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  Imagine if the JW's tried to copy Apple and open a 'JW store'......OMFG.......they did...

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://theworldnewsmedia.org/jw.org+new+witnessing+shop+opens+in+france.

  video.... http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rvcvnhohno4&desktop_uri=%2fwatch%3fv%3drvcvnhohno4.

  religion or corporation..... you decide......

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  Stealth

  There is one huge difference, at Apple stores, I always see lots of people and long lines to talk to associates.

  JW store...... *crickets*
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  The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!

  by rip van winkle in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .

  :" the sparlockian voice".

  yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.

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  Stealth

  I don't know too much about Kelly. Can you sum up who he is?

  I was wondering if he is any relation to Keith Kelly (once a WT heavy)?
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  The antidote to the myth that JWs are declining

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one of the most persistent myths on this website is that jws are already in decline, the rot has set in, and the descent of the watchtower is inevitable from here on in.

  unfortunately the facts do not bear this out.

  jws are still increasing even in most developing countries, and they are still growing worldwide at a faster rate than the general population.

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  Stealth

  Regardless if it's pubs fudging numbers or the WT fudging numbers, the stats they publish can't be trusted.

  More important is that more and more are becoming mentally free.

  Once mentally free the donation$ stop. I know they did in my case.

  The lack of $ coming in is what will drive the decline of the WT. We are already seeing it with the quality of the spirutal food coming out.

  From that perspective, the decline has started.
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  Looking up scriptures during meetings

  by Stealth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently i attended a jw funeral after a 12 year fade.

  i did not bring a bible to the talk.

  i found it somewhat odd and distracting to the flow of the talk at how much time was spent by all the jws looking up scriptures in the bible that they have all have read 1,000s of times before.

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  Stealth

  One of the first out of context scriptures that I noted was the one in Revelation 14. The WT claims the 144,000 is a literal number, yet when the same verses describe this group as 'virgins' who did not 'defile themselves with women' this part was not literal but figurative. How can it be both?

  They pick and choose what they want even in the same verses. Guess the GB have a sexual need too, so that part didn't apply to them.
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  Looking up scriptures during meetings

  by Stealth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently i attended a jw funeral after a 12 year fade.

  i did not bring a bible to the talk.

  i found it somewhat odd and distracting to the flow of the talk at how much time was spent by all the jws looking up scriptures in the bible that they have all have read 1,000s of times before.

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  Stealth

  I was very fast at looking up scriptures.

  After learning the TATT, I came to realize, look up scriptures fast does not equate to knowledge of those scriptures.
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  The Elders want to meet with me ... (Judicial Meeting)

  by Oubliette in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the elders want to meet with me.

  at least that's what they keep telling me, and they've been saying it for more than a month and a half now.

  just so you're clear: this is a judicial committee.

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  Stealth

  Keep sending those letters and keep your cool. Keep your eye on your goal.

  I certainly hope that once they reinstate you that you then switch congregations and then stop attending all toghether.
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  Looking up scriptures during meetings

  by Stealth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently i attended a jw funeral after a 12 year fade.

  i did not bring a bible to the talk.

  i found it somewhat odd and distracting to the flow of the talk at how much time was spent by all the jws looking up scriptures in the bible that they have all have read 1,000s of times before.

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  Stealth

  Recently I attended a JW funeral after a 12 year fade. I did not bring a bible to the talk.

  I found it somewhat odd and distracting to the flow of the talk at how much time was spent by all the JWs looking up scriptures in the bible that they have all have read 1,000s of times before. The dead air with nothing but the sound of pages flipping seemed odd to me, yet, at one time I did the same and never thought anything about it.

  Then again, maybe it felt odd because I was the only one in the room not doing it.

  This made me wonder how JW elders might react to a publisher if they just flat out refused to bring and use a bible to the meeting, but instead just sat and listened.
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  I think a troubleshooter has been assigned to our congregation

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this new couple moved in a couple weeks ago.

  special/regular pioneers, he's an elder from bethel.

  i think he might have been a co at one time.

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  A hard ass elder moved in about 9 months ago. Then the families started moving out or just not attending anymore. I don't know if this elder is the problem.

  I was in a congregation where a troubleshooter was assigned for that very reason. At least 6 families switch to another congregation 10 miles away that was more freindly and hosptiable then the former. When you have that many people leaving for one reason or another, something is wrong and they need someone on the inside to figure it all out.
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  On What Date Did Watchtower Have THE TRUTH?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if a jw tries to gather you back to the flock or debate with you, try these questions:.

  on what date did the watchtower arrive at the truth?.

  (a sharp jw will try to be fuzzy.

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  Stealth

  No religion has the market cornered on "TRUTH".
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  Tech49 on HOURS, TIME, and REPORTS

  by Tech49 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought i would share some of my observations on counting field service time, reports, etc.

  and how those reports are viewed, to those that are still so fixated on numbers.. i served as secretary on the service committee for many years, and have seen it all!.

  i was really disheartened when wt changed the requirement for aux pioneering to allow for 30 hrs, instead of the 50 it has been for so long.

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  Stealth

  I was at an elders house once the evening before his deadline for time to the org, so he was on the phone calling the usual pubs.

  Before he calls one of the pubs, he wrote down the hours and placements on a sheet. Called the pub. and asked them for their time.... what they told him was exactly what he wrote down on the time slip before calling. He told me that for this pub it is exactly the same every month.