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  2016 Memorial Done & Dusted

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
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  well on this side of the planet, the southern hemisphere/ new zealand, the 2016 memorial service in local kingdom halls will be over for another year.

  another great big anticlimax.

  some family and relatives will have gone - but unless i ask my sister, i generally have no idea about attendance and partaker numbers.

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  Just got back for the worst memorial in my whole 45 years of going to them. I felt so bad for the people who had to listen to the speaker who was literally yelling. It was the worst talk ever. There was a token mention to the ransom and the rest was all about who should drink the wine and eat the crackers.

  There were few people to show for the 14,000 tracts that were placed. Most the the people that attended were the usual yearly attenders. The same ones that have been coming for the last decade.

  Pretty pathetic event.
  
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  Sweet 16 - Happy Birthday to Us !

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  it's the forum's 16th birthday today!.

  amazing that not only have we lasted so long but we're still thriving and growing.. thanks to all the people and often colorful characters who've contributed to the site over the years.

  some are still here with us, some have since moved on, but all have touched each others lives in some way along our different journeys.. .

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  Since I know now that birthday's are ok and no one is going to get decapitated. Here is to the forum and after the memorial I will raise my wine glass and wish Simon and forum many more years to come.
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  2016 Memorial Done & Dusted

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well on this side of the planet, the southern hemisphere/ new zealand, the 2016 memorial service in local kingdom halls will be over for another year.

  another great big anticlimax.

  some family and relatives will have gone - but unless i ask my sister, i generally have no idea about attendance and partaker numbers.

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  I will be going tonight and report back. The congregation places 14,000 memorial tracts. I wonder how many will come?
  
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  JWs tamping on Japanese edition of Wikipedea

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to jwstudy.com,some jw changed the date of jerusalem's fallfrom 597 to 607.and erased all the original writings and re-written the page of the wikipedia so that wikipedia matches the watchtower’s doctrine.chech this out.. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%e3%83%90%e3%83%93%e3%83%ad%e3%83%b3%e6%8d%95%e5%9b%9a.

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  its in Japanese---- can't read it
  
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  The Evolution of the Awake's Back Cover

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't think anyone's actually considered this, but a post in the extj.com forum made me think about the many changes (not just one) on the back cover of the awake!

  magazine.

  thanks to avoidjw.org for scanning all of the magazines in pdf format, since there is a lot lost with the wt library.. take a look at the following paragraphs in the awake´s back cover throughout the years:awake!

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  when you see it all together, its ludicrous.
  
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  2016-3-20-BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  2016-3-20-boe.

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

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  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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  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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  Jewish Warlocks

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  California Electrician Dies After Falling 53 Stories...Possible JW and Suicide?

  by JW GoneBad in

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  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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  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

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  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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  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??