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  Trend of Fewer Baptisms Continues: Latest JW Conventions in New Zealand

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the round of "international" conventions that started in the middle of last year in the states "wrapped" up last weekend in new zealand.

  there was some media converage (from which i derived the information that follows).

  (someone who knows how to copy links may be able to provide the relevant media links?).

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  This past weekend in London Ohio (Midwest US) there was 1 baptized on Saturday and 2 baptized on Sunday, all boys. Attendance was about 950 each day.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses video slammed for threatening kids with death for not paying attention in church

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  here is the link to a recent news article.

  maybe it was commented before, but today was the first i had seen it.. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.

  i guess caleb is getting around.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Here is the link to a recent news article. Maybe it was commented before, but today was the first I had seen it.

  
  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873

  I guess Caleb is getting around
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  How much did Candace Conti originally sue for?

  by Pubsinger in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  was it $144000.

  where would i find proof of this?.

  thanks.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I think it was actually for $1,440.00. I remember seeing it in the documents in the early period of the case. Maybe someone else could locate the thread.
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  Jdub Growth In USA?

  by freein2004 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does anybody have any information on recent growth in the jdub religion?

  other than their own reports?

  or, can you point me to the right post here?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  In the US in my region (midWest rural) there isn't any growth. Kids getting baptized, some foreign language growth (I hear) but besides that there are very few converts like in the pre '1995-or-so' days. I believe the increase on publishers that are being printed are due to:

  1) making it easier to report time. 15 minutes at a time is allowed, and both parents can report time for their bible studies at home with kids. and

  2) encouraging, reaching out to, former publishers who have gone inactive in service but still attend meetings for family reasons. There are many, many people in each congregation like that who have started reporting again, maybe just an hour or two.

  The result is an increase in numbers of publishers, but I wouldn't call it growth.
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  The Real History of Mormonism - Outstanding Lecture

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you think the mormon church is off-the-scale crazy you probably don't know the half of it.. the historical information in this talk by david fitzgerald is fascinating.

  the good news is that, just like the watchtower, their growth is being stunted by the internet.. grab a coffee and be amazed at just how gullible millions of people can be.. lucy harris has become my new heroine.

  don't miss the section from 8:50.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Just listened to the entire thing. A bit on the sensational side, but interesting.

  It's a shame that he doesn't bring out the JW roots in the 'burned over' district of upstate NY, though he does mention the SDA connection.
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  Connections between blood transfusion and sexual repression in the Victorian Age.

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.

  the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.

  http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  TD, I had completely forgotten about HG Wells's comments. He was very well known at the time.
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  Connections between blood transfusion and sexual repression in the Victorian Age.

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.

  the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.

  http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Actually, the connection of the vampire horror stories and sex has been written about before, so the author of the essay referred to in the OP isn't original in that respect. But he or she does make more of a specific connection to blood transfusions than I have read before.

  Thanks for commenting. I think for some reason the WT leaders in the 30's and 40's had a gut level abhorrence of blood transfusions without really understanding why. It is quite possible that it was a subconscious feeling on their part that was based on sexual repression.

  For the record, Fred Franz was born in 1893, Rutherford in 1869.
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  Connections between blood transfusion and sexual repression in the Victorian Age.

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.

  the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.

  http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book Dracula:

  The Importance of Blood during the Victorian Era: Blood as a Sexual Signifier in Bram Stoker’s Dracula by By Nilifer Pektas

  
  http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/FULLTEXT01.pdf

  Since many of the WT leaders (notably Fred Franz) were born or grew up in this time period, this sheds some light on how they may have been preconditioned to view blood.
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  WTBTS denies Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is baptized

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbsv4z03sau.

  youtuber peter rose called bethel and asked them if it was true that peter sutcliffe was baptized.

  the brother who answered didn't think so but went off somewhere to check and came back to say that it wasn't true.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  While I don't have any knowledge of this case, I do know that in the area where I live, the local elders conduct a weekly meeting at a correctional facility (prison) near here. There have been a number of inmates out there who have accepted the faith and been baptized in prison. There are also quite a few, both baptized and unbaptized, who report field service time.
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  Jehovah's Witness pi$$ing contest

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok more about the jw wedding i attended.

  there were these two couples at our dinner table that were having an all out pissing competition as to who was the most spiritual.

  they were comparing who was in "the truth" the longest, who pioneered where and for how long.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Was this in Ohio by any chance?  I know of some in Ohio with children in Congo (there can't be many) so if so I probably know them