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  Reasons for Stagnation in Growth. AKA YearBook Numbers!

  by ttdtt in

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  so why has the growth flatlined?

  why is less time spent in the ministry?

  why have aux pios droped by 1/3rd?.

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  tdtt said: A few years ago I have a mid week talk and I mentioned the decline in baptisms since the peak in the 90s, and how much more time it takes to make 1 convert from service. I was just going over the yearbook stats to show the situation and the importance of being a real teacher. OMG people were stunned. Its really like they are drones, they were not even aware of the stats in the yearbook that they all love so much.

  I really don't think a lot of diehard JWs do math. As a teenager I saw that their claims did not add up. I suspect a lot of JWs just don't do the thought processing required.
  
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  Sorry to bust anyone's bubble but the "bible" was written by misogynist desert nomads attempting to explain life

  by park ave boy in

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  i remember growing up preparing for the number 2 talk and reading over the verses.

  one time i had a chapter in joshua to read.

  i started reading and i was like "wtf?

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  park ave boy... glad you saw through the BS at an early age. Kids can spot crap a mile off.
  

  I find it fun to watch the faces of Christians when I show them nasty scriptures in the Bible. Many believers haven't read the Bible and are unaware of these since they are maneuvered through the Bible by the various religions they belong to. All religions cherry pick scriptures to support their agenda. Reading the Bible away from any influence is an eye opener. It tends to create non-believers.
  
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  Wt says show principal love by shunning fellow humans.

  by poopie in

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  thoughts

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  Shunning is abuse not love.
  
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  New Christmas Ornament this year

  by myway2007 in

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  this year i put a new ornament up on the tree.

  what makes it special is that it is a picture frame ornament.

  the picture inside the frame is a recent family photo of all the people i haven't seen in years standing in front of a hall.

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  * snicker *
  
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  Bollocks...

  by The Rebel in

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  " the opposite of knowledge is love".

  the rebel.. i believe a poster named " cofty" once replied to my great thought " the opposite of knowlege is love" with the comment :-.

  " bollocks" .

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  Heaven

  Actually, bollocks means testicles.

  As a slang, which is the way cofty uses it, means nonsense (I'd use bullshit myself but nonsense suffices).
  
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  Beards galore at the Assembly

  by Truthexplorer in

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  ok, at our recent assembly, i noticed that there were quite a lot of brothers wearing beards.

  not just the older dudes, but right across a range of ages, young men, middle aged men and older men.

  is watchtower beginning to relax this rule at last?

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  I'm with park ave boy. This could be a passive statement of resistance.
  
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  The World's First Website

  by cofty in

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  25 years ago this week tim berners-lee turned on the first ever website on the world wide web.

  basically it was a self-help guide to joining the web.... the first search engine alibweb was launched in '94 and it still functions today.. 4 billion web pages later it could be said the project was a success.. you can read more about the early days here....

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  Wait just a second... you mean the first website wasn't Al Gore's?
  
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  Peer presure to use Ipad

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  earlier this season i advised my retired father to ignore the use of a tablet during his kingdom hall congregational visits.

  his response was hopefull, but between the lines i could hear he had no choice.. yesterday he showed me his new 600 euro 64 gb ipad air 2. he had no clue what he has to do with it, he told me one of the elders will install the jw.org apps.. so, i feel he had to deal with presure to buy this ipad and i think he is not the only one.. do you recognize this?.

  gorby.

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  Does Botchtower have some sort of partnership with Apple?
  
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  Why do animals suffer?

  by nicolaou in

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  bonnie is fourteen years old now and she's still fit and active, but she sleeps (and farts) a lot more and is definitely slowing down.. she loves us in her own dumb way and always comes to the door to greet me when i get home from work.

  she doesn't 'sin' but yeah, she'll steal biscuits and feel shame afterwards.

  she's loyal and intelligent and i dread the day when .

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  Why do animals suffer?

  I asked my Father this question. He was unable to answer me. This has been my experience throughout my life. JWs do not have the answers to my questions. And they wonder why I'm not a JW.
  
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  Christmas Greetings to Faders -- from Geoffrey Jackson

  by Room 215 in

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  celebrating your first christmas in decades -- or ever?

  faders, you've nothing to fear from geoff jackson!.

  from the royal commission transcript:.

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  Evidently, Jack-ass also used Theocratic Warfare in his ARC testimony. Quelle surprise.... not.