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  Former Jehovah's Witness sentenced for child sexual assault

  by blondie in

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  6/3/2025 former jehovah's witness sentenced for child sexual assault shaun sheffer, 47, of harmony was found guilty in january of three counts each of rape and indecent assault, including assault of a person less than 13 who had a mental disability.

  he also was convicted of corruption of minors.... https://triblive.com/local/regional/former-jehovahs-witness-sentenced-for-child-sexual-assault/ .

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  blondie

  Beth Sarim: Dr. K, Alok Kanojia https://www.healthygamer.gg/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alok_Kanojia
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  Admonishment to the Governing Body of the Watch Tower Society By - YHWH

  by EisMe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  admonishment to the governing body of the watch tower society.

  to the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses: you have presented yourselves as god’s appointed messengers, yet nowhere in scripture does god declare your authority as his chosen representatives.

  by falsely claiming divine appointment, you have led many into spiritual bondage, deceiving them into believing you alone have the truth.. misuse of donated labor & financial deception.

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  blondie

  EisMe, hahahahahahahaha
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  Baptismal Failure Rates Among JW Bible Teachers

  by Sea Breeze in

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  the 2024 data from the jw website indicates that jw teachers have an over 96% failure rate with their students : .

  2024 average bible studies each month: 7,480,146.

  2024 baptisms:296,267. number of bible studies it takes to produce one baptism : 25.25. this means that jehovah's witnesses have an over 96% failure rate with people who want to study the bible with them.

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  NotFormer, "Them days is gawn" a victim of the increasing of the Internet, and access to so-called by the WTS, secret info, like the elders' manual.
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  Baptismal Failure Rates Among JW Bible Teachers

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 2024 data from the jw website indicates that jw teachers have an over 96% failure rate with their students : .

  2024 average bible studies each month: 7,480,146.

  2024 baptisms:296,267. number of bible studies it takes to produce one baptism : 25.25. this means that jehovah's witnesses have an over 96% failure rate with people who want to study the bible with them.

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  Sea Breeze, and I remember that many of those baptisms, were children of jws, not people contacted outside the jw group. I remember the then presiding overseer gave a talk at the old service meeting, that he had checked the records of bible studies conducted (when they did that), and found only 4 studies with non jws, one baptized, and that person was df'd in a year.
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  Remember Hour Quotas?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
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  hour quotas timeline.

  back in the old days long before 1952.

  “after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.

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  blondie

  I don't even see them in my subdivision, ever, and they are not deliberately skipping my house. Have yet to see a cart even downtown. Asked the neighbors around me, and they haven't seen them either even pre-Covid. Not that they were missing it.
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  WT AUGUST 2025: NEW LIGHT ON HAILSTONE MESSAGE : IS IT BIBLICAL OR JUST CONVENIENT?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/n_fttvylm-m?si=l44406ohysubkajr.

  so today we are considering, the watchtower's new take on the "hailstone message", and if you don't know what that is , they used to believe that according to revelation 16:21 they would be preaching a hard hitting message during the time of the end.

  now, let's read the verse first from the new world translation: "then great hailstones, each about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven on the people, and the people blasphemed god because of the plague of hail, for the plague was unusually great" now this is their new understanding as it appears from the 3rd paragraph from their new watchtower study edition for august 2025 and their article:when will the preaching work end, has this to say: "our clarified understanding of matthew 24:14 also adjusts our understanding of the hailstonelike message foretold at revelation 16:21. further examination has revealed that the two scriptures complement each other.

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  ozziepost, "So how was this “clarified understanding” obtained? In a dream?" I have wondered that too, and brave enough to ask, they would just say, 1) They pray for their god's guidance 2) use the holy-spirit inspired book, the bible, and then pray again after discussion 3) then I would ask, how would they know what the answer was...said that if all on the GB, "voted" for the same thing (we both know all they really needed is a 2/3 majority, the remaining GB just had to fall in line to make it appear unanimous) I remember asking a GB member that it seemed they knew they knew info before other jws...he said it was not official until it was print in a WTS publication, as he picked up the recently delivered WT to his Bethel room off his desk. (Of course, we some GB shared their personal viewpoint with other jws before the printed version came out)
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  Hotel Bossert, a storied hotel on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, was sold

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. jw
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  memories..... a 1970s-1980s meetup location to grab a ride to local trips on the subway...or a bite on montague st.. brooklyn heights hotel to be turned into homes.

  the hotel bossert, a storied hotel on montague street in brooklyn heights, was sold to someraroad, a new york city and nashville-based real estate investment and development firm.. bk reader staffmay 31, 2025 10:00 amjun 2, 2025 9:20 am.

  photo: supplied/jim.henderson via wikimedia commonslisten to this article00:01:23. .

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  I stayed here while they were renovating it and jws visiting friends at Bethel could stay there (pre-renovation completion) Standish Arms Hotel (Brooklyn Heights, NYC): This building was also acquired and used as a residential property for Watchtower workers.
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  Hotel Bossert, a storied hotel on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, was sold

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  2. experiences

  memories..... a 1970s-1980s meetup location to grab a ride to local trips on the subway...or a bite on montague st.. brooklyn heights hotel to be turned into homes.

  the hotel bossert, a storied hotel on montague street in brooklyn heights, was sold to someraroad, a new york city and nashville-based real estate investment and development firm.. bk reader staffmay 31, 2025 10:00 amjun 2, 2025 9:20 am.

  photo: supplied/jim.henderson via wikimedia commonslisten to this article00:01:23. .

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  "I've strongly suspected that the 2008 crash caused the org very serious financial losses via their hedge funds/stock market investments, resulting in near-fatal cash-flow problems.

  Hence the property sales and unbelievable & punitive cost-cutting and money grabbing strategies invoked - to stave off Wall Street creditors.

  Still believe this." (I do too, I worked with the banking system at that time and had NYC contacts daily, and they agreed that happened to many. Cash flow problems big time!)
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  Hotel Bossert, a storied hotel on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, was sold

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  memories..... a 1970s-1980s meetup location to grab a ride to local trips on the subway...or a bite on montague st.. brooklyn heights hotel to be turned into homes.

  the hotel bossert, a storied hotel on montague street in brooklyn heights, was sold to someraroad, a new york city and nashville-based real estate investment and development firm.. bk reader staffmay 31, 2025 10:00 amjun 2, 2025 9:20 am.

  photo: supplied/jim.henderson via wikimedia commonslisten to this article00:01:23. .

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  Balaamsass, Memories...staying on the A train too.. long and getting off the train in Harlem one night alone. One kindly passerby suggested "Son, get right back on the train" seeing my puzzled Irish face on a Harlem St corner. Take the A train....just not too long. "

  I was quite ignorant about how things were in a big city. In my case it was an older black woman, who went with me on the subway until I got to a place she felt was safe. (I remember Bethelites telling me to have "mugger money" and not to go in certain parks... ""Is THAT in the Bible" I was brave enough to ask that question, respectfully.
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  Know it’s not true but stay anyway

  by Elena in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how many of the millions of jws know it’s not true but stay anyway?.

  my guess is most jws know it’s not true on a subconscious level to an extent but they don’t want to think about it too much and would never ever voice it out loud.. but this is probably true with all religions around the world?.

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  blondie

  Attributed to Jerry Garcia: "“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”