money.
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dropoffyourkeylee
If I had my life to live over again I would try to become an attorney. On the other hand, I've found that after about 10-15 years in a job it starts to get old and a career change can be a very healthy move, though it may not be the path toward greatest income. I've had four major career changes in my life and now I have retired and only do some side work to keep busy doing something.
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Dune (1984) - er, yeah, lol
by LoveUniHateExams inso, i saw dune (1984) yesterday.
i knew it wasn't gonna be great, but deary me.
i'm not gonna lie - this film is not good, in fact it's laughably bad in places.. first, i'd like to know the thought process that went behind choosing david lynch to write/direct.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I just watched the new 2021 Dune. It covers roughly half of the first book ( also called Dune) of the Dune series.
I liked it , watchable, interesting to both fans of the book and non-readers. I look forward to the next one.
After the first book is covered, I’ll be curious to see if any more are made based on the remaining novels. The material gets progressively more obtuse the farther you go.
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Records
by Jerryh ini was never a witness but i think they keep extensive records.
could they produce these names today?.
mostly curious.. .
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dropoffyourkeylee
LOL, that's one WT quote I don't recall seeing before. I wonder what they would do if the list ran over 144,000
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How can you have a deficit for a Circuit Assembly on Zoom??
by pistolpete inremember when after a circuit assembly the assembly overseer would come out right before the end of the assembly and make a special announcement;.
"brothers, we have a financial deficit of $5,000 dollars for our circuit assembly.
keep in mind that we have utilities and other expenses that need to be met.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I think they have a set amount of 'worldwide work' donation, sort of a quota, that they consider a fixed expense. It has little or nothing to do with the expenses that are directly attributable to the event. They also are still having to maintain their assembly halls, which are virtually unused but still need minimal heating and cooling, etc., so it is likely that they are collecting for those expenses.
In this area (midwest US) they had the assembly hall for sale for several years but no one would buy it. It is located so far out in the rurals with poor access to highways that it is essentially an unsaleable property.
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Watchtower Disparages the Bible
by Vanderhoven7 ini'm looking for wts quotations that contrast with ii timothy 3:15-16 whereby they downplay scripture.. here is one from way back..
"...people cannot see the divine plan in studying the bible by itself...if he then lays them [scripture studies] aside and ignores them and goes to the bible alone, though he has understood his bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness.
on the other hand, if he had merely read the scripture studies with their references, and had not read a page of the bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of the two years, because he would have the light of the scriptures," (watchtower, sept. 15, 1910, p. 298).
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dropoffyourkeylee
My own observation is that the JWs typically follow Russell's 1910 advice anyway. Very very few JWs read the Bible contiguously from front to back, or even any of the individual books from beginning to end. If they did, they would soon realize how wrong the JW theology is. But they do read the WT literature, discuss the exact wording amongst themselves, etc. I thought when the 2013 revision occurred, resulting in a Bible with comparatively more readable form, more JWs would do such Bible reading, but apparently I was wrong.