by raymond frantz 18 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Ahhh the May 1994 Awake!
""Youths who put God first""..
Unfortunate victims.
When you reach middle age,,,and being born and raised in the ""truth"",,, I actually count my blessings & am so grateful to have made it this far in life.
Because I know,,,if I needed blood as a child,,,,I would NOT be here today.
BETH SARIM:
I think I remember that magazine when I was still ‘in’: young people on the cover who died refusing blood.
You should count your blessings that you reached the age you are… I know two ex-JWs who took blood to save their infants! Years later they are elated over their decision and would not have been able to live with themselves if they did the other thing.
When I hear these things I am ever so grateful I was not raised a Jehovah’s Witness!..It is incomprehensible to think somebody would let their child die. What a deadly religion and I think there’s no other way to put it.. So Glad I left.
It is incomprehensible to think somebody would let their child die.
The horrible thing is not so much "letting" the child die as "making" the child die! 😱
Because, ultimately, that's what some have done. 😞
""It is incomprehensible to think somebody would let their child die.""
This is what happens with mind control. You do things that are totally unnatural.
Mind control. Corrupt and dangerous.
As predicted some years ago the society is publishing much online and reducing printing magazines to free up resources elsewhere. It has nothing to do with decline or failure or Jehovah not blessing them etc etc. Rather, almost all their literature etc is accessible online via the website. There is a huge amount to explore. Awake is published annually and used throughout the year to provide consistency of approach etc in the ministry.
Westiebilly11
What are you on about? Are you a jw pioneer doing hours here? Redaction of printing has everything to do with reduction of blessing as Charles Taze Russell famously said. And as regards the Awake! It's mission was always to inform the public on world events and their significance in Bible prophesy but since the Watchtower is now serving the beast system there is no point exposing it or reporting on world events anymore nothing to do with organising their ministry. Is it only once a year their ministry needs organising?
Yes.
Raymond Frantz is totally correct.
The Borgs main bragging feature was the amount of printed material released. Whether it was books,brochures,, magazines whatever...
The Borg is definitely pivoting to online & real estate,,,,they have to,, they have no choice. Its a completely new era.
It doesn't clearly show the demise however of the Borg .....
Re. the blood prohibition…
…Bertrand Russell's quote “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” lives rent-free in my head, and is welcome to stay as long as it wants to.
westiebilly11 - “…the society is publishing much online and reducing printing magazines to free up resources…”
In part…
…but more because the ability to edit, redact, or completely eliminate their online content more easily enables them to control the narrative…
…and thereby minimize the amount of embarrassing or incriminating material - past or present - that might otherwise undermine their legitimacy and authority.
