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  David Splanes how to get everyone to agree when voting in elders meetings

  by Kevin McFree in

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  https://youtu.be/j3htfvmgr50.

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  Wakanda

  Excellent as always, and the humor! Thank you Kevin. Loved your interview with EXJW Fifth also.
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  Continuing congregation mergers

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the area i live in the pacific northwest, three spanish congregations we're merged into two a couple of years ago and in the next month or so four english congregations will be cut down to three.

  both situations happened because of lack of growth.

  a few years ago, i would never have imagined spanish congregations disappearing or merging but it's happening.

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  It was a little sideways anger Morph. uggh.

  Edit 1:Look for the new group by August, or August of next year I would guess. I just saw a group added where a merge happened and it took a year.

  Edit 2: It is just a desperate move, but I want people who are still doubting to have all the info.
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  GDPR: help for PIMOs

  by Fay Dehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we urgently need to offer "resistance strategy" help to pimos who are likely to be harassed by elders seeking their consent for wtbt$ to leech their data.

  what questions could pimos ask elders, that elders would be unable to answer?

  (thus buying time, because elder would need to "check with branch").

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  Isambard, that is still pressure and against GDPR.

  There is to be no pressure with GDPR, right?
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  Continuing congregation mergers

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the area i live in the pacific northwest, three spanish congregations we're merged into two a couple of years ago and in the next month or so four english congregations will be cut down to three.

  both situations happened because of lack of growth.

  a few years ago, i would never have imagined spanish congregations disappearing or merging but it's happening.

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  Watch for a new foreign language group. They count as congregations on their tallies, and I notice a new one almost every time I see a merger.

  So, the almost 500 less congregations in the U.S. probably is more like 1500.

  Lying sick bastard asshats. Hell would be too good for them.
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  GDPR: help for PIMOs

  by Fay Dehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we urgently need to offer "resistance strategy" help to pimos who are likely to be harassed by elders seeking their consent for wtbt$ to leech their data.

  what questions could pimos ask elders, that elders would be unable to answer?

  (thus buying time, because elder would need to "check with branch").

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  Isambard Crater My Group Overseer told me "it must be signed today" so I used a fake signature.

  That's totally against the GDPR law! I hope someone is recording the pressure they are getting and reporting to authorities. I know they catch us off guard sometimes, and we miss good opportunities to record. But, if this happened to Isambard, it is happening elsewhere.

  The fines are incredible for a breach like this, like 20 million or 4% of a company's income, right?

  They will, of course, just try to throw the elder under the bus. But, maybe the enforcers of the law will see through that tactic.
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  "Thanks for the thought" - how the religion robs people of normal humanity

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so as you all know, my wife and i are not officially df or da.. a small event happened this week that i have to share!.

  a family that we were really close to (dinners and catch ups several times a month , go out socially often, play sport together, helped them through tough times, like uncle and aunty to their kids, etc).

  the wife's father died.

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  My parents would regularly discuss with each other the absurdity of unconditional love.
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  My JW Elder Brother Passed Away

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  he was basically a good man, just a believer in the religion.

  when we were both elders we were best of friends and then things deteriorated when i was not an elder for a while.

  then after becoming an elder again, i slowly drifted away from the religion and he drifted further away from me.

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  Sorry Min. It is just so hard to deal with. I really liked Sparrowdown's comment on losing him before losing him.
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  Informing of judicial decisions - how is it accomplished in 2018?

  by gone for good in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how do jws (rank and file) know when to commence shunning the victim of an internal judicial proceeding ?

  what direction does the elders manual give to start the congregations participation in shunning?

  when did you most recently see this process initiated in a hall you attend?.

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  An announcement is made: So and so is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Or So and so is no longer a Jehovah's Witness.

  People in my hall are literally dying to leave this religion, can't remember last DFing. Lots of old people.
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  Hall Closings

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there a thread that lists the kh's that are being sold in the us?

  i just learned that my old hall is getting sold and the 2 congregations that are meeting there are merging with 2 congregations in another hall..

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  hmm. I'll have to look into that jp. I don't comment on youtube because I've never figured out how to create a separate google account that does not show up when logging in to google. I share my current account with my PIMI husband, which was fine until my little apostate projects. I'll have to finally try some things and see if I could make it work. I'm so uneducated in it, and google keeps taking away privacy like not being able to delete sent yt messages.

  I think my google account links to my ip address..., right?

  Maybe if I did it from the library. But I get effing paranoid there too, as anyone could walk up behind me. There aren't any computers with privacy, understandably.

  Hmmm. Maybe if try to get a cheap used iPad or laptop... just for this.

  Just brainstorming.
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  Hall Closings

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there a thread that lists the kh's that are being sold in the us?

  i just learned that my old hall is getting sold and the 2 congregations that are meeting there are merging with 2 congregations in another hall..

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  Wakanda

  I have a personal list with dates for my area, some are approximate. Here's an offer: If you have names of congregations, kingdom halls with the dates (approximate is o.k.), I"ll list them here.

  I don't want to list my own unless I have others also. I'm too effing paranoid. So, if you are like me, you could p.m. your info to me to post.

  I'll keep it on a master document so I can keep track so as avoid duplicating. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

  Hope I'm not being weird, or umm... 'prominent'! I'm kind of worried that I'd be able to keep up, but, somebody has got to do it. Kim Mikey has a video on it, but I know they had some mistakes too. A list in writing would be good.great!