I realy doubt that there has been any increase in publishers worldwide in the last few years...
Nor do I believe there will ever be any more increase in numbers...
too many JW kids now have...
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Do You Often See JWs Out In The Ministry?
by minimus ini used to always see them preaching.
now, it seems as though they rarely are around.
the only witnesses i see, every once in a while, are the hispanic ones..
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The TRUTH about Jehovah's Wittnesses (from MY 22 YRS. EXPERIENCE) - A MUST READ!
by gmason972 ini have learned to stay away from all religion and jehovahs wittness doctrine (that includes the watchtower and awake magazines).
stay away from positions of ministerial servant, pioneer, aux pioneer, elder, and the like.
once you become a full fledged jehovah wittness you are doomed to be unhappy.
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Hard-hitting, straight to the point, but most of all... true.
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ARE THEY RAMPING UP THE FEAR MONGERING AGAIN?
by im stuck in inhi as many of you know i am a born in baptized and in good standing, but mentally out.
when i was a kid it was always you will die soon and terrible pictures of horrid destruction.
then for a number of years not so much.
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They're just tired of making withdrawals from their Cayman Island accounts to buy cheap building materials and food for JW victims after every disaster.... So if each J-Dub simply packed their own shit, that's one less thing the WT needs to worry about and that much more "Worldwide Work" money and insurance money that can be funnelled into off-shore tax havens and hedge funds...
Pretty soon they'll be suggesting kits indirectly owned by the WT Corporation... I wouldn't put it passed them...
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Heavenly Gates Closed in 1935 Re-opened in 2007
by Alfred insince 1935, the watchtower had been categorically teaching (for over 6 decades) that the heavenly calling of the 144,000 anointed christians had ceased in 1935. this teaching was especially significant to older jws (especially those who spent much of their lives serving the watchtower as pioneers, elders, missionaries, bethelites, etc.
) because many of these would eventually turn their attention to the aging governing body members and feel a sense of relief knowing that the end was drawing ever so near.
in other words, as more governing body members (who were born before 1935) passed away, the closer they would get to their long-awaited reward of surviving armageddon and living on paradise earth where they would finally hug grass-eating lions near a waterfall while marveling at snow-peaked mountains in the distance.
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Rattigan...
The OP is not misleading at all... The Watchtower did in fact teach that the heavenly calling had ceased in 1935, albeit they later started using words like "evidently" and "apparently" and it "seems" and "virtually" to give themselves an out (like they do with all of their strange doctrines)... here are just some examples...
"Apparently, by the years 1931-1935 all symbolic fish suitable for the kingdom of the heavens had been caught to complete the foreordained number of 144,000 joint heirs of Christ." -Watchtower November 15, 1967 page 694 paragraph 10
"Evidently, the gathering of these was virtually complete by 1935." -Watchtower January 1, 1988 page 11 paragraph 8
"It seems that by the year 1935, the general ingathering of the anointed was complete." -Watchtower January 15, 2000 page 16 paragraph 11
"Their identifying themselves with the great crowd of other sheep indicated that by 1935 the calling of the 144,000 anointed Christians was virtually complete." -Watchtower May 15, 2001 page 15
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When and what book did the Great Crowd go from heaven to earth.
by Crazyguy ini think in the finish mystery rutherford (actually franz) still wrote the great crowd was in heaven.
so when and what books did the switch take place and the great crowd become on earth???
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wannaexit... you're welcome...
But wait... there's more... anybody read these?
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Stand For Pure Worship...
Which one of these monkies most resembles you?
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Gerrit Losch was actually once an apostate.
by Julia Orwell ina jw friend of mine (who was one of my besties until i told him i didn't believe jw religion anymore) used to live in austria and for a while in the 70's was in the same congregation as losch.
they used to spend some time together in the ministry.
my jw friend tells me that he and losch used to often talk about how they believed the wt was wrong about certain interpretations of the bible, for example, how at the time the wt taught that the mustard tree used by jesus in an illustration represented an evil kingdom, and losch and friend didn't think that was right.
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That's only because he read Raymond's book...
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What Are The Expectations...Now??
by Cold Steel inthe society has been teaching that you-know-what is right around the corner for so long that it's lost all credibility.
what are the expecations like now?
do people still expect it to happen very soon, or are more people planning on things like higher education?
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