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  Elephants and JWs never forget

  by Joziqueen in

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  my mother in law lost her husband to cancer recently.

  so feeling lonely and been pushed by her sister (active witness) after not stepping in a hall for 20 years she went to a sunday meeting.

  one meeting where she had the surreal experience of having to watch a "special talk" on jw tv.

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  Just proves the point of dubs know no boundaries. 
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  This is the man who made it all happen!

  by Terry in

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  william miller.. do you know how important this man has been to your life?

  do you know your life would have been entirely different (without a doubt) had he not lived?.

  read on!.

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  Gee that's interesting. I never knew that.
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  A few more random thoughts on the new Kingdom Hall design meeting

  by sir82 in

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  left completely unsaid at the meeting: who is going to be the owner of the property & building when all of these new khs are built?

  in the current arrangement, in most cases, a local trust is set up to hold ownership.

  of course, the most likely answer is "the watchtower (or whatever shell corporations they set up) will own the land & building".

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  What I find sad are the ones who really deserve to know are the most in the dark. Wake up witnesses!!! This is just an excuse to cash in on existing residential halls, rebuild again with free labour, probably burden the congregation again with a society mortgage. In a few years time there will be another excuse to sell these halls.  It's always the same rinse, dry, repeat and the R&F just gulp it down.
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  Arrangement to Accelerate Building Kingdom Halls

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  i can't believe i'm the first one to admit going to this meeting.

  it was a 3 hour video stream from patterson.

  the first bit was used to set up the need.

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  Clearly this is just a smoke screen, to sell all the old halls and build new.  Wash, rinse, dry and repeat.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses, they're big in ...

  by Simon in

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  i just checked out google trends for "jehovah's witnesses" (denomination).

  not sure if the link will be to the term but let's try:.

  http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2fm%2f0dtdq.

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  The witnesses are dead in westernized countries.  I think people are aware of them.
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  Do Jehovah Witnesses give out mis-information deliberately?

  by smiddy in

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  do you think it is possible that the g.b.is deliberately giving out mis-information to confuse either apostates or media that might be investigating them for one reason or another ?

  speak out of both corners of their mouth .

  and the reason they do so ?

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  OMG by the way they are going and all the dramas they get themselves involved in. It's anyone's guess as what comes out of their mouth.
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  Hello

  by Garrett in

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  hello forum,.

  i'm new here and not sure where to post.

  so, i'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, i'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.. first, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.

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  I find myself parroting this every couple of weeks. It just amazes me how an organization will spend billions of dollars and countless man hours trying to get a new member and yet will do virtually nothing to retain that same member. Here is a post I made on this topic.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/274424/how-many-cong-visited-you-when-you-started-fading

  You are at a Hugh advantage over us. You are young, and because of your lack of family ties in the Org just makes fading so much easier.
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  An interesting comment given by an older brother during the prayer yesterday.

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

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  i have been a regular visitor to this site for several years now.

  i never really felt the need to set up an account and post...until now.

  at the close of yesterdays meeting, an older brother gave the prayer.

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  Yes I remember a time when the internet was literally a tool of Satan,  full of apostates wanting to entrap the R&F. I even remember a recent assembly part  with the theme " occupying our time with unnessary gadgets" (or something to that effect) where it was mentioned that these gadgets were occupying our time that could be used in serving Jehovah.  I even remember been given council when I gave a bible reading from a print out of the Nwt.  My what a reversal.  The thing that I find rather thoughtless is the burden that is now been placed on the  R&F to now have to pony up to buy these gadgets. For a family of 5 even for the cheapest tablets you are looking at a couple hundred bucks.
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  Are people really happy at Bethel?

  by The Searcher in

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  if they are this happy, why do they keep taking down this video?

  :).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evulyocziz8&feature=youtu.be.

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  Make no mistake. There is no way this video could of been made and put on the net with out the magnificent 7 at least having known about it and giving it the all clear. There is little doubt of this in my mind. Now if there is a negative reaction to this video by the R&F and because the GB cannot be directly implicated in giving it the ok.  They can easily turn around declare a DMCA take down and blame the disobedient disloyal bethelite for running ahead of the chariot. Well that's what I think.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses requesting financial transparency in Spain

  by JHK in

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  2. scandals

  two jehovah's witnesses requesting financial transparency in spain branch.

  one picture in the assembly hall and another on the bridge.. .

  http://johnhenrykurtz.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/transparencia-financiera-llegara-antes.html.

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  I accept that many of the people who do contribute don't actually care.  I agree that most of the complaints come from those looking at the WTS with a critical eye.  

  
  

  I totally agree with this comment. When I first become aware how mother was getting ownership of the halls, I made some enquiries with an elder to see if such a thing had happened locally.  The elder reply just flawed me really.  " yeah there was something like that but I don't like to get to involved in those sorts of thing".  I thought you total F/wit have you got any idea of what you have just done when you and the other elders collectively signed on the dotted line because you didn't want to get to involved. The guy was totally oblivious.