I see this happening and have been saying this for years, look at the turn out at the stadium in San Diego, its often said that these conventions are a money spinner for them but how on earth can they fleece their flock when there are mere handfuls in attendance, the cost of renting that facility must be eye watering, I expect to see wholesale circuit assembly halls being sold off in the UK next,apathy levels are at a peak now from the R&F they know it , we know it.
jookbeard
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Last of the big conventions?
by NikL inhad lunch with some friends during today's waste of time convention.
they spoke of the rumor floating around that the jws will move away from these big regional conventions and have them at assembly halls and tie them in to kingdom halls.. they seemed to believe it was a pretty reliable source.. i think it would be too good to be true but who knows?.
anyone else heard this rumor?.
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Trump pulls out of Paris Agreement -
by AFRIKANMAN inwould like to see your responses ~.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2017/jun/01/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-live-news.
kapitan kovfefe is a man of his word - well ...twisted word ~ .
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jookbeard
hothabanero has it right, how many coal powered power stations are the Chinese building each year ?
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The fate of all of Jehovah's Witnesses
by Half banana ini have just posted elsewhere that there is no destiny for a jw other than to be deluded or disappointed, perhaps deluded or disillusioned would be a better expression.
there is no such thing as armageddon, no such thing as everlasting life, paradise is a mirage of wish fulfillment.. a friend of mine who is nominally a jw but who does not believe a word of it, told me about the dying words of another friend's father.
this man had been a lifelong stalwart jw and reared an exemplary jw dynasty but as he died he told his super zealous son that it (the jw religion) has got it all wrong.. ok, it's a social club for the majority of witnesses and an identity for those without self worth or clear goals in life, they will swallow the inconsistencies and biblical absurdities because it is in their community interests to conform.
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jookbeard
you are right, there is no heaven, no hell, no abyss, no new world, no paradise,no new heavens or a new earth no cataclysmic events that will see the end of this world as we know it, nothing, we/they will all eventually die in some way or another, at least I wont die heartbroken,skint,angry,bitter,hateful or disappointed , what a prospect awaits them
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100-million man hours
by Coded Logic inthe james webb telescope is set to launch in october of 2018 and will allow us to study the formation of first generation stars, the molecular clouds that became the first galaxies, and directly image exoplanets.
roughly one hundred times more powerful than the hubble space telescope the jwst is going to push back the current boundaries of science.. this is what 100-million man hours can accomplish.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8p0samsz7m.
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jookbeard
what a monumental date when we find out the discoveries of this amazing piece of technology, I'm really looking forward to this
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Simple question for everyone
by kairos inq. how do you explain the millions that have left or were dfd/dad from jws?.
a. no evidence exists that it is the truth.. case closed....
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jookbeard
every single one of their doctrines,predictions does not have one single shred of truth attached to them
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RC 2017 - Videos of the FULL English Convention - all 17 hours
by darkspilver inthe full english convention videos - 17 hours in total (includes all videos, demos etc etc):https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6dvjl5/2017_dont_give_up_regional_convention_official/the programme listings:https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5695993188188160/_post/6017797521932288the talk outlines:https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5695993188188160/_post/6213656196939776the new releases:https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5695993188188160/_post/5686585930547200.
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jookbeard
17 hours of videos? is that right? that more than two full days !
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2017 Convention Video Remember The Wife Of Lot
by pale.emperor inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0qpoelk2r4.
the dad in this is a total douche.
i dont know if the videos have become more judgemental and culty in the year since i left - or maybe im just noticing it more?.
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jookbeard
I've seen snippets of it, I simply wont sit down to watch the whole thing, I noticed the oriental lady seems to have had a bad nose job, maybe her pursuit of furthering her education to gain a better job is so she can have more cosmetic treatments.
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How Far Up The Ladder Did You Go In JW Land?
by minimus ini pretty much did it all.
vacation pioneered as a youngster and became a regular pioneer out of school.
i became a ms then an elder.....the organization pushes you to be somebody within the confines of their realm.
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jookbeard
I feel rather deficient compared to many of the achievers here, I suppose it goes down to only spending just five full years as a baptised adult before I started to see behind the curtain, auxiliary pioneered, reaching out to be a MS which I was told was'nt too far away, platform and hall attendant!
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jookbeard
groups of two when I was voicing my dissenting views , my jc comprised of 5 over 3 weekends including a separate group of four with the appeal plus the 2 original snitches were used to give witness testimonies in the original jc, quite heavy going I can tell you, still remember it very vividly it was late 1992 but its a lifetime away now.
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Did you ever have a discussion with an apostate that helped your journey out.
by jwfacts inthere seems to be a number of different ways that apostates try to get jehovah's witnesses realise they do not have the truth, ranging from subtle comments to aggressive attacks.
do you have any that looking back helped you finally leave.
some of the methods include:.
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jookbeard
I was directed to a local apostate who supplied we with a lot of reading material which I was very grateful for, plenty of books and back editions of Comments From the Friends and Free Minds, we'd speak very regularly although we never really had any common religious standpoint, we was a member of a Bible Student group, I hear he is now a Mormon, we did't keep in contact though but I'm eternally grateful to him for his vast resource collection, my mind was 99% made up when I began my fade and I'd never spoke to anyone.