i don't remember seeing it ever really talked about here but the facebook group with the namesake of this post shut down at the end of march.
it was archived and they weren't clear as to when or if they would come back.
it seemed to come out of nowhere, and i know a lot of people were disappointed.
I’m really surprised this forum isn’t more popular. Forums like Facebook and reddit make posting and answering or making comments very time sensitive. There very superficial so to speak.
Here a thread can be started and it will maybe loose traction after a while but one can still find older threads and comment on them and they get pushed back to the front so to speak so that thread can continue to be discussed. The way those forums are structured it seems like it just doesn’t happen as well.
a newly published article by british sociologist david voas argues jehovah's witnesses may be about to experience a collapse in numbers.
contrary to claims by american sociologist rodney stark who predicts strong future growth for jehovah's witnesses, voas shows that jehovah's witnesses' efforts at recruiting new members have become increasingly unsuccessful over the past few decades: the rate of increase has steadily declined, and the number of hours each publisher must preach to produce an extra convert has gone up substantially.
voas suggests a reason for the stagnation may be that there is a natural limit to the number of people in a given population that are susceptible to conversion to sectarian groups like jehovah's witnesses - the 'carrying capacity' of the population, and that the limit has largely been reached.
These guys will lie about their numbers till the last day. They will be a very small cult someday but the collapse will not happen just a withering.
it’s been very difficult, much more than i first anticipated to live a lie, (be pimo and a regular active member) i still live with my parents but i plan on moving out at the end of the year, so i really need to keep it together.
but i think people are starting to get suspicious that something is up.
i’ve stopped commenting, going on service all the time, talking at the door, and occasionally voicing something, such as a question that no one has a good answer for, that makes people think, but ahah, thinking is dangerous and wrong so that is suspicious of course.
Don’t loose your family over this religion just become aloof at the hall, ignore the crap and go as little as possible. It’s mostly a social thing with so many not really knowing anything anyway.
this is the spot where most of washington state and even parts of oregon have had thier regional conventions.
there would be as many as 4 conventions during the summer.
this year none.
Abused I didn’t see that, I guess from the 18th of June through til August 29 no events. I guess the JWs weren’t lying this time, I’m shocked!
this is the spot where most of washington state and even parts of oregon have had thier regional conventions.
there would be as many as 4 conventions during the summer.
this year none.
This is the spot where most of washington state and even parts of Oregon have had thier regional conventions. There would be as many as 4 conventions during the summer. This year none. It was stated that do to construction at the dome the events would be held mostly at the locally owned assembly hall.
Upon further review it looks like the dome is opened for business during the summer after all. Looks like a move to better raise money or more evidence of decline???
i am shaking all over right now.
i think it's worse that the bunker video.. i used to think there was no way that these people would actually "drink the cool aid" if you get my drift, but seeing this video i am now not sure it could never happen.. having a wife who i love dearly trapped in this cult is really freaking me out right now...
Soon this will be a reality as 8 GB members will be running through the woods trying to escape the coming persecution and arrest for child abuse cover ups and as the swat team gets ever closer out of the clouds will appear jesus shooting arrows and the GB members in their final judgment. Then the world will applaud and the angels will sing a glorious new song!!! Singing “were not going to take it, no not going to take it , we’re not going to take it anymore “ common now everybody!!
bbc: polices at airports stop "truant" families .
with millions of irregular migrants drawing illegally on the public purse, many areas even unsafe for the police to enter, police families in their homes threatened by dissenting mobs, .
police give tickets to families who leave early for the vacation, to get empty seats at better prices.
Germany really screwed themselves by allowing over a million refugees into their country. They are not only the welfare state of Europe but apparently Asia and Africa too.
colwell, a trinitarian methodist, was apparently affected by various translators of his time and before, that were translating john 1:1 differently from the norm: "the word was god.
" you had moffatt’s version saying "the word was divine" (1922); a french bible, "a divine being" (1928); belsham, "a god" (1808); benjamin wilson: "a god" (1864); robert young: "a god" in his commentary of 1985. colwell likely knew that various french and german bibles were being published challenging the traditional rendering "god" of john 1:1 as well.. so he set out to prove them wrong.
he began by formulating a "rule" regarding predicate nouns and the greek article, whether they occurred after or before the verb.
After many years of research I’ve concluded that jesus was a new god and then was exalted to high god absorbing the powers and likeness of his father. Many years later the trinity idea was introduced to Christianity. This was not uncommon for many pantheons of gods had this happen.
In Babylon Marduk defeats Tiamat and for this he is given highest god status even absorbing 50 other gods and thier powers.
Baal basically does the same by taking over for El not replacing him but becomes more revered because of his fertility powers.
Osiris does something similar and Horus is given the powers and takes over for RA after his mother tricks RA into telling her his devine name.
it’s a three for one deal.
about 10 years ago they merged 3 struggling rural congregations into one in the largest town.
at the time there were about 75 publishers.
I love to read about the decline, I remember reading just a couple years ago about a CO making the comment here in my area that they’re loosing 6 people per circuit assembly and back then they were having two of those per year per circuit. So that’s 12 people per circuit per year. Nice healthy decline.
Not sure if that the case all over or just my area but it’s been calculated that the cults loosing based on their own numbers 1 million members per decade worldwide. Now if those numbers stay that way or go up and those coming in go down which we know they have their in trouble, and I like that!
it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.
aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.
it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.
Little do they know jesus is about to shoot them.
