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  Watchtower Releases 2017 Grand Total Figures!

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2017 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 90. .

  number of lands reporting: 240. .

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  floridaborn

  Even if or when they show a decrease they will spin it in their favor: “the love of the greater number now means less will be accepting the truth” “no growth means the time of the end is in the final milliseconds of the last seconds”. And people like my family will continue to eat it up
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  Can't believe we are still here

  by moreconfusedthanever in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just this week i had the jws knock on my door.

  sisters from my old congregation.

  we exchanged the usual polite conversation.

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  floridaborn

  Wasanelder, I was born in the 80's and was never supposed to graduate. Now I am planning my daughters grad party.
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  Will The Watchtower Ever Give Up Mandatory Shunning Of DF'd Members?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i think the wt will never give up this practice unless forced to by the courts, even if they are financially failing terribly they will keep it because the moment they do get rid of it the whole thing will collapse even faster and they know it(or afraid of it happening).

  they have painted themselves into a corner of financial ruin.

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  floridaborn

  It’s too late after the 2016 convention that has the R&F shunning inactive ones who are not officially df’ed or da’ed. They’ve doubled down on the control in a “secret way” by not having it in print making those that follow the direction from the slave feel even more worthy.
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  What's changed since I left in 2006?

  by Jehovah lol in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think i made a thread like this a couple of years ago but i can't remember what was said and i'd rather have a new discussion anyway.. what's different in the wts since i left it behind in 2006?.

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  floridaborn

  What was the 2007 qfr?
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  "not doing well spiritually"

  by Introvert 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  working late tonight i just thought this up : whenever we used to hear someone say " so and so is not doing well spiritually™ " or "not doing well in the truth™ " what it really means is they aren't doing well climbing the wtbts's corporate ladder or doing their beck and call following the herd cult thingy.

  been brought up before but had to share..feel free to add..

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  floridaborn

  Then they get labeled as bad association and people avoid them like the plague.
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  Where to go for the 'Deep Things'?

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as someone who has been out a while, i wondered what publications a jw would turn to now if they want to do serious bible research.

  are there any meaty jw publications left?

  i haven't heard of the insight books being revised.

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  floridaborn

  Remember the horrible written review?? Do they do anything like that now at the new midweek meetings?
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  stupid questions

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  paragraph 4 today: "what are we gonna consider?

  " maybe that is the article title?

  the other is: "what will we consider next week?

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  floridaborn

  I was in a debate with my daughter and asked her if they had a textbook to help them read and understand their main text book at school. I got a no with an eyerolll for an answer. So then why do we need to be guided to study the bible??

  Do the watchtowers even really quote the bible anymore?
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  Where to go for the 'Deep Things'?

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as someone who has been out a while, i wondered what publications a jw would turn to now if they want to do serious bible research.

  are there any meaty jw publications left?

  i haven't heard of the insight books being revised.

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  floridaborn

  When I asked about this I was told "we are now being trained how to live in the new system. We are being refined." Um mm....I thought we needed knowledge to make it there. Silly me always thinking too much.
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  JW.ORG turning into an evangelical clone

  by Pistoff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i clicked this link to the november 2017 tvjw video, in it they defend their 2 witness policy, though, gutlessly, they do not mention it in the context of child sexual abuse.. anyway, check out the christian jehovian song at 57:06, ugh, makes me nauseous.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksz0qiftsok&feature=youtu.be&t=53m25s.

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  floridaborn

  But heaven forbid you listen to mainstream gospel
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  What can the leadership at Watchtower do to turn things around?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let's play devils advocate here.. put yourself in the governing body's shoes.

  they are well aware of all the issues they are facing.

  they know their numbers (they 'do the math' as they say in the us).

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  floridaborn

  They've already done it. It is now a social circle that would never have been allowed 15 years ago. Publishers and even pioneers taking pictures and making videos for Facebook and Instagram. Remember when we were counseled for even thinking of social media?

  Kids are now regularly up on the platform having a "share" in the midweek meeting.

  There is now a welcoming committee at the assemblies resembling most big churches

  The R&F don't need any knowledge any more. Just direct interested ones to the website. Less printing means less pressure to keep up with the latest food and gave it realized you don't actually read the mags.

  I honestly think this generation of kids coming up will be the staying put, its too easy of a religion because they really aren't teaching doctrine anymore.