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  1290 JW Congregations have been deleted since 4th Dec 2022

  by ComingOutaMyCage in

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  https://i.redd.it/hd9p1g3ssr2b1.jpg.

  1290 jw congregations have been deleted since 4th dec 2022. i have a full map so you can explore active/deleted congs, and also orphaned halls https://analytics.jws-library.one/viewmap.html.

  many of the deletions in the usa appear to be foreign language groups.

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  lancegalahadx

  R&R

  Sounds like plan. I believe Shorewood and Crest Hill congs share it with a Spanish Cong.

  I knew many people in both those English congs years ago. I wonder how many are out now.

  Please keep us posted!

  PS. Sent you a private email on this board.
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  1290 JW Congregations have been deleted since 4th Dec 2022

  by ComingOutaMyCage in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://i.redd.it/hd9p1g3ssr2b1.jpg.

  1290 jw congregations have been deleted since 4th dec 2022. i have a full map so you can explore active/deleted congs, and also orphaned halls https://analytics.jws-library.one/viewmap.html.

  many of the deletions in the usa appear to be foreign language groups.

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  lancegalahadx

  I wonder where the people that attend the Crest Hill KH will go; that’s 3 congregations, and I believe this KH was built in 2010.

  The closest KHs are Joliet and Plainfield (unless they decide to sell those).
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  New JW Scripture rebuttal section on readJW.info

  by Jake101 in

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  2. beliefs

  hi, we’ve added a quick reference scripture rebuttal section on the readjw.info site.

  we hope it’s useful when discussing these scriptures with a jw.. .

  if you can think of additional jw scriptures we should add then please just let us know with a post here or via the contact form on the site,.

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  lancegalahadx

  Thanks for the new anti-cult resource...

  
  
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  JW Library, yet another knockoff

  by neat blue dog in

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  here's the mormon's "gospel library", released 3 & 1/2 years earlier:.

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  lancegalahadx

  Holy Pooh! It's like looking at a JWdotORG twin!

  Yuck!
  
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  The Evolution Of The Watchtower Cult

  by pale.emperor in

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  since waking up from the cult i've been curious about where the cult is going and how will it end up?

  will it fizzle out or become a little fringe "religion" like plymouth bretheren or the shakers?.

  we've already seen the cult evolve from:.

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  lancegalahadx

  Hmmmm...If I had to venture a guess (based on what happened to the Christian Science movement), I believe the org will eventually contract to about 20% of its current size, and level off there. How long that will take, I have no idea...
  

  They will still have people doing more mindless busy work, but as long as they have some membership, they can claim to be a non-profit religious organization, and if they're smart about their money, won't have to worry about getting tons more from the slashed membership -- just manage their total asset portfolio properly.
  

  Just my theory. I'd be interested in hearing others views on this.
  
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  No longer Hidden

  by HiddenPimo in

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  i wrote a letter some time ago and to my surprise and despite the elders manual saying that a letter is sufficient for establishing 'wrongdoing' they would not announce me as no longer a jw until i met with 2 elders to verbally acknowledge that the letter was written by me.. .

  well yesterday i met with them and the meeting lasted 2 minutes.

  "did you write the letter?

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  lancegalahadx

  Welcome to your freedom! Sent you a PM...
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  my story...

  by Nikki collins in

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  many of you have asked about my story, so here it is.

  it's a bit long lol.

  however i still loved jeremy but because he wasn’t a witness i knew i could never be with him and have my family.

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  lancegalahadx

  Wow...

  I thought my life growing up sucked...

  All I can say is I hope you can finally have peace, and eventually happiness...
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  Anyone in the Greenville/Spartanburg SC area?

  by Nikki collins in

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  looking for ones in my area.

  been mentally out for years and finally im free and looking for friends because as most of you know the only family and friends i had were witnesses and now wont talk to me.

  also lost out on relationships with my ""worldly"" family because you know.... that was bad.

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  lancegalahadx

  Hi

  Welcome to your freedom. I’m in Columbia. Please feel free to reach out if you’re comfortable — pm or email.
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  Cart encounters this weekend.

  by OneEyedJoe in

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  on weekend mornings i like to take my dog for a long walk at a nearby lake.

  recently there's been some cultists and a propaganda cart posted up along my walking path.

  until today i've ignored them.

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  lancegalahadx

  I really think they try to avoid people these days...
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  Flashback: Samuel Herd/Ashland Avenue Chicago

  by Phaedra in

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  must have been mid to late 1970s.. it was when they still published the speakers' names on the light-blue circuit assembly programs.. i was a child sitting in the audience at ashland avenue's circuit assembly venue.

  i loved that place with it's own basement cafeteria and baptism pool with a big jesus getting baptized mural behind it.. samuel herd was giving the talk.

  my child self could only remember my father pointing him out on the program.

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  lancegalahadx

  I went to Ashland Ave in Chicago from 1980 to 1988...it was replaced with Romeoville, and I remember my first CA in it in Feb 1989.

  I also remember Sam Herd was the DO in the early 80s. Remember going to Hawthorne for those?