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  My Mothers Ultimate Rejection

  by What Now? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i went into my mother's office to leave her a small note to say that we love and miss her and would love to get together.

  i found this on her desk.

  this is jehovah's witnesses.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Just wanted to say I am so saddened to read this.
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  Freudian slip in last Sunday's WT?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i had this point highlighted to me yesterday by a dyed-in-the-wool j.w.

  who is beginning to see cracks in his beloved golden calf of warwick.

  so encouraging to hear his disgruntlement with org-related topics.. “many in the christian congregation may not have expected their loved ones to die this side of armageddon.” (july 2017 study wt).

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  OnTheWayOut

  I am starting to suspect that they are trying to just say what they know is on the minds of believing members.
  
  They say the GB (or anointed or whatever) are not "inspired" and can make errors in direction.
  They say how members did not expect to die "in this system."

  It's a way of saying you addressed these issues when members use them to question the organization.

  It sounds like a bad idea to me, but who knows?
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  Free to sin but still cannot bring myself to do it

  by sinboi in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have da'd myself nearly 3 months ago.

  now i am part of this world but i feel myself the odd one out.

  something inside me is still blocking me to do the things i have been longing to do while i was still a jw, such as attending birthday parties, sex, etc.... just last nite, i was on the way to attend a birthday party.

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  I faded and took a few baby steps. I was such a rebel to wear a red sweater instead of a suit jacket at the Kingdom Hall.

  My point is that you will be able to laugh at your progress afterward.

  I hope this helps- It is not immoral to attend a party, as long as you don't intend to behead anyone. I hope you start to discard the idea that you "engage in immorality" when you violate their stupid rules.
  
  Go buy a lottery ticket or say a curse word. Donate blood. See a movie they would never approve of. Do somethings that help you see that lightning won't strike you.
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  10 Graphs that show that the Watchtower is in trouble in Mexico

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mexico is by far the country where the witnesses have had the most success in the entire world.

  almost any statistic except the total amount of witnesses shows that mexico is where the witnesses have had the wildest success in the world.proportional to population, the witnesses in mexico are double, or nearly triple, what they are in the us or brazil.but there is "trouble in paradise".

  if mexico falls, pretty much the whole watchtower falls.which is why it is so important to have jwfacts translated to spanish.i made an analysis and things are looking bad in mexico... if trends continue, mexico will become just like the 1st-world countries.here is the first graph:maximum publisher % increase:.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Well, THEY STILL HAVE GROWTH IN MEXICO as long as it's above Zero %.

  But the stats show that might go away. Surely, they are running out of kids willing to be baptized or forced into it.
  
  I can imagine the retired English-only JW's are such a minority. Most probably could go to Spanish language congregations. They might even like going to Spanish if they don't speak the language, just sitting there like bumps on a log as usual, but with a language-barrier excuse.

  If they close English-only, it's a money thing. The retired JW's probably give minimal amounts to keep the congregation expenses at bay, but not much toward the worldwide work.
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  What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

  by flipper in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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  OnTheWayOut

  My buddy, JRK went with me to see/hear Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, Cheap Trick, and Foreigner in late August, then we went to another venue for Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper, and Deep Purple.

  The Led Zep experience and Cheap Trick were top notch, and Foreigner was good.
  Edgar Winter was top notch.
  Deep Purple- the music was awesome and the vocalist was okay.
  Alice Cooper is like a crazy show more about theatrics, but still fun and familiar.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Z6Ar814t8
  
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  Assembly experiences that strech the truth

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  elder and his wife build a flash house.. they go on the stage at an assembly and give an experiences of how they sold the flash house to simplify their life so they can go pioneering.. the real story.. elder and wife can't afford the flash house and have to sell it he never goes pioneering she does until they are declared bankrupt.. why were they bankrupt?.

  the money leaft over from the flash house they invested in a yet to be build apartment and the developer goes bankrupt takeing their money.. just one of many.. karter..

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  NewYork44M:
  Thanks for the clarification. I wonder why the C.O. is promoting fiscal irresponsibility and stupidity.
  It sounds like this family has not a lick of sense related to finance. I found that most problems the r&f faced were of their own making.

  I typed more and it disappeared.
  Anyway, they probably cannot find actual, good, upbuilding experiences, so they had to take this one and put the "spin" on it. And, we have learned that this is very very common.
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  Does anyone under the age of 25 know what KFC stands for? (What about WT or JW?)

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as we have seen, the society has so smoothly rolled out the rebranding of the organization in just a few short years!.

  (in fact, i remember a thread post here a few years back, where it was mentioned that all halls are going to get the jw.org signs on them.

  it was initially laughed off and doubted) https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/279409/jw-org-signs-put-on-all-kingdom-halls-new-directive.

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  We're not talking fried chicken here. People could easily go to the internet to learn about KFC and how it started in Kentucky. But not very likely. It's just fried chicken.

  But they will go to the internet and learn about jwdotorg and where it came from. They will stumble upon jwfacts or some other negative links. It's more important to them than KFC.
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  Assembly experiences that strech the truth

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  elder and his wife build a flash house.. they go on the stage at an assembly and give an experiences of how they sold the flash house to simplify their life so they can go pioneering.. the real story.. elder and wife can't afford the flash house and have to sell it he never goes pioneering she does until they are declared bankrupt.. why were they bankrupt?.

  the money leaft over from the flash house they invested in a yet to be build apartment and the developer goes bankrupt takeing their money.. just one of many.. karter..

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  OnTheWayOut

  Maybe it's lost in the culture. I had no idea what a "flash house" is, so the internet tells me it's a brothel.
  I don't think some elder had and sold a brothel.

  So what is it?
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  Return of the Dub (plus surprise guest)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  return of the dub (plus surprise guest)dealing with just one frisky, bright-eyed jehovah’s witness is a handful.one on one is manageable.

  two jw’s is more like juggling chainsaws or french kissing alligators.i had a return visit the other day and now, the jw was returning the 2nd time, but with another dub.what would my strategy be?

  that’s how the day was spent.

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  OnTheWayOut

  You must have just kept interrupting them and not letting them make their point. Because any JW could answer that the difference between the destruction at the Flood and at Armageddon is that Jehovah has since sacrificed Jesus for our sins and we won't be continuing on as sinful humans after the next destruction of the wicked, but must apply that sacrifice and then we will have our unintentional sinfulness removed, which never happened to Noah's offspring.

  And then, "Well, why did God do it back then if He hadn't sacrificed Jesus yet?"
  
  Because the world was TOO wicked and it was part of preparing the way for Jesus to be born into the world.

  It doesn't even have to make sense to the brain, what JW's will say. But they know how to say it.
  
  If the dialogue wasn't an exercise in just constantly barraging them with piled on thoughts, then it was your exercise in creative writing, because I am confident that JW's today, no matter how bad they have gotten, will think they could answer such questions.
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  September 7, 2017 Re: Donations for Disaster Relief Work

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  september 7, 2017 to all congregations in the united states branch territory re: donations for disaster relief work.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Ronnie Reagan said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
  
  ......but "We're the Governing Body and give us your money" are nine of the saddest words.