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Who Is An Apostate?
by NeonMadman inmaybe you've heard the story of a brother in the watchtower's writing department who was very smart, hard working and a good writer.
we'll call him charley.
charley was so good, in fact, that he advanced through the ranks and became a co-editor of the watchtower magazine.
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The saddest song of all time?
by Bad_Wolf ini would pick this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2w6oxx0kq.
i don't know how so many are happy or fine if thinking this life is it.
haven't lost parents yet, but when with them, sometimes i'll think of this song.
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The saddest song of all time?
by Bad_Wolf ini would pick this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2w6oxx0kq.
i don't know how so many are happy or fine if thinking this life is it.
haven't lost parents yet, but when with them, sometimes i'll think of this song.
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Leaving it all behind.
by Jazzbo ini haven't been on an exjw site for months and months.
i frankly am way past the point where i define myself as an exjw, i am who i am and it doesn't have really anything to do with the way i was raised or spent a considerable portion of my life, i also refuse to be bound by witness requirements as to leaving, contact with witnesses, or some kind of responsibility to whack people who seem perfectly happy as witnesses over the head with 'the truth about the truth'.
i have recently run in to a few people that seems to simply obsess with their lives as witnesses and why they left and in some cases the way they were treated or mistreated, or the need to "do" something.
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Tempest in a Teacup
I probably won't see responses to this post because it's unlikely I'll show up here again for another year
Well I can't imagine that someone so full of him/herself will wait that long to check comments... . Nice try though
I just came here to remind you that everyone is not like you. Keep that in mind every time you think you're better than people. Unless you're a kid, you should have known that by now.
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Marrying yourself is now a thing....
by James Mixon inok i'am old so i need some help to understand this new thing, what's the point in marrying yourself?
this sound like a gb brain storm idea....i guess you can never commit adultery....
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Tempest in a Teacup
Ow, this made my day!
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We are becoming champions of grief. We lost twin B.
by Darkknight757 inlast week we had a reassurance ultrasound with our ob.
she was just supposed to check heartbeats on the two little ones and they were going strong!
but because she had extra time and she can be quite anal about her work (which is a good thing) she decided to take some measurements.
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Tempest in a Teacup
Really sorry for your loss
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More congregations? One of the strategies they used to inflate the numbers in my city.
by Tempest in a Teacup ini looked at the 2017 yearbook figures this morning, and it reminded me of something which happened in my former congregation 2 years ago.
it was a tiny foreign language congregation with at most 25-30 publishers.
comes and splits a 30 member congregation into....three.
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Tempest in a Teacup
The number of congregations has never been a statistic that JWs have especially trumpeted
I live in a very very multicultural and multilingual land. Over here, the growth/numbers of other/foreign language congregations have always been trumpeted (as opposed to the mainstream language congs). It is commonly perceived here as a sign of interest among the speakers of those languages, and the fact that no one is left out of their preaching effort. The last talk in the assembly always highlights their new groups/congregations/circuits formed, as well as the assemblies held by those new congregations (especially if it is their first).
That said, one constant with the watchtower is that it uses different politic tactics to fit different contexts (we're talking about a global organization here). They maintain a system which benefits their interest until they find another way to maximize them.
So, no, the two realities are not mutually exclusive.
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More congregations? One of the strategies they used to inflate the numbers in my city.
by Tempest in a Teacup ini looked at the 2017 yearbook figures this morning, and it reminded me of something which happened in my former congregation 2 years ago.
it was a tiny foreign language congregation with at most 25-30 publishers.
comes and splits a 30 member congregation into....three.
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Tempest in a Teacup
I looked at the 2017 yearbook figures this morning, and it reminded me of something which happened in my former congregation 2 years ago.
It was a tiny foreign language congregation with at most 25-30 publishers. C.O. Comes and splits a 30 member congregation into....THREE. These new groups were made of one family, with a few single people/couples.Reasons given were that the members were coming from afar, and that more people would be interested in joining if there's a group close to their area of residence.
I rather suspected that it was a plan for the C.O. to pompously announce (while shouting) in the following assembly that "the number of (...)speaking congregations have increased from ONE to THREE, all within a year."
The thrilled crowd would then applaud the 'blessing from Jehovah', thinking that the split happened because the congregations overflowed with publishers.
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Are JWs the most gossiping people on earth?
by Londo111 inwe all gossip.
it is only human.
watchtower actually tries to instruct adherents not to gossip and it can land a jw in front of a judicial committee—some do try to follow this admonition.
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Tempest in a Teacup
My non jw brother, after observing jws at a convention and in one or two meetings, gave us his "analysis" of the gossiping problem in jws about 20 years ago.
He determined that the underlying reason why there's so much gossip was that we formed a society which was too closed on itself and our lives as co-believers are too intertwined.
And so "person A's cousin is the bible student of someone 's sister in law who in turn is the best friend of someone's mother. The mother is in the same congregation as the wife of someone who studied with the nephew of the cousin of the friend of someone who has issues with the daughter of person A (and so on and so forth)". In the end, someone somewhere in the jw world will always know you/know things about you.
I felt it makes sense. I've been paying attention since then and it's so true. Our lives are too intertwined. Of course other reasons are part of the equation.
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She displayed a literature cart in front of my house: That does it for me!
by Tempest in a Teacup inis this something they've asked them to do?
cart displays in front of their homes?
my mom is only in her mid 60s so i'm quite sure this is not an issue of mental illness.. the only illness she's suffering from is boredom since she's refused to work for years now.
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Oh, she came back saying that more and more elderly sisters are using that method to preach and she went on to give me a few instance of people who are doing it. I told her that I didn't care.