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  Ok... so Mom did the robotic JW thing and people in my home country know about me...

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  so.... i went out all day today... just wanted to get away from the sh!tstorm that was created yesterday.

  anyways... i come home like an hour ago, and my dad told me that mom called my aunties in central america and told them stuff about me, and also she told the elders of her hall... the elders want to meet with me, but i think that it will be at my house.

  i am curious about your ideas about:.

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  ILoveTTATT

  @skeeter:

  Great advice... but I really want to tell my cousins and my best friends, the ones who I think will have the best chance of listening to me, the ones who are really hurting because of WT policies. My family will go ballistic! I have around 30 cousins, aunties, etc on my mom's side who will be absolutely shocked...

  She seems very calm about things... no shunning, no nothing.

  I think blocking out the elders is a great idea, but it will be very hard. I am living in their house, so I can't tell the elders off... If they come, I can't ask them to leave... I can at most just tell my parents to tell them that I don't want to meet... but my mom will force the issue and will force me to meet with them... that or I leave the house... which won't be good.

  Dad vaccilates between knowing I am right and wanting to please my mom still... It's been tough on him.

  She's the type that reasoning is not really possible, except for microseconds.

  About the e-mails: Are you saying I should call them over the phone? I guess that is a good idea...
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  Ok... so Mom did the robotic JW thing and people in my home country know about me...

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so.... i went out all day today... just wanted to get away from the sh!tstorm that was created yesterday.

  anyways... i come home like an hour ago, and my dad told me that mom called my aunties in central america and told them stuff about me, and also she told the elders of her hall... the elders want to meet with me, but i think that it will be at my house.

  i am curious about your ideas about:.

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  ILoveTTATT

  So...

  I went out all day today... just wanted to get away from the sh!tstorm that was created yesterday. Anyways... I come home like an hour ago, and my dad told me that mom called my aunties in Central America and told them stuff about me, and also she told the elders of her hall... The elders want to meet with me, but I think that it will be at my house. I am curious about your ideas about:

  1. What should I say to the elders? If things are in my house, with my parents as witnesses, things could be good....

  2. Should I tell my other cousins and people I love TTATT before they hear that I am an "apostate" and lose the one chance I have? What should I tell them? I am sooo willing to send mass e-mails.

  ILTTATT
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  2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

  by Westenddave in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

  i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

  as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

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  The math makes sense: It's the cumulative growth%, i.e. if you add the percentage growth of Mexico + USA you get 24.73%, add Mexico +USA+ Congo and you get 31%, etc etc...
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  2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

  by Westenddave in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

  i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

  as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

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  ILoveTTATT

  And if you think about it, the Phillipines WAS a Spanish country... An extremely catholic country in Asia...

  I have thought about it and, the following factors influence growth:

  Catholicisim of the country is a HUGE factor for growth.

  Poverty of the country is another factor.

  Third factor is the length of time the religion has been in the country. USA and Mexico have had some of the longest.
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  This site has been going for 13 years. Did you ever at one point fear armageddon?

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  2. friends

  i am just wondering about all of you who have been on this site for long.

  in all of the events that have happened since 2000 (for example, september 11th), have you at any point, even you die-hard apostates, felt like "oooh sh!t... i should go back to the kh"... just to have the world survive the latest disaster?.

  what was the worst event for you, in terms of saying... "did i mess up???

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  Wow superboy!! I would have been so scared to leave!! Glad you toughed it out, and are still alive to tell the story!! I agree with you... I gotta LIVE LIFE!!
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  I may not be able to hold the status quo for longer!

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today my mom called me three times at work to tell me how "worried" she was about my spirituality.. i so wanted to tell her some ttatt but just said, "mom, i am fine spiritually.

  if i am ever in trouble spiritually, i will tell you.

  meanwhile, i would really appreciate it if you left my relationship with god a private matter.".

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  The local elders do NOT have my cards, but they are bothering me because I talked to a person in their congregation and she thankfully did not get baptized because I told her that the JW's had changed the Bible by adding "Jehovah" to the NT 237 times.

  I am being chased for telling truth, go figure!!
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  This site has been going for 13 years. Did you ever at one point fear armageddon?

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am just wondering about all of you who have been on this site for long.

  in all of the events that have happened since 2000 (for example, september 11th), have you at any point, even you die-hard apostates, felt like "oooh sh!t... i should go back to the kh"... just to have the world survive the latest disaster?.

  what was the worst event for you, in terms of saying... "did i mess up???

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  ILoveTTATT

  Great responses!! I think that things do happen to me like they do to Data-Dog, but what he said is true; just asking oneself some questions and reassuring oneself that it's all bull...
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  I may not be able to hold the status quo for longer!

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today my mom called me three times at work to tell me how "worried" she was about my spirituality.. i so wanted to tell her some ttatt but just said, "mom, i am fine spiritually.

  if i am ever in trouble spiritually, i will tell you.

  meanwhile, i would really appreciate it if you left my relationship with god a private matter.".

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  ILoveTTATT

  Lots of great suggestions, everyone!! I doubt the coming into my room all sad and asking me about my spirituality repeatedly will stop. This morning she said she noticed I was always "angry" or "sad" and said, "Please, don't read anything not from WT literature!"

  I just thought in my mind.. "I don't need to. They have shot themselves enough times on the foot."
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  Where the need is greater: TTATT in Spanish

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it seems most of the us growth is in spanish-speaking territory, and of course, there is growth in the nations where spanish is the predominant language.

  most sites oriented around ttatt, are english-speaking.

  there seems then to be a great need for translators...for instance, imagine if there was a spanish version of www.jwfacts.com.. unfortunately, i dont speak this language.

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  Hi everyone,

  I have been talking with a friend from Spain who only speaks Spanish. He has been an exJW for a while, and has been heavily involved in the exJW community. He is just floored by JWFacts, even using Google Translator. He says he understands the gist of the articles, and that they are absolutely amazing!! He wanted me to congratulate Paul for such wonderful work!

  THANKS PAUL!!

  He also gave me an idea: Rather than wait until all the articles have been human-translated, just place all the articles as roughly translated by Google Translate, place a disclaimer, and then, when the articles have been human-translated and proofread, upload them and update the site.

  I recommend for a domain name verdadtj.com (roughly translated as jwtruth.com), since the literal translation of "facts" into "hechos" just sounds odd...

  I was wondering if that domain can be bought, and then just redirect to jwfacts.com/es if that maintains the Google ranking.
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  I may not be able to hold the status quo for longer!

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today my mom called me three times at work to tell me how "worried" she was about my spirituality.. i so wanted to tell her some ttatt but just said, "mom, i am fine spiritually.

  if i am ever in trouble spiritually, i will tell you.

  meanwhile, i would really appreciate it if you left my relationship with god a private matter.".

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  ILoveTTATT

  Phew!! That was a close one! kind of like the cuban missile crisis... Omg!!

  Thankfully, I decided to not touch the subject unless she brought it up, and she didn't!! It was just a tense dinner where all communication wad very light, how was your day? Good! Mine too...

  The good thing about all this is that now I have a plan of what I am gonna say when/if I drop the bomb.