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  JW's correlation to franchise business

  by jeremiah18:5-10 in

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  i operate a 31 restaurant franchise.

  it is no small task.

  the franchise is a well known american company and a rapidly growing one.

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  Interesting. Your analogy has merit, and yet religion and business are too different animals. You can't make predictions on a religion run like a business (Watchtower franchise) based on a pure business model, such as the franchise that you run. Your franchise doesn't have the huge amount of public relation problems that JW franchise have if the "consumers" knew the whole story about their religion.

  This is the time when information is readily available. You better keep a very clean profile or hide it very well if it's damaged. The leadership of JW's has a very damaged "product", but the "consumers" don't know it... not YET!
  
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  2015 Worldwide Memorial Attendance: Another Sign of Decline

  by steve2 in

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  jw memorial attendance last year - 2014 - was about 50,000 shy of 20 million.

  some posters on this forum had confidently predicted before the 2014 memorial that attendance would hit more than 20 milion.

  they were wrong.. now, in 2015, and the memorial falling on a weekend night (where attendance is historically much higher), attendance has not only failed to top 20 milion but has declined by more than 87,000 in attendance over 2014:.

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  The signs of the beginning of the great tribulation are here, or are we into the great tribulation already?
  
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  Since you left, have you become more moral?

  by Coded Logic in

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  respect.

  sympathy.

  gossip.

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  I was born and I will die Moral-less.

  F. Morales
  
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  Silent And Sweet Rebellion Going On Within JW Organization!

  by lsw1961 in

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  after 1975, the vast majority remained as though nothing has happened.

  but some left the organization.

  however, there arose a third category who did not leave the organization, but brought a new view into their heart: jws are right in their core cause (gods kingdom as the solution to mankinds problems) but may or may not be right in their supplementary teachings, hence are not bothered about changes happening in this unimportant area..

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  never a jw

  We live in the greatest time in all of human history. Further progress will depend on human efforts not supernatural delusions.

  I would add that human progress and superstition (religion) have an inverse correlation. The more of one, the less of the other.
  
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  No Kingdom Halls would definitely work!

  by John Aquila in

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  last night we were invited to a get-together with quite a few heavies attendingelders and regular pioneers.

  there was beer and later some music.

  everyone got relaxed and let down their guard and starting talking all kinds of non-theocratic stuff that you only discuss after a few beers.

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  never a jw

  The most important question is: How much beer did you consume?.. be honest
  
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  Are You Easily Offended? 😠

  by minimus in

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  i'm sick and tired of everyone claiming to be "offended".

  if you are not politically correct, you will need to apologize for some perceived slight.. when i was an elder, i purposely avoided as much as i could, anybody that got easily offended.

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  M&M's are offensive. They stand for everything that is despicable.
  
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  JWs have more good points than bad

  by lsw1961 in

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  1) many who were on the destructive path have been transformed by their teachings (this includes me who was once vicious, and presumptuous and atheistic).

  2) equal monthly pay to all members of the bethel community regardless of whether they are bc members or sweepers.

  this is something that still remains as an unattainable dream for the world.

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  isw1961,

  Many of the seemingly good points that you raise can be applied to most christian religions. The bad points, however, are quite notorious and particular to JW's and few other groups that most people don't even consider religions, but cults.

  Ultimately, the religion of JW's is good for the senile, the depressed, the illiterate,and everyone who can only find happiness on fairy tales and lies. Unfortunately these people could not keep the religion financially viable. The rest of JW's are better off out of the religion, even though they may not know it yet.
  
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  JWs have more good points than bad

  by lsw1961 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1) many who were on the destructive path have been transformed by their teachings (this includes me who was once vicious, and presumptuous and atheistic).

  2) equal monthly pay to all members of the bethel community regardless of whether they are bc members or sweepers.

  this is something that still remains as an unattainable dream for the world.

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  isw1961

  Welcome to the forum. However, don't stay too long if you want to hold on to your current beliefs, and more particularly, to the title of your opening piece. This is a place that opens minds. Definitely not a good place for people who rely on faith; more often than not they lose it.
  
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  Which bible character do you hate the most?

  by Bonsai in

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  the more i think about it, the more i feel an extreme dislike for the apostle paul.

  he was on par with hitler in his treatment of the jews before he "saw the light".

  he replaced jesus teachings of love and mercy with a more legalistic, pharisaical concept of devotion to god.. any evil person can come to believe in god and worship him if the scales were literally and miraculously removed from his eyes.

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  Jehovah, then David and Paul
  
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  Awake - February 2015: What do you know about JWs

  by Designer Stubble in

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  true false - 8 questions1 jehovahs witnesses are christianstrue - we are the only true christians.

  however, jesus is always secondary to yhwh or yahweh, who we for some reason call jehovah.2 jehovahs witnesses are creationiststrue, we are just not young-earth creationists3 jehovahs witnesses do not believe in doctorsfalse - of course we believe in doctors.

  if we can believe in an invisible sky daddy, surely we can believe in the doctor standing before us in flesh and blood.

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  Answer 2 very dishonest (Adam and Eve are the biggest part of creationism and don't even get any mention)

  Answer 8. It's utterly dishonest

  Other answers range somewhere between correct and incorrect (dishonest).