Why There Will Always Be JWs

by minimus 39 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  a turtle?
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  Alligator Wisdom

  This organization will splint off into splinter groups as the decades and centuries go by.

  Just look at its history.

  Bible Students : http://www.biblestudents.net along with their various factions and offshoots.

  True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses : http://the-true-jw.oltenia.ro/index.html

  And how many former JWs have their own groups, but still believe in many of the core doctrines of JWs (such as e-watchman)?

  The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society will always exist to a degree. But as long as it does, it will give birth to many other branches.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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  startingover

  I have a friend that has been a longtime member of the Worldwide Church of God. If you don't know what happened in that religion, read this:

  http://www.wcg.org/lit/AboutUs/history.htm

  Talking to this friend I am amazed at how JW like that organization is, or was. When they went through the big shakeup, the situation he described sounded exactly what it was like for the Bible Students when Russell died. IMO, this will happen again someday to the JW's with the same results that the WCOG experienced.
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  BFD

  I think they will go out of business but some other sort of organization will take it's place. There's a sucker born every minute.

  BFD
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  OUTLAW

  Minimus..This is a current picture of me....I`m actually a giant slice of bacon..LOL!!...OUTLAW
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  CyrusThePersian

  I think that eventually the Jehovah's Witnesses will fade away or change radically. The reason is that they are an apocalyptic cult. They believe that the end of the world is upon us. So, like any apocalyptic group, what will they do when the end never comes and time just keeps ticking away?

  An apocalyptic religion has two options, change or die. The early Christians changed. Thhey went from believing that the end would come within the lifetime of Jesus' generation in the first century to focusing on personal redemption and salvation by the third century. Likewise the Seventh-Day Adventists also changed their theology to de-emphasize their end-time predictions.

  What about Jehovah's Witnesses? So far, they've shown a strong reluctance to change. That could work against them in that when the end that's "just around the corner" never quite gets here people start getting tired. What they were once enthusiastic for now becomes a hassle. So they quit. Maybe not in a dramatic way, but in little ways-like encouraging their kids to go to college, or taking that new job, or otherwise living their lives and putting 'the end of the world' on the back burner.

  Time will tell what the Witnesses do, but they have to do something...if they want to survive.

  CyrusThePersian
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  AK - Jeff

  Throughout history the most radical [or conservative] of religious and political elements have faded or completely vanished.

  Short term they will stick around. Long term, they will either become more to the center or disapear, with likely upstarts here and there that will carry on the same basic doctrinal views. As mentioned the WWCoG now is splintered to literally hundeds of groups who became disgusted at the admission of wrong by management. Interestingly, most of those groups that I have found out about, look just like the parent. There are some former WTS people who have done the same - and except for a different magazine proclaiming 'The Kingdom' they are still Jw at heart.

  But as Zagor and Evans sang;

  IN the year 2525........ that may be a different story by then.

  Jeff
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  Mum

  They may or may not survive. It's a crap shoot at this point. Whether or not this particular group survives, there will always be new cults springing up preying on the mentally ill, dispossessed, alienated, emotionally needy and otherwise vulnerable population of this planet.

  Regards,

  SandraC, the unlikely rebel
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  Blueblades

  Mini, Your right, but, not like the ones we use to be, alive and vibrant on fire with a purpose! The Elite will sell off all the Brooklyn properties and retire to Patterson. I hear that they are also building a huge Branch in the Hawaiin Islands and only the Elite will be living err vacationing there. Follow the money$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ as long as it don't run out, they will be around.

  Those who will still be going to the few local halls scattered about will be under the direction of the bottom of the barrell local task masters and they will make sure that they will be chasing their tails like the dogs do, going nowhere fast.

  This is the future of the Watchtower Society, the Elite will live like the fat cats and the rank and file will get the crumbs. Yes! There will always be slaves of the Watchtower Society. awaiting for Armaggedon , soon, near, sooner than you think, very near, even if it takes 100 more years!

  Blueblades
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  Gill

  I don't think they will always be there. AS they are now they are evolving and changing and I think than in fifty years they will be virtually gone. Did we ever think they would begin to move out of Brooklyn? Did we ever think they would allow all blood fractions? Did we ever think they would start paying out to child abuse victims? Did we think there would only be one Awake a month and then one Watchtower? Did we think they would stop printing anything much in the line of books? They are dying. They are running scared of the internet and so they should be.

  They are evolving from a dinosaur to a rat. Someone got rat poison?