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  284000 baptized in 2017

  by jw-verite in

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  2. beliefs

  seen in the 03/2018 watchtower study :.

  "during the 2017 service year, more than 284,000 “rightly disposed” individuals symbolized their dedication to jehovah by water baptism.".

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-march-2018/baptism-requirement-for-christians/.

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  How many of these new members are the result of door to door ministry or witnessing carts. I'd doubt even 50%.

  My 9yo niece is being groomed for baptism by her parents. As well as my cousins 10yo daughter.
  
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  JW.org Featured Artical: When Your Adolescent Questions Your Faith

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is one of the featured articals on jw.borg at the moment.

  could it be because the young ones are googling their parents religion?, seeing the bullshit?, and calling their parents out on it?

  i hope so.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20120201/adolescent-questions-faith/.

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  This is one of the featured articals on JW.borg at the moment. Could it be because the young ones are googling their parents religion?, seeing the bullshit?, and calling their parents out on it? I hope so.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20120201/adolescent-questions-faith/

  What's worrying is, one of the pieces of advice given is to find them an adult mentor outside of the family. Really, Watchtower? After the ARC you're going to suggest this?

  The Value of a Mentor
  
  Sometimes youths are helped when an adult outside the family provides encouragement. Do you know someone whose spiritual outlook could be an inspiration to your adolescent? Why not arrange for him or her to spend time with your son or daughter? Your purpose is not to abdicate your responsibility. But think of Timothy. He benefited greatly from the apostle Paul’s example, and Paul benefited greatly by having Timothy as a companion.—Philippians 2:20, 22. *
  

  This artical being featured is encouraging to me. Long may the younger generation keep searching and googling about Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower organization.
  

  And for any of you young ones reading this, check out JWFacts.com.
  
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  Chapter 48 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  chapter 48. turn on the tv!.

  nine days after mark’s wedding, i got a phone call early tuesday morning.. “get up… get up and go turn on your tv!” it was mike, my jehovah’s witness friend from seattle.. ok so i got up and walked downstairs and did what he said.

  there it was, i saw the smoke and flames coming out of the twin towers.

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  When all the hypocrites were running back to the Org, as it delighted in death and misery, your good conscience prodded you into leaving.

  My older brother was one of them. Started attending meetings again, he stopped attending by November.

  I heard the fear and terror in one man's voice just seconds before his death and I fainted.

  I know the phonecall you're talking about. Very chilling and very sad. Nobody deserves to go out like that. Certainly not 7.5 billion men, women and children.
  
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  Movie Titles that Describe Watchtower

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

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  2. entertainment

  i'll go first.... .

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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Am I the only one that doesn't think it's too bad?

  Oh well. Maybe I just have terrible taste.

  !!!???!!!

  hahahaha, ok, to each his own.

  The only redeemable thing here was the guitar solo, but that was ruined by their over the top reaction to it. You would've thought they were sitting on vibrating seats or something.

  
  

  - actually, redeemable isnt quite the right word... "half-decent" maybe?
  
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  It's as if they're all sedated. Like they've been told to enjoy it and act like it's the best thing they've ever heard.

  There's the black fella in the front who goes to clap during the opening accordion bit but instead just smiles like a fool,

  The Asian sister giving it beans throughout the whole thing.

  And the guy at the back after the solo rocking and swaying like he's in a Aerosmith concert.

  And the smiles... oh the smiles!! All so fake and over the top.
  
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  Keys to understanding the Book of Revelation

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  · the whole book of revelation is one letter.. · that letter was to be taken by a courier and read out aloud in churches along a road that ran from ephesus to laodicea.

  the author was very familiar with each of the churches.. · those christians were experiencing intense persecution.. · the letter was designed to encourage these first-century christians to “overcome”.

  it told them that the end was imminent (“soon”) and they had to remain faithful, to the point of being prepared to losing their lives.. · john had gone to patmos in order to compose (“receive”) the message.

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  Great insight. Love reading posts like this.

  what is your take on Babylon the Great and her whoring herself to the governments and merchants?

  Thats a prophecy about my PIMO sister.
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Is this for real?

  I have found the 142nd Gilead Graduation on JW TV, but not the 143rd. Just wondering.

  George

  Unfortunately, yes, it's legit. I found it on one of Lloyd Evans' posts on Facebook. He had uploaded it onto some sort of Russian tube site. I imagine it'll be on JW Broadcasting soon.
  
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  Did You Know “Weird JWs” When You Were In The Organization?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it could be argued that all jws are weird.

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  i’m referring to really weird odd witnesses.. most of the oddballs that i remember were elders..

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  When i was a JW i used to openly say "this religion attracts nutters".

  Here we go:

  • The never-married old sister who hated absolutely everyone and would answer the rhetorical questions the speaker would ask with a sarcastic answer. She never sat down. Always stood at the back of the hall with a HUGE magnifying glass because she refused to wear glasses and "it's the society, they're printing the words too small". Also refused to wear a hearing aid so she'd constantly shout at the sound desk brother during the meeting to turn the sound up.
  • The elder (COBE) who demanded every speaker on the platform to wear a white shirt. And kept a spare white shirt in the 2nd school in case, horror of horrors, a visiting speaker turned up in another coloured shirt. One visiting speaker refused to change his shirt and was actually told he couldn't give his talk. Only the CO was given leeway, and even then that was because we had a hard-ball ex-military CO one time that told him where to go.
  • The old lady that was disfellowshipped that wore WAY to much make up, had no teeth and would turn up to the KH with a broken old pram with a black plastic bag of rubbish (trash) in it. One time she turned up with two smashed porcelain dolls wrapped in rags.
  • The brother who was "anointed" even before the changes that came in that would have qualified him. He took his platform mic duties so seriously that one time he was in the toilet and a new speaker got up onto the platform, the speaker asked me if i could adjust his mic so i did. This brother stormed all the way up to me and said "dont you ever touch my microphone again!"
  • My ex girlfriends dad believed he was anointed. But sometimes he wasnt sure if he was. So sometimes he didnt partake of the emblems and other times he did. He also suffered from that illusive illness a lot of JW's seem to have... "M.S.". Yet still played cricket every Saturday evening and football with the brothers every Sunday as well as fulltime pioneering.
    
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  143rd Gilead Graduates cRiNGeWoRThY Song

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. humour

  quite possibly the most cringeworthy thing i've seen them do yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tk88rstv6o.

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  Do you think the Bethel handlers have told them to sway and smile like that? If they're doing it naturally then it's quite creepy.

  The Asian sister in the front row is particularly enjoying it.