JW TV Announcement - Proof the Organization Is Not Leaking

by steve2 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • steve2
    steve2

    Well, some here speculated long and hard about what the Annual Meeting would herald. Kilometres of words were wasted reasoning that this doctrine or that policy would change. And some even wondered if the organization would stream selected presentations direct to kingdom halls.

    But no one had inside knowledge about the most revealing announcement: JW TV.

    We can think what we like about this organization - but we did not see this coming. And the organization remains so well hermetically sealed that not a word got out beforehand.

    Oh, I am certain that even the "six screens" (?) Ex-JW guru was not alerted by his claimed inside sources.

    Of course, JW TV shows the organization is here for the long haul. What has been quickly set up in Brooklyn will be readily dismantled and set up in permanent form in Patterson/Warwick. There, the TV gloss slickness and pizzazz will mstch any other tele-evangelists!

    This must be so exciting for hard-core JWs but for those who are less that fully committed to this milleniallist leftover from the 19th century, just a tad disturbing. The one and only chsnnel of God's truth on earth has just become that much more mainstream - and indistinguishable from other religious groups who use tele-evangelism ( Mormons especially).

  • leaving_quietly
    leaving_quietly

    I beg to differ. This WAS leaked six months ago.

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/277265/1/Changes-changes-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-of-truth

    Then the young tech geek ms yells "holy hotbed of corruption fatman the GB are starting their own television station."

    EDIT: Ok, I take that back. That probably wasn't a leak. It seems to have been speculation. But, spot on.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    steve2 - "We can think what we like about this organization - but we did not see this coming. And the organization remains so well hermetically sealed that not a word got out beforehand."

    Yup; credit where credit's due.

    Some of us thought it might go this way in a few years (streaming sermons, etc.), but no one expected it to happen this fast.

    x

    Not that I'm complaining, of course... the faster they go, the harder they'll hit when they reach the brick wall.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    leaving_quietly - "I beg to differ. This WAS leaked by six months ago. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/277265/1/Changes-changes-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-of-truth"

    Damn; how many of us missed that or thought it was horseshit?

    I'd suspected that the Warwick HQ would have a state-of-the-art broadcast studio (and have said as much on numerous occasions), but still, I'm amazed this one slipped under our radar.

  • suavojr
    suavojr

    We can think what we like about this organization - but we did not see this coming. And the organization remains so well hermetically sealed that not a word got out beforehand.

    Not a single word or heads up. Just like with the new bible, no one ever said they had formed a new translating committee and none of us new about it. Yep, the GB have some loyal people working for them.

  • hoser
    hoser

    I watched some of Letts program just now. Skipped through a bunch of it. Yep just like the televengicals on tv. It looks like they are really going after the young ones with the music video best life ever near the end of the show.

    From watching this little bit I have confirmed to myself they are in for the long haul. The GB don't believe the end is near.

  • the girl next door
    the girl next door

    Sparrow down knew something and called it. Quantified it by saying "stay tuned"

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    the girl next door - "Quantified it by saying 'stay tuned'"

    Pun intended, I'm sure.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    hoser - "...just like the televengicals on tv."

    "Televanglicals", I love that. Or better yet, "telefundagelicals"!

    Look out, Pat Robertson; here comes The 144,000 Club.

    x

    Know what else?

    If any JW apologist tries to defend the Org for taking this step by comparing it to the efforts of televangelists, Mormons, etc., using it as an argument to defend your fade will practically be child's play:

    "So they're even more like 'Christendom', now? If -at this point - there's barely any difference between the WTS and the rest of professed Christianity, what's the incentive to even stay?"

  • hoser
    hoser

    Hey vidiot I couldn't remember the right word for the jimmy swaggarts and the jim and Tammy bakker types. I Have watched a few of those televangalists and the jws look pretty much the same as the rest of them now.

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