Posts by jw07

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Disfellowshipping Spree In My Congregation

by jw07 in

i just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.. there are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo.

so that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.. unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.. that's the most persons i recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while.

usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.. i wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.. there are currently 3 persons who i wonder about.

jw07

I just was looking back at a group photo on social media from exactly one year ago.

There are 12 persons in it, and since last year 3 of those persons in that photo have been disfellowshipped, plus one more not in the photo. So that's a total of 4 persons from my congregation of a little over 100 publishers.

Unfortunately 3 are back at the meetings and taking the shunning, but one seems to be fully awake and has disappeared completely.

That's the most persons I recall being disfellowshipped in my congregation in such a short while. Usually it's like 1 every 2 or 3 years.

I wouldn't mind seeing more people leaving.

There are currently 3 persons who I wonder about. They look just as uncomfortable as I am at the meetings. There's no way to really know without asking them though.

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Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

by thedepressedsoul in

here is an idea i tested.

works at both assemblies and conventions.

i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

jw07

This can also be a great tool for spreading fear with hotspot names like "apostate meeting in bathroom 1pm"

That's exactly 32 characters which is the SSID (WiFi name) limit :-)

Watchtower is reactionary. If there are enough ex-jws / awake jws doing this then they may send out a letter or update their convention guidelines with some nonesense like "it would be a loving gesture to turn of your WiFi so as not to be distracted while you benefit from spiritual food."

It would rattle sabers though, and have the leadership spooked by something they had NO control over at their yearly brainwashing extravaganza.

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Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

by thedepressedsoul in

here is an idea i tested.

works at both assemblies and conventions.

i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

jw07

I did this at the convention this year:
1. Downloaded a 3rd party app and named my hotspot jehovahs-witness.com during lunch time
2. left it open
3. walked around mingling and doing my 'attendant' duties
4. found out that 97 devices out of a crowd of 5000+ had 'connected'

I'm not sure how many of those were deliberate or which ones were set to automatically connect to available networks.

The method makes sense though. Someone can receive an 'unwitness' even months after while going through their Wifi connection list.

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If Jehovah's Witnesses were a cereal, what would they be?

by Zoos in

cult flakes?.

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(welcome to the height of intellectual thread topics.

jw07

Russell's Miracle Wheat

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If you could name the theme of an assembly what would it be???

by karter in

jw
friends

divine boredom.

jw07

She Just Made Us Come ASSembly of Jehovah's Witnesses

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Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

by wifibandit in

via /r/exjw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

jw07

10:38 - "it was amazing, we all kind of like looked like the walking dead, so they were always ask us how...how were we doing?"

Of course slaves are going to look like that!!! You are giving your all for free. Working overtime and all.

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Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

by wifibandit in

via /r/exjw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

jw07

At 10:06 he says that the stages were able to hold 200 lbs more than they were made for. That's not Jehovah's hand, that's physics and Watchtower violating the registered weight rating! If they don't have enough sense to reinforce them then they will collapse very soon.

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If jw's obeyed all of the bible commandments what would they be like?

by purrpurr in

the jw's cite abstaining from blood along with other cherry picked commandments.

but then ignore the others.

this is very hippocritical and if they are going to obey one commandment they should be obeying the rest.. just as a bit of fun then... what would jw's be like if they obeyed every rule in the bible?.

jw07

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They know something’s up.

by John Aquila in

we have the convention this weekend and many jw families are arriving.

one family that ive known for many years from new mexico stopped by to visit my mom.

hes been an elder since the 80s.

jw07

John Aquila - What a fine 'witness'

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As a Matter of Conscience, I Am Resigning from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Sail Away in

after listening to the hearings of the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, i am no longer content to have simply walked away from the organization.

as a matter of conscience, i do not want my name linked with the organization in any way.

i know this letter has been posted previously, and i thank the author.

jw07

Congratulations Sail Away! That level of freedom must feel like winning the lottery every day for a year