This is important (Quoting Betsy and Jeremy C.)

by Hiddenwindow 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  OnTheWayOut

  What will happen remains to be seen. We just don't know.
  But we are free to guess. I think all the big WTS decisions are
  run by the lawyers and accountants. I think money is the driving
  force behind any real changes.

  The talking that started awhile back was just to start bracing the
  members for radically different changes that are basically nothing,
  like removing the bookstudy from private homes or changing the
  name of the presiding overseer.

  I can imagine that they will do more radical things based on money.
  They may start combining congregations and selling halls. They
  may further reduce printing and offer tracts in the field and little else.

  I doubt they are ready to put an electric fence around Patterson and
  ask all the JW's to move there. I doubt they are ready to take the
  money and run. Some of the other things, who knows? Will the
  average JW be given specific instructions? Sure, they have been doing
  that. Could it be along the lines of "Cease Travel" ? If it were, the JW's
  would tire out from the instructions after a year or so. I would expect
  them to be collapsing the structure quickly and moving to Belize.
  They have tried the "emergency contact and emergency supplies"
  procedure recently. Perhaps, they will just hint by expanding that.
  "Elders are checking on your emergency supplies- please make a list
  of what you have available, and how many brothers you can put up in
  your house in a crisis." Then do nothing in follow-up.

  I can't plan for everything. I just stay tuned and see what's coming as
  soon as you guys know.
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  loosie

  I think this article may be helpful in a child custody case. It would show how whacked out the Jw's parent is.
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  besty

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/165229/1.ashx

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/150690/1.ashx

  Plenty more change to come SBF....

  And yes the Catholics are a cult according to Lifton's Criteria -

  (The JW's share a magisterium approach with the Catholics which is quite a remove from CTR's original idea.)
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  passwordprotected

  While they may not mention 1914 much these days, it remains firmly embedded in the foundations of the WTS. That one single date is hugely important to those still in the Org, most don't realise it.
  
  With each new year bringing us closer to 2014, there will be more and more changes, some small, some not so small. Binning the BSG was big. There was a meeting of all the elders in NYC earlier this year to talk about combining congregations, squeezing more congregations into KHs and selling the KHs that have been vacated. This is also big.
  
  My prediction is a series of changes and announcements that will keep the eyes and minds of the R&F off the fact that it's almost 2014, 100 years of Christ's invisible reign.
  
  "Why hasn't he done anything yet?"
  "We were told that our "deliverance was at hand!"
  
  If a JW wakes up to the fact that none of the WTS prophecies re. Christ's invisible presence have come true then the WTS loses their power over that JW.
  
  I'm convinced we're going to see the great Watchtower Society Sleight of Hand trick, all for the purpose of keep attention away from 1914.