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  Bethelite statistics

  by john.prestor in

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  hey guys, i'm working on a paper about exploitation amongst jehovah's witnesses ( i'm also preparing a book about jehovah's witnesses and interaction ritual theory, and another paper about jehovah's witnesses and discrimination against women).

  i'm trying to calculate as exact figures as i can concerning how much bethelites are paid.

  does anyone know the monthly stipend as of now?

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  smiddy3

  Interesting thread keep us informed ,I only knew about the 14 dollar a month stipend but that`s going back to the 50`s- 60`s .
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  Dog Day Afternoon at the Carts

  by berrygerry in

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/8fsaxu/so_this_just_happened/.

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  Good doggy , Good doggy , Good doggy. Are you sure you don`t want to do a crap too ? Their`s plenty of paper to wipe it up with here .

  Pity it wasn`t an Elephant .
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  Need advice/opinions about DF Husband who woke up

  by Whynot in

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  my husband was df 3 years ago.

  i still attended meetings but not regularly and for the past 10 months i have not attended any at all.

  my husband wanted to get reinstated until maybe a few months ago when i started to help him to wake up.

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  Look for other interests/ clubs that either you or your husband could join there are plenty of them out their for you both to choose from .

  All you have to do is a little research in your community to find one or two that interests you and join up even volunteering at an Op shop can be fun you meet a lot of interesting people that way and your helping your local community. Just a few to consider that are in my local area .

  Lions Club ,Senior Citizens ,Probus ,U3A , Legacy ,Meals on Wheels ,Table tennis ,Bowls ,Bocce, Book clubs , their are just so many activities provided for mature age people as well as young people why not take advantage of them and re-start living again.
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  You Might Be in a Cult if...

  by awake!watcher in

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  2. friends

  ... you are told to trust the slave as you do jehovah and jesus..

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  ....if you are told to accept and believe and act upon anything you are told by the Governing Body of J.W.`s without question even if you don`t agree with or understand the reasons for the directions they are giving you ,just trust them and obey them .
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  You Might Be in a Cult if...

  by awake!watcher in

  1. jw
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  ... you are told to trust the slave as you do jehovah and jesus..

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  ....If its a sin for you to have anything to do with a Church of Christendom ,by going to a baptism,marriage ,or funeral ,

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  its not a sin for the Elders to sell a Kingdom Hall dedicated to Jehovah . to a church of Christendom ?
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  THEY act like the ones who are hurt??!!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  it really amazes me when jws act like we are hurting them!.

  many of us have found that if we stop associating with them for valid reasons, they act all upset and hurt that we would be "so cruel as to limit our association or cut them off".

  i know of friends here on the forum who have been told by parents that they "will shun them if they leave jehovah" , and yet when the shoe is on the other foot and our awake friends shun them first, the parents cry and bemoan the situation and say how "cruel it is to deprive them of their company".

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  Jehovah`s Witnesses speak with a forked tongue !

  " We don`t shun anybody if they leave the congregation then they are shunning us "

  And on the other hand

  "If a baptized Jehovah`s Witness leaves the "truth" and doesn`t repent we will shun him/her as a bad association"

  or words to that effect .
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  Introduce myself

  by John Moro in

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  dear,everybody,how are you?my name is john moro i join jevoah wittness.com this year 2018 in april in order to be jevoah wittness i live in yokine wa australia,i like to meet friends and share jevoah message to evangelize the word.thank you may god bless.

  yours sincerely john moro.

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  smiddy3

  Stick around John Moro , you will learn a lot more about Jehovah`s Witnesses here than you will ever hear at a Kingdom Hall or any Watchtower publications

  Oh by the way Welcome to this site.
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  Are older women holding the congregations together (at least in the US)?

  by Spiral in

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  so i went and had a facial yesterday, and the aesthetician (and business owner) was a 30 something women, and we got on very well from the start.

  the conversation came around to how many new churches are being built in this area, and i said i was surprised by it all.

  she had a very interesting take on the situation.

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  How many times does the J.W.religion have to "Cry Wolf" before the average Jehovah`s Witness wakes up ?

  Are the younger women in the religion of J.W.`s today any more enlightened than their older counter parts ?

  I don`t think so .
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  Caleb and Sophia cartoons?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  we recently haven't heard much here about the caleb and sophia cartoon series.. is it still running?

  or have the gb realised how pathetic they are?.

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  When was the last time a Sophia and Caleb cartoon was used ? and I did not know about a similar cartoon by the Mormons ?

  Is one cult cloning another cult here?
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  Help me with the disfellowshipping topic, how is it NOT scriptural

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  2. beliefs

  many have said that jesus never shunned anyone.

  yet it seems that the apostle paul said to shun an unrepentant sinner, "stop keeping company" and "not even eating with such a man" 1co 5:9-12. it seems like shunning is what paul wanted us to do.

  but honestly, it doesn't seem right to me.

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  Are not Jehovah and Christ Jesus the bench marks here as to what is to be believed and acted upon ? And not what some humans who later down the track claim to be their followers and misinterpret their words ?

  Do Christians and Bible believers actually believe what the Bible actually says or do they believe in what imperfect humans say the scriptures mean and not what the scriptures actually say ?

  It does not matter two hoots what later Bible writers say or not say about shunning what matters and what counts is how Jehovah God and Christ Jesus acted towards Satan the chief instigator against Jehovah God and neither of them shunned him in what will be at least 7000 years of human history at least.