there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.
some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.
7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.
Journeyman - “…However, for various reasons - ranging from burnout, to distractions from everyday life, to a lack of a personal sense of urgency - they don't act as the ‘old school’ JWs of the pre-2000s did…
Ten bucks says that there’s also a significant number who are embarassed to (publicly) identify as JWs, considering all the shit that’s been going on.
on friday, i walked to my doctor's to pick up a couple of prescriptions*.
from there i walked in to town to the chemist's (pharmacy) to get the scripts filled.
it's winter here, and my town can get get colder than is average for my state**.
Barb Anderson did some digging a while back, and put it together.
Unsurprising, really…
…Russel was a businessman, and activities like that had less chance of a return on the investment.
on friday, i walked to my doctor's to pick up a couple of prescriptions*.
from there i walked in to town to the chemist's (pharmacy) to get the scripts filled.
it's winter here, and my town can get get colder than is average for my state**.
The preaching work in general was never truly about converting new members.
It was about having a demonstrable activity and paper trail for federal revenue agencies to qualify for charity status.
Soup kitchens, clothing drives and the like never interested them… an attitude dating back to Russel, in fact.
If it were really about converting people, there’ve always been way more effective methods of doing that, and the WT leadership certainly had the resources.
there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.
some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.
7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.
NotFormer - “…they could well be down to one healthy congregation, where once they had two…”
This.
5 shocking reasons why elders are leaving the jehovah’s witnesses — the hidden truth!
(kingdom wisdom).
thousands of jehovah’s witness elders around the world are stepping down… and no one is talking about it.
In many ways, elders are more likely to become PIMO, at the very least…
…they see behind the curtain far more than the rank-and-file.
It’s often harder for them to leave, though…
…because the higher they climb the Watchtower ladder, the more cost they’ve sunk into the fallacy.
the brother & son of 2 of the original elders in the menlo park takeover tells us what really happened.
part 1. https://youtu.be/ypgadyu1nbk?si=g2tcfg21gynq0tfi.
Stan - “…the watchtower thieves have really shot themselves in the foot grabbing the kingdom halls and flogging them for a quick buck…”
Not to mention that if they’re charity status is ever revoked, they’re suddenly on the hook for hundreds of millions in property taxes for the ones they haven’t sold off.
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the governing body just doesn't let up on encouraging the young children to reach out to do free labor for the organization.
so another generation of young people with ruined lives.
another generation of young people that will get old and wake up in their 50s to realize they were in a religious doomsday cult.. and they are getting rid of some old workers that ran the branches of the organization, and giving them different assignments or maybe they are just sending them home, who knows.
hoser - “…week after next’s watchtower study is about why saving for retirement is following the Bible’s advise…”
it's interesting that when watchtower is referred to as the borg, it immediately brings to mind the scenes where individuals such as captain piccard are held prisoner within a vast collective hive type prison and unable to leave.
they are then turned into drones.
in fact here is how wikipedia explains it.. the borg are a fictional alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the star trek franchise.
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babylon the great: a prophetic warning.
babylon the great is not just a city—it is the system that governs the world economy.
this was god's first judgment against economic babylon, but it would not be his last.. the three parts of babylon's economy.
it's interesting that when watchtower is referred to as the borg, it immediately brings to mind the scenes where individuals such as captain piccard are held prisoner within a vast collective hive type prison and unable to leave.
they are then turned into drones.
in fact here is how wikipedia explains it.. the borg are a fictional alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the star trek franchise.
You just know he was teased in high school, too…
…”motstånd är meningslöst”.
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