WOW! But why does even this surprise me? It just shows the End's around the corner (again).
In Your Experience, What's The #1 Biggest News Event In The Organization?
by minimus 28 Replies latest jw friends
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FlyingHighNow
Actually every jw I have encountered has been so happy to see the financial fall of the US..........the end is near..........right?
Boy are they in for a big surprise. We all want an easy, painless solution to our complex problems. That is why they are happy, they think Big Daddy Jehovah is about to bail them out.
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undercover
I've experienced JWs gleefully looking forward to the fall of the financial system.
Just another indication that the majority of these people are controlled by a cult and are not cognizant of the real world around them.
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stillajwexelder
The Book Study was/will be huge
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watson
The generational changes:
The Faithful old enough to understand the events of 1914.
Then,
The generation of wicked alive at the time of the end.
Then,
The annointed remnant.
That's some big news!!
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undercover
I don't see the book study being all that huge. I'd bet that most dubs were secretly happy to receive the gift of an extra night off from meetings, though I bet if allowed to vote, they would have kept the book study and voted out the ministry school/service meeting.
The Generation teaching change slid right through with the majority not even realizing the impact of the teaching.
They even mangaged to get by the 1975 debacle. It could be argued that the years leading up to 1975 was some of the biggest years, but since 1975 fizzled out and the fallout wasn't as bad as it should have been, it ended up not being all that big of an event. Today, most dubs deny that the Society even taught anything about 1975.
The change in the overseer arrangement, as already mentioned, may have been the biggest...it created schisms in congregations all over. I don't think the Society has had to deal with unrest and criticism near as bad since. But it had to be done. They had to control the elders so they could control the congregation and thus control the people.
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easyreader1970
I am going to call the "modern era" any date past 1980. There are very few if any people in my current congregation who were adults in the truth prior to 1975. Our congregation has about 160 publishers and I am guessing from memory that less than ten of them were active adult Witnesses in 1975. The only familiarity that the majority of the publishers have with 1975 comes from the Proclaimers book and we all know how that publication pretty much glossed over that entire event. Members who were disillusioned and left the organization were weak and the Organization redeemed itself. So, if anything, this only showed which people were only serving Jehovah out of selfish desire and which truly loved Jehovah. Don't you love the way they twist that?
But I digress. I think the Book Study loss is the biggest announcement we have had in the "modern era". I would have said the 1986 "Peace and Security" nonsense, but I don't think most Witnesses attributed that to Bible prophecy, even though the Watchtower made sure to slap that phrase and the big dove on the cover of one of the Watchtower magazines that year. People are still in a twist about the book study change, even though they have all quietly and obediently accepted that it is gone.
Nobody noticed the blatant flip-flop at the recent circuit assembly, though. The letter that was read early this year quoted the scripture about the society not wishing to "add further burden to you" and listing gas prices as one of the problems. But at the circuit assembly they said that the book study was taken out (moved and renamed Congregation Bible Study) because Jehovah wanted families to spend more spiritual time with their families.
So which is it?
The book study was moved because of the burden of gas and other expenses?
The book study was removed because families need more quality spiritual time together?
There can only be one MAIN reason and they have given two on two separate occasions?
I believe I was the only person of the 1,600 in attendance that caught the BS.
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jaguarbass
January 1, 1976.
Nothing really changed.
I couldnt tell that Armegedon came and went.
Where were all the dead bodies and free houses?
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done4good
I'm not such an "old timer" organazationally speaking...I was "phased in" during the late '70s-early '80s, after all of the 1975 hysteria, 1980 "Great Apostacy", etc, when I was young.
So most of the "big announcements" have come the last couple of years, (since I've been out). But, the elimination of the BS is the biggest, from my standpoint.
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keyser soze
If they were to bring back the green bible, I think that would be huge.