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2017 Yearbook released

by bohm in

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i saw this on reddit:.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

dropoffyourkeylee

Looking at wifi's map of number baptized per congregation:

Azerbaijan has JW growth. Seriously?

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ROJW - Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses

by OrphanCrow in

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i was going through some research i had done a few years ago and came across something that referenced rojw healthcare support and a note to myself to take a look at rojw when i had the time.

so i did a search for rojw (an acronym for religious order of jehovah's witnesses).. the search turned up some interesting bits of information.. according to dun & bradstreet, rojw was founded in 2011:.

since 2011, rojw has been providing nonclassifiable establishments from wallkill.. for a list of persons who have worked for rojw:.

dropoffyourkeylee

One of the 'employees' is a 'washroom technician'

lololol

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"50 Years a Watchtower Slave" Chapter 10 Part B

by new boy in

the congregation there had about eighty “publishers” in it.

it was a mix of farmers and city folks.

there were three to four families there who had moved in from other states, to help out.

dropoffyourkeylee

Yes, I recall that the pioneers got a literature discount at the back counter and could keep the additional markup for themselves. It wasn't much, so believe me no one was getting rich.

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"50 Years a Watchtower Slave" Chapter 10 Part B

by new boy in

the congregation there had about eighty “publishers” in it.

it was a mix of farmers and city folks.

there were three to four families there who had moved in from other states, to help out.

dropoffyourkeylee

I think it is absolutely true that a lot of young men who went into pioneering at the Vietnam era were primarily trying to avoid going to prison over the draft issue. It still was not a guarantee, but having a written record of service time was valuable documentation for a minister classification.

Indeed, it has long been my contention that the station of 'pioneer', which has no scriptural precedent, was purely an invention to to one thing, to give the brothers a way to claim they were 'fulltime ministers' and get their minister classification.

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2017 Yearbook released

by bohm in

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i saw this on reddit:.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

dropoffyourkeylee

I happen to know someone who is at the Congo DR bethel and he has mentioned that there are issues with communication and reporting there. You would think in this day and age that wouldn't be a problem, but it is. There is no functioning mail service there and the other communication services (phones and internet) are spotty. That being said, there is definitely JW growth there, as well as other African nations. The problem for the WT is that the people there are super poor.

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6 New Kingdom Halls Built In The US This Year

by James Jack in

on our local needs part tonight, the elder (on the local ldc), conducting the part, said he just got back from a meeting in memphis tn with members from the us branch rdc conducting the meeting.

they mentioned that only 6 new kingdom halls and 2 major re-models were completed in 2016.

"it may seem like a small accomplishment, considering under the old rbc arrangement there was some 700 projects on the average each year being done", "but, this is going 5-10 years of training to kick this new program into optima production".

dropoffyourkeylee

Only six in the entire United States in 2016? Are we sure that is correct? I find it incredible. I would say there is at least that many and probably more that need replaced due to fire, etc.

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Interesting Information: The FBI Wanted JW Leader Joseph Rutherford Arrested - See Document

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://watchtowerdocuments.org/the-fbi-wanted-jw-leader-jo…/.

the fbi wanted jw leader joseph rutherford arrested.

in a memorandum dated march 28, 1941, the director of the federal bureau of investigation strongly suggested that joseph f. rutherford, then president….

dropoffyourkeylee

It's a pity they didn't throw away the key in 1919, would have saved the world a lot of grief.

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Old article worth a read

by carla in

here is a link to an older article about jw's & mind control.

it appears to be from the time period when jw's were about 5 million and still had that extra meeting during the week.

i have no idea about the website in general, only found the article doing some research.

dropoffyourkeylee

I looked through the article. It dates to abt 1998 and the organization is in Texas USA. Clearly an ex JW contributed to much of the content. Frankly the site looks kind of cultish itself, mystical mysteries etc.

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Aid to Bible Understanding - can you help summarise any useful sections?

by Fernando in

randall watters presents the fascinating backstory of the "aid book", and the brouhaha surrounding it, in this article:.

"the watchtower bible and tract society: the critical years 1975-1997".

so far it seems the project to research and write the "aid to bible understanding" revealed serious doctrinal and institutional flaws that the gb wanted to preserve nonetheless.. it seems what ray franz and his team were learning, and were largely blocked from presenting:.

dropoffyourkeylee

I agree with SBFs comment that the major and most lasting effect of the Aid book research was the elder arrangement and governing body.

The Insight Volumes are undoubtedly simply a rework of the Aid Book. Many parts of Insight are taken word for word from the Aid Book. What they did was take the Aid book, put in some pictures, enlarge the text, and change the wording only in the places where the text didn't support WT doctrine. there may have been some entirely new content, but not much.

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question from readers: with all the animal sacrifices, wouldnt the temple smell worse than a stockyard?

by nowwhat? in

with all the cattle, sheep and others wouldn't they be shitting and peeing all over the place?

along with the gallons and gallons of blood being drained and then the flesh being burned as well.

wouldn't the stench be unbearable?.

dropoffyourkeylee

That's why they burned incense all the time