Posts by AnnOMaly

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Shouldn't the WTBTS have more than 7 million followers after 140 years of preaching?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

after 140 years of preaching and millions of books, magazines, and tracts, all the wtbts has to show is a measly 7 million members.

the mormons, baptists, pentecostals and many other religions have more members without the preaching work.. in your opinion, is 7 million members way too many for all the odd beliefs, doctrines and practices ?

or, should be more members since they have had over 140 years of being in the religion business?.

AnnOMaly

This very question was addressed at the recent IC. O, you faithless one! Do you not realize that, although the religions of Christendom often have many more millions of followers to show for their evangelizing efforts, Jehovah's Witnesses are really the ones being blessed? Pah! Numbers are nothing.

JWs win!

SATAN’S RULE	JESUS’ RULE
Billions of followers (including those following by default rather than choice).	Under 10 million followers to show for a century of evangelization. "But it is precisely because we are small in numbers compared to Satan's world that we have to conclude that what Christ has accomplished is impressive" - Matt. 7: cramped road to life, few in number, etc. "So the progress that Christ has accomplished over a hundred years is not dependent on numbers."

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How To Respond

by Stormcrow in

jw
friends

would somebody please tell this computer-dummy how to join in and respond to comments please?.

i cannot find a single help button and when i click on the little pencil logo, i just get an error msg.. help?.

AnnOMaly

Stormcrow.

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Anyone Seen This

by lambsbottom in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.

it's a practice that's been the butt of jokes for decades: a pair of jehovah's witnesses turning up suited and booted on your doorstep.. but the days of the 140-year-old religious order's members trudging door-to-door in the rain could soon be numbered.. thousands have switched tactics to stand on street corners in more than a dozen cities across britain - and unusually for public preachers, they are staying almost completely silent.. leaders believe it is a better tactic in modern britain, where people do not like being approached directly and prefer browsing as if in a shop.. three years after the same tactic was introduced in new york, witnesses have been standing on pavements in at least 13 cities across britain and handing out tens of thousands of magazines.. unlike other evangelical preachers, they do not shout or call attention to themselves - instead standing in near-silence until someone approaches them.. 'i guess that's just not our style,' said mark o'malley, a spokesman for the jehovah's witnesses at their london headquarters.. 'we have used inventive approaches down the years.

we used "sound cars" in the 1930s which would relay lectures in the street from megaphones on the roof.. 'radio was used a lot later on and our members wore placards and sandwich boards.

AnnOMaly

Another thread on the same article: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/281750/1/I-dont-call-this-progress#.U8ktOfldXvQ

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A precious gift to all from Jehovah (channelled via Focus)

by Focus in

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some souls here may feel i was a little harsh.

if so, i am deeply sorry.

i was abused by a handful right from the start, presumably on the basis of the avatar picture (and 2001 vintage).. when visiting dubland, i often find that others start fights with me - for whatever reason, and i provide quite a supply of them - and when it doesn't quite go the way they expected, they cry persecution.

AnnOMaly

A spare "WHACK!" awaits Ann, for feeding the "Evil Troll" Class of degenerate Spiritual-jWs.

A-thanking you. Let me return the favor thus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

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Sisters conducting meetings where there is a lack of brothers

by booker-t in

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i remember years ago when i was a little boy aroung 9 years old, our bookstudy conductor was in the hospital and at the last minute one of the elders asked my aunt to be the book study conductor.

this was the first time i have seen this happen.

my aunt did a very good job and the bookstudy acted as it was not something from outer space.

AnnOMaly

you should have brought a Burqa.

Alas, there was no room to pack one in my ministry bag. It was in the days of paper literature and hardback books. Your shoulder was pulled down so much, over time you began to walk like Quasimodo.

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Something Big is Coming...

by notsurewheretogo in

the annual meeting of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will be in october 2014.. .. in november 2013, just after the last one they published this now famous statement in the 15th of november 2013 watchtower page 16 paragraph 17 says:.

"at that time, the lifesaving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.

all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.".

AnnOMaly

No, no. You forgot,

The list goes on.

Like a lot of things JW, the list is invisible. You'll have to use your 'eyes of discernment' to see it ... eventually ... perhaps in 2034.

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Sisters conducting meetings where there is a lack of brothers

by booker-t in

jw
friends

i remember years ago when i was a little boy aroung 9 years old, our bookstudy conductor was in the hospital and at the last minute one of the elders asked my aunt to be the book study conductor.

this was the first time i have seen this happen.

my aunt did a very good job and the bookstudy acted as it was not something from outer space.

