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  Being an Atheist Is Bad For Your Health

  by Space Madness in

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  i stopped believing in god in july 2013. in the first 3 months or so i felt liberated and relieved that i can live my life anyway i wanted without worrying about an invisible being watching my every move.

  i also felt slightly superior that i was able to figure out that god isn't real while the majority of mankind continued to be fooled.

  atfer the feelings of excitment statrted to wear off, i started to become more depressed and empty.

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  World population vs Number of JW's where's the growth going?

  by ed60 in

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  the rate of growth of publishers has dropped from an average 5.64% per annum over the 15 years prior to 1995, to 2.55% in the 15 years after 1995. had growth remained above 5%, the 4,950,344 witnesses in 1995 would have exceeded 11 million in 2010. instead, there were only 7 million in 2010 - a difference of 4 million people.

  factors on conversion and retention, such as internet education, resulted in growth of 2 million instead of 6 million, just one third of that expected in 1995.. http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php.

  i read this and it got me thinking about how much the global population is rising by annually.

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  Memorial compulsory for "respectful observers" ?

  by sparrowdown in

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  maybe i am ignorant but why why why pray tell.

  if i am not jewish and not of the 144k why is it necessary (compulsory even) for me to attend the memorial ?.

  what is the scriptural precedent?.

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  How about a Lapel Badge ?

  by Phizzy in

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  tt a tt.

  i am sure you guys can come up with something better ?.

  sorry, i had a better design that didn't get copied across, maybe big j thinks its a bad idea, so he's messing with copy and paste today ?.

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  Higher Education...in the news. Pew research

  by ldrnomo in

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  http://www.npr.org/2014/02/11/275297408/going-to-college-may-cost-you-but-so-will-skipping-it.

  use this the next time a jw tells you there is little advantage to going to college..

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  Really bizarre part on the meeting last night

  by stillin in

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  on the service meeting there was a part covering a couple of pages from the tms guidebook chapter on warmth and feeling.

  rather than coaching the r&f on how to make a school talk sound warm, it focused on the people that jws meet in their ministry.

  basically, the part could have been labelled "how to fake warmth and feeling.

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  On a Scale of 1 to 10---How Devoted Were You To Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  as i grew up in the religion, i was a 10. i wanted to be made a "servant" because that was instilled in me from infancy.

  i diligently studied ever piece of watchtower literature and defended my religion intensely.. when i got into my 30's, i started to see little cracks in the watchtower's surface but decided to "wait on jehovah".

  then i started to research a little more critically and realized i couldn't defend the prophecies, the treatment of people and the hypocrisy that was becoming more obvious, that especially an elder can see.. it was a gradual thing---from a 10 to a zero!.

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  Do you pray over your meals? If so why? If not, when did you stop and why?

  by BU2B in

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  to answer my question, no i do not pray over meals anymore exept for when i am with other jws i do a 15 second head bow for appearances sake.

  i just came to the realization god had nothing to do with whether i ate or not.

  many believers are starving right now whilst many non-believers are eating like kings.. also why should god give me food while he lets little children in dprk concentration camps starve to death.

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  Future for conventions

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
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  evidently with the new light on the reduced time spent at circut assemblies.

  i put forward 3 theories for the future of assemblies.. (1) there will be a world wide fire sale of assembly halls, due to the 50% reduction of use.

  if this is the plan i reckon they will carry this out with in the next 5 years.

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  Patterson New York JW Tourist Destination

  by Pete Zahut in

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  i saw a photo on facebook of a jw couple i know, apparently you can now get your photo taken with the stars of the jw animated children's videos, at patterson.

  i've tried to share it here but it isn't showing up.. basically, you stand in different cartoon scenes of the door to door activity, holding a bookbag and the hand of one of the children's characters from the viedo.

  the houses are pastel colored, the cartoon brothers are wearing brightly colored shirts and ties , no jackets.

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