In Your Experience, What's The #1 Biggest News Event In The Organization? (page 3)

Open mind

The abolition of shunning.

Oops.

Wrong religion.

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DNCall

I believe it was the 1995 change in the understanding of "this generation."

For the first time since 1876 there was no time sensitivity triggered by a specific date. I believe this, more than anything else, accounts for the irrational leadership decisions since 1995, as well as the ill effects on the rank and file of such leadership.

It was in 1995 that this end time religion no longer had an end time.

DNCall

ninja

surely it's the tract campaign every year....or when a senile old sister tries to partake of the wine at the memorial....and her false teeth fall into the glass..

willyloman

There've been several in my lifetime: the 1975 "great disappointment" will always rank as the biggest, both because it was so widely hyped within the organization and also because it left the WTS unable to pinpoint any more dates in the future - which has led over time to a lack of urgency on the part of many rank and file dubs.

I agree with several posters that the 1995 "new light" on the generation teaching was a biggie, although I see that as just the second chapter in the 1975 debacle. Once 1975 was discredited as a key dub date, its foundation - 1914 - was going to get shaky at at some future point. And that point was 1995, at the end of the '94 service year when "70 or 80 years" of a biblical generation closed... with no End in sight!

Personally, the biggest news for me will always be the NGO membership in the UN that so embarrassed the dub leadership that they instantly withdrew from the UN when a leading British newspaper called them on out on it. The brazen display of hypocrisy was the nail in the coffin for me and the tipping point that resulted in our leaving. That cost them an elder, four or five pioneers, and a "pillar" family that used to be all in. That and the other big story no one has yet mentioned: the '02 NBC Dateline broadcast that blew the whistle on the Society's cover-up of pedophilia within the organization.

bonnzo

green bible...thats funny as hell. tonite i asked my mom how her annuities(sp) are doing in the wake of the financial situation and she said: "it dont matter, this system is going down soon" thats my money she's talking about. hell, i wouldn't be surprised if she changed her will and left everything to the WTBS w/o teling me.

StAnn

1975 was a big deal to me BUT, what really shook our congregation was when Ray Franz left. We couldn't believe that a member of the Governing Body, a member of the anointed remnant, a member of the FDS, would actually leave! We didn't have any idea why he left but, believing that the anointed remnant had a special relationship with Jehovah, it was incomprehensible.

StAnn

Hortensia

you know, it seems to me that any tiny little piece of news they get starts a frenzy. They don't have any sense of proportion, so they don't see some news as ordinary and some as extraordinary, it's all adrenalin pumping, feeding frenzy giganto-enormous important and different from all the other adrenalin pumping giganto-enormous news they've heard before. I'm surprised more of them don't die young from pure adrenalin exhaustion.

Homerovah the Almighty

Its got to be 1975 they yarked on that for years prior to and up to

But holy shit did they shut up about it when the year passed , then the excuses and tritely explanations they had to come up with.

There was a major drop in members the few years after 75

WTWizard

When they started the "complete donation" arrangement, they told us to put the money into the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund out of our own pocket at the time we picked up the littera-trash. And then, we had to additionally put whatever we received from the householder into the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund too. Thus, if an item costs $1, we donate $1 upon picking up the item. Then, the householder donates $1 for it and we put that $1 in also, paying $2 for the item.

The biggest fraud was when they came right out and said that this isn't double donating. That was about as blatant a lie as I have ever heard from the platform. You are paying the full price upfront, and then paying the full price (instead of being reimbursed by the householder's donation) again after receiving the donation. I count two separate donations for the same item. I wonder if they are going to outright ban science and math to be taught anyone except the members of the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger.

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