Wow. I just realized that there isn't a single comment in the bible anywhere showing a Christian how to strengthen a fellow that has lost his faith in the Governing Body...
I wonder why?
we all sin and some sins are worse than others but blasphemy against the holy spirit is said to be unforgivable.what is considered to be an unforgivable sin?
Wow. I just realized that there isn't a single comment in the bible anywhere showing a Christian how to strengthen a fellow that has lost his faith in the Governing Body...
I wonder why?
my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.
we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.
we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.
I've enjoyed all of the YouTube vids the two of you have produced.
I hope to do some videos of my own one day.
Welcome to the forum.
my parents insisted that i'd take them to the memorial.
my cousin said he'd come too and another brother who doesn't have a car begged to join.
i was dreading having to go through exactly the same thing again.
Find out how many braved the weather and attended.
That would be interesting.
Reason would have us hope very few could or would be willing to drive in a life threatening situation for 'loyalty'?
i had no idea that the resistance, governance, and duplicity i am experiencing as a jehovah witness is actually part of a bigger behavioral issue that permeates the entire jehovah witness culture.. i was troubled by the fact that many persons who have been crushed by the unfair practices of jw leadership described themselves as former members of the jw cult, and, or, apostates.
the latter bothered me to a greater degree because i felt the word apostate has been overused by jw's leadership and members.
anyone who disagrees with anything the governing body does or says is assigned the label an apostate.
Isn't it funny that once awake, the 'Awake!' magazine title becomes an ironic joke.
Truth in plain site.
i don't want my wife recognizing me, but i feel like making an anti-jw scene.
A big sign no one can miss that says:
Shun exJWs in imitation of Jesus
Or
Wachtower's Pedophile problems are not "apostate lies"
"research 1975, JWs"
Something easy to read from a distance that once seen is already read.
i've never met a group that turns on it's members like the jw's.
sister faithful that thinks she's anointed is now bat shit crazy with mental illness.
we all have known it's true, but now you have the wt, who put it in everyone's head that you can be anointed.
The only relevance the 'number of partakers' had is with the failed prophecy of "Millions now living Will Never Die". ( the generation of anointed that saw the sign in 1914 )
When the numbers were steadily decreasing it meant we were close to 'The End'©. yay!
That generation is meaningless now with the wonderful nu-lite of 'Overlapping Generations' and so are the 'anointed', meaningless.
This is part of the last phase of failed prophesy cover-up operations.
Ridiculous and sad.
Many saw it coming.
i'm completely new at this however just in my joining this forum and of course interacting with others i can't help but notice what appears to be a significant exodus from the organization.. for those of you that have long been in this game have you seen this before?
i'm really curious and we should refrain from the sensational, but is what we're seeing different than in years past?.
it sure seems like so so many are waking and leaving.
Imagine if the access to the information we individually discovered that allowed us to make the tough decision to leave was available 20 years ago?
Everyone uses or will use the internet for everything in the next few years.
Watchtower can no longer hide it's cult tactics from the masses.
Plain and simple.
is someone in your congregation confused?
coming soon to the local congregations:.
anointification neutralizer100 suppositories.
I hope more partake...
Just to give the GB one more thing to freak out about.
i have seen a few posts here, in various guises, in relation to whether watchtower is in decline.
plenty of people respond, but it is all fairly anecdotal, or "gut feel".
some of it has been wishful thinking.. as of late 2015, watchtower's numbers suggest it is still growing marginally, but there are various anecdotes on this site of publishers typically being older, and younger ones disappearing.
Once the AUS commission starts forcing WT to pay out money and the future ones in other countries do the same, It will be impossible to hide the FACT that the donations to the WWW that JWs have been making for their entire lives are paying for Watchtower crime...
Then, add in awakened JWs watching the ARC video archives after seeing a 'satanic' media report that turned out to be 100% true.
When that is clearly evident, the exodus will be unstoppable.
How WT hides this much longer is the bigger mystery.
how far do you think the corporation will take this?.
will it totally replace speakers at the meetings?.
y'know, that kind of thing..... .
With the shortage of eldurrz and savantz, one could see the need to return to the days before my time of the 'congregation servant'.
Was that like a pastor? Did all the parts?
Anyway, just hit play and now the meeting is on autopilot!
Good times~