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Actively Fading and The Memorial
by All for show in
1. jw
2. friends
those of you fading- with the memorial approaching are you going to appease family?

not going and making up an excuse?

acting like your going but not really?.
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Fading tactic that worked well for me
by traveb in
1. jw
2. friends
if you read some of my past posts you’ll know that i’ve successfully faded while being able to keep contact with my immediate family, who are still very devout jws.

when i did finally completely stop attending meetings, my family, and especially my parents (elder father and pioneer mom), were of course very interested to know the reasons why.

at first i deflected their questions, stating that i had personal reasons and did not want to explain myself.
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EPIC!#%* NOVEMBER 2015 WT VIDEO "Welcome Home My Friend, Now Your Life Can Start Again"
by NoMoreHustle in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
well i just watched this "epic" video, i would have to say this is probably the most disturbing video yet.

there campaign to get people back is just pathetic in the most mind-manipulating way.

"welcome home" or "come back home" are they serious?
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It's official - JWs have least common sense of any religious group in US
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
some fascinating results in the latest pew research.

(how did i miss this before?

) including that jws rely on their religion the most of any group to tell right from wrong and rely on common sense the least.
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CO Comes Up With A New Way To Be Judgemental...
by JW_Rogue in
1. jw
2. experiences
at the latest co visit something very strange happened.

during the meeting with the elders and servants he passed out a copy of a hypothetical publisher card and asked us what we could learn from it.

upon receiving it i saw that the average hours were pretty good, it had return visits and quite a few bible studies.
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Mass Mailer to Congregations & Branches - Those who can't disassociate
by thedepressedsoul in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/491270004/mass-disassociation-pact?size=10&page=15.

the topic above got me thinking.

everyone here can't send a disassociation letter due to family or other reasons.
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Japan closed 638 Congregations lost 6,000 Publishers in 10 years!!! WHY?
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
japan had a massive increase in publishers from 1950-1998. then in 1998 something happened and jehovah's blessing switched off!!!.

1998 -222,912 publishers 3,802 congregations.

2006 -217,519 publishers 3,164 congregations.
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Disfellowshipped at 18
by asensier in
1. social
2. relationships
you can probably guess how this story goes.. i began dating a non-witness boy.

he knew i was a baptised witness and understood the consequences i faced for dating him.

we agreed to keep our relationship secret, which was easy considering our 200 mile distance.
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New Thought About Active J.W.'s
by The Searcher in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
from my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.

's, here are my conclusions:.

's are very rapidly falling into two distinct camps -.
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jw.org cart days numbered?
by jookbeard in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

i bet its very minimal.

naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.