Sea Breeze

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  Hello WTBS ...we have a problem... millions missing publishers

  by TexWiller in

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  as 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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  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 in

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  2. beliefs

  even 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  even 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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  Sea Breeze

  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi 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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  Sea Breeze

  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.
  
  Have you ever wondered why just reading the bible isn't enough for JW's?
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  Chessa Manion: When A Victim Becomes The Perp

  by NonCoinCollector in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this 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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  She looks drug skinny compared to her video about WT CSA.

  Another blow to the EX-JW activist movement.
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  Pimo's walking out

  by Foolednomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is it possible that jw's would get so worn out by watchtower 's bullshit that they would stand up gather their stuff and walk out of a meeting or a convention.

  i can see a small number doing it..

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  " Wait on Geehovah ", " you don't want to run ahead of the Org!"

  They are called thought-stopping cliche's
  
  
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  Am I at the right place?

  by AnotherJohn in

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  2. beliefs

  i’m still a good christian.

  i still believe the bible.. i don’t like the wt society, but some of the people, as individuals are good.

  there are many nasty jws also.. i have concerns about current events and how close the end actually is.

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  Sea Breeze

  "Christianity is not about working oneself up into a frenzy in order to obey a list of dos and don'ts. Rather it is an integrated lifestyle that allows God to work through the believer so that they actually "prefer" to make the choices they should."

  ~ Gary Habermas

  Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Theology at LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
  

  What do you think of the above statement John?
  
  
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  MY TWIN Brother (finally)

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  my twin brother.

  i seldom mention my twin brother.. for good reasons, of course.. he has only lived ghost-like inside my mind due to a comment made to me by a declaration from my grandfather.. we were in his car and he turned to me non-sequitur and declared with no pretext: "you know you have a twin brother, don't you?".

  at that point, we had arrived at school and i had to exit my grandfather's car.

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  Sea Breeze

  Maybe ease back on the medication Terry?
  
  (just kidding)
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  Start of the Great Tribulation will be announced soon

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at the 2021 annual meeting, samuel herd revealed new light and claimed the anointed will all have passed away before armageddon.

  it has since been revealed that while they will die before armageddon, there will be some anointed still around that will witness the start of the great tribulation.. so the question is, how many years until the existing members of the governing body have passed away?.

  im not a doctor, but based on their age and various stages of obesity, im thinking 10- 15 years- give or take, sounds about right.. with that in mind, the great tribulation could be announced any day.. the new understanding has now freed the org from the burden of having to identify a particular generation in relation to the date of armageddon.

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  Here's what new light does to the human mind:
  
  

  
  

  Every time they trot out "new light", a few more people lose faith in the WT foretelling scam. A 100% failure rate helps as well.
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  Start of the Great Tribulation will be announced soon

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at the 2021 annual meeting, samuel herd revealed new light and claimed the anointed will all have passed away before armageddon.

  it has since been revealed that while they will die before armageddon, there will be some anointed still around that will witness the start of the great tribulation.. so the question is, how many years until the existing members of the governing body have passed away?.

  im not a doctor, but based on their age and various stages of obesity, im thinking 10- 15 years- give or take, sounds about right.. with that in mind, the great tribulation could be announced any day.. the new understanding has now freed the org from the burden of having to identify a particular generation in relation to the date of armageddon.

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  The overlapping generations understanding is now irrelevant. The anointed dying BEFORE armageddon changes everything.

  I see what you are saying. Problem is that the numbers of annointed keeps growing every year.