Posts by Drearyweather

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Russia is Smart

by Kohanic in

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

so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

Drearyweather

funny now that I'm on the Russian side of this debate now, ban them all!

Kohanic, The above statement of yours in the OP prompted me to write to you.

But I can understand what you are trying to say, so no need to apologize. We all have our moments. Cheer.

All of us on this board agree that GB has been putting forth harmful policies and so should be stopped for good, however, none of us agree that individual JW's should be criminalized or harmed in any way. We may hate the GB and some may actively protest at conventions or at the HQ. But no one would want a maniac to enter a convention and start shooting at the witnesses.

Saying that we support Russia in its action against the JW's is like wishing ill on individual JW's. Russia is right in that it is fighting extremism, however, what Russia is doing in criminalizing individual believers will achieve no good as cults thrive on persecution complex. Countries have banned JW's in the past and are banning them now too. However, I have not read any report on how countries have practically benefited by banning them or putting JW's behind bars.

I know what you are trying to say, so no problem with that. We all get emotional especially when we have personally suffered.

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Russia is Smart

by Kohanic in

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

so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

Drearyweather

Hi Kohanic,

Since you have told that Russia is smart because they have banned the witnesses, I would like to know your opinion on the following questions:

1. Since Russia is smart by banning JW's, have you ever felt of moving and settling in Russia since you will be out of the JW influence and would be in a smart country?

2. If banning JW's is smart move, what do you feel about North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran etc, who have JW's banned too?

3. Since you are on the Russian side of the debate now, you completely agree that all individual JW's should be criminalized and put into prison for conducting meetings and going for preaching and all individual JW home should be put under constant surveillance. Am I right?

4. Do you feel that the Russian family who was awarded the parental glory award by Putin be arrested for raising their kids as JW's?

5. Since you now agree that JW's are extremists and that you are in a constant fear of being mind-controlled, have you considered moving to one of the countries which don't have JW's?

6. Since you agree that JW's are extremists who should be criminalized, what is your first reaction when you see JW's standing next to a cart? Do you feel like running away in fear? or Do you sense the danger of being instantly mind-controlled and brainwashed if you even pass by the cart?

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The watchtower does not have the resources

by pepperheart in

if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.

Drearyweather

And previous annual meetings have been posted and translated with no fuss.

SBF, in how many languages was the 2016 Annual Meeting translated and in how many has the 2017 Annual meeting been translated?

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Wave your phone lights and dance at the Assemblies!

by days of future passed in

my sister sent me this youtube.

in it are witnesses waving their phone lights and dancing in the aisles.

sorry if this vid has been posted before.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k7iw-zisgw.

Drearyweather

As I listened to the music, I was sure I've heard it before. Here it is, at least I think so.

People "borrow" music from everywhere but how ironic that it is, that REM put out "losing my religion?"

Nope. The music is their own Kingdom Song No 76: "How does it make you feel?"

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Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context

by steve2 in

earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

good effort, jw organization!

Drearyweather

I don't necessarily agree that they were all considered as "JWs".

Incognito, My reply was in the effect of how JW's counted their members in the annual statistics that are published in the yearbook. As far as I remember, since the time annual reports have been published, all baptized and unbaptized have been calculated in the Peak publishers figure. This way of counting has never changed. But I may be wrong, Please correct me.

Although a person may fully believe and consider themself a JW, living their life as a JW including being active as an unbaptized publisher, they were not considered to be officially a JW but merely an 'associate' until baptism.

I agree with you 100%. But my point was- Have JW's ever made this distinction while publishing their stats? Two counts- Baptized and Unbaptized?

Regarding classification, publishers are also classified into two groups- Inactive and Active and then Regular and Irregular. But they are not published that way.

statistical practices and procedures may have also changed

Yes, they may have changed. But then again- Peak publishers have included Baptized and Unbaptized since the past few decades. That was my point. And since the past few decades, whenever the Wt wanted to give the count of number of JW's in their literature , it has been the peak publishers count.

please explain why "un-baptised publisher" is designated differently than "baptised publisher".

Since this classification is not done for statistical purpose, the only reason is that they do this for their internal pastoral purpose. Like the active and inactive publishers categories.

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JW Statistics up to 2017 in graphical form and analysis

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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Drearyweather

Despite it being ridiculously easy to be an auxiliary pioneer nowadays with the carts, that number went down compared to 2016.

That's because many Aux Pioneers moved on to become Regular Pioneers.

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Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context

by steve2 in

earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

good effort, jw organization!

Drearyweather

'Ministers who teach the Bible' appear to include not only baptised publishers but also un-baptised publishers,

JW's have been counting it that way all time long since the time they have started to maintain stats. The ration of JWs to population has been counted the same way every year: Population/Peak Publishers.

In JW land, ministers who teach the bible (Publishers) refers to all JW's who go for field service and turn in reports. All unbaptized publishers are required to regularly go for preaching, conduct return visits and bible studies and turn in their monthly field service reports. So technically, unbaptized publishers too fall into the category of "Minsters who teach the Bible" and hence they include it in their numbers.

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if pre 1975 you said "The system will still be here late 2017" what would be the J.W's reaction?

by karter in

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friends

one word for it.....apostate!

!.

Drearyweather

They are living it down now because many of those people who remember it are dead.

Interesting that almost all current GB members were alive and baptized during that period

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Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context

by steve2 in

earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

good effort, jw organization!

Drearyweather

I was also wondering, Incognito, if this includes unbaptised publishers including young children , as total jw's in a particular country?

No, it includes only baptized and unbaptized publishers. There is no practice of counting those who do not turn in their field service reports.

Also, are women who cannot be " ministerial servants" now " ministers"? And can they now officially " teach"?

In JW land, women can be ministers, and they have explained this :

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2012649

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102010255

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little acts of kindness.

by zeb in

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friends

just had a coffee on way home when two young mums with babys in strollers came in with the usual bags and stuff for the little ones needs.

i recall our days of little ones and the times we rarely went out.. i bought a coffee voucher for each mum and gave them my best wishes.

i delight in doing random acts of kindness.. i wish everyone here as well a safe and happy christmas/ new year time.

Drearyweather

They , JW`s just end up as parasites in the community they live in taking all the benefits a Government offers without giving anything back in return.

I don't agree with this. Individual JW's pay their taxes and hence as legal citizens they have a right to government benefits as other citizens.

In India, there are people who donate thousand of rupees to charity, but hide away millions of rupees away and don't pay their taxes. JW's are better than them.