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  2016-3-20-BOE!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2016-3-20-boe.

  .. to applicants for the school for kingdom evangelizers.. http://we.tl/byfdshrdfc.

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  wannaexit

  if they keep taking money from JWs like they have been, people won't be able to afford to be a JW because, membership will require just to much money.

  I think there are enough of the old generation that that is still heavily supporting the watchtower. I am talking about folks like my parents in their 70's and 80's.

  The younger generation of jw's just dont have it to give. They don't have any education and work at low-paying jobs barely keeping their own heads out of water. I know a lot of them live pay check to pay check and have lots of debts. How much can these really give.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses - Emotional Blackmail - Fear Obligation Guilt

  by JT-LadyC in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after leaving the jehovah’s witness religion, we had the opportunity to read emotional blackmail by susan forward, ph.d. we could relate to the stories she discusses in the book and could make a direct correlation to our lives as jehovah’s witnesses.

  while the experiences are somewhat different from what we encountered in our personal lives, we could readily comprehend how individuals use emotional blackmail to make others develop fear, obligation and guilt in order to manipulate them into furthering their own agenda.this podcast explains in great detail how jehovah’s witnesses live in the fog.

  no one can dispute these comments as every current and former witness is most familiar with the culture of the organization!this podcast references the experience of a sister that lived in an iron lung and her experience was used as a tool to measure the faith of jehovah’s witnesses with otherwise good health that did not live up to the daily demands of the watchtower.

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  Great, high quality video. Thank you JT and LadyC.
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  For fun: What should JW stand for?

  by dbq407 in

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  2. humour

  judged worthless was one i thought of today.

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  because anyone that isn't giving 100% all the time is judged by other witnesses as worthless..

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  wannaexit

  Jewish Warlocks

  Jokers'n Wackos
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  California Electrician Dies After Falling 53 Stories...Possible JW and Suicide?

  by JW GoneBad in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-construction-worker-falls-from-l-a-high-rise-hits-cars-dies-20160317-story.html.

  social media is saying that this individual was a jehovah's witness.

  can someone from the southern california area confirm this.

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  wannaexit

  Very sad indeed. Read an article where the father ,Vance Sabbatino, is quoted as saying that his son was suffering from depression.
  
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  making memorial bread parties

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i though i'd heard and seen it all.

  i guess i was mistaken.

  i saw from various social media the the witnesses are holding parties to  make memorial bread.

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  wannaexit

  I though I'd heard and seen it all. I guess I was mistaken. I saw from various social media the the witnesses are holding parties to make memorial bread. What will they think of next??
  
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  Dan Sydlik

  by done4good in

  1. jw
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  morning warship - he was the only restraint and i'm not saying that lightly.

  i know there are a dozen others here who were in bethel back in the early 2000's who know what i'm talking about.

  he actually kept me thinking this was jehovah's org because of his sincerity as if the holy spirit was operating in him.

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  In my opinion, it doesn't matter how good and moderate Sidlik may have appeared, but he was a part of a group of men that through the years have cause much damage. Guilty by association! At least in my book.
  
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  Estimating future growth or decline of Watchtower

  by shepherdless in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have seen a few posts here, in various guises, in relation to whether watchtower is in decline.

  plenty of people respond, but it is all fairly anecdotal, or "gut feel".

  some of it has been wishful thinking.. as of late 2015, watchtower's numbers suggest it is still growing marginally, but there are various anecdotes on this site of publishers typically being older, and younger ones disappearing.

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  I know of the congregations in my area. There has been marginal growth. Most of the new baptized, have come from the ranks of the kids.
  
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  well well its te man hisself

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  top o the morning to ye.

  its st patrick's day.

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  wannaexit

  We are all a little Irish today.
  
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  Judgment handed down by Court of Appeal in legal challenge to Charity Commission inquiry opened in 2014

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is good news.

  the wt have lost in their attempt to stop the uk charity commission's inquiry into their affairs.

  however, the wt is still digging in their heels about turning documents over to the charity commission.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/court-of-appeal-gives-judgment-in-court-case-by-jehovahs-witness-charityjudgment handed down by court of appeal in legal challenge to charity commission inquiry opened in 2014.today, the court of appeal handed down its judgment regarding the commission’s statutory inquiry, opened in 2014, into the watch tower bible and tract society of britain (the leading jehovah’s witness charity in the uk).

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  Thank you Orphancrow for all this information

  think this development is inevitable. Every other charity organisation in the UK who works with children has mandatory DBS checks for volunteers. It is outrageous that the Watchtower gets away with ignoring basic child welfare procedures.

  You can only imagine the implications of every elder - and possibly MS - being made to have a criminal records check. How many thousands would just resign rather than reveal their past?

  I wonder if this is the reason for the new theocratic meeting without the word SCHOOL is to avoid these criminal record checks. After all the theocratic ministry school has lots of kids.
  
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  Judgment handed down by Court of Appeal in legal challenge to Charity Commission inquiry opened in 2014

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is good news.

  the wt have lost in their attempt to stop the uk charity commission's inquiry into their affairs.

  however, the wt is still digging in their heels about turning documents over to the charity commission.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/court-of-appeal-gives-judgment-in-court-case-by-jehovahs-witness-charityjudgment handed down by court of appeal in legal challenge to charity commission inquiry opened in 2014.today, the court of appeal handed down its judgment regarding the commission’s statutory inquiry, opened in 2014, into the watch tower bible and tract society of britain (the leading jehovah’s witness charity in the uk).

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  wannaexit

  What does this mean exactly for Watchtower???