All I can say is that if you must go to church, one of the mainsteam ones can't get you into too much harm.
Bill.
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Decided on the local C of E Church.
by quellycatface inhave decided to check out my local parish church.
it has a real mix of people.
old, young families and military personnel/families.
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Why Do Some Ex-JWs Get Their Feelings Hurt So Badly By Shunning?
by RottenRiley ini ran in to a ex-jw and had a good laugh once he realized i was not going to shun him.
i am a different soul when we are dealing with watchtower demonology, everything about the organization is fan boy based.
watchtower creates the illusion of a community that never existed, we were too blind to realize most of the people we invested time with was nothing more than a farce, once you can't offer up more sacrfices on the watchtower's alter, your going to get less attention and eventually if your kingdom hall is big enough, they won't come looking for you.. .
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Bungi Bill
"Unless it's your family, then it is your problem..."
Nothing like hitting the proverbial nail fair on its head!
Bill
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FEWER NEW ZEALAND CITIZENS AFFILIATED WITH JWS IN 2013 THAN IN 1996: SUCCESSIVE YEARS OF DECREASE
by steve2 infewer new zealand citizens affiliated as jws in 2013 than in 1996: over 15 years of successive decreases.
the first table shows the new zealand census from 1976 to 2013. typically, numbers of citizens affiliated with the witnesses are higher than the number of active publishers because it includes children and those who are affiliated with the witnesses but who may not be active publishers.. of note, more citizens were recorded as affiliated with the witnesses in 1996 (19,527) than in 2013 (17,931).
the decline in numbers affiliating with the witnesses in new zealand started in 2001 and has continued across two further census reports - so this is not just a temporary blip.
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Bungi Bill
There was a time when building larger kingdom halls than was necessary was considered to be "forward thinking":
- i.e. gearing the organisation up for the "huge increase" that was "about to happen."
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Does Anyone Feel the Ministerial School Helped Them?
by Band on the Run inas a born-in, i was eager to join the ministry school.
my cousins were also born-in but lived in different states.
there was keen competition to see who could do mature things, such as baptism (my mom said when i was 35) and ministry school.
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Bungi Bill
I realize that this is not always a popular thing to claim, but in my case I did benefit from the TMS. As a teenager and young adult, I was plagued with shyness - almost to a crippling degree. The Ministry School did help me overcome this.
Still, I would be the first to agree that the TMS proved to be a bloody expensive course in public speaking!
Bill.
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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth
by Westenddave ini thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
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Bungi Bill
Cumulative since what year?
For example, Italy:
- increase in publishers between 2012 and 2013 = 1933
- "cumulative" increase in publishers = 114 676
Which year did you begin the "cumulative" increase count from?
Bill
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May 22, 1969 Awake! promises "you will never grow old" - Creative Writing
by Mad Sweeney inthe year is 1969. faithful followers of the watchtower society are gearing up for the imminent end of the system of things just as they had been for the previous ninety years.
a young witness named andrew is trying to decide what to do with his life.
andrew is a smart kid and he has an entire lifetime ahead of him.
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Bungi Bill
BU2B:
" all of those who were told they would not grow old in this system are about to become seniors."
With that statement, yu hit the proverbial nail fair on the head!
Bill.
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What do you say if you get asked "Are you an Apostate?"
by KateWild ini am reuniting with past students and return visits.. i met up with a young lad i used to call on.
he is not baptised, but at university in his 20's and living away from home.
his mother is a jw and his father is not.
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Bungi Bill
It has never happened to me yet:
- but if asked, I would describe myself as "a former JW who is now non-religious."
I refuse to wear labels that other have dreamed up (particularly the Governing Body), and if "former JW who is now non religious" sounds quite a mouthful - then I couldn't care less!
Bill.
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Yearbook increases and deceases: Top lands
by Londo111 inlooking at the percentage of average publishers of 2013 over 2012 (not the peaks):.
brazil 1.46%.
nigeria 2.60%.
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Bungi Bill
Japan:
- how back in the 1980s, this country was upheld as showing the rest of us how to do it.
Now it is in decline.
Shame the bloody rest of this empire founded on bull$h*t wouldn't go the same way!
Bill.
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Will this Memorial be our last?
by pixel inthey just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.
most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?
upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .
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Bungi Bill
And for how many years have they been trying to suggest that!
Bill.
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Do You Own A Firearm? Would You??
by minimus in2013 was a record breaking year for firearm purchases.
2014 is supposed to be a record breaker for ammunition.. do you own a firearm?
but i support that right for others---if they are qualified..
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Bungi Bill
And the challenge is to keep guns out of the hands of crazies!
Bill