how ironic that they have asked jws to not look past - tight pants - so called "affectations" - beards - long hair - short hair - and like 1000 other meaningless and trivial things.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-june-2017/can-you-look-beyond-outward-appearances/.
I love the way they pose it as a question.
Can you look beyond outward appearances?
Well, if we as the GB have done our job then you should know that outward appearances are the true gauge of a person's worth and character. But, let's put this truth aside for a moment and consider if we can try to recruit even those ones we can see from their outward appearance are gross, disgusting and wicked.
Let's try brothers and sisters, try for Jehovah.
has anyone else heard of these situations with congregations and halls in your area?
i thought the ground breaking mandatory pledge a little while ago was to keep up with "immense" growth?
how soon they forget... looks really bleak for the future of the wbats, the jw gravy train seems to be coming to a slow and agonizing yet inevitable stop.
Amen to that Scully. Now, if only the Government thought so.
i went to meeting today and the sister in front of me was upset song 134 now song 139 no longer contains jehovahs name.
they took it out.
i never even noticed .
Shame on WT don't they know it makes Jehovah sad when he is taken out of a song.
When Jehovah is taken out of a song it takes the song out of Jehovah 😣.
has anyone else heard of these situations with congregations and halls in your area?
i thought the ground breaking mandatory pledge a little while ago was to keep up with "immense" growth?
how soon they forget... looks really bleak for the future of the wbats, the jw gravy train seems to be coming to a slow and agonizing yet inevitable stop.
Yep it's like a game of musical chairs except with KHs.
And we all know what happens at the end of musical chairs one chair one winner.
But what about musical KHs? One website one winner = WT???
It makes good business sense to streamline, downsize, consolidate and merge etc etc and WT at the end of the day is a business it will make decisions as a business would.
so had to check it out to see what it's all about.. what i got was more cloudiness.
as in luke 2:9.... suddenly jehovah’s angel stood before them, and jehovah’s glory gleamed around them, and they became very fearful.
the notes point out.... jehovah’s angel: this expression occurs many times in the hebrew scriptures, starting at ge 16:7. when it occurs in early copies of the septuagint, the greek word agʹge·los (angel; messenger) is followed by the divine name written in hebrew characters.
@Menrov - The wording of the second translation you cited (ECB) is a classic "... and they awe a mega awe." Lol!
i went to meeting today and the sister in front of me was upset song 134 now song 139 no longer contains jehovahs name.
they took it out.
i never even noticed .
"We thank you our God..."
Maybe they knew they couldn't get away with "We thank you, our Money, for all you have done"
until a couple of months ago i was an uber-spiritual pioneer, only having association with other pioneers, elders and others who would fill in the category i classified as "spiritually acceptable" friends.. but since stopping pioneering and having more time to think about my doubts and what i really believe (or better said, what i no longer believe), i have started getting to know other less spiritual brothers and sisters of the area.
in fact, my old friends are starting to forget me quite quickly, i must say.
so, i guess my next move in fading is becoming what i call the average witness.. and what did i discover?
So much for "uber-spiritual pioneer" dubness being a spiritual "protection" lol.
To me it seems the more "uber" and "privileged" a witness is the more likely they are to wake up.
Luke warm apathetic dubs are the worst to try and wake up because they are in the habit of not thinking or caring about whether the religion's teachings are true or not.
Ironic hey.
i doubt people consider me an apostate but you never know.🤓.
Don't know they don't talk to me.
I am not DFd or DAd just inactive but still they shun.
i have made a poll to try to determine the impact of the wt's no blood policy on ex members.. if you are an exjw, please participate.. vote here:.
*oops...hang on here...i have to make a new poll...this one lets you vote more than once.
i will post the new one .
You heard it here first folks from Brother Richard.
"It should be a personal decision."
Of course it should be and that's exactly how I view blood now, the same way I view medication, diet, lifestyle decisions made by me as an individual after I know the relevant info because I am free to research the relevant info and not because the WT and seven wannabe-popes in New York told me that "Jehovah says so."
this article could be seen as a nice read compared with the banality and repetitiveness of many articles in recent years.
however, several areas in the article still troubled me.
paragraph one externalises the cause of an individual’s anxiety to satan the devil.
Witnesses that believe everything the WT says are doomed to live with the perpetual anxiety that comes from never quite living up to WT's requirements basically because it's impossible to "fulfill the whole law" or get off Jehovah's hamster wheel. WT knows this they're not stupid, it's how successful cults work afterall. Set up an unachievable standard a cult classic.
So, even their articles on relieving anxiety induce anxiety, not because of the hamster wheel the sheeple find themselves chained to but because the message from WT is "stupid sheeple you can't even manage your anxiety the right way."
So disempowering! Which btw is also what cults like WT do.
