by daringhart13 42 Replies latest jw friends
Fantastic thread....thanks for sharing your stories...
I read these and I just sit here with my mouth open...its so damn mind numbing. They are complete zombies. They know NOTHING.
wilyoman.................I could tell similar stories..... completely clueless human beings putting their children through hell.
I've said it before...Apostates know more about JW doctrine than active JWs do
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The thing is, they don't want change.They don't want to rock their boat of understanding so they just float along with what they learned from years before.
They are always crowing about how progressive their understanding is...about how Christendom still believes the same things but the WTS is keeping up with the chariot constantly moving.
Individually, however, the rank and file pays no attention, obviously. Or, they say innane things like, "Oh, I knew they'd change this. Now it is up to date, makes more sense, etc."
I remember when the 1995 change came-that the generation was the "contemporaries that don't believe" crap. I didn't understand it. I read the paragraphs in the WT several times. At the meeting where it was "parroted" in the WT study, I looked around at the people. No one batted an eye. It was like something from Orwell's 1984. Just the most important doctrine in JW land changed, and no one acted like it held any consequence. Business as usual. Inside I knew something was wrong, but held to the principle that "we must rely on Jehovah," and that I was the spiritually weak one, and especially the "Well, we are like the Israelites. We don't have to understand, just obey."
Wish I'd headed for the door at that time.
Just had to add that this overlapping generations thing is the most laughable, idiotic one yet.
Suppose a person was born in 1898, was "annointed," then a person was born in 1990 (since now there is no cut-off year) and became annointed just last week. They overlap if the one born in 1898 lived to be in his/her 90s, yet the one born in 1990 could be alive till 2080-yet they are one generation?
Quandry,
I've witnessed the same thing in person. MASSIVE changes to doctrine.... and I would look around to see people's faces....from the stage no less since I was the WT Conductor for 8 years......... and NOTHING........ no one even noticed!!!
Even elders I thought were intellectual.....nothing. Tuned out.
If the District Convention isn't one gigantic waste of time, I don't know what is..... its just social time.....NO ONE learns anything.
At the recent DC, an elder from a neighboring congregation came up to our group all flustered, yammering on about the generation business we just heard in the talk. I never heard of this? Is this new?
Scary thing is, I thought he was one of the smarter ones...
I recently had a telephone conversation with my older sister. She was asking me if I had gone back to attending the meetings. I basically told her 'no, because I had learned the truth about the 'truth'.'
I told her that when I was an active JW, I remembered the teaching about the people who were alive in 1914 would still be alive when the end of the system of things occurred (I.E. Armageddon). I said, 'that changed recently, didn't it?'
Her reply? ...and I quote "Yes, because it was wrong."
I had already told her earlier in the conversation that the truth never changes, so I replied to her, "Exactly!" and then hung up on her.
Some people just don't get it.
Regards,
Jim TX
Marking this thread. This is just extraordinary.
@factfinder
what did you hear at your DC about "the adjustment about the annointed ones" I heard something interesting but no one else was paying attention or I heard it wrong
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