Posts by polish clarinet

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Convention Introductions 2017 "Don't Give Up!"

by accesible in

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convention introductions.

2017 “don’t give up!” convention.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0bywm0b0qtwlsbzffazazotvfyxc.

Are any of you from France and did you vote in the French election?

by Bad_Wolf in

i'm just confounded.

are the french people eager to destroy their country?

they elected a man who is quoted as saying that "terrorism is going to be part of daily life in france for years to come.

I'm French and very interessed in politics, now that my theocratic activities have fallen to zéro! Most of French people are not racialists but many who voted for the Front National are quite lost and unable to think but themselves.

So they vote for those who shout the louder and tell them what they want to hear...

I think that nothing will change for next 5 years; poor one will become poorer and rich will get richer!!

A real change may appear in 5 years, when all this mass of disappointed people will be more and more hopeless...

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2017 JW Conventions

by Christian Gutierrez in

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hey guys!

are there less assemblies in your country or area this year?

i'm noticing trends that they are becoming fewer and fewer.

polish clarinet

in northern France, our major assembly has been divided into 8 p arts in the Assembly Hall, every week end from June 23rd.

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To those taking a stand and not attending the Memorial tonight

by doubtfull1799 in

i salute you.

many of you, like me, are probably under enormous emotional pressure, whether from a lingering false sense of guilt from your indoctrination, whether from "invitations," and assumptions that you'll naturally be coming, or whether from outright emotional blackmail, even begging and pleading.

i am thinking of you whoever you are, all of you, even though i don't know you in person.

polish clarinet

when I left my kingdom hall on january 2017 3rd, I swore to myself I would never go back. It's a little hard to cope, today, but I know that standing firm to my decision is the only solution to feel better and better every week.

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Memorial Non-Attendance: The Single Most Impactful TTATT Witness to JW Friends & Family

by AMNESIANO in

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(original version posted 2014).

notice: the following is submitted in full recognition of and with compassion and due respect for those who, due to personal circumstance, feel they are unable to employ this powerful strategy.. ---.

anyone who has awakened to ttatt and has conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent, highly-regarded, studious true-believer from a celebrated multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.

polish clarinet

This will be my first year of non attendance. For those in the congregation who knew me well, it will send the message that being missing from the meetings for the last few months is a conscious decision, one not taken lightly.

So do I. when leaving the hall, I knew I would never come back, after more than 35 years in.

I was more and more feeling as a stranger... What a waste of time!

Maybe some still in will expect to meet me, but the decision was also "taken lightly". One thing I know for sure, is that I will NEVER be back!

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Warwick Tour Brochure

by konceptual99 in

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so we had this posted in the mega topic thread... wt: warwick world hq tour brochure.

the new world headquarters of jws, located at warwick, new york, will open for tours on monday, april 3, 2017.. in anticipation, a new eight-page glossy brochure about this facility has now been released:.

download pdf: https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_cmsassets/70/fo_s-whq_e.pdf.

polish clarinet

they just forgot the "manipulative Committee" and the "Subliminal Pictures Service"

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Making life and death/life altering decisions based on commands from someone you're not sure exists

by jambon1 in

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straight from the off, i will say that i'm 100% atheist.

i have no faith.

however, it occurred to me while thinking back over my involvement with the jw religion and especially when i take into account personal and family situations where people have made life altering choices due to being jw's, just how crazy it really is.

polish clarinet

"someone you're not shure exists"

...but the governing body of JW's DOES exist!!!

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All Memorial Attendance Data from 1896 to 2016

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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i have made a spreadsheet of the reported number in attendance to the memorial since the first report of 13 people appeared in an 1896 watchtower.. since it can be very hard to find the numbers for the early years (anything previous to 1938), i will slowly make a note of where i found the data.some of the years i had to manually add hundreds of entries, since the wt did not provide the full number.i am building on the statistics of 1988-2013 that appeared here a while ago.soon i will be starting this but for other sets of data: # of publishers, hours, etc...here is the link: link.