If what they are preaching about is untrue and false, does it really count? I mean over the 100 years plus we have been going, how much of what we taught was absolute crap. How many things taught about never came true. We can't brag about any of that.
JWs' love to brag about preaching but.....
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jookbeard
over 130 years of unadulterated utter nonsense peddled throughout the Earth and its still as insane now as it was then, fortunately there are tools availiable to instantly scrutinise it and dismiss it for what it is, garbage. -
konceptual99
I tried to create a list of things that the modern day (i.e. CTR forward) Witnesses genuinely prophesied ahead of time and got right.
I have copied out below....
1. errrr......
2. thats it.
Can anyone help me?
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Wasanelder Once
I pioneered for 9 years and all of it is old light now. So it was all bullshit. I am disgusted with myself. I could have had a family. -
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Wasanelder Once
I'm sorry to hear that, especially what you said at the end of your comment :(
The JWs' have and always brag about the preaching work, and hand on heart they are doing it. But none of it counts if what is being preached is false. They are recruiting new members yes. But preaching the truth, no, as we can all testify and prove because of what turned out to be false.
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jookbeard
Wasanelder Once, being a born in , wasting some of the best years of my life, marrying and divorcing my jw wife we didn't have any kids,but many years down the line I did meet someone else and had a family I now have a 6 year old son and an 8 year old daughter, it is possible! -
pleaseresearch
Good advice Jook.
Your never too late brother.
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ttdtt
Yea what's to brag about?
It takes 7,000 hr to convert 1 person. Keep in mind that is really low balling it!!!!
Why? Because most people baptised these days are family members - not people off the street.
Now 7K hrs is about the class time someone needs to get a BA degree in just about anything.
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Alive!
In all the time I was a baptised and converted JW, we had maybe two or three converts who had zero family who were JWs - one was spectacularly mentally unstable, two or three others were more or less frog marched to each meeting and mysteriously disappeared after baptism.
I remember one summer morning, on field service in a beautiful part of our city, in an Avenue of trees and delightful well kept homes....we knocked on the open door of one of these family homes....and out rushed two flushed children yelling 'nana! Grandad!' And then of course they realised their grandparents had not arrived yet - but just minutes later, the grandparents turned up.
This little family looked so happy - their Mother politely and smilingly listened to my shortened version of a 'presentation' whilst behind her, I could see open doorways into a garden where kids were laughing and playing and it was 'family time'.
I thought about all the hoops and heart wrenching chaos this family would go through if 'mum' became a witness and and as I reviewed the awkwardly and garishly illustrated little magazine I held in my hand which hardly 'reached the heart' I wondered what an earth we were really doing, as I joined our straggling group that morning whose attitude was 'they have their paradise now'.
These people, these householders weren't turning down or rejecting God -- I knew this ....and another nail went in my coffin of trust.
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steve2
over 130 years of unadulterated utter nonsense peddled throughout the Earth and its still as insane now as it was then, fortunately there are tools availiable to instantly scrutinise it and dismiss it for what it is, garbage.
Yes, not 100 but over 130 years!
It is interesting that in the emphasis on 1914, thirty or so years prior to that date are expunged from the conversation - those more than 30 years were when they were confidently predicting the end in 1914 (subsequently re-interpreted, of course).
Nowadays, it requires little effort beyond parking yourself on a chair beside a trolley of literature. I have yet to see any JW actively engaging non-JW passersby. The ones I see in my region are either busily talking to each other or on their tablets or phones - just like disinterested salespeople.