came across this local article in a small town nearby.
video names the church as jw's:.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/child-sex-crimes-alleged-kingsburg-015601519.html.
Came across this local article in a small town nearby. Video names the church as JW's:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/child-sex-crimes-alleged-kingsburg-015601519.html
I'm sorry but if a child says they were abused by a person with a history, wouldn't you want to be eager to provide any information that may help this child / authorities bring this person to justice ?? . . . unless you are trying to cover something up.
So sick and sad this is their gut instinct mentality.
-Attewc
i have come into possession of memorial zoom meeting codes for tonight that cannot be traced back to me.
i will not be attending.
what are your thoughts on posting these codes so activists can join tonight and maybe say something?
Simon: You shouldn't post them. If you do you are enabling harassment of people.
No different to the morons who show up at a KH shouting at people and totally unethical.
It would make you a grade A jerk.
Anyone who posts them should expect to see them deleted together with their account.
This is one reason why I keep coming back to this site every so often. The intellectual maturity that Simon has shown running this place provides a refreshing environment that hasn't devolved into a complete JW hate bashing site that JW's think happens outside of their walled garden and it shows with the other users comments as well.
It adds credibility to your arguments when other topics come up.
Thank you for laying the groundwork and keeping things civil Simon.
-Attewc
2020-october-12th.. re: 2020 year end report.
reply below for the link and a milkshake back in the pm section.. https://www.legendairymilkshakebar.com/.
petra!.
Ditto, purty please ?
with the shutdown of the public preaching work.
some take it to mean all preaching in all forms.
other take it to mean it only includes door to door and cart witnessing, but you can do phone witnessing.. what is interesting is that depending which country you live in the direction that was given what to do is different.. two countries (malta and ireland) that i know of were told explicitly not to do phone witnessing.
I thought they were supposed to obey God as ruler rather than men ? Or is it they are supposed to obey the Superior Authorities God has put in place ? But if the Superior Authorities go against God and tell JWs not to go out to preach God's message who do they listen to ? Obviously Almighty God trumps the SA, unless God doesn't exist, then . . .
-ATTEWC
here is the updated chart based on jw.org provided statistics found here: link to 2019 statistics.
anything that stands out to you ?.
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Steel: Not to sound like a racist dick but I wonder how many were in Africa.
Every religion can claim amazing growth by just looking at African stats.
After a quick glance it appears most of the growth is in the latin areas, Central & South America.
Mexico & Brazil alone = 1.7 million avg. publishers with 25.4k congregations & 3% growth
Compared to USA = 1.2 million avg. publishers with 12.6k congregations & 0% reported growth.
-Attewc
here is the updated chart based on jw.org provided statistics found here: link to 2019 statistics.
anything that stands out to you ?.
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stan livedeath: what does it mean.." money spent on pioneers '?
From JW website:
During the 2019 service year, Jehovah’s Witnesses spent over $224 million in caring for special pioneers, missionaries, and circuit overseers in their field service assignments.
a few weeks ago i had an really interesting conversation with three male jws who were loitering around a trolley at the west end of princes street in edinburgh.. i managed to completely avoid giving any hint about my jw past and focussed on why they thought the bible was a reliable moral guide.
i used the subject of slavery to illustrate my concerns.. one of the three was in his early twenties, knew a lot about his own beliefs but nothing about the real life and it was difficult to get through his thought-bubble.
the second one was in his 60s and not very bright.
cofty: It's easier to challenge the Bible than to attack the organisation directly.
After many years of trial & error, I have found this is definitely the best approach and wish others would practice it, otherwise the mental defensive walls come up and there is no getting past them if your true intent is to get the other person to think reasonably.
What I also find fascinating is that if I criticize God directly and not the Organization, then the mental defensive walls do not come up and we can have good lengthy conversations. However once anything critical, no matter how small, is said of the organization, then the JW goes into mental lock down. For a long time I was in denial, but these experiments have opened my eyes that JW's are indeed brainwashed, which in turn makes me feel deep empathy for that person as I was also like them once.
I also find it funny that you can criticize God for many injustices recorded in the old testament (slavery, killing David/Bathsheeba's son, etc.), which in their mind is the Creator, Father, above anyone else, infallible, perfect in every way, and they will keep the conversation going all day long. Yet if you simply say that the JW Orgainzation has made mistakes in the past, their mind shuts off and fight or flight kicks in. Suddenly you realize they have mentally unknowingly put the Org above God.
Thank you for sharing cofty, I hope this helps others adopt a similar approach for dealing with the JW's as it has a higher batting average in my experience.
-Attewc
here is the updated chart based on jw.org provided statistics found here: link to 2019 statistics.
anything that stands out to you ?.
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Here is the updated chart based on JW.org provided statistics found here: Link to 2019 statistics
Anything that stands out to you ?
i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.
feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.
https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.
Sorry, I'm not sure how to make images clearer on this website. It seems to shrink it to fit.
Initial thoughts:
1) More donations and income are made each year, yet their expenses are growing even larger resulting in net losses.
2) Their percentage of total income from Donations is dropping. Are they making the extra income from selling properties ? And yet they are still losing money. This would seem so, since their total assets continues to drop.
Your thoughts ?
-Attewc
i imagine someone has done this already, but i couldn't find it in a search.
feel free to move to another thread if i'm posting in the wrong one.. i've been watching leah remini's scientology show (eerily very similar psychological traits to jw's) and one episode talked about how australia now requires non-profit organizations to make their finances public, so i decided to look for jw's reports.. link to jw's reports:.
https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/db994d2f8dec3cdfdbca01e8c8e28da9#financials-documents.
2019 Amounts have now been posted and chart updated below:
-Attewc
