Posts by RodrigoGuerreiro

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Episode 6 - Life Gets Dark As One Of Jehovah's Witnesses - Is Live Now

by dubstepped in

episode 6 of this jw life is now live.

it is a brutally honest, at times dark, look into what it was like behind the scenes in our lives.

people don't talk openly about ugly parts of their lives and it leads to other people feeling alone when theirs gets ugly.

RodrigoGuerreiro

I’m also a regular listener, and even if your story ends, you can continue the podcast on the same molds if you tell the story of other ex-JW. Some had a very rich experience and a very interesting story of life

keep the good work

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Video Showing Where in the World Jehovah's Witnesses Have been Active, 1926-2016

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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after many, many days of learning how to write macros in excel and cleaning up a lot of data, i finally have the desired result: a timeline of where jehovah's witnesses have been active since 1926.there are some notes:1) "korea" was assumed to be both north and south korea up until 1950.

(i chose 1950 because that is the same year russia and other communist countries went "banned").2) morocco and western sahara are considered as one.3) in the years previous to 1947, i had to read the yearbook reports and make an educated guess as to whether i should include in the report or not.

my requirements were: not banned, report was for an entire year if there was more than one witness in the land, reports were official and not second hand.

RodrigoGuerreiro

Good work

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JW.org as a Prank Tool

by schnell in

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the moment i saw the "request a study" form on the site, i thought, "umm, that could be a bad thing.".

but to date, i have heard of only one case where it was used for less than genuine purposes.

that was in the case of a "game developer" who was selling crappy asset-flips on steam.

RodrigoGuerreiro

I've already used that feature in the past to troll on my fathers congregation. The funny part is that my dad was the assigned minister to response to my fake request.

I must confess that I need to control myself a lot to not laugh when my father share with me the unpleasant experience to made a few kilometers to find a specific house and after a conversation with the house owner he realized that was a prank and he have to apologize to the owner.

The address that I used was a small office so it's easy to find online the address and the full name of the owner.

After that I repeated the prank two times, but I don't have any feedback because maybe the task was assigned to other publisher on that congregation.

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How to reply when someone asks about your spiritual health

by RodrigoGuerreiro in

first of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").

she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?

you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .

RodrigoGuerreiro

@onager ahaha

when you start humming you can use the following daft punk song which fits perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDpmVUEjagg

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How to reply when someone asks about your spiritual health

by RodrigoGuerreiro in

first of all, sorry if i cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".. a few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by jw like "the slave says...").

she was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.. my question is: do you have any good answers for that question?

you can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical .

RodrigoGuerreiro

First of all, sorry if I cannot correctly express the original expression used in my native language to ask for the "spiritual condition".

A few years ago some member of the family asks my wife directly how is her "spiritual health" (for me it's one of the many strange vocabulary used by JW like "the slave says..."). She was catched by surprise with the direct question and says that everything is ok... and luckily someone call them for lunch.

my question is: Do you have any good answers for that question? You can be ironic/use some humor because the question is a little bit anecdotical

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2017 Yearbook released

by bohm in

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i saw this on reddit:.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

RodrigoGuerreiro

@slimboyfat

I notice two of the countries contributing the most to JW growth, Brazil and Angola, are Portuguese speaking. I wonder if there is a shortage of online and print material exposing JW history and practices in Portuguese? If so I wonder if this might be a gap to fill. If JW growth in those two countries halted there'd be little or no growth left overall.

If you notice Portugal have another "zero growth". In Portugal the apostate community collaborates with a major tv channel on a prime time documentary which exposes the organization (it was the most viewed documentary of the the year).

the explanation for the Brazil and Angola is simple... unfortunately they aren't a fully developed country where to be part of a cultish religion is highly stigmatized. On a recent political development on Brazil we saw the rise of a group of evangelicals politicians on the Brazilian government. Angola is very poor country with a lot of uneducated people with a strong Christian presence, so it's a "easy" territory for the org. You can fill up a Kingdom Hall with a bunch of kids only with the curiosity to saw some org lame video production.

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November 1, 2016 TO ALL BODIES OF ELDERS Re: Using and Maintaining Kingdom Halls

by wifibandit in

november 1, 2016 to all bodies of elders re: using and maintaining kingdom halls.

table of contents.

ownership .........................................................................................pars.

RodrigoGuerreiro

Nice leak, as always!

I specially "enjoyed" the internet access policy, let's revoke the passwords for the "spiritual weak" not access apostate sites

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What Were Your Elders Real World Jobs?

by pale.emperor in

we all know that education is severely demonized in this religion.

and that the elders are appointed based on how many meetings they attend, hours they put in on the ministry and general attitude to other elders (as apposed to, you know, actual theological training and counseling) - so my question is, what were your elders occupations outside the kingdom hall?.

in my old congregation our elders consisted of:.

RodrigoGuerreiro

I heard a lot of the "window cleaner stereotype" but I didn't know any elder with that position, also I didn't know any window cleaner worker (maybe it's a unusual job on my country).

Some jobs for the list:

welder, warehouse worker, shop owner, common factory worker, cars seller, constructor, retired, barber...

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