Post Covid, post Trump, post Cedarsgate, post Tony Morris, post ARC… Where r we now?
Where r we now?
by sparrowdown 17 Replies latest jw friends
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wantingtruth
Still in this "world".
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Mikejw
Post Covid where we are now is that we know the vaccine was very very harmful and it was wrong to say it was safe
Post Cedars gate he is now stuck in a country which he doesn’t speak the language on his own in a cheap little flat. His children have a new stepdad and they seem to be thriving.
Tony Morris the third still hasn’t surfaced. We still have no idea what went happened.
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Beth Sarim
It just shows how how close we are to the end.
Its a clear sign we're living in the last days.
Isn't it?
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Anony Mous
The WTBTS has been hemorrhaging both people and money, they have become more “part of this world” during COVID, no longer relying on Jehoober to either gather together or save their lives, instead following government limits on worship and promoting fetal tissue developed vaccines.
People both in and out have noticed, do less, care less. It’s become more of a social club in most congregations and the rules that govern even amongst the elders would once have been considered by grown-ins only appropriate for the spiritually weak and morally loose.
I think the Internet changed them. In some ways for good, but they still keep the long tail from their historic sin and that baggage will not go away regardless of their rebrand.
What I think is ironic is that the very thing that started the WTBTS, the calling out of contemporary religious leaders for collaborating with governments, their leadership having disproportionate amounts of money and the unchecked power some pastors wielded within congregations, a flattening/equalization of protestantism amongst denominations and abandonment of prior moral guidelines is what they themselves turned into.
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Mikejw
People both in and out have noticed, do less, care less. It’s become more of a social club in most congregations and the rules that govern even amongst the elders would once have been considered by grown-ins only appropriate for the spiritually weak and morally loose.
This is so true. It’s just a social club very lighthearted compared to years gone by.
anything goes, as long as they don’t rub the elders face in it, birthdays are almost a thing but they call them happy days and maybe have it a day or so either side of the actual birthday.
all the things that I remember from the 1970s and 80s are all out the window now.
young people are leaving in droves and they are desperate to try and get them to stay
its almost impossible for a young one to get expelled these days
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Vidiot
Beth Sarim - “It just shows how close we are to the end…”
We’ve been close to the End…
…from the very Beginning.
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FedUpJW
all the things that I remember from the 1970s and 80s are all out the window now.
I've said it here before, my mom was baptized in the early 1940's. She said very shortly before her death, "If jehovah's witnesses had been THEN what they are NOW, I NEVER would have become one!"
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LongHairGal
SPARROWDOWN:
Welcome back. I remember you as a poster from years ago!
All those things you said have occurred and still here we are. The ‘system’ still here. We have all gotten older.. I am gladly long ‘Faded’ from the Jehovah’s Witnesses and over ten years retired from my secular job that I am Glad I held onto!
You have probably observed the Witness religion has changed and barely resembles the religion you might recall.. Many old timers feel betrayed.. As FEDUPJW quoted: “If JWs had been then what they are now.. I never would have become one”.
Of course, the people who were the most heavily invested are the worst off today in 2025.. Too many JWs have reached retirement age unprepared!
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blondie
post jw