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Take anything Watchtower says with a huge chunk of salt.
In times past the JW designation meant something. An ACTIVE (preaching and attending) member who held a set group of beliefs including; future life on earth in a paradise.
WT used to be proud of this difference in comparison to mainstream religions which count all nominal 1x per year attenders or donators.
this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
Finance education is great. Budgeting education, simple math, and escaping cult mind control are what is needed by most people.
i recall reading that daniel 12 verse 12 ( 12 blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
), was claimed to have been fulfilled by the cedar point ohio convention in 1922.. can anybody recall which publications this claim was published in please?.
or even better, a screen shot.
Cedar Point, Ohio.....World famous...for....zip. They had a big roller coaster back then. I used to pester mom and the bookstudy about this when I was 10.....in the 60s.
More wasted time about a bronze age dream that only one guy had.
Chalk this up to a 20th-century charlatan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
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https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1960561 (substitute .borg with .org)furthermore, today in every jw publication the tetragrammaton is rendered as yhwh which is more preserved by yahweh than by jehovah..
Does it matter?
Do we have any idea of how bronze-age goatherders pronounced anything?
Where are the "two or more witnesses" to confirm the stories?
here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.
my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.
i had actually become a circuit overseer!
Just another sad tale of a youth wasted with Watchtower. :(
PS. While I was at Bethel in the 70s overseas Branch Overseers were brought back for various meetings and training.
I was excited to have a few work in my department for a few hours each day. I was expecting some Bible scholars! They were all formerly in the circuit work, Gilead Grads, etc. Yikes, was I disappointed. Half had little formal, or bible education. All could recite Watchtower Dogma verbatim, but had trouble reasoning with underlying biblical principles, and everyday work requirements, and even argued with visiting writing staff & GB members (unsuccessfully) during coffee breaks.
Sadly, Gilead is no substitute for College, in preparing for the real world. All investments of youth, time, money, and life in Watchtower are a waste. :(
a post from another exjw site, shows how throughout the years, in a regular, systematic fashion, the watchtower has influence thoroughly; an ideological point of view, in the minds of it’s members by using bible scriptures and examples, to get the members to do the unthinkable, even if it clashes with modern ethics.
february 2016 watchtower, paragraph 3 of the article titled .
"learn from jehovah’s loyal servants".
Way beyond "modern ethics". Felonies. Child rape, domestic violence, Child abuse, Senior financial abuse. Perjury. Conspiracy. Witness tampering.
i was slightly surprised to see that wythenshawe hall has been sold.
it's now a mosque.
this one had an attached flat where the co and his wife lived, i wonder what accommodation they put them in these days..
AH....." perception," "conscience of the congregation," and the slippery Watchtower phrases some elders use for "depends on who you are. "If we don't like you, it's wrong".
I remember a sweet mousy sister who was an engineer working on the moon lander vehicle. The new CO targeted her for "working for a defense contractor"—Lockheed. Meanwhile, a few miles down the road in Silicon Valley, an ex-cop elder was the head of Security for a 100% Defense Contractor, giving keynote talks at Conventions and conducting electronic eavesdropping on Watchtower "enemies" at the behest of Don Adams at Bethel. It all depends on who you are.
this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
In the 1960s I was told I would never graduate High School or get married because Armageddon would be here BY 1975. If you believed this "prophecy" you did not plan or save for the future. Education, home ownership, retirement savings, children, business planning were all impacted.
I have been retired for years now. Many true believers I knew from the 70s are DEAD, crippled, or BROKE. One ex-Special Pioneer I know is homeless and a public beggar. A former Elder and Bethel roommate died in poverty this week in a mountain shack. A 75-year-old window-washing Elder friend fell to his death on the job last year. Another "need greater " pioneer-elder friend rents a room in his twilight years. Meanwhile...Governing Body 3.0 lives in luxury in their gated compound sporting Rolex watches, gold pinky rings, and jetting around the world begging for MOOOORE Money.
For MOST people....not Jehovah's Witnesses....Retirement planning is simple 6th-grade math...save x dollars per month for 40 years @ x % to last your last 30 years. Time and compound interest solve the retirement issue...IF.....you are not blinded by a greedy doomsday cult. :(
like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.
the police chief points out that: .
“yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.
Sad.
Emotional teenagers + Guns = poor results
this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.
(i don’t go on jw dot org).
it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.
Ditto on Wingcommanders post. 5 likes from me.
