Posts by berrygerry

i faded over two years ago, so they long ago shunned me.i think about them less and less and have even forgotten some names.i did enjoy some of the friendships and the association.

berrygerry

The Watchtower is so focused on the preaching work they fail to teach their followers this very basic principle.

Not preaching work - recruiting work.

Why join when the group shuns?

Information control - no unnecessary info without the victim having reached a certain level of commitment - Cult 101

See Orwell's book "1984" (The WT Guidebook) and Bending Truth

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Should Jehovah`s Witnesses be worshiping Jehovah ? or Jesus.

by smiddy in

jehovah`s christian witnesses , as they like to be known as , used to worship jesus in earlier times ,but now they do not worship jesus .

they worship a god named jehovah , who they admitted in the first edition of " aid to bible understanding " was not the correct pronunciation of the tetragrammaton `s four letter hebrew letters that represented god` name , by the way , a catholic monk of the 13th century came up with jehovah by just adding a couple of vowels.. to those four hebrew letters .which has since been revised to correctly translate the tetragrammaton as yhwh and many scholars put this name more accurately as yahweh or something more similar.. fact 1 .

the tetragrammaton does not appear in the " kingdom interlinear of christian greek scriptures " printed by the wtb&ts , a word for word translation of the greek scriptures.

berrygerry

Re: Who Cares?

If God wants to be worshiped so badly, and the ONLY way to worship him correctly is by following the one true religion, which said one true religion has determined the precise definition and description of this God, and all other variations or understandings are wrong, so therefore all others deserve to be murdered, etc. etc.

Yup, count me in. I love you God, because you forced me to love you.

IRL, that's called abuse.

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Should Jehovah`s Witnesses be worshiping Jehovah ? or Jesus.

by smiddy in

jehovah`s christian witnesses , as they like to be known as , used to worship jesus in earlier times ,but now they do not worship jesus .

they worship a god named jehovah , who they admitted in the first edition of " aid to bible understanding " was not the correct pronunciation of the tetragrammaton `s four letter hebrew letters that represented god` name , by the way , a catholic monk of the 13th century came up with jehovah by just adding a couple of vowels.. to those four hebrew letters .which has since been revised to correctly translate the tetragrammaton as yhwh and many scholars put this name more accurately as yahweh or something more similar.. fact 1 .

the tetragrammaton does not appear in the " kingdom interlinear of christian greek scriptures " printed by the wtb&ts , a word for word translation of the greek scriptures.

berrygerry

Who cares?

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My first post

by thewalker in

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friends

hi, i just joined the board and wanted to present myself.. i'm active, in fact very active in congregation activities serving "where the need is great" in a foreign language congregation somewhere in western europe.

as a young brother, i'm seen as an example as i'm doing all a good witness should do.. i had doubts years ago but i decided just to ignore them and move to another congregation to preach more.

that worked for some years but i'm now at the exact same point.

berrygerry

Hey Dude:

What

Divergent and DOC said.

Waking up is indeed, hard to do. (A play on the song "Breaking Up is Hard to Do")

The lack of love bothered me for years as well. James 1:27 sums up what God wants in one sentence. WT - orphans and widows - well, widows if they have assets.

As many have said, take a deep breath, and then take another.

This post is worth a read for those waking up: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/2bh9eq/almost_exjw_in_a_very_diffucult_situation_need/cj5hvb8

BTW - Is your username for the song (I love the whistling)?

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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

by OnTheWayOut in

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i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

berrygerry

sir82 ' ... Number of baptisms declined for the 2nd year in a row....'

Perhaps the congregations are running out of 8 year olds.

A corporation can "borrow" from the next quarter to make the present quarter acceptable. You can possibly do that for two, and rarely three, quarters.

At some point, there will be an accounting.

The 15-minute report rule, and the infant baptism, have been used up. Now, the accounting begins.

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We were shown how to google jw-org last night

by StarTrekAngel in

so last night i went to the meeting with my family.

had not gone in 2 weeks.

as usual i sat down reading the bible.

berrygerry

Exactly why they will lose the information war in the end.

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The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Arianna Huffington

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UK Charity Investigation

by berrygerry in

i do not know the background of the tiff (is there one?

) between cedars and this board, but i do not think that his efforts with the uk charity office should be unassisted.. he is asking for brit ex-dubs who have been impacted by shunning.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3t7pac/help_needed_shunning_experiences_from_uk_exjws/.

berrygerry

I do not know the background of the tiff (is there one?) between Cedars and this board, but I do not think that his efforts with the UK Charity Office should be unassisted.

He is asking for Brit ex-Dubs who have been impacted by shunning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3t7pac/help_needed_shunning_experiences_from_uk_exjws/