noticing a lot of posts and behaviours of the org that they seem to be trying to appeal to the younger generation.
im wondering if they are jumping on the back of a popular young clothing brand called jack wills.. a lot of their clothes have jw logo on them.
i wonder when searching this logo 'jw' on internet, where the search takes them?....................hmmmmmm!.
Having elders and other pedophiles and molesters abuse the children seemed to work for quite a few decades.
The internet era no longer allows the above to work as well as in the past.
Hence, WTS marketers have adopted the McDonald's approach with Happy Meals and toys as the draw.
Whether this will reduce the churn rate of children remains to be seen, but I doubt it will make any difference.
As for Caleb and Sophia - Sophia did survive the Apocalypse, but did not fare that well in the long run.
i have to share this with you.. after leaving the borg i had to concentrate to solve so many personal problems (financial, child custody, etc.
) that it left me with a poor social life.
i just didn't have the nerve/time to make new friends.
Then you realize, BP2, that you have provided additional credible backlinks with your post (I never link to mother Borg from here - and Simon, you should script up "nofollow" for Borg sites).
to three people in my family, disfellowshipping / shunning is just a tool the wtbs uses to hide what really happened.... they don't want people to 'see behind the curtain.'.
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Shunning, à la WTS, is abuse of the worst kind, plain and simple.
yet watchtowers go way back to 1950's....i picked up three awake volumes 1967-1969 i was struck by the poor science {aluminium is posion}, demon articles and anti-organ transplant articles.
also much was said about 1975 being the end of the system and "the generation.
" it feels like fred franz was writting alot of these which now is plain embarrasing and better left un-published.. .
A few days ago, I pointed out some of the crazy stuff from the past to my half-in/half-out child.
The child said, "But that is so old."
I said: "Oh, so truth has a best-before date. So when does the info in this (Current mag) become outdated "truth""?
No reply.
Point made.
just wondering.
i was.. .
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I was there decades ago, if that helps.
(Why not call it Devil's Lake assembly hall?)
so the governing body likes to keep claiming incredible growth.
at the same time they claim bible studies are way down.
are the finally admitting what we've known all along, that they can no longer recruit outsiders?
Perhaps jws don't know how to count what is a study nowadays: making contact 3 x with the same individual
Isn't that the rule for dating, the third date means ...
seinfeld was a show about "nothing.
" it had no plot.
no twists.
The Regional visit, better than Seinfeld!
Sorry. Nothing has been better than Seinfeld. (Although I would like the GB finale to be like Seinfeld's finale - in jail.)
so the governing body likes to keep claiming incredible growth.
at the same time they claim bible studies are way down.
are the finally admitting what we've known all along, that they can no longer recruit outsiders?
where do they claim that bible studies are way down?
TOMO's "Tight Pants - The Sequel" spiel about 39:00 mark.
just out of the blue i asked my wife whos been a jw for some 30 odd years can she explain the overlapping doctrine.
she said to me she never heard of this and said she will have to look it up.
i thought oh s#^%!.
They must have spent 8 months debating this, and what to come up with.
They would have needed something that was so out there, that it must make sense to the GB, and therefore true, even though no one else at all has the foggiest ideas.
jim carrey on jkl, getting rid of worldly haircuts, with far more respectable bowlcuts.. he should be on tomo's team, taking care of dress and grooming.. .
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Jim Carrey on JKL, getting rid of worldly haircuts, with far more respectable bowlcuts (and more).
He should be on TOMO's team, taking care of dress and grooming.