AnnOMaly

I sometimes used to conduct the meetings for field service, say the prayer, and assign territory when it was all sisters. They'd 'volunteer' me because they didn't want to do it LOL. I hated wearing a handkerchief or one of the sister's unwashed scarves on my head - felt like an idiot. On occasion I'd read the paragraphs at the book study too.

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January 2014 Watchtower Study "Why God Organization Kicked Older Bethelites Out Of Bethel To Save Money(Avoid Bankruptcy)"

by frankiespeakin in

paragraph 1 & 2:.

we all enjoy life even now due to jehovah's tender mercies, for if it were not for his slowness to anger all humans would not have lived into this 21st century of out common era.

even those crippled severly cling to life thus demonstrating the will of humans to live even in adversity.

AnnOMaly

It's been spun already.

At times, organizational adjustments
need to be made. In recent
years, a number of branch offices have
been merged with others. Though such
changes require that the brothers and
sisters serving at these branches make
adjustments, before long the advantages
of the changes become clear to all involved.
(Eccl. 7:8) What a joy it is for
such willing workers to play a part in the
ongoing history of Jehovah’s people!

[... Experiences: 'Blah blah, challenging, blah blah, right decision, blah blah, how blessed we are.' ...]

Because of branch mergers, some
Bethelites are reassigned to serve in the
pioneer work. This was true of several
Bethelites when the branches in
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were
merged to form the Scandinavia branch
office. Among them were Florian and
Anja, who said: “We view our new assignment
as an exciting challenge. For
us, it is wonderful to be used by Jehovah
no matter where we serve. We can honestly
say that we feel richly blessed!”
Even though most of us may never have
to make such adjustments, can we not
imitate the willingness of these brothers
and sisters to put Kingdom interests
first? (Isa. 6:8) Jehovah always blesses
those who cherish their privilege of
working with him, wherever that work
may be.

WT 10/15/2014, p. 25-6.

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I don't call this progress...

by MidwichCuckoo in

...where communication/information has progressed vastly, the jw r&f have, in well over 100 years, progressed from sandwich boards to..errr..modernised sandwich boards as their up-to-date means of communicating.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.

comments are open at bottom of page folks!.

AnnOMaly

w.1978 5/15 p. 15 Insight on the News

Reaching the People

Japan’s “Daily Yomiuri” recently carried an article entitled “Foreign Missionaries Here Changing Ideas, Tactics.” The article showed that after over 100 years of activity less than 1 percent of the 113 million Japanese profess Christianity. One reason the missionaries gave for not using a direct approach was: “Not even salesmen go door-to-door. ‘It’s considered impolite.’” So the article disclosed that most of Christendom’s missionaries no longer have the goal of converting large numbers of people and they no longer go door to door. They “work with already-converted Christians and wait for others to come to them.” The result? Churches have closed; one was “converted” into a coffee shop. One large university closed its theology department.

But Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan have long carried on vigorous door-to-door preaching of the Bible. Since 1949 when the first Witness missionaries arrived till now, Japan has seen phenomenal growth. Today there are over 43,000 Witnesses preaching the “good news.” Yes, some missionaries have changed their tactics. But Jehovah’s Witnesses still heed the Founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ, who did not wait for people to come to him and who commanded: “Go therefore and make disciples.”—Matt. 28:19.

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w.1969 12/15 p. 749 par. 13 “Go . . . Make Disciples . . . Baptizing Them”

... he commanded his disciples there in Galilee to go to all the people: “Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations.” (Matt. 28:19) They were not to wait upon the people to come to them, but were to go to the people everywhere.

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Governing Body Will Get to Kill Worldly People at Armageddon! Gods Kingdom Rules Quote

by lostnotfound in

so scanning through the gods kingdom rules i found this gem on page 228.. .

"in heaven, the 144,000 corulers with christ will recieve authority to share with jesus in weilding an "iron rod" of destruction against all enemies of gods kingdom.

( rev 2 26,27) then, together with powerful angels, the resurrected anointed ones will follow christ, the warrior king, as he sets out to confront the "vast army" of enemies that is closing in on its prey - jehovahs people.".

AnnOMaly

i predict the WT will change it's doctrine to anointd AND other sheep go to heaven at 'the rapture'. The anointed war with Jesus while the other sheep stand with plam branches and sing.

Wacky things have happened but on this, highly unlikely. Having classes/different destinies is integral to WT theology. However, I can envision a revival and revamp of Russell's idea so that the (increasing throng of) secondary anointed are the heavenly 'great crowd,' the WT presidents and GB members past and present are the ones called and chosen to accompany Christ in his slaughtering work. That leaves the 'other sheep'/'Jonadabs' sheltering in KHs around the world, preparing to clean up the mess.