Posts by sparrowdown

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Will The Watchtower Ever Give Up Mandatory Shunning Of DF'd Members?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think the wt will never give up this practice unless forced to by the courts, even if they are financially failing terribly they will keep it because the moment they do get rid of it the whole thing will collapse even faster and they know it(or afraid of it happening).

they have painted themselves into a corner of financial ruin.

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sparrowdown

I don't know if they can just drop the shunning policy and not be consequences for WT. It would be like opening the gates of the compound so people could come and go as they please. Shunning damages relationships sometimes irevocably. Would those that have been deeply hurt by the shunning even want to talk to their JW relatives and friends again?

What would be the alternative to a shunning policy for rule-lovers like JWs a non-shunning policy? Is it realistic to expect that people you discarded will just start talking to you again after years of persona non grata. Years you will never get back when you burnt those bridges.

Man what a can of worms would that open up amongst the congregations. I mean it would be nice to think if they just dropped shunning as an official policy everyone would play nice but somehow I don't think so.

I feel like even if they gave it up officially it would still be used as weapon on a personal level by many members. Face it there are some people who just like to use the silent treatment to get back at someone and blank people they don't like. It's actually harder to force people to talk to one another than it is to get them to not talk to someone as shunning only takes one party whereas talking takes two.

Conclusion : WT will give it up officially when it's in their best interest to do so, then and only then.

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The watchtower does not have the resources

by pepperheart in

if you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.

sparrowdown

They're probably just taking some production time off for the holidays.

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Unbelievable KMS example

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

i've been to the kingdom ministry school (for elders) recently and can report that it is mostly the usual mix of cliches and platitudes.

several letters where basically just read through one line at a time.

one point early on though almost made me laugh out loud.

sparrowdown

CoCo - "...wouldn't it be sad to be a sightless double amputee?"

Yes but It would look great on a t-shirt.

Blind ampu - tees

FOR Jesus!

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AAAAAAAArrgh!

by zeb in

sir simon,.

how many dozen bloody times do i have to do the capcha thing before i get in.

one round of street signs or cars and that was it.

sparrowdown

Some of the pics are just impossible to make out I just guess a lot of them and hope for the best.

I'm sure cyber hell is getting stuck in capcha forever lol.

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the watchtower is starting to crumble

by pepperheart in

for the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.

sparrowdown

They'll never run out of content completely I don't think, they'll just hire some worldy content creators for the website and just say they're JW.

Besides, if they're good at anything it's recycling crapola. They've basically been adapting the same crap every decade for years now.

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The end of an era ......

by snare&racket in

jw
friends

i have written some time ago, about how the religion i grew up in no longer exists.

i was an 80’s jw kid who became a pioneer then a bethelite.

they have new meetings, new elder roles, new acronyms, new core teachings, new songs and even a new bible.

sparrowdown

...stop your cryin it's a sign of the times...

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Sign of the times

by recovering in

oh i have waited for this for many years.

it used to really irritate me when i looked out my office window at long island college hospital.

dang the witnesses presence in brooklyn even out lasted a117 year old hospital.. https://nypost.com/2017/12/06/iconic-brooklyn-sign-taken-down-after-70-years/.

sparrowdown

Always wondered why they chose that garish red for the colour.

Anyway...

The Watchtower is dead. Long live JWdotborg.

Not really, but isn't that what you say when one monarch passes and a new one is crowned.

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December 6, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: Study of Jesus—The Way

by wifibandit in

december 6, 2017 to all congregations re: study of jesus—the way.

jesus—the way, the truth, the life.

sparrowdown

They need to prove to ... who? Their critics? that they are actually christian rather than Jehovian in the only way WT knows - write a propoganda book about it and make the members study it.

"See we love the other J-Dog, and we even wrote a book bout it 😆"

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Unbelievable KMS example

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

i've been to the kingdom ministry school (for elders) recently and can report that it is mostly the usual mix of cliches and platitudes.

several letters where basically just read through one line at a time.

one point early on though almost made me laugh out loud.

sparrowdown

ttdtt - ooooh yeah... never thought of that... good catch.

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The '' other and remaining '' Faithful and Discreet Slaves are '' useless ''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

faithful and discreet slave parable.

matthew 24:45-47 "who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

sparrowdown

Yes I see this as a problem for them what to do with all those pesky extraneous annointed?

That means that each GB member represents about 20571 of the 144000 annointed by proxy.

Considering at the moment any baptized witness in good standing can claim to be annointed I'm pretty sure that would really tug the nuggets of the GB to know that barn door has been left wide open.

I can see a few ways to close the "barn door". They could call new light and say the number 144000 isn't literal it's symbolic and representative of 7 could be a stretch but hey they pulled that overlapping gens crap and the brainwashed masses swallowed it.