according to my wife, who is reading some other discussion board, the following changes are happening in the organization, or will happen, or have happened:.
1. no more book study meetings.
instead, the book study is added to the theocratic ministry school meeting.. 2. awake is published only once a month.. 3. two versions of the watchtower: one for the public, one for the witnesses themselves.. 4. shortened sunday meetings -- 1.5 hours instead of 2.0 hours.. 5. shortened hourly requirements for pioneers (this one may not be as new as the others?)..
Dedalus,
Some of those changes just happened and others happened some time ago. Check the active topics and go back a few more pages than you did and you'll see a whole bunch of pages on the recent bookstudy change.
There have also been changes to the Generation meaning.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kfabvii4kpg.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jt9bz9xq7c0.
ex-jw's apoloigize for knocking on doors..
Excellent job to everyone who has made a video that can help people.
Moxie, I saw your video before and I am glad I can now say to you directly - great job!!
well hello all....yes...i'm a newbie.... and yep...i am an inactive witness.
haven't been to a meeting in a while.
my entire family are witnesses, actually had a relative that proclaimed to be of the 144000...thats how deep....this is third generation witnesses here in this family.
I'm glad you found the board Mary.
The advice and information others have given is really great. So many here have lived a life similar to yours. This board is a fantastic healing place.
For my part I can say that yes the fear of the end coming imminently does pass. When I was doubting and becoming inactive I used to get nervous watching the news or even when a severe thunderstorm happened. I always that 'well, this is it. Jehovah is going to kill me now.' I don't feel that way any longer. Educating myself on witness doctrines and the history of the organization helped me - and time.
i apologize if this has been discusses before.
a few months ago publishers were told not to hand in individual study reports for bible studies.
remember, we had to hand in a separate report for each bible study with name and address of bible student.
I didn't realize this change happened either. I guess the publishers won't have to create fake names and addresses of bible studies any longer.
it looks like there is a pattern of a major cutback every year or so for the past several years.
from soft cover binding, no more subscriptions, 30 min public talks, members only wt magazine, book study meeting elimination.
maybe i missed some others.
next publication oriented step: Combining WT study magazine with KM. Simplify, simplify, simplify.
next organizational step: remove COs. Have city overseers take on the duties and keep their part or full-time jobs so the WTS doesn't have to pay them a dime or worry about their insurance needs.
sorry for the delay in posting back all, now that im a worldly materialistic person work keeps me busy j. due to all the welcoming comments and the requests from my first post (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/157384/1.ashx) i thought i would elaborate on how some of the ways i got my family out the way i did.
(i will try and keep this reasonably short j).
because i had already decided just after we got married that i didnt believe the crap anymore i started fading straight away, and i almost made a huge mistake, i was getting on quite well with an elder at the time and mentioned to him that i was a bit disillusioned with it all.
Thanks Imfreeatlast. I'm so glad you got your family out. Your method sounds really good. Shame it's too late for me to try it. Perhaps I'll think of a way to modify your method and make it work in my case.
i am a bit of a yo yo dieter - i have been dieting ever since i was a teenager, and my role model for this was my mom of course.
in fact one of my very early memories of going shopping with mom and her buying a diet shake mix.
well... i have a little girl who is almost three and i have been thinking about things and i really need to break this cycle of crash diets, losing 5 kgs and picking up 10 once i have lost motivation.
Congratulations Princess!!
WW is a great place with good people who will help you reach your goals!!
just got done with a 3 hr.
argument with my family.
the essence of the conversation was that since im not going to the meetings, aka: in the organization, im not a good person.
Noontide,
I have to say I'm proud of you. What you did took courage. Standing up for your beliefs and thoughts in the face of strong opposition is not easy. Good for you.
Terry's post was right on.
Also, use the WTCD and pull some quotes out about researching your religion to make sure what you believe is true. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
weird.
after the letter was read, many clapped.
i don't know how to interpret that.. .
I understand your points mightyone.
Would you say the Society knows that the friends receive their words in the manner you describe? If so, should they be more careful about how they phrase things so the sheep don't unnecessarily burden themselves?
or
Is there a possibility that the Society knows how the friends receive their words and therefore the words are measured carefully in order to create the desired reaction?
i know it was just announced yesterday about the bs change to cbs (congregation bible study) merging soon with tms & sm.
but that's old news to us (hee-hee).
what your speculation of the next change?
It's been posted elsewhere by someone else but:
Getting rid of Circuit Overseers.
A local elder could be deputized to visit local congregations and trains to report the goings on to headquarters.
There is already a position called City Overseer. The City Overseer could extend his responsibilities to actually visit the local congregