Wow - more partakers now than there was in 1960.
I note the rise in the years preceding 1975 as well.
Of course there are a number of whack jobs and fakes partaking now but come on!
konceptual99
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2014 increase in Memorial Partakers to 14,121
by jwfacts ini have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .
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New LDC Meeting KH Video
by wifibandit inbeen away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!
(pixel, thank you!
) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.
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konceptual99
The letter to the BoE in the UK regarding the change to the RBC to the LDC is 100% clear.
It says (I paraphrase) that having one meeting less a week means halls and assembly halls can be used more efficiently. It says that they will be looking to bring some congregations that have their own hall into the same hall and selling the spare one.
This letter should still be on the notice board in any UK hall. It's still on ours.
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Regarding Dates---Have The Witnesses Ever Been Correct On Any Of Them?
by minimus ini can't think of any chronology that has not been changed.
even their "absolute" dates are suspect.
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konceptual99
None of this matters. It's the fact that they have been "watching" that placates Witnesses when challenged with this. I have mentioned this to a few friends as well as my wife. I have asked them to name one date or event that was predicted that came true.
1914 is the classic but they all have to admit that the expectation of what would actually happen was wrong.
Regardless, they just say that the fact that the F&DS were looking for something is proof enough. Who else is doing the witnessing? What other religion has the growth of the Witnesses? Who has a worldwide, united brotherhood like the Witnesses? Who is talking about God's kingdom like the Witnesses?
Cognative dissonance is a mighty, mighty, mighty strong force.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Shun?
by lurkernomore injust checked the faq on jw.org as i wanted to show a df'd friend of ours how dishonest they were being about thier shunning policy.. well don't you know they've only gone and got honest about shunning df'd ones:.
'we do not automatically disfellowship someone who commits a serious sin.
if, however, a baptized witness makes a practice of breaking the bibles moral code and does not repent, he or she will be shunned or disfellowshipped.
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konceptual99
it still does not make clear that children not living at home should be shunned as rigorously as anyone else. It fails to mention the links between modern day shunning of children and Israelite parents bringing their children forward to be stoned. it does not bring out the fact that a man who slept with his mother (step?) was reinstated within about 6 months according to the Bible yet some are left out in the cold for years.
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"the Walking Dead" special tract campaign in August!
by stuckinarut2 ini obviously have an active imagination.... i can just see the parallels between "the walking dead" and the masses of witnesses hyped up during the august campaign!.
big crowds of slow walking witnesses with no logical brain function, moving en-mass towards non-witnesses....with only one combined thought "must leave tract".....as they mumble to each other......dragging feet......like zombies..... when one person in the community accepts a tract, they are then the target of every witness who smells their 'interest' and is swamped with more and more visits...big crowds pile on top of them, stripping away at their very individuality and being....until they become one of them!.
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konceptual99
I think it's safe to say stuck that there each year will bring a number of tract campaigns:
- memorial
- convention
- a.n. other in August to push the service year peak
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I was shy on my first JW.ORG Video, I am so happy sharing God's Organization with you!
by JWCart1975 injw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
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konceptual99
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Prank call to Governing Body member Anthony Morris III gets through
by Watchtower-Free inalert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
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konceptual99
He's just a guy, they all are, same as us, same as any pop-star or CEO or road-sweeper
My tactic for minimising the status of anyone else....
Imagine them taking a dump.
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Prank call to Governing Body member Anthony Morris III gets through
by Watchtower-Free inalert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
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konceptual99
I applaud your initiative and give those opposing your actions a big raspberry farty noise with rainy spittles for them!
I've only seen a handful of posts that actually think what Cedars did was pointless.
The majority of those, like mine, with some kind of critical aspect to them are not opposing the call itself but are disappointed that he was not able to challenge Morris more. Nevertheless, he did what he did, the proof is out there and just getting through was a result in itself.
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Prank call to Governing Body member Anthony Morris III gets through
by Watchtower-Free inalert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
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konceptual99
I don't think most of you guys are being fair. If you were to confront them directly, blast them with an array of questions about their core beliefs do you really think they would respond? Confront people with a silly joke and they are a much more open.
If they are on the defensive because they think the person asking the questions is an apostate or some nobody in a congregation then you might be right but it shows that the lack of openness is endemic. The defensive nature of Witnesses when challenged is repeated time and time again.
What if you met Morris as a householder on the ministry? His response would be different if he thought he had a potential fish on the line. Why would his reasonableness be any different when asked genuine questions even if it is by a journalist or a known critic and apostate like Cedars? Because the WTS revels in it's persecution complex. The WTS does not like debate. The WTS justifies a lack of transparency on the basis of spiritual warfare. A clear demonstration of this was there for the taking.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying the call was worthless or even that petty. Just the fact an apostate can get that close on the phone is a pretty remarkable achievement. I just think that perhaps the opportunity to get something that was not in the least bit flattering to Morris was there.
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Prank call to Governing Body member Anthony Morris III gets through
by Watchtower-Free inalert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .
over 2 minutes of pranking .
as i type he is editing the recording into a video .
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konceptual99
Should of, could of .....
Make the call and see what happens. If you do not then it was cedars call to make.
pbrowFair point but I will repeat for the third time that I personally respect him for getting through. I don't know what he was intending to do once he got through but I don't think it would have been impossible to have tried a tack that was more challenging to Morris.
I would be more than happy to make a call but I don't think there will be much getting through to Morris or any one else in the upper echelons of the org now or any time soon...