When I left there were three meets a week plus field service.Book study
was in somebody's home,
Home CBS - gone. Now just 2 meetings per week.
theocratic school, service meeting,
Gone and gone. Midweek meeting is now called "Christian Life an Ministry". It consists of 3 different parts which I can't be bothered to remember the names of.
weekly
talk, watchtower study.
Pretty much the same.
Four magazines a month I believe?
Now 1 per month. Watchtower alternates with Awake month over month. WT study articles are now in a "Study edition" Watchtowwer not offered to the public.
Oh, and the field service magazines are now 16 pages each. Yes that's right - went from 128 pages of literature per month to 16.
Service time
silps.
Changed. No longer keep track of books, tracts, brochures and magazines separately - all lumped together as "placements" on your time slip. But now there is a separate column for "video showings" - yes, they strongly encourage using a smartphone tablet to show insipid videos to people.
AUX pio was 50 hours, maybe 40?
Stil 50 hours, but some months (Memorial invitations, CO visit) you can sign up for only 30 hours and still be counted as an AP.
Pioneer school, yeah I did that.
Used to be 2 weeks of 5 days each, now 1 week of 6 days.
Brooklyn was still a thing for WTC.
WT will officially be moved out of Brooklyn by September 1, 2016.
Only computer thing going on was the
Watchtowers CD-ROM, plus a dinky website nobody looked at.
JW website is now the bomb in WT-world. JWs think think it is the most wonderfully wonderful thing in the universe - better than Jehovah himself. Oh, and JWs now have their own internet-based streaming TV channel, available on AppleTV, Roku, etc.
In general, they have completely abandoned any pretense of having a coherent, let alone reasonable, doctrine. They appeal exclusively to emotion now, primarily thru video presentations about how wonderful JW life is, how empty your life will be if you leave, and how "very soon now" you'll see all your dead relatives and all 20 billion resurrected people will have a 6000 square foot beachside chalet with a mountain view.
And eat fruit all day.
When not petting pandas.
