Agree with oppostate. I have attended Hispanic congregations for 20 years and the third group (the social JW's) there is big. Even some uber JW's such as my own brother are relaxing their zeal. He no longer pursues giving biblical studies. He spends more time in the gym than he does in meetings. He supports his children with opening their own businesses and encourages, even insists in their getting higher education. But, as he once said to me, he is planning to die in this religion. I think he feels he is stuck for social reasons. Habits such as his are hard to break.
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New Thought About Active J.W.'s
by The Searcher infrom my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.
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Jehovah's Witnesses 2015 Regional Convention Saturday PM experience parents shunning children
by Watchtower-Free inclip 3 minutes long.
ron and brenda sutton ................warwick 3 children
it was the missed association with family that brought them back.
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Is it my eyes or the man forgot to shine his shoes. Their attire overall looks second hand and old. You can't help feeling very sorry for this couple. -
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Jehovah's Witnesses 2015 Regional Convention Saturday PM experience parents shunning children
by Watchtower-Free inclip 3 minutes long.
ron and brenda sutton ................warwick 3 children
it was the missed association with family that brought them back.
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Even the speaker feels uncomfortable about the whole interview. Is the watchtower using robots now? Are they running out of people or do robots cost less to maintain? -
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Top Five Things...
by FusionTheism inwhat are the top 5 things you hate most about the jw organization and top 5 things you like most?
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Hate: utter dishonesty, shunning policy, blood transfusions policy, pedophile protection program, higher education policy
Like: It's a good refuge that brings genuine happiness to the gullible, uneducated, old, depressed, and anyone who needs BS and fantasies to cope with reality.
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baptism regional Convention
by antes8080 inhello friends during the weekend i was in the san diego regional convention and the number of baptisim was way down.. there were 51 who got baptise thats the lowest number i ever seen, the attendance was 14,000 plus .
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0.36 percent growth, and that's before counting disfellowshipped and faders. Not good... Actually, very good!
How much was the alleged cost?
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WT September 2015 (Public edition) - We never petition for Money
by Designer Stubble inpage 6 of the september 2015 public wt, under the heading "how is our ministry financed"our work is supported entirely by voluntary donations.
(2 corinthians 9:7) in 1879, the second issue of this magazine stated: zions watch tower [as this magazine was then called] has, we believe jehovah for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support.
we have not wavered from that policy.
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The Governing Body know that the brothers and sisters never read the public edition, therefore they feel safe printing the contradiction. You won't find that comment in the Study version -
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Young Girl Exposes Jehovah's Witnesses at school video goes VIRAL last 2 days 273,000 views
by Watchtower-Free inoriginal thread here.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/291080001/brave-high-school-student-exposes-abuse-corruption-within-jehovahs-witnesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvt_gyq-ls.
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never a jw
How about people who live in the area where Brie lives, have seen the video and know about the injustices committed in JC show support to this girl by going to the kingdom hall and protest. It may generate publicity that will increase the awareness of more people about the cult. Just an idea. -
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Help with understanding
by Doltologist inplease take pity on me someone and help.. i was going to say that i suffer from aspergers syndrome but actually, i've come to rather enjoy it.. no, seriously, i really do have aspergers which is why my posts may seem a little odd to some of you.
ok, they may seem bloody odd to most of you.. my world exists in a binary frame.
things are or they are not.. i know that in the "real world" things might be or might not be as well as are and are not.
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The diverse life on Earth, our perfect ecosystem, and our incredibly complex body and mind is more than enough proof that a Creator does exist. How? from Tenacious
Perfect ecosystem? Really?
Creator? Why not? Just not the one in the Bible, not an anthropomorphic one, not one that breaks the laws of the Universe to please the desires contained in millions of prayers around the world.
What is left is an amazing amount of energy and matter that is constantly in flux, always subject to the immutable laws of physics of the universe, not the capricious human desires. If you want to call that energy God, that's fine with me. I call it energy, because this name describes better what it is and what it does. The meaning of the word God varies wildly from human to human, even in members of the same cult.
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" Special " one day convention! What's the breakdown??
by DATA-DOG ini was just curious if anyone has had their "special" convention.
is it uber-watchtarded or just the normal propaganda, followed by the solicitation of funds??.
dd.
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New video telling the R&F to be generous
by Splash inbro sanderson has a 7 minute video up on their streaming website called "be willing to open your hand".. in it he tells us not to be "tight fisted" or "stingy" and later "regardless of how much we have or how little we have, we'll find something within our power to be able to do".
we have the responsibility to imitate jehovah's generosity.. there's a bit about giving to one another when we see the need, which is nice, then he drops in how 20 years ago the canada branch committee asked the bethel family for donations to the disaster relief fund, and promptly raised over $10,000.
i think that's pretty good going for those under a vow of poverty.. "the generous person will prosper" he says, then illustrates this using a made up story.
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JW's being cheap? Not my experience. They are a cross section of the population, especially those in the lower income range. They are not better or worse than non-JW's. The only point I can derive from my experience is that the ORG can not produce more generous human beings. After the indoctrination, those with a good heart remain so, and the stingy ones remain so too.
If they are cheap, it may be because the ORG already squeezed so much out of them, and there's little left to pay for the restaurant that may be above their affordability range.