JWs are always a little behind on things. 2024 was the peak year for butt stuff in the news. We'll see if 2025 surpasses it. I have a thought it will be something else this year. Butt butter seems to be starting off the year strong. Do the jws say anything about using items for pleasure? Maybe next year they'll add an article.
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Beliefs clarified - A big fat WTF for 2025
by ukpimo injehovah’s witnesses have an official page for clarified beliefs they encourage elders, ministerial servants, regular pioneers, as well as all the rest of the elite, to keep up to date with:.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174.
2025 has a curious clarification:.
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2024 year Highlights: JWs hit 9 million Publishers
by Sanchy inwatchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
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RandomUserName3500
I wonder if they started counting 'inactive' publishers that faded. No hour requirement, not df or da, add 'em back as a publisher.
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Attended JW funeral today
by usualusername1 innever miss a marketing opportunity—even at a funeral.
funerals aren’t the first place you’d expect marketing.
but jehovah’s witnesses know how to turn every moment into an opportunity to share their message.. during funerals, they weave in their teachings of hope and resurrection, offering comfort and, at the same time, presenting their beliefs to attendees who may not be part of the faith.
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last one I went to I timed how long they talked about the deceased. 55 seconds. Less than a minute of the hour long funeral. Name, age, date they passed, how long they were a JW, not much else.
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Movies about JWs
by HowTheBibleWasCreated ini have seen many movies or shows that make a passing reference to jehovah's witnesses but very few dwell on jws.
some like a deadly devotion episode i saw once tells a true story but the portal of jws is all wrong.
by movies i am not talking of documentaries.
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I was in the same congo as Chrisitan Longo (true story) for a short time.
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2025 Convention Theme leak
by ukpimo inaccording to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.
the theme of the convention for next year is.
pure worship.
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Must have someone from Michigan on the convention committee.
Pure Michigan
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Are you glad you got the Covid Vaccine? Did it help?
by liam ini didn’t get the covid vaccine, but i admit, i was scared as shit i made the wrong decision because there was so much confusion out there.
practically all my family and most of my friends took the vaccine because everyone was depending on those in charge to speak the truth.
now a lot of them are sick, and they can't figure out why.
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I worked in a nursing home before and during covid. We had 10 people die of covid. Before they got covid they were not in great health and a cold, the flu, or a spicy burrito might have done them in.
A couple years before covid we had 6 people pass in the week between Christmas and New years. It was like they just didn't want to see the next year. Its a nursing home. Unfortunately people die there all the time. Not trying to be cold. Our covid deaths weren't out of line with any other year.
Saw a lot of stupidity during covid. Got threatened with termination if i didn't clean shave my face. "CDC says you can't have a mask properly sealed in your face with a beard". You just did my face mask fit test right? I passed the fit test with a mask on my bearded face right? CDC says you can't. But you just fit tested me, you performed the test and did everything you could to try to get me to fail, I saw how differently you performed the fit test on non bearded people, you tried to get mine to fail and it didn't. My mask properly seals with my neatly trimmed beard.
Doesn't matter shave clean or your fired.
Found an online Dr, got a Dr note saying I can't shave and went to HR. Didn't shave. Didn't get fired.
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Thanking Jehovah God for Sports
by Sea Breeze inserena william's thanks jehovah god for allowing her to participate in sports.
how nice.
my jw parents followed the rules and thought they were doing jehovahs will by denying me participation in sports.
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Still trying to understand why my JW parents wouldn't let me do sports in school because of the association with worldly people but allowed, encouraged and helped me participate in Olympics of the Mind. Even had the bad association worldly kids over to the house to do that.
Just shut my little kid mouth and enjoyed what I could do even if it didn't make sense because I knew if I questioned it what would happen.
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2024--Become a Circuit Overseer in Your Mid-to-Late 20's!
by Atlantis inbecome a circuit overseer in your mid to late 20's.
you would have had to qualify as an elder previously.
this would mean the male would have had to have been an elder in his early 20's.
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Tight pants told us, if you're not a MS in your early 20's who would want to be around you. Guess they'll have to throw some new light at that.
If your not an MS by your teens, an elder before you can buy beer, and a CO by 25 you might as well be an apostate.
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Greeting a person(who was removed from the congregation) at the Kingdom Hall now becomes a matter of conscience
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | august 2024. help for those who are removed from the congregation.
14 does what we have considered mean that we would completely ignore a person who has been removed from the congregation?
not necessarily.
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Stan - I don't for sure. I would hope my family would have said something to me. There was absolutely no contact for months after my last meeting. A couple elders stopped by to invite me to a 'special' talk some Sunday later in the year. I said thanks for stopping by and letting me know. Left it at that. If they df you don't they have to let you know of the process even if you don't go? Nothing hinting from me that I was no longer a jw in word or writing. Nothing in writing from them either.
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Re-activate me?
by punkofnice inthere was a knock at my door and i thought it was my take-away being delivered.. long story short, it was 2 elders calling to see me.
i guess to re-activate me.
once they said who they were i recognised them.
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Is this an official thing they're doing now? Going to everyone that has left? Ive moved over an hour away and my phone number has changed but still have family in the same congregation. So I know they can get my contact information. Would they forward it to the local congregation? Every once in a while my family will say Bro _____ asked how you are doing.