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  Japan closed 638 Congregations lost 6,000 Publishers in 10 years!!! WHY?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  japan had a massive increase in publishers from 1950-1998. then in 1998 something happened and jehovah's blessing switched off!!!.

  1998 -222,912 publishers 3,802 congregations.

  2006 -217,519 publishers 3,164 congregations.

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  Londo111

  One day the US will show the same decline...

  Actually, it likely would show it, but for the growth in Spanish-speaking congregations.
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  Are the GB very intelligent men with higher than average IQ? Or are they stupid men who were put in their position by sheer “LUCK”

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  are the governing body of the wt wickedly smart with extremely high iq or are they leaders of the wt because they were at the right place at the right time.

  (in other words, pure luck )-think lottery.

  ive seen them talk in jwtv and you can never convince anyone in the whole world that these guys are in the same category as someone smart or cunning like jim simons who founded renaissance technologies or bill gates.

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  Londo111

  At the very best, people of average intelligence…but their education is lower than average and they are definitely deluded and blind. There seems to have been very few that had the raw engine power of intelligence or a semblance of education. Fred Franz was perhaps was the closet thing.
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  Whatever happened to Applewhite's "report"?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  do you remember the wt lawyer trying to get justice mcclelland to accept a new and improved report from the wt "expert", monica applewhite?.

  the wt lawyer even managed to squeeze more time from the commission for applewhite to prepare her report.

  funny thing is, applewhite never submitted that report.. i guess she has been too busy with catholic business...no time for the wt dudes.

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  Londo111

  Deer in headlights. Unlike folks from the Watchtower and elders who testified, her testimony was thoroughly discredited and she knew it.
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  Had you thought of feeling sorry for the G.B?

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i only bring this to the board, because a friend of mine once said he felt sorry for the footballers who made so much money.

  that comment stayed with me, and over the years,the more i thought about that comment the more i agreed with him.. i admit the g.b destroy people's life's and are the sublimation of all that's good in people's life.

  there only excuse is a fantazy asylum they claim to believe in.

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  Londo111

  I think the institution is evil. The individuals caught up in do evil and hurtful things. Of course, the same thing could’ve been said about us at one point, especially those who were elders, sat on judicial commitees, ect…sincerely believing they were doing the right thing. With an elevated position comes the limelight, pride, and so forth…and it creates warped inhuman individuals. But that is what some of us were.

  A GB member dies, resigns, is removed…another one takes their place just as indoctrinated if not more. All the individuals of the original GB are gone, but the GB remains with new members. It’s the institution that I don’t feel sympathy for, but I don’t harbor anger for the deluded individuals.

  Of course, as in Nazi Germany, undue influence does not absolve a person of crimes. And there have been some on the GB that must have known TTATT. I would lay money that Lyman Swingle was one of them. Of course, they had to make a hard choice: be tossed out on the street in their old age with no skills, or unethically perpetuate a false, evil institution in order to survive. It’s a tough choice…and some of us on this forum are active JWs, going through the motions (meetings, service), but knowing it’s not only a bogus religion, but downright harmful. Sometimes people are faced with a Catch-22.
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  Had you thought of feeling sorry for the G.B?

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i only bring this to the board, because a friend of mine once said he felt sorry for the footballers who made so much money.

  that comment stayed with me, and over the years,the more i thought about that comment the more i agreed with him.. i admit the g.b destroy people's life's and are the sublimation of all that's good in people's life.

  there only excuse is a fantazy asylum they claim to believe in.

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  Londo111

  If they are “captives of a concept”, it could be with a few week’s deprogramming, they could return to being normal human beings, deeply sorry for what they’ve done.

  After all, Ray Franz was a member of the Governing Body once…
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  I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

  three of them were ministerial servants.

  all of them are from the spanish congregation.

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  Londo111

  I'm pretty confident that the meeting changes are solid intel.
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  World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.

  the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.

  my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.

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  Londo111

  It been 40 years since the GB officially took the reigns of the organization...this is what 40 years of rule by committee gets you.
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  Please stop deriding the Governing Body.

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please stop it !!!.

  we love them.

  we all love them.

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  Londo111

  I believe the OP is a parody.

  After all, the GB do more good work by putting themselves front and center on Dub TV, then all of us Youtubers combined. They are their own worst enemies, not us!
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  Summary of "Imitate Jehovah" convention

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is just a brief summary of the convention this past weekend at the ah in la feria, tx .

  attendance was 1100 and 9 baptized, two of them very young.

  the elder that gave the baptism speech let out that the day before there was 6 baptisms.

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  Londo111

  Yes, toward the end of my meeting tenure, it all seemed tantamount to hate speech. It was hard to sit through.
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  My Opinions on whats going on in WT land - Insider Information

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  first off, i'd like to state that i currently have "privileges" in the congregation and volunteer at bethel on and off throughout the year.

  that's as much information as i will currently give about myself.. starting off, i think something big is coming in the form of lawsuits and bad pr.

  they seem to be batting down the hatches in preparation for something the last few years and even more so the last few months.

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  Londo111

  It would be ironic if there were JW mega-churches formed.