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  The Congregational Make Up Research Project: WTB&TS wants to know you.

  by oppostate in

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  we have a bethel speaker on the english side.

  they're pretty regular up here since it's only three and a half hours drive from nyc.. but this is a special kind of visit.. it turns out he's involved in doing a special research project and the christian congregation of jw's wants to know us better.. in order for the broadcasting to address issues more meaningful for families, they want to know the demographic make up of the congregations.. he spoke with the secretary about young single publishers and couples 20-35 y.o.

  how are they employed.

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  Londo,

  Manipulation and control are the primary tools emoyed by the Dark Lords since their inception. They excel at it, especially the sociological part, routinely pitting the rank and file against one another over conscience matters made to appear as laws.

  They appear to have finally discovered data analytics, which have been used by businesses for decades to target market and manipulate buying decisions by consumers.

  The Dark Lords simply have a new shiny toy to play with, but their objectives will remain the same. To maintain an iron fisted control over the rank and file, by any means necessary.

  As they teach you in MBA class, you can't control what you don't measure. They are in the process of measuring.
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  The Congregational Make Up Research Project: WTB&TS wants to know you.

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we have a bethel speaker on the english side.

  they're pretty regular up here since it's only three and a half hours drive from nyc.. but this is a special kind of visit.. it turns out he's involved in doing a special research project and the christian congregation of jw's wants to know us better.. in order for the broadcasting to address issues more meaningful for families, they want to know the demographic make up of the congregations.. he spoke with the secretary about young single publishers and couples 20-35 y.o.

  how are they employed.

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  Actually it is an effective tool for managing. They want to assess cash flows in the future and to develop tools to stop the bleeding of the best and brightest and those exiting due to major generational shifts.

  Those tools sadly will be more machievellian control mechanisms and targeted guilt and shaming. We've seen the handwriting on the wall with the sisters shouldn't marry a brother unless he is or wants to be an MS statements and the Sophia don't say gay video you all are talking about.

  I would not expect kinder gentler Dark Lords. And yes je suis, it reeks of desperation, and that is most excellent.
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  Awake #4/2016: Homosexuality

  by Designer Stubble in

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  the new awake is up on jw.orgwith the legalization of gay marriage in many countries, they decided it was time to show: "what does thebible say about homosexuality?

  "does the bible promote prejudice?still, some people would say that the bible promotes prejudice against homosexuals and that those who adhere to itsmoral code are intolerant.

  ‘the bible was written at a time when people were narrow-minded,’ they claim.

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  Well stated Cofty: I refuse to make excuses for any human being based on their race or culture.

  The subjugation of women is where Islam begins and ends. And it is based on the poor pathetic Muslim males, none of whom can apparently control their urges. Muslim males are infantalized by their culture and religious beliefs. Poor little boys.

  A woman who shows her body in any manner is deserving of scorn, rape, even death, because poor little Muhammed just can't help his pathetic little self. And if a man rapes a woman, even his daughter, the Islamic leaders can find a way to blame shift it to the woman, even if she is a 12 year old girl.

  From hijabs to burkas to forced genital mutilation to women not being able to drive or vote, et al, it all begins and ends with the premise that pathetic weak Muslim males just can't help their pathetic weak selves.

  JWDaughter, why you bought into this nonsense is beyond me. It is a disgusting culture deserving of annihilation. And please don't come back with the nonsense about all Muslims not being that way. As Free Mind Fade pointed out a few weeks ago, there are snippets and portions of this type of behavior and thinking in every Muslim/Islamic culture, teaching, country because it can be found in their holy book. And after that let's get rid of the hate filled x-tians.

  That is what this planet sorely needs right now.
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  One less JW in Scandinavia

  by Powermetal4ever in

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  yes that's me, i am victorious!

  i had enough after about 4 years knowing ttatt.

  sent my da letter and it has been anounced at the meeting.

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  Outstanding PowerMetal,

  Would the last JW in Scandinavia please turn out the lights?
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  Hi everyone!

  by cognac in

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  2. friends

  was just listening to a song that made me think of the jws so thought i'd say hi and see how everyone is.

  i'm doing ok. kids are fine.

  i'm good, making tons of friends, very successful in my career, bla bla bla.

