by 5go 12 Replies latest watchtower scandals
One) Theocratic Ministry School will shortened till it is finally replaced by the congregation book bible study.
Two) Field service hours will no longer need to be reported and over time no records on similar things will be reported.
Three) The public edition of the Watchtower will cease to exist leaving Awake as the sole placement. Which will be little more than a tract.
why are you speculating like the dubs?
Why not?
why are you speculating like the dubs?
Dubs don't speculate. They proclaim that they have the truth... until the new light comes around and they have the truth again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
A@G
they do speculate on the meaning of the book study lettter that was announced last month.
I hope the whole organization falls flat on its face. However, something tells me that they will always remain in some capacity. How do I know? This organization has resisted defeat. Raymond Franz tried to fix the witless organization from within, only to be thrown out. People are fixated on it, and will remain faithful no matter how blatantly they lie about prophesies. They can lie about the generation again, and people will happily accept it. They will also accept rules against independently studying the Bible without a washtowel to go along with it. All that has happened is the intelligent people have left. Those that are too lazy or stupid to leave will always remain witlesses, no matter how blatantly they lie or how much damage they cause.
One) Theocratic Ministry School will shortened till it is finally replaced by the congregationbookbible study.
Shortened maybe, but I can't see them getting rid of it completely because that's their main method of training members how to speak in public and knock on doors. Since they'll never get rid of that, they're always going to need the TMS.
Two) Field service hours will no longer need to be reported and over time no records on similar things will be reported.
That'll happen when pigs fly. The Mothership knows full well that if they ever got rid of the mandatory reporting of time, 3/4 of the R&F would simply stop going out in Service. Since this religion lives for statistics, they need to know how many hours people are faking getting, along with the number of magazines, books and booklets they give away, for the ever-important Worldwide Report they do every year.
Three) The public edition of the Watchtower will cease to exist leaving Awake as the sole placement. Which will be little more than a tract.
Possibly. Since the public edition of the WT has been watered down, it's not much different than the Asleep! magazine now and they might consider this as a cost savings method getting rid of the one.
I do not agree - these changes are unlikely. Possibly down to one WT per month I could see that happening - possibly
Mary, I think they might well 'combine' the theocratic ministry school and the service meeting. I always wondered why they made that distinction anyway. The SM was really kind of the gossipy, business meeting thing, nothing so much as a Avon rep. meeting-only with WT's and books!
As to time-I think they may drop it, may find some other way to maintain bragging rights without it. The LDS has a "every member a missionary" program that all the ones I knew who were active take pretty seriously. Bringing someone into the church was seriously respected. I never saw in the past that JWs get much in the way of bragging rights for leading people to serve Jehovah/WT. That could change. The missionary work to the ones you know socially and are close to is very effective, both among the LDS and evangelical groups. The WT would have more numbers if they made the whole thing less pointless and more pleasant, made the organization less of a creepy fringe religion and found ways to 'attract' people to it. Being joyful may be too much faking, but they could find a hook if they made an effort, lightened up more on the non-biblical restrictions and no-no's while finding something more attractive to keep people IN. They need to develop an effective marketing plan.
Of course these changes are to be expected very soon, no doubt as the evidence indicates and such....
Cheers
Borgia
