Posts by BluesBrother

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Is the door to door preaching work not the primary focus anymore?

by pistolpete in

a few months back, one of my uncles who was an elder, asked the co, why jehovah would allow the door to door preaching work, to come to an abrupt end.

this was when my uncle was starting to have serious doubts about the organization.. the co told him to be patient, and hang in there, because the governing body was on top of things and in time would explain what is happening regarding the preaching work.. my uncle asked; “what do you mean?”.

co said; “focus on the wt study articles in the coming months” .

BluesBrother

I think perhaps people are making a lot of this article. What it says is nothing that has not been said before, occasionally.

This is however a frank admission that in the Western developed world there is very little response to the house to house work. So are they going to stop? No , I don’t think so they make it clear that :-

“If we endure in our ministry, we will gain everlasting life. “

That is a pretty strong motivation for the dubs. They live on the promise of paradise!

I bet that whenever Covid is deemed past , there will be articles stressing that the sheep are there to be gathered in

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Question!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

since this article goes back a few years, would you say the world has already accepted jehovah's witnesses as a televangelist organization listed with all the other religions?

your opinions?.

scroll down:.

BluesBrother

For tne world to accept it they would have to know about it. The fact is despite tbeir presence on Roku etc , few people know about it or would download the app unless tbey were connected to them .

I had never heard of most of the channels in the article so that is true of all minority interest channels.

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PIMO elder

by Reservations in

jw
friends

i’m reservations, pimo elder.

i’m in no position to leave the organisation, maybe some people will see that as weak or whatever, but we have to all go down our own path in life.. i would like to be able to wake people up in my congregation, how do you think best to do this?

any ideas?.

BluesBrother

I was also an elder when I learned the truth about The Truth. It was hell. I did not feel I could immediately stand down, I had to lay the groundwork, but I did a few months later. My conscience would not let me continue.

Since then I have not been out in F/S , or answered up, nothing. The elders have let me be.

Of course at first I wanted to help my friends also see the light, but I realised that was not possible without ending up d/fd . I had long discussions with my wife but that’s all. Like the rest of them, they are unmoved by the facts. I now conclude that it is harder to convince a believing JW of the falsehood of their way than it is to convince a worldly person to accept JW beliefs.

Now I respect their right to believe it if they want , they can see all that I can see.

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What is the Jehovah’s Witness position on Unions and Labour action?

by hoser in

jw
friends

i remember you weren’t supposed to picket or be involved in labour unrest.

is this still the jw policy?.

BluesBrother

When I was working I belonged to the union. It was not mandatory but was a good idea given our low opinion of the Company bosses. There were no JW issues, I took part in ballots .We used the option not to pay a levy to the UK Labour Party.

I suppose if I had become Union Rep it may have been different.

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How Did They Get Micheal Palin To Star in the Daniel drama?😂

by Diogenesister in

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BluesBrother

If it were Palin, there might have been some funny jokes in it........

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How would you respond?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

if you tell a jw that he or she is in a cult and they asked you why do you say that?

how would you respond?.

BluesBrother

Better to ask viewpoint questions. Perhaps " what should we look for in our religious leaders?"

Then when he answers show some detail as to why the WTS are not doing that.

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East Pennines A$$emb£y Hall

by punkofnice in

so, my spies tell me that the east pennines a$$emb£y hall is being sold and all proceeds going to jobo hq.

there's a surprise.....not!.

i understand there are other properties too.

BluesBrother

I have been to the East Penine Assembly Hall, It was a good place to go for a Circuit Assembly.

That Hall was built with the money , hard graft and sacrifice of the brothers around there. The ones I knew loved the place and were proud of it. Now it will be sold and turned into something mundane like a warehouse.

I wonder what arrangements they will make for future Circuit Assembly’s ?

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Squandered Life of Jehovah's Witness Youth

by silentbuddha in

08:30 - 15:30 = school.

BluesBrother

“It is no wonder Witness kids grow up resenting the religion and their parents for forcing it on them.“

Actually , in my experience the majority of us grew up to be just as indoctrinated as our parents. I was approaching 50 before I realised there was something the matter. Now I can relate to the sad man’s comments about a lost youth, and a wasted life for decades after.

The whole point of the JW routine is to keep them busy and out of trouble, if you do it properly there’s no time or The will for shenanigans.

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Watchtower thoughts on Jazz

by David.L.Henson in

jw
friends

women!

don't listen to jazz!.

"new orleans jazz has a primitive tom-tom rhythm that does a single woman's peace of mind no good, is one of the insane claims from the tower about the harmful jazz music.. the fact is - if you check up the writings of the tower - the only safe music is the "kingdom songs" - and those do kill your brain if you love music:-)) .

BluesBrother

When I was a teen, The Society was in full force against rock music, they didn’t often mention jazz at that time. All the stuff I liked was “ untheocratic” . Despite being a believing dub, Inever accepted any of that and carried on collecting the music I loved.

Later on they homed in on “heavy metal”. I loved the heavy rock bands so I ignored them, although I was an elder by then.

In more recent times their target has been younger teen stuff that I did not like any way so I was not bothered .

Really, the principle seems to be , if it is popular it must be wrong ... and they criticise it .

Was it not ever thus? I have read that they said that Paganini was “from the Devil”

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Why is there a large cat in this picture?

by slimboyfat in

i wonder if anyone can explain this.

ezekiel 34:25 says .

and i will make a covenant of peace with them, and i will rid the land of vicious wild beasts, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.. the land is said to be rid of vicious wild beasts, so why does the watchtower picture in the new pure worship book show a large predatory cat on the tree in this picture?

BluesBrother

It does look a different artwork style to normal.

My take on this is that they are saying that big cats and other beasts would still be here in the New World, but friendly, just pussy cats . No longer dangerous beasts .

NB. I suppose the owl can’t hunt mice anymore?

This is the first time I have looked at this book . It’s a an old fashioned prophecy explaining book. It has major and minor fulfilments and all the old dates that we keep saying they are going to abandon. The gloss may change but the stuff remains the same.