i grew up as a witness, and left about 10 years ago, i'm currently researching witness numbers for a project i'm working on, and i can't seem to get an accurate number of baptised witnesses - hardly a surprise!
from their website it looks like they list the number of publishers instead of the number of baptised witnesses, so it totally works to obscure how many actual witnesses there are, apart from the fact it's morally dubious to class a publisher as a minister of god as they refer to publishers on their uk section of the site.
i also am trying to work out how many leave every year, even approximate figures would be great, from their own website it just looks like they try to massage figures to make them look as favourable as possible.
This link might interest you: https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/how-many-jw-members/
So you can consider a unbaptised publisher as an official member of JW whereas an inactive JW will not be registered as an official JW. That's what i understand.
i’m sorry that i talk about dating a lot, i know it is probably very annoying, but you don’t have to read it.
but did anyone else have the most difficult time dating as a young jw?
me and my boyfriend have been dating for a year in half, we are in our early 20’s, and we are still not allowed to hold hands, cuddle or kiss.
Hi, first of all excuse my english. Act as you like while it's moraly and biblicaly correct. If anyone reproach anything to you, ask politely if what he tells you is from the Bible or not. If it is not, you can answer : so what's the problem and you leave.
You must show that you are not afraid of anybody in the congregation and be stronger than anyone in your way thinking. They will try once, twice then if you are firm in your position and are sure of what you want they will leave you.
i've been hearing about 1975 for decades but i've never found a publication where this date is explicitly written.. do somebody have references ?.
I've been hearing about 1975 for decades but i've never found a publication where this date is explicitly written.
Do somebody have references ?
the nephilim account in genesis is utterly ridiculous when you consider that angels are sex-less beings and would therefore lack sex-drive and romantic attraction.
think of how difficult it is for humans with a sex drive to be sexually attracted to animals.
now take away that sex drive and it becomes literally impossible.
something that always drove me crazy was when the jw's would say after the meeting on sunday, "i have to go out this afternoon to get my time in.
" in the car group after service someone would always ask, "so how much time did we get?".
it the watchtower company said that turning in time is no longer required because jehovah knows what we are doing to serve him, there would be a tremendous drop in the door to door activity and the coffee cart work.
i remember there was a brother in my congregation while i was in who would comment at all meetings but if asked to pray at a meeting or meeting for service he would always politely refuse.
i always found it odd, i assumed as a young bro, that a bro was kind of obligated to pray if asked.
knowing what i know now, it could have been a guilty conscience or maybe he just wanted to be lowkey.
Hi everybody, first excuse my english.
Here's my own experience. When i was about to be baptised more than 10 years ago (i've grown up as a JW), while i had the interviews with the elders (you can call it "questions" or whatever you want), i told one of them (cobe) that i didn't want them to give me any privilege (mic, praying...) and he told me that every brother have to do it one day, like an obligation. So in the first time he left me 3 month without doing "mic" and 6 month before pronouncing my first public prayer.
Several times i refused to pray at the meetings, book study and service meetings, many bros and sisters found it odd but i didn't care of what they thought.
If i had bad behaviour or thought (bad attitude toward somebody, arguing with somebody most of the time my mother) before the meeting or if i wasn't in a good mood i politely turned down the prayer with no explaination.
Praying is supposed to be a sacred action so somebody shouldn't pray publicly with a bad conscience But as we know, some actions or sins are sometimes repressed hardly and people tagged or shunned, so it can be hard for brothers to avoid they aren't well disposed to perform some assigned tasks.
The second thing is that i'm not myself when i pray publicly, i couldn't pray 100% in my own words and expressions and with all my heart because you all know that everything you say, every word you pronounce is sometimes spied or interpreted by somebody. So it' hard to pray publicly the spirit completely free.
I've always thought that praying at the meetings shoudn'd be given to anybody but to someone whose purity and loyalty are comfirmed
i am thinking about chasing storms for fun.
i know it is very dangerous.
i just think it will be very cool to have a new exciting hobby.
1 Cor 6 : 12
Rom 14
and what if a brother or sister refuses to use internet only because he got to struggle with pornography and decides to cut off his right hand (technology) and throw it away because it causes him to sin ?.
would he be considered unspiritual for living according to what he thinks to be right or must he take the risk to be tempted or even to sin just to be in line with the ‘’organisation’ ?.
And what if a brother or sister refuses to use Internet only because he got to struggle with pornography and decides to cut off his right hand (Technology) and throw it away because it causes him to sin ?
Would he be considered unspiritual for living according to what he thinks to be right or must he take the risk to be tempted or even to sin just to be in line with the ‘’Organisation’ ?
