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  Watchtower is cashing in on China

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  japanese brother in china recently revealed thatmany wealthy chinese are interested in watchtower’s teaching and donating money.ex-cos and ex-district os are now preaching undercover in china,and, numberes of special pioneers in china are growing !

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  No, I don't see it this way. Normaly yes. But 2 points make a difference here. It's forbidden literature and the chinese view about books. If you talk to people who was JW when it was forbidden, they don't give the books away like in other countries, they not used in a typical d2d-way. Same in china. And the chinese people normally don't throw books away.

  From what I know, mostly they smuggled books to china, no flyer or so.

  In conclusion books come to china, given only to the jw and when given away, only for people who study. If they stop, they have to give it back. Also if they don't give it back, they sell it sometimes but don't throw it away.
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  Watchtower is cashing in on China

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  japanese brother in china recently revealed thatmany wealthy chinese are interested in watchtower’s teaching and donating money.ex-cos and ex-district os are now preaching undercover in china,and, numberes of special pioneers in china are growing !

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  China and Hongkong different areas. So the big business is in Hongkong. At bethell they told me, from there the people went out to china and pay a lot of stuff for all branches worldwide. It was also very strange at bethell Hongkong, a lot of locked places. We visit some wealthy chinese people there, which be jw or study. How the money went outside China (maybe to Hongkong) I don't know.
  
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  Watchtower is cashing in on China

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  japanese brother in china recently revealed thatmany wealthy chinese are interested in watchtower’s teaching and donating money.ex-cos and ex-district os are now preaching undercover in china,and, numberes of special pioneers in china are growing !

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  It is nothing so new, I think. It's a market for JW.ORG that's growing. Even years before, a lot of undercover witness preaching there. If you like to meet them, go to Hongkong, there everytime some of them, because of problems with the passport and a bethell there. I smuggle much literature, when I travel to china years before.
  
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  Ekala Convention Hall To be Sold - Sri Lanka

  by Sanath in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  sri lanka has only one convention hall which is situated at 44, agaraduguru mawatha,ekala,ja-ela wp.

  this was built on some where around 1990's.

  now the sri lanka branch committee has decided to sale the property.what is the reason behind this??????????????

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  Sounds interesting. Thank you and welcome.

  Should we start a thread with sold kingdomhalls to collect them? Only time of sale, maybe a link to a press-articel? Could be an interesting collection.
  
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  Never Allowed to be Myself

  by NeverAllowestobeMyself in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my handle has a typo, it is supposed to be never allowed to be myself but i'm okay with that because it is kind of symbolic of my situation.

  as a born-in i have always had expectations forced on me, this is what you are to think, feel and do as a jehovah's witness.

  my earliest memories involve being upset that i would die at armageddon because i was bad.

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  Welcome.

  I also fight with beeing myself. So much new. On the other site, who I am? Then go back to the other site and fake to be a beliver.

  So I wish you the best. Keep fighting!
  
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  JW Broadcasting: How to make memorial bread

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't believe it, but it is on jw broadcasting: how to make memorial bread.. it is just like the 24/kitchen broadcasting.. http://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodministry/pub-jwbrd_201603_2_video.

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  My main interest was, how to make good wine. Hope for the next broad- or breadcast.
  
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  Jehovah`s Witnesses an Old Testament Religion

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jehovah`s witnesses claim to be a christian religion , however looking at their history , publications ,such as the watchtower and awake mags., their conventions ,international ,regional ,local ,etc.their books pamphlets ,brochures ,etc.etc.

  you are hard pressed to find references to the new testament and references to jesus and his ministry .. they seem to be more focused on the old testament , and the god of the old testament.jehovah.

  even in their dramas at conventions , international and local events they are pre-occupied with old testament accounts and experiences , and not christian experiences , examples or ,lives to emulate .. they claim to be a christian religion and very seldom do they highlight the name of jesus , or his teachings , they are fixed on the old testament name of jehovah , and what he did in the old testament.

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  The old testament based on fear, death and a leader on earth.

  The new testament based on love, brotherhood and a leader in heaven who give you not much rules.

  So, if you try to build up a hi-control pseudo-religion, based on fear, you have to use the old testament.
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  Urgent assistance needed for Barbara and ARC!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my contacts are assisting in this effort but the more people the better!.

  .. information needed in assisting barbara anderson with arc... barbara needed a boe for arc and i have already sent it to her so that problem is solved.

  however we are in need of the following information:.

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  Atlantis: sounds great. Thank you for your work.
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  Estimating future growth or decline of Watchtower

  by shepherdless in

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  i have seen a few posts here, in various guises, in relation to whether watchtower is in decline.

  plenty of people respond, but it is all fairly anecdotal, or "gut feel".

  some of it has been wishful thinking.. as of late 2015, watchtower's numbers suggest it is still growing marginally, but there are various anecdotes on this site of publishers typically being older, and younger ones disappearing.

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  Im not sure what you looking for. The growth/decline of a group like JW depends on scandals, teachings and much more. So I don't think that it make much sense to collect the data.

  But if you need numbers, maybe this is interesting, only germany:

  From 2007-2015:

  - they merged 276 congs to 138 congs

  - they build 116 language-congs

  - build 5 new congs

  - build signlanguage-congs

  I think main part is to find, how they fake the statistic. The language-cong save the statistic, but mostly there not much new people.

  So if you start to calculate, you base it on the 8 Mill witnesses, first you have to start there and find some Information if 8 Mill is nearly correct.
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  Another 12 yr old df in cong 13 people df in 3 yrs

  by poopie in

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  wow

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  12yo? Crazy.

  And 13 df? What a crazy cong. Looks like a group of lovely elders run the cong.