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  Is this a Jw website or what?

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  this website is odd.

  it seems to be the witnesses, but maybe not?

  honestly i don't know what to make of it.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  This website is odd. It seems to be the Witnesses, but maybe not? Honestly I don't know what to make of it

  http://theyahwe.com/
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  Bethel's Bossert Hotel

  by ShirleyW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just got a google alert regarding the bossert that was printed in the new york times, hope somebody hear knows how to do the cut and paste for that.. was it a well known fact that the bossert is free for all jdubs visiting the nyc area or does the article have it wrong, i've always been aware of the bossert but thought it was part of the residential buildings for the bethelites.. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The article states:

  The group took over the building in a state of disrepair in 1983

  My recollection was that it was before 1983. My family actually stayed in the Bossert as paying customers before it was taken over by the Society, this was in about '77 or '78, then I remember my brother taking us to see the lobby and how much it had changed after the Society started to work on it. He left Bethel in '80, so the must have started work on it in about '79 or '80
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  Do you know anyone who has given the WTS a "Conditional Loan" and been repaid?

  by 3rdgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if not, were they incouraged to "forgive" the loan?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Just to chime in, my father once loaned money to them under the conditional loan system and he received it back with no problem as soon as he asked.

  Interested Observer said this:

  No, but one thing that I did find interesting is that in the loan documents, it states that, if the lender dies, the loan is converted to a gift to WBTS. Basically it prevents family members of the lender, or the lender's estate, from requesting repayment of the loan.

  Is this really the case, can anyone confirm this?
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  Bethel's Bossert Hotel

  by ShirleyW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just got a google alert regarding the bossert that was printed in the new york times, hope somebody hear knows how to do the cut and paste for that.. was it a well known fact that the bossert is free for all jdubs visiting the nyc area or does the article have it wrong, i've always been aware of the bossert but thought it was part of the residential buildings for the bethelites.. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I seem to remember that hotel type housing was available for visiting witnesses for a <wink,wink> donation... free but not free
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  Land SELL-OFF *DREAMING BIG*

  by Refriedtruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses' land sell-off has brooklyn dreaming bigcrain's new york business - amanda fung-1 hour ago.

  at stake are 34 mint-condition properties in brooklyn heights and dumbo that the jehovah's witnesses spent decades accumulating and now are considering ...it's always has been about the money...they talk about pristine real estate and the excellent pool of skilled craftsmen/women .

  hey what about the paradise for my family 4 generations that slaved?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  "a swelling crowd"

  Is this the same as the great crowd they keep talking about? It is all starting to make sense now...
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  Transcript of Annual Meeting Notes and events from unknown source

  by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

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  2. bible

  they were married for some 51 years.

  you cannot stand up against them in battle.

  you cannot stand up against him in battle.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  How did you get my notes from the big meeting? That's exactly the notes I took!
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  A couple of statistics I'm looking for...

  by IsaacJ22 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi guys.

  i've been plucking away at a podiobook about going from jw to atheist and why jws should think about how they treat xjws.

  (this will be bigger than my 15 page essay from a while back.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Thanks slimboy for the link, I had not seen it before.

  This probably has been discussed here before, but here are a few of the details:

  The report is at http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape-study-full.pdf (210 pages)

  It is based on telephone surveys of 35,000 people in the US, of whom 215 were current Jehovah's Witnesses. They were asked, among many other questions, their current denomination and the denomination they were raised in as a child. The figure of 37% would be calculated from the responses to those two questions.

  The report contains this statement on page 30 :

  "Two of the religious groups with the lowest retention rates are Jehovah’s Witnesses and Buddhists.

  Only slightly more than a third (37%) of adults who were raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses still

  identify themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses. Half of all of those who were raised as Buddhists

  (50%) are still Buddhists."

  There is a chart on page 30 showing how this 37% compares with other religions.
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  Local Needs: Low Hours

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the local needs was about low fs time in the cong.

  about 1/3 of publishers are averaging 4 hours per month.

  that is unprecedented in our cong, a usually 'zealous' congregation.. my take is this: if you don't believe it yourself, why are you going to waste valuable time telling others?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Wow, those numbers are telling. Has it always been that way, or is that a new trend? Here in 'Bethel Territory' there was NEVER 1/3 of the cong. getting 4 hrs, less than 5% I would say.

  In answer to your question Breakfast, they post these figures on an information board at the back of the hall. I never noticed it until about a year or so ago. The figures have been similar to this each time I have looked at it. It seems unusual that they post these figures... I don't remember it anywhere else I have been.
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  Local Needs: Low Hours

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the local needs was about low fs time in the cong.

  about 1/3 of publishers are averaging 4 hours per month.

  that is unprecedented in our cong, a usually 'zealous' congregation.. my take is this: if you don't believe it yourself, why are you going to waste valuable time telling others?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Here is the hours breakdown posted in the local hall (US, Midwest, semi-rural area) for August, 2011

  130 total pubs of whom:

  10 reg pioneers

  3 Aux pioneers

  10 no report this month (good for you! Keep up the good work)

  35 report 1-5 hours

  35 report 5-9 hours

  37 report 10+ hours

  Of the 130, 21 are irregular.

  The average for the month of August for the non-pioneer publishers was 9.1 hours (slightly higher than the 8.3 hours 3-month average for the same group).

  Inactives don't show up at all in these figures.

  There you go, the 1/3 1/3 1/3 assessment seems to accurately describe this congregation.
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  Overlapping generation segment on the new Circuit Assembly program

  by traveb in

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  2. friends

  so there i was at the circuit assembly sunday morning with my eyes glazed over as usual when all of a sudden, bam!

  a demo with two brothers talking about the new overlapping generation teaching.

  the reason it took me by surprise was because it occured during the second talk of the sunday morning symposium, "sanctify god's name by your speech".

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Maybe we'll get lucky and they will overlap both days of the CA and we only have to go one day. Ya think?