The result is the demographic changed for the worse. When these elderly (Boomers and older) are gone, it’s going to resemble an insane asylum because I don’t believe any of the younger ones with a brain will hang around.
Well said LHG.
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Prediction of how Watchtower going to be in 5 Years.
by Foolednomore ini can see it that watchtower will become an online/tv based group with just con-vention hall$.. field service would be letter writing and phone preaching, door to door is done.. watchtower will have pay to view programs and still ask for donations after all that.. zoom meetings are here to stay.
kingdumb halls will be sold off except for con-vention venues, or need for new ones$.. df'ing will continue.
the craziness will continue.
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Watchtower LOSES copyright court case - humiliated!
by BoogerMan inthe org has been exposed for abusing dmca laws to hunt down and punish anonymous faders/jw's.. https://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2022/05/watch-tower-drops-its-effort-to-identify-a-dissident-blogger-based-on-spurious-copyright-claims.html.
if you talk to a jw, tell them how wisely the "faithful slave is looking after the masters belongings.
" (matt.
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Absolutely Brilliant!
Brought back many memories.Thanks for posting that VH7
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Liberal vs. Conservative mental health study - what do you make of it?
by Brock Talon ina pew study from 2020 (but one i just now came upon myself) reported that the more liberal you are, the more likely you are to have a mental health condition.
the worst suffering group are white females, ages 18-29 where over 56% have admitted to be described by their own doctors as having a mental health condition.
conservative females of the same age group suffer at less than half that number (27%).. while women tend to have more mental health problems than men (don't be mad at me for saying it, this is what the study reports) it is notable that liberal men have a higher percentage of mental health conditions than conservative women in the same age group.
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Interesting. Thanks for posting.
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Hello WTBS ...we have a problem... millions missing publishers
by TexWiller inas the title states there is a ...problem.
allow me to explain.. i'll start with a letter from the president of the wtbs inc in 1974.
*** yb74 254-6 is your faith dead or alive?
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Good point Biahi. If you figure 1% each year get disfellowshipped and only half return..... should be in the neighborhood of 1.2M additional. Maybe closer to a 50% attrition rate?
That sounds more like it....quite a revolving door.People enter the Wacky WT World, destroy their family, learn to hate God and then medicate for the rest of their life.
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What sort of people were the JW's who went to prison? Government study tells all
by Terry indo you feel a draft?
(jw’s did-in the 1960s)i thought you might find it interesting to review exactly what the u.s. government thought, studied, and wrote about people of conscience during the vietnam war.what follows comes from official records…more than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the vietnam war were deferred, exempted, or disqualified.
(cortright, david (2008).
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Sea Breeze
All of us separately and together did exactly what we were asked to do by our local congregations and (tacitly) by our Governing Body at the time. It was told to each of us quietly, circumspectly with caution: "Do NOT tell anybody you were instructed to do this. You must say it is your conscience." IRONIC, isn't it? We were told what to say as if our "conscience" was concluding ALTERNATE service was just as bad as military service.
What a bunch of snakes. No one who is opposed to military service would object to some sort of civilian community service instead. The WT was just creating martyrs as usual with their flock. You got used.
Ironic? Yes, lots of irony...If you actually follow your conscience and accept alternative service, you'll be disfellowshipped and never see your family again. You'll be physically free, but experience a social and familial prison.If, you go against your conscience and obey the high leaders at WT, you'll go to prison, and must live life as a felon the rest of your life, - can never own a gun, vote, be a lawyer, run for office, get a good job etc.
I knew a good JW kid who went to prison for a short time for a marijuana charge while still a teenager. He got a good job as a trustee saddling horses for the squad bosses and riding fence lines mending fences miles from the prison sometimes. He later said that it was the first time in his life that he felt truly free compared to growing up JW.
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Hello WTBS ...we have a problem... millions missing publishers
by TexWiller inas the title states there is a ...problem.
allow me to explain.. i'll start with a letter from the president of the wtbs inc in 1974.