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  Cognac

  One of my faves!!! Thanks for popping in. Glad all is well.
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  What I like about being a witness

  by molybdenum in

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  I'm sorry to tell you Molybdenum, but I copyrighted that list in 2002. You WILL be hearing from my lawyers.
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  KH sign.. No "school" mentioned.

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  recently i saw a posting asking if the australian kh's had the 'ministry school' deleted from their signs.. the local hall does with "midweek meeting" and their is no mention of "ministry ..school".

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  now its a fair guess that all kh will have the same signage at the front..

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  nonjwspouse hit the nail on the head. There are laws in most places that require convicted pedophiles to avoid living/hanging out near 'schools.'

  The change is lawsuit, liability driven. Calling it a school creates a lot of potential issues, such as elders and the Dark Lords taking immediate steps to limit access to the KH 'school' for either convicted pedophiles or those who have flown under the radar due to the Dark Lords' evil policies. Since there are still a lot of these individuals meandering about the KHs, they had no other choice but to get rid of the term 'school.'

  http://www.doc.wa.gov/community/sexoffenders/rulesincommunity.asp
  
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  All Gays Are Perverts

  by Coded Logic in

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  2. beliefs

  "scientists may never resolve exactly how much of a role nature and nurturing play in same-sex attraction.

  but one thing is clear: all humans are born with the tendency to succumb to wrong thinking and inclinations.

  --romans 3:23. a youth who desires to please god must therefore conform to his moral standards and shun immoral behavior, though doing so may be agonizingly difficult.

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  Coded,

  
  

  Some of this stuff I've said before. The LGBT issue wasn't a defining or primary reason I became sick of the Dark Lords. The Dark Lords were the primary reason I became sick of the Dark Lords. However, as I matured and observed the world around me (as a dub-elder), it was apparent to me that people don't tend to choose their sexual preferences. I also began to view what consenting adults do in private as none of anyone's business while still an el-dub. And even if someone isn't born that way, what difference does it make. Besides NONE. If god doesn't have anything better to do than police my privates, then she can kiss my ass. And spend her time in more honorable pursuits, such as end the wars, stop the genocides, the famines, the honor killings  . . . . .

  
  

  But the LGBT issue was definitely one of the primary bricks in my J-dub/theist wall that I evaluated, analyzed and then removed and cast away. In addition to simple observation of the world around me, I recall the exact moment when I looked at my 2 beautiful, amazing, talented children, both of whom I have been crazy stupid close to since the moment they were born, and realized that I could/would never DF them from my life if either or both turned out to be LGBT. I was in the KH, looking at both of them, and realized what a surreal and hate filled world the cult I belonged to was.

  
  

  Within a year or so I was out, along with my amazing children.
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  My brother died last night

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found out this morning that my brother died last night, he was also an ex jw, 73 years old and died of heart disease and kidney failure.

  it was not totally unexpected, as he had been in poor health, but it's a blow, especially as i just lost another brother two years ago.

  there were six of us, now only four.

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  LisaRose,

  I'm very sorry for your loss.
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  I'm getting baptized

  by BlackWolf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know i've started similar topics before but this time i'm serious.

  my parents have been constantly pressuring me and after yesterday's watchtower study they asked me if i was going to be baptized this summer... and i said yes.

  i probably should have thought about it more before making a final decision, but they're pretty much forcing me to do it anyway.

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  BW,

  If you let them coerce you into baptism, and you can't manage a quiet fade over the next few decades without ending up in the elders' crosshairs, and based on what we hear that will be unlikely, you will resent them with anger as they shun you possibly until they pass away or you get reinstated. Rinse and repeat.

  If you don't get baptised you can keep a relationship with them over the decades. They may use guilt for a while to try to control you, but it is almost a certainty that sooner or later that will fade, especially as you get older stronger and wiser.

  That's your 2 futures.

  Please dont get baptised.