Posts by joe134cd

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Is anyone interested in getting a full financial report on the WTBTS of Britain?

by defender of truth in

this report provides information on watch tower bible and tract society of britain including:*.what their money is spent on*.amount raised for every 1 spent on fundraising*.5 year financial information*.how your donation helps.

here you can request the free report:www.charitychoice.co.uk/charity-report/watch-tower-bible-and-tract-society-of-britain-68372.

and this is a link to purchase a full in-depth report:http://choice.charityfinancials.com/store/buyreport.aspx?cn=1077961.

joe134cd

I wanna know what big brother makes in the USA.

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Why I remain one of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Brother Jeramy in

allow me to begin with a clarification: when i say i am one of jehovah's witnesses, i don't mean that i am an advocate of the watchtower society or a devotee of some of its more controversial false teachings.

i mean that i am a christian, a disciple of jesus christ dedicated to jehovah god, and who remains in union with my brothers and sisters who make up the family of faith that globally refers to itself as jehovah's witnesses.

some totally understand the distinction between the family of brothers and sisters and the corporate organization known as the watchtower society (wts).

joe134cd

I think you wrote a well written article and also presented a good line of thought. Hey, if it works for you then keep doing it. I can relate to what your saying because I thought the same thing. I firmly believed I could take the best of both worlds of serving Jehovah while also knowing TTATT. Sadly this proved not to be the case. With in 18 months I walked out of the Hall for the last time. Ironically it wasn't the apostasy that first lead me down this path. It was a whole series of things that just piled up over the years. The frustration and stress of dealing with an organisation and people who I didn't like and we're not going to change. If you wanted to experience this for yourself I suggest you mail this article to Brooklyn and see what kind of response you get. Anyway I wish you the best in you journey

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Interesting conversation with this pentecostal today at work. It made me think.

by joe134cd in

at work today a colleague was telling me how his church had purchased a van for the sole purpose of caring for their youth.

he was saying every friday / saturday night the church organizes some event for its youth outside it's church services.

they also have other services to that are provided free of charge for its members.

joe134cd

At work today a colleague was telling me how his church had purchased a van for the sole purpose of caring for their youth. He was saying every Friday / Saturday night the church organizes some event for its youth outside it's church services. They also have other services to that are provided free of charge for its members. I was telling him about my JW youth and how little the organisation did for it young people other than knocking on doors. True I don't think a young persons motivation for going to church should be just for social activity. But on the other hand what a hugh difference it would make if Wt could create a sense of community for its young people. Although I think primary motivation of the church and it's members is to learn about God. It should also be a place to fellowship and just to have fun and a good time as well. I believe my colleagues church is trying to provide this, and it's something Wt could learn from.

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as long as shunning continues donations will be slow

by poopie in

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friends

one of the reasons the watchtower is having problems with donations is because they have refuse to let go of wholesale across the board shunning.

the average publisher is sick of it and jehovah is withholding his full blessing.

when you do not show love to fellow humans you run the risk of not being able to show love which i'm turn has a direct relationship to your joy in turn if your not happy your not motivated to donate lots of money to and arrangement you perceive as unloving all you bethel lurkers convey this message to bro letters and rest of gb stop trying to convince fair minded people to support unloving shunning.

joe134cd

There has been considerable debate on here as to weather the move of the U.S head quarters to a more remote area will cause it to become more extreme and isolated from main stream society. From a financial perspective I can't see this happening. The religion desperately needs educated wealthy people, and the more hard core they become the more harder it will be to attract, maintain and retain such ones.

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Question Box: Should JW's use the Internet to witness to people abroad?

by cappytan in

i hadn't seen this posted here yet.. source via wifibandit on exjw subreddit.. what are your thoughts/comments on this?.

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joe134cd

You would think they would be happy to use what ever medium available. I believe there attitude is slowly changing against the internet.

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Question Box: Should JW's use the Internet to witness to people abroad?

by cappytan in

i hadn't seen this posted here yet.. source via wifibandit on exjw subreddit.. what are your thoughts/comments on this?.

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joe134cd

I say use what ever works for you.

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The work is speeding up

by bradford in

i don't have a great reference point on my observation other than my local area but i was wondering if this was a widespread thing.

... in the last two years in my former congregation there have been 6 people to disassociate for "apostasy," 6 disfellowshipped for various reasons, and numerous ones reproved.

these are just the ones i have heard about.

joe134cd

I the cong of 100 pubs that i was in before I left. 5 left under not the best of circumstances but we're not disfellowshiped. 3 also got DFed. I've since walked out the door and I've heard that 1 other has left as well as 2 more who are semi inactive. That's 11% attrition in 4 years.

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Beroean Pickets

by joe134cd in

hi i've been reading a web sight called borean pickets.

http://meletivivlon.com/2015/05/09/may-tv-broadcast-on-tv-jw-org/.

although the guy writes some real thought provoking stuff, i sort of don't know what to make of it.

joe134cd

QC and it's this group of people that is causing Wt the most problems, and the group they also have to be most concerned about.

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Something tells me 1914...

by Monsieur in

after todays watchtower lesson, and the lessons coming, something tells me bigger and bigger new understandings are coming.

and that it will culminate with 1914. notice how jesus is now coming, and no longer already here.

the current understanding is both, he is here and hes also coming.

joe134cd

There will come a time when they will be forced to move on the 144k \ 1914 vs 607. But in the mean time I think they have got enough excuses for it to out live me.

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How much can you buy with a dollar a week allowance?

by John Aquila in

$ 1 dollar a week x 8 million jws = $ 8 million dollars a week.

$ 8 million x 52 weeks in a year = $ 416 million dollars a year.

and its all tax free.. you know jws donate more than $ 1 dollar a week!

joe134cd

I have to say even at the height of my indoctrination I may have only parted with $20 at an assembly.

I have an elder friend who is also accounts servant. I mentioned to him about the societies financial problems. He replied by saying by what he saw coming in as literature as opposed to what went out in donations there was a Hugh short fall, and that what I had told him didn't come as a surprise. His congregation was also in a reasonably wealthy area