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Baptism numbers down. Is this a worldwide trend?
by R.F. ini just found out that from the dc i was assigned to that 17 got baptized this year.
this was great news to me.. that is a huge decline from previous years, with the average each year being about 50-55 at the dcs.
i've noticed at the cas and sads the baptism numbers have decreased steadily over the years.
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Update: So I've been going to some meetings (and other things)
by WingCommander ini've been absent from this board from some time, as i've been through alot the past few months.
firstly, my mother passed away after complications from her surgery.
so i've lost my entire family since 1999. i'm an only child.
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Borg Cost cutting measures...can you think of others?
by SnakesInTheTower ini was reflecting on the other thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/135961/2.ashx) about the new koolaid watchtower....and thinking about this being more of an overall cost cutting measure than any kind of old light repackaged as special lite.......can you think of any other examples?
a few examples: no more subscriptions (no more yellow envelopes, no more yellow, blue, green, pink forms).
no more postages sending individual magazines.. kingdom ministry now sent in same box as magazines rather than separate roll of kms to po house.
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SURPRISED AND SHOCKED
by Raphael inmy dad passed away in december and i had to fly to south africa for his funeral.
both my parents and just about all the extended family are devout witnesses.
the funeral talk was held at the local kh.
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So..You donate your money, and then you have to pay intrest on it??!!
by Lady Liberty ingood morning everyone "happy thursday!!",.
just reading another thread, and it made me think of a question i could never answer as a jw.
how is it that when your hall wants to build, you recieve the "loan" from the society, but then you have to pay the loan back with intrest??!!.
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Will they encourage marriage and having many children?
by OnTheWayOut insince 1995 and the "generation" change, many jw's have gone ahead and had .
fairly normal lives instead of waiting until the new system.
by 1995, the 1975 mentality .
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I am going to TRY and leave JWD for the time being!
by AK - Jeff ini am an addict.
and that is one good reason to back off some.
but the overriding reason is that my nerves have been frayed lately by the actions of a hidden 'stalker', a jw who is hiding behind a cyber-curtain.
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Men who speak lies - Need scripture
by Bonnie_Clyde inclyde and i are looking for a scripture - seems like it should be in psalms.
it says something like, "i have not sat at the table of men who speak lies.
" (or falsehood).
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For those who've settled on 'no contact' with their JW families . . .
by Madame Quixote infor whatever reason.
do you question it sometimes and think you should try to "reach out" to them again?
i was this morning and then came across the thread above and was reminded why i need to stay away.. but, still, i read threads of people who have managed somehow, despite being d'f'ed or faded or d'aed and think i might try to be more understanding, supportive, reach out or something.. despite all the problems growing up in a fairly dysfunctional family, i still feel a deep attachment to them and hope against hope that they might come to their senses (if they ever had any to begin with) and get help and leave the cult of jehobo; and we might reconcile,etc., etc., blah blah blah dream dream dream.. i deeply wish for them all freedom and happiness and healing and feel so helpless to free them of their bonds and yet see so much possibility for it, if only they could be reached somehow.
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Ridiculous JW superstitions
by B_Deserter ini'm not talking about the stuff you hear at the kingdom hall, i'm talking about the "experiences" you were told of by people you knew.
the big one for me was demons.
so many people i know had experiences with them.