John Aquila

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  How many people are there at Bethel?

  by bohm in

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  rumor has it 1600 people are going to be re-allocated to the field from bethel (which i assume refers to the brooklyn complex?).

  does anyone know how many people will then remain?

  i have tried to find figures for the number of employed people but i am coming up with nothing.

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  I am becoming more and more convinced it might make sense to create some sort of WT-timeline wikipedia which track key stats and events in the WT history for instance sorted as: doctrinal changes, printing statistics and reduction in staff.

  
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  I think the school will just be changing. Because in the letter they used the words "student" I am hesitant to say they are throwing the school away, at least in their perception.

  
  So it's still kind of vague what actually is going to happen with the school. I hope they do away with it because I'm planting seeds everywhere.

  What's interesting is, they can't fathom the school being done away with. It's one big hurdle they are going to have to jump. I believe it will nudge some of them to wake up.
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  Yesterday I was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home. Three of them were ministerial servants. All of them are from the Spanish Congregation. After we finished talking business, they asked me why I stopped going to the meetings.

  I related all the changes in the organization that I was not comfortable with. They asked, like what? So I elaborated and afterwards expressed strongly how I felt that the preaching work is fading into the sunset. That It’s not their first priority anymore.

  I told them that I wouldn’t be surprised if they did away with the Theocratic Ministry School very soon.

  Well they went into hysteria, facial and hand gestures were out of control (The Spanish are kind of emotional, at least more than the English brothers) And they are always behind on any WT news because they still haven’t heard that news about the end of the T. school.

  Some of the comments were;

  “No Brother, that will never happen”

  “Brother, that is the only way new ones are trained to speak”

  “Brother when that happens, the preaching work stops because Armageddon will be here”

  I didn’t tell them the end of the T. School was a sure thing, I just said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if they did away with it soon”

  Man I hope that letter about the end of the Theocratic School was true.
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  I'm a coward.

  by cappytan in

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  since the move, it has been so enjoyable to not have jw's breathing down our necks asking why we didn't make the meeting, or having to pretend to be "spiritual" in front of family all the time.. 90% of my week is virtually stress free.

  then, my mom calls or texts wanting to talk to her grandkids.

  every dang call, she asks about the new congregation, if we went to the meeting, etc.. why can't i tell her to fk off?

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  Set up your phone with a recording that says;

  "The Network is down, please try your call later"

  Then send her a letter saying that she will have to write if she wants to communicate because the phone in your area has lots of problems with out of town calls.

  Letter writing takes long and will limit her.
  
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  S*** JW Parents Say

  by Dissonant15 in

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  2. family

  my mom especially had some go-to phrases that to this day echo in my head and piss me off.

  things like, .

  "don't get mad at me for enforcing the rules, because jehovah made them, so if you don't like it, you're disrespecting him.

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  "The worst Jehovah's Witness is better than the best worldly person."

  
  

  
  
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  I went down in the first Round!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

  i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

  i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  
  

  "The little one will become a mighty nation... then it will become a little one again.

  ha ha!!!!!!
  
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  Elder gossip

  by Jumongi in

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  i'll try to keep this short.

  my experience at the hall is elders not really engaging in friendship building communication with anyone.

  the only time they really communicate with you is to counsel you or tell you where you need to make adjustments.

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  Yes, I was an elder and that's exactly what I did.
  
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  70 years of the UN ... Peace and security is the top priority

  by Aleph in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok....well it s now or never!.

  http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/28/opinions/lykketoft-united-nations-transformative-year/.

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  70 years is a generation. And I don't mean overlapping generation.
  
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  I went down in the first Round!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

  i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

  i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

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  Morpheus Rookie mistake

  
  

  I won't let that happen again M. I am training hard for the next round.

  
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  I went down in the first Round!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

  i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

  i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

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  JW's abandoning their faith probably gave 80% of them a hard on to jump at the chance to prove their "faith"

  How do you jump with a hard on? (With lots of faith)