so i did a huge book clearout before i moved house a few weeks ago.
among the books for sale were some watchtower books that had become obsolete, old light or had since been "clarified" by the society.
so i thought they'd be wanted by ex-jw's or active apostates for their research.. unfortunately, it looks like an active jw is so brainwashed that they not only bought the "old light" version of gods kingdom rules but they even suggested that i read it because "time is running out".
i suppose i should have ebay'd my late fathers collection of watchtower garbage. he must have had a copy of every magazine going back over the last 50 odd years. all filed neatly in old corn flake type boxes. i found them stashed all over his house.
all went into landfill.
thought this might be of interest....... .
from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38368526.
jediism not a religion, charity commission rules.
JWs had 137,631 "publishers" in the UK in 2015 according to Wikipedia.
wow--i'm impressed--that about doubled from when i was a dub.
but then--i quit 45 years ago.
thought this might be of interest....... .
from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38368526.
jediism not a religion, charity commission rules.
7th most popular religion--where--in the UK ? where does the watchtower society come then ?
recently attended a special assembly day.. guest speaker was thomas chicky, a member of the us branch committee and the head of the us ldc (which has replaced the rbcs).. the last talk of the day is scheduled for an hour.
it was the usual boring mumbo-jumbo.
he appeared to have blasted through his hour-long outline in just about 45 minutes, so he "treated" us to informal comments on recent developments.. he commented on the new wt complex in fishkill ny.. then he dropped the bomb (well, to anyone with ears and at least 2 functioning synapses).. the following is not a word for quote, but presents the gist of his comments:.
with all the printing technology and know how----why doesnt the watchtower society simply print money ?
recently attended a special assembly day.. guest speaker was thomas chicky, a member of the us branch committee and the head of the us ldc (which has replaced the rbcs).. the last talk of the day is scheduled for an hour.
it was the usual boring mumbo-jumbo.
he appeared to have blasted through his hour-long outline in just about 45 minutes, so he "treated" us to informal comments on recent developments.. he commented on the new wt complex in fishkill ny.. then he dropped the bomb (well, to anyone with ears and at least 2 functioning synapses).. the following is not a word for quote, but presents the gist of his comments:.
so--14,000 congregations share 6,200 kingdumb halls.---and they dont plan to build 100's of new ones....
hello fellow apostates!
my first post and a long time lurker here.
i would like to thank all of you for the existence of this board as this has been instrumental for me in leaving the place i once knew as "the truth".
during our wt life we met a good number of friends involved in the circuit and district work.
i am sure that we share the same experience and that we remember fondly some that we caring, loving and generally interested in the brothers.
at the same time we might remember others that were arrogant, selfish, abusive and oppressive.
my parents had several CO's stay with them on their visits---none were what i would call normal. the most well known was the late Ken Richmond--the man who banged the gong in Rank film titles.
i had Bevan Vigo stay at my house when he was a new CO--hes at London HQ now.
i think a fair number had wives with wealthy parents--judging by the clothes they wore.
why does the wt interpret matt.24:34 "truly i say to you this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.
" as having overlapping generations ?
and not applying the same reasoning to any other scripture/s referring to a generation or this generation .?
Matt.24:34 "Truly I say to you these overlapping generations will by no means pass away until all these things occur."
does that sound better ?
the city in which i work is flooded with those witnessing carts.
today im going to approach one of them and pretend i dont know what they believe.
gonna try and record it if i can.
or--why have your headquarters been sold ?
i am agnostic.
i will count how many agnostics, atheists and christians that are reading this forum regularly.
please answer my question.
how odd--i cant turn to pages 2 or 3 on this thread.
deemunz.
