AK - Jeff
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Your favorite CO/DO criticsim at the assemblies?
by AK - Jeff inat the circuit assembly, there is always a part on the program where the co gives specific counsel needed in the circuit.
often this was rather droll, but at times some interesting 'foolishness' became obvious.
one i remember was a co that spent about 5 minutes deriding one elder (whom he did not name of course) for spending a saturday arranging the icons on his computer [this must have been 10 years ago when windows 3.1 was still the rage].
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The 2004 Statistics -
by AK - Jeff ini know i saw a thread on this but can't find it - sorry.. i counted 63 countries with 0% or negative growth reported.
that is fully 26.8% of all countries in the report.
there could be more since 29 countries are listed in the 'other countries' line - some of those could be negative also, but they are all clumped and so impossible to know.. baptisms were 262,000. but growth was only about 124,000.
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My dear niece was DF'd
by AK - Jeff inafter my brother died - my sis in law made sure we had little contact with his kids, since we were 'weak'!
the truth was, we were fading due to becoming aware of many things about the organization.
fast forward two years, and i hear that my niece - an absolutely sweet kid (now about 20) - was being df'd.
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UN Scandal - does anyone know the reason they joined to start with?
by AK - Jeff inlike most on this board, i know the story, have seen the un press release, ect.
but can someone comment on two questions for me?.
who caught them with their hands in the cookie jar?
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Any here from the Indiana, Ohio, Michigan Tri-state area?
by AK - Jeff ini just wonder if any here from an area, say within 100 miles of fort wayne indiana interested in getting a small informal group together?
i have not been able to find any xjws in my immediate area.
i have gone to the meetup sites - still nothing.
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Were you a janitor?
by AK - Jeff inhow many, due to watchtower restrictions on education, are or were janitors, bus drivers, waitresses, ect.
this is not to disparrage any of these honorable jobs - just wondering how widespread this was.
i never attended a congregation where there were not several janitors.
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How did 1975 affect you?
by AK - Jeff ini lived thru the 1975 fiasco.
many here did too.. on another board there was discussion about the way the congregations were before 1975. some thought that they were like small country churches in some ways.
we did our own work on repairs at the kingdom hall, like a family.
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Jw's persecution complex
by AK - Jeff indid you ever notice the repeated emphasis on the 'proof' that jw's were god's chosen people, due to the depth of persecution by the 'devil's hoards'?.
i never did see it - in 30 years i never saw it - i always wondered how the organization could, with any journalistic dignity - print articles that used the persecution of jw's in nazi germany as such proof, while ignoring the death of 6,000,000 jews!
some historians believe that perhaps 1500 or 2000 of jehovah's witnesses died in the concentration camps.
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A Friend just died
by AK - Jeff inone of the local elders - whom i loved dearly when we were in - just died.
funny how when you get out of this organization your attitude in life completely reverses, huh?
a year and half ago, just before starting the 'fade', i actually took my vacation days in order to attend the sunday meetings (i work a weekend shift now).