Posts by NotFormer

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2024 year Highlights: JWs hit 9 million Publishers

by Sanchy in

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watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.

average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.

baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.

NotFormer

From the thread title: "JWs hit 9 million Publishers"

Are you one of the 9 million publishers hit by JWs this year?

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What is Your Favorite WT Lie?

by Sea Breeze in

i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.

surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.

my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.

Ramapo project approved

by dropoffyourkeylee in

news is that the ramapo project has been approved by authorities and can move forward..

NotFormer

"How many locations does the WTS have now and past ones."

What happened to Patterson?

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Sacred Days

by Riley in

yesterday was remembrance day/veterans days in canada.

we had a couple younger half wits in the cong in field service yesterday.

both are trying to climb the ladder with the entire elder body ready to die in the next 10 years.. i just of thought it was a dick move to go door to door about the merits of fighting for freedom or not fighting on such a sacred day.

NotFormer

A lot of these days are paid public holidays that JWs feel no personal obligation towards. Perfect conditions for getting car groups together and finding people at home. A dick move, for sure, but perfectly logical for a contrarian group who have issues with mainstream churches and government.

Historically, it wasn't just about public holidays. In 30 Years A Watchtower Slave, Schnell says that they would deliberately have field service on a Sunday at times when the mainstream churches would be holding their services. That way they could find the disillusioned churchgoers (American society was much more church orientated in his time) and persuade them to give the JWs a chance. I think they held their Kingdom Hall meetings at non traditional times on the Sunday, such as during the afternoon.

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WT brags about suing indigenous peoples and winning!

by Slidin Fast in

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i know we get a bit cynical and hard boiled about the exploits of wt inc. but this takes the biscuit.

apparently these ecuadorian indigenous people objected to being targeted by the sect.

so wt inc rode in and guess what?

NotFormer

A link might be nice.

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WHY THE WATCHTOWER TREATS MEN LIKE DONKEYS OF BURDEN

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/tppmprdxxzw?si=shh5vkmuzfp6c9_m.

so the watchtower has come out with sn article, study article 2 in their newly released study watchtower magazine for 2025 and we see from the start how they keep perpetuating the same old outdated narrative that when it comes to marriages the husband is the one at fault, we'll thats i think when i read paragraph from this article where i man has to work on a whole list of things and not once the wife is instructed to do any of these things, but let's just read together paragraph 14:.

what are these steps?

NotFormer

"Apparently, there is a problem with a lot of JW men abusing their wives both physically and verbally or why the article?"

I learned many years ago that when a WT article says "True Christians don't", it really means "A lot of JWs are".

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Why didn't Watchtower go online with covid?

by Hellothere in

i wasn't surprised they didn't go online, i was shocked.

the perfect opportunity handed in a silver plate.

more time goes, more proof coming they took wrong decision going back to hall's.

NotFormer

There's no reason why they couldn't bring back the book studies and make them zoom only. Weren't they abandoned due to the high risk of CSA incidents in private homes?

BTW, what is the Tuesday night meeting that I "witness", as I pass the Kingdom Hall, on my way to a different church's Bible study? Lots of cars in the Kingdom Hall carpark, and people getting out of them.

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WT vs Norway - WT sends letter to the goverment saying they have now changed their practice on DF. Asks for their funding back

by liam in

disfellowshipping is slowly fading into the night.. last efforts to survive.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1gh3ilq/wt_vs_norway_wt_sends_letter_to_the_goverment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.

NotFormer

Why November the 14th? Is there some financial deadline that the WT is working towards? Perhaps part of the tax/payout cycle?

Boogerman, great suggestions on your part. 👍👌🙏

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WT vs Norway - WT sends letter to the goverment saying they have now changed their practice on DF. Asks for their funding back

by liam in

disfellowshipping is slowly fading into the night.. last efforts to survive.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1gh3ilq/wt_vs_norway_wt_sends_letter_to_the_goverment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.

NotFormer

The new shunning, same as the old shunning. 🙄 I hope that the Norwegian Government doesn't fall for this trick.

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Where do you see the Organization in the next 10 years?

by ukpimo in

realistically, between now and 2034, what do you think watchtower will change or reform to appear more mainstream?

what business opportunities do you see watchtower getting involved in?.

my predictions are as follows: .

NotFormer

"I wonder how Jehovah’s Witnesses will respond if 20 years pass and the end has not happened?"

The way they always have. Watchtowerites have been expecting the end within a very short time for about 140 years.