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  My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

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  here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.

  my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.

  i had actually become a circuit overseer!

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  NotFormer

  "Looking back as I woke up I really I thought I could bring the organization down in a year. Wishful thinking and lack of knowledge of how strong the organization is. I thought if I could convince a few people it would snowball. It never happened."

  The whole religion is based on: "If you see something that causes you to doubt, look away!" That impulse is ground into JWs from day one. You saw a lot of things over the years that you could no longer "look away" from.

  Unfortunately, those you thought would be honestly interested in TTATT, were well conditioned to look away, and would have ignored you as just another opposer. The WT is good at what it does (in some areas, anyway).
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  Annual Report

  by St George of England in

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  the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

  george.

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  NotFormer

  "WT used to be proud of this difference..."

  They still proclaim pride in their differences, but a lot of those differences are being whittled down to the point of non-significance. This so called difference is just one among many.
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  The CHRISTIANITY gravy-train mob......

  by BoogerMan in

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  .......and one or two other lucrative individuals!

  https://www.heraldweekly.com/meet-the-wealthiest-religious-leaders-in-the-world/61?xcmg=1&_d=d.

  happy to be fleecing the sheep who leave the folds of the multi-billion dollar "established" empires - like wtbts..

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  NotFormer

  I'm not convinced by their figures. Especially the ones for Osteen and Joyce Meyer. Those look seriously low. And the figure for Kenneth Copeland? Laughable! That bastard himself brags that God made him a billionaire.

  As to the one and two million dollar net worth after forty or so years in a ministry: So what? It could mean that the family home that they bought all those years ago happened to be in the right suburb for the property boom.
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  Threat of Deregistration in the Czech Republic

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  english translation of czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregisterjw as a religion there.. .

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  NotFormer

  "That explains a lot."

  That was unnecessary, Syd.
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  Costume dramas at conventions

  by AdamCzarnobay in

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  are convention dramas still a thing or have these been replaced by videos of dramas recorded in the usa?.

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  "Governing body members sign gift Bibles for public officials"

  How far does this tradition go back? They're a whole lot of questions raised in my mind when I see this. When did it start? When did they feel comfortable showing the R&F that they were doing this? Who else do they sign things for? What else do they sign? Do they still do it? Are there more such photos?
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  Costume dramas at conventions

  by AdamCzarnobay in

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  are convention dramas still a thing or have these been replaced by videos of dramas recorded in the usa?.

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  jonahstourguide: "All videos are made in U.S. or in the case of Jesus advertisements, Australia."

  Can you explain/expand this statement a bit? I've never heard of the last part.
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  Threat of Deregistration in the Czech Republic

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  english translation of czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregisterjw as a religion there.. .

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  NotFormer

  Once again blood and shunning come back to bite them on the bottom. 🙄 Archaic stupid doctrines forced upon them by long dead autocrats, weaponised to the nth degree and enforced by a legal department which is terrified of the consequences of winding them back at all, because that would prove that those doctrines were wrong all along, and unnecessary for the correct worship of Jehovah*.

  FFS, abolish the HLCs already, Watchtower! 😡😤😠🤬

  *Jehovah, the mediaeval scribal error
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  Sea Breeze or NewLife, can you translate this for me?

  by SydBarrett in

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  <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tq72jpoq7n4?si=de4g1pc950v8sooo" title="youtube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>.

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  NotFormer

  Interestingly, the group that exposed Tilton seemed fairly cult-like in its own right:

  https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-cult-of-ole-6406297
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  Sea Breeze or NewLife, can you translate this for me?

  by SydBarrett in

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  <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tq72jpoq7n4?si=de4g1pc950v8sooo" title="youtube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>.

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  NotFormer

  Robert Tilton is a disgraced televangelist who was able to make a comeback. People have short memories.

  The WT is a disgraced predictor of end times dates which was able to make a comeback. People have short memories.
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  "Yahweh" pronunciation is more correct (w60 8/1 pp. 453-455)

  by psyco in

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  https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1960561 (substitute .borg with .org)furthermore, today in every jw publication the tetragrammaton is rendered as yhwh which is more preserved by yahweh than by jehovah..

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  NotFormer

  Huh! Everyone knows that Scooby Doo is the GOAT! 🙄