*** yb74 254-6 is your faith dead or alive?
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Sea Breeze
The Society’s records show that 12.060.921 persons were baptized in the last 48 years. Add to that the publishers who were in the field service the previous year, 1969, namely, 1.336.112, and that gives you a total of 13.397.033 persons.
Allowing for the death of about 1.339.703 persons, at the usual rate of one percent each year, are we to say that since 1969 there have been over 3.696.736 brothers and sisters who have gone out in the field service at some time or other since their dedication and baptism and are now trying to show Jehovah and others their faith without works?
Since the Average Publishers 2018 were 8.360.594
the total (a) correspond to a loss of 44,22% baptized
publishers from the year 1969 to 2018 i.e. 49 years.-44% loss? Sounds about right. I wonder if we will ever be able to get reliable publisher numbers from the Wt. again? I wonder what the percentage loss would calculate to be when adding the last 4 years which include Covid, witness work stopping, etc.
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Something Eerily Familiar about "The Village" Movie.
by Sea Breeze ineven after 17 years i still haven't forgot "the village".
maybe it was because i had just left the wt.
did anyone else feel like you especially identified with this movie as a witness/ex-witness?
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Yep! The movie is definitely worth another watch. I think it was an understated masterpiece about the compartmentalization of information driven by fear and control..... for others own good of course.
Why would anyone want to leave the organization? We have everything we need right here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTGyhwvdY6k&t=36s&ab_channel=MovieclipsClassicTrailers
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Something Eerily Familiar about "The Village" Movie.
by Sea Breeze ineven after 17 years i still haven't forgot "the village".
maybe it was because i had just left the wt.
did anyone else feel like you especially identified with this movie as a witness/ex-witness?
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Even after 17 years I still haven't forgot "The Village". Maybe it was because I had just left the WT. Maybe it was something else. Did anyone else feel like you especially identified with this movie as a witness/ex-witness? I know I did. If you haven't seen this suspense thriller, its a good watch.
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Stop reading now if you haven't seen the movie, because the rest of this post will spoil it for you.Here is a spoiler summary with my additions in bold.
“Those We Don’t Speak Of” aren’t really monsters, (demons), they’re costumed villagers meant to make the tales of Covington’s beast problem a reality. (Elders) The reason for their existence is because the founder of the village, Edward Walker (William Hurt) (CT Russell) helped create a society where it was possible to convince a whole town of people that (Jesus already returned in 1914) it was still the 19th century.
The grand truth, and second twist of The Village sees the blind, but resourceful Ivy travel beyond the borders of what’s known to the outside world as Walker Wildlife Preserve (Dub Town). In a quest to get medicine that would heal Lucius, it’s revealed that this village exists in (the Church age and that Jesus hasn't returned yet after all) modern day Pennsylvania.
The reason for the 19th century setting is because Edward and his fellow town elders wanted to escape the problems of the modern world,
Did anyone else feel creepy and elated after watching this movie?
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Hello Everyone
by JohnPaul inhi everyone i would like to say hello to everyone,.
i just started attending kingdom hall about a month ago now and am doing bible study with a brother..
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Hi JP,
You are probably studying a WT publication instead of just the bible by itself. JW's are not allowed to do that. So, it isn't actually a bible study at all.
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Chessa Manion: When A Victim Becomes The Perp
by NonCoinCollector inthis is a hard one for me to write and words can't describe my frustration in seeing this.
from wbko news: .
bowling green, ky. (wbko) - bowling green police have arrested two people on multiple charges following a rape.. police say the victim told them she was kidnapped, raped, and assaulted.. police also say the rape was recorded by a man named colton hogendorn, who was arrested after police found him on 25 chestnut street.. hogendorn is charged with rape first degree, kidnapping, strangulation, assault, sodomy, and video voyeurism.. police also arrested chessa manion, who was present during the events, and arrested and charged with complicity to the same charges.. both were taken to the warren county regional jail.. .
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Sea Breeze
She looks drug skinny compared to her video about WT CSA.
Another blow to the EX-JW activist movement.