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  Annual service report - yet another analysis - big trouble for the WTS

  by FFGhost in

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  there's already been a couple of threads on the 2021 report with insightful comments, but i'm vain enough to want to start my own topic with some additional thoughts..... as others on the other thread noted, it's useful to compare the 2021 numbers not only to 2020 but also 2019 (the last non-pandemic report).. there are some really troubling (if you're a wt headquarters guy) news in the latest report.. 1) baptisms plummet.

  2021 - 171,393. baptisms dropped 20% in 2020, and 30% more in 2021. the total drop from 2019 to 2021 is an amazing 44%.. one could argue that without in-person assemblies and conventions you'd expect baptisms to drop.

  but....if someone really wants to get baptized, jws will find a way.

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  solomon

  Without in person meetings and field service it is impossible to enforce compliance by means of peer pressure and guilt.

  Another two years of zoom and what will the numbers be?

  Im surprised they actually released these numbers.
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  The Poor the Wealthy and the Middle Class

  by Simon in

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  the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.

  the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.

  they blow it on useless tat.

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  Government backed bonds based on currency printed up by the federal reserve don’t seem like a great investment plan right now unless the yields go higher. In addition the yields mean nothing if real inflation (not the CPI bs numbers that they feed us) is higher than the yield. You are still going backwards

  The other issue that investors don’t see is taxation. RRSPs (Canada) are tax deductible when you buy them, but tax payable when you redeem them. The government has this all figured out so that when you cash in your investments they can tax you on them and deduct some of the money from your government pension.

  If I had to do it over again I would have bought collectibles (sports cards, ertyl toys, hot wheels , comic books) when I was younger. Also maybe some gold and silver coins. If you keep these in their original package I don’t see this as being riskier than the stock market. The greatest benefit of these kinds of assets is they are out of the monetary system. You can sell them for cash and that money is yours. All of it.
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  Butchered pronunciation

  by road to nowhere in

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  since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".

  twice, morning and afternoon..

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  solomon

  Ja hovah pisses me off.

  It’s Gee Hovah. There ain’t no ahh sound in an e.

  Damn Yankees
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  Not invited to congregation “get togethers”. They finally said it

  by solomon in

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  we don’t get many invitations to congregational social gatherings.

  we don’t attend midweek meetings and miss about 1/3 of sunday meetings.

  we go in service at least once a month.

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  I’m just reviewing this thread I started a few years back and like George Carlin said” it’s a club, and you ain’t in it”.

  It is human nature to form in herds. In years past it meant survival for the herd. It is this same mentality that drives Jehovah’s Witness behaviour.

  Is this any different than if you show up at a motorcycle club riding a Honda when every other member is on a Harley?
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  Suggested movies for the new Jehovah's Witness Movie Studio to undertake once built.

  by was a new boy in

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  title: אחות מתזמן (sister scheduler) .

  אחות מתזמן would be based on 1 kings 11:3.. 'he had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines' .

  אחות מתזמן job is to arrange solomon quality time with his legal babes.

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  The daddy issues

  A movie based on Lots two daughters
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  Pilot program for in-person meetings for the vaccinated

  by Vidqun in

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  2. beliefs

  pilot program for in-person meetings to resume, to be launched in hong kong in nov. 2021. only fully vaccinated publishers are to be invited.

  it's going to be a fader's paradise.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/q9e9pg/and_so_it_begins/?%24deep_link=true&correlation_id=fb861c4a-8c7e-4bad-b1e3-4c86b3254daf&post_fullname=t3_q9e9pg&post_index=1&ref=email_digest&ref_campaign=email_digest&ref_source=email&utm_content=post_title&%243p=e_as&_branch_match_id=936859150293933406&utm_medium=email%20amazon%20ses.

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  The letter states that vaccinated publishers that don’t feel comfortable attending can stay on zoom meetings.

  Children not allowed as they aren’t allowed vaccines yet.

  Must wear a mask at all times.

  Must supply information for contact tracing at each meeting(info to be held for one month)

  Temperature checks and covid questions asked at each meeting.

  Letter also mention$ to empty the contribution boxe$ after each meeting. That is very important.
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  You're DISFELLOWSHIPPED, Please---DON'T CONTACT US, Until You Return to Jehovah's Organization!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
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  i just heard this story from one of my relatives.

  i'm leaving a lot of things out.. a jw couple had three kids and raised them in the religion.

  the oldest one got disfellowshipped at 18 years of age because he committed fornication with a jw girl.

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  There are a lot of failed marriages in “the truth”. Jw parents are sometimes the problem. They interfere too much and put extreme pressure on the children to be someone in the organization.

  My siblings that left “the truth” seem to have been more successful family lives than the jws.
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  The looney left is at it again

  by mickbobcat in

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  so we all know california is one shit hole idiot state.

  now gov.

  asshat has banned gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers.

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  solomon

  There are some very rural areas in California that authorities will have a difficult time enforcing.
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  Return to Kingdom Hall Meetings - Letter to Elder Bodies?

  by JWTom in

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  a couple of threads over on reddit that there is a letter to elders on restarting meetings.

  i find this hard to believe and have not seen anything on this from our trusty sources on this site.

  can anyone confirm?.

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  solomon

  There are just a lot of people that are still too scared to attend a large gathering like that. Then there are those that will use it as an excuse. Zoom in my pyjamas sounds nice for the assembly
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  Take Courage! You can do it!

  by Iamallcool in

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  are you very afraid to make your very first post here?

  we won’t bite you!

  let’s see how many lurkers will post on my thread!

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  solomon

  I ease my posting anxiety by peppering my comments with slight inaccuracies in order not to be identifiable by Jws that I may know.