i believe that many witnesses are tired out or at least tiring out.
i know....... because i am tired out!.
imagine going to college for 20 years not knowing when college is finished.
I agree. I ran into three different witnesses recently and each one of them were struggling.
One was severely anxious because her jdub husband was "severely depressed he was on needed medication for." One was really tired and "needed a holiday" and one "hadn't been very well" with "sleep problems and indigestion."
I haven't felt this good for years.
a friend of mine called last night we will call him tom.
he is df now for 2 yrs for associating with a a df person non relative.
anyway he arrived at the meeting this week and was informed by 3 elders that he was no longer welcomed at the hall.apparently he was caught greeting someone in the parking lot after meeting.
Tell him no worries.
The org's policy of treating people like dirt is coming back to bite them, in the form of empty KHs lol.
ok, so hot on the heels of the announcement at the agm, we have been told that there are probably only 12 magazines left!.
yes, there will be only 3 wt each year, and 3 awakes.... and that they will do this for two years, then reprint those issues.... so yes, the "abundance of spiritual food" is limited to 12 more magazines..... surely, this is proof of the end coming so soon!?!
😉.
Haven't they always recycled articles by putting them through the spin cycle?
Now, there will just be fewer of them.
How "green" of them reducing their paper usage like that such humanitarians lol.
the change has begun.
my jw friends that came to my house months ago finally have figured out i am in no way going to become a jw (how it took them that long i have no idea).
now the change to them wanting to have nothing to do with me has begun.
Having a headsup on JW behavior can take the sting out - a little.
Still, it can be a rough ride though, stay strong, you don't need that toxic religion.
As far as the org looking bad - witneses have always been careful not to show their true colours until a person is well and truly entangled. There is the "offical" version of the org complete with happy snaps and the real version that not only looks bad and smells bad, it is bad!
In fact it's shocking now quickly they can go from "loving christian" to complete jerk.
Glad you figured them out.
october 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in nigeria re: local needs for the week of october 16-22.
WT is always very careful to "encourage" they never say "you must do this" "you must not do that" no surprises there in the way it's worded but the intent is fairly obvious "we would really like it if you donated regularly as part of your household budget."
WT's famous for it's "Claytons" rules - the rules you have when you don't have rules in WTspeak are called "suggestions."
october 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in nigeria re: local needs for the week of october 16-22.
This org is shameless!
They have officially jumped the shark in their shamelessness.
october 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in nigeria re: local needs for the week of october 16-22.
I can see them rolling out the "suggestion" 😉 in places like Nigeria first to see how it flies, then elsewhere if it proves successful.
paradisewas it really paradise to be in paradise?adam and eve never were held by a mother, never cuddled and sung to with a lullaby nor nursed or coddled with tenderness or any human familial embrace.
the first humans (adam and eve) never learned to toddle surrounded by brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles and grandparents cheering them on.
the entire experience of childhood was excised surgically like a trauma patient awakening from an accident with amnesia.adam and eve were never in a neighborhood with other kids forming friendship bonds for life and exchanging dreams and hopes for a future they were building in their community.
Your god seems pretty fickle who he helps and who he ignores.
Mysterious and all.
october 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in nigeria re: local needs for the week of october 16-22.
Bloody hell! They may actually start a "suggested" tithing program without having an "official" tithing program.
Sneaky bastards!
the purpose of this thread is to share some history with the community.
i am an active jw.
the reason i picked this forum is due to the openness and ease with which information can be accessed.
Well this was a bit of welcome comic relief lol.
