Has Anything Really Changed For JWs In The Last 10 Years?

by minimus 40 Replies latest jw friends

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  LongHairGal

  JOEY JO:

  I agree with your whole post.

  I believe the people there have become more cult like and have buried their heads. I noticed this with a few and their tendency to defend the religion when I had questioned all the changes. These people are born in and aren’t going anywhere no matter what..As you said.

  I wasn’t raised a JW but came in as a young working woman. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise I was treated so badly for not quitting my full time job..Their cold treatment and shunning made it all the easier to ‘fade’..Who would miss this?.. I’d have to have my head examined if I did.

  I’m also grateful I resisted these control freaks and kept my job until retirement.
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  minimus

  Td thanks for the video. I would never have believed JWs would be dancing to “worldly” songs at the Kingdom Hall!!!
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  Steel

  Has there always been so much focus on the villainization of ex members?
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  Finkelstein

  One thing that's different than the JWS in the past is the WTS is a whole lot richer.

  Selling those branches around the world and many Kingdom Halls has paid off big time in real estate sales .
  
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  slimboyfat

  Gilead used to receive longtime pioneers and train them to be missionaries for new assignments. Now it is a school for retraining existing branch members and missionaries/special pioneers that invariably returns students to their existing assignments. This is a huge change that somehow flew under the radar. Not least it saved Watchtower a huge amount of money because adding nearly 100 full time employees in poor countries each year was financially unsustainable. So they’ve retained the name Gilead but eliminated the expense of adding new missionaries to the payroll.
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  joe134cd

  Slimboyfat- you always know how to explain it and be right on the money
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  punkofnice

  I left about 10 years ago.

  I thought they couldn't dumb it down any more than they had back then. Boy, was I wrong. They are now at a new low of brain-dead.

  I know some over here in the UK are not so enamoured by a load of videos made by septics.

  Trolleys. What a bleedin' laugh. Standing next to a trolley avoiding everyone and pretending you are doing the most important thing in the known universe. The more I think about it, the sillier it gets.

  Keep selling those KH's, GB. You gotta pay to protect your beloved sexual predators somehow!

  I wonder how Mr Zalkin is today?
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  careful

  "They are now at a new low of brain-dead."

  Thank you, PON!

  
  
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  JimmyYoung

  They are 10 years older and most likely still have nothing put away for retirement.
  
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  OnTheWayOut

  The organization was fairly stable when I joined it in 1988. They were past the Ray Franz thing and 1975 was already dropped.

  So when they changed the generation doctrine in a major way, it really was a surprise to me. But older JW's said "They change things sometimes" and treated it like no big deal.

  So since then, I learned that the organization constantly has to change things according to their needs on the calendar or the wallet.

  I want to say that the more things change, the less important and meaningless those changes are. But that is only doctrine. Their big changes already mentioned like just standing by a cart for hours, sanitizing the talks at the hall and assemblies to remove personality and liveliness, using JW videos more....many more things...it all adds up to seeing them disappear down the road due to lack of real retention and recruitment. Members are dying off.

  Add in the biggest change- bigtime lawsuits over child abuse and other money woes. And the atrophy will continue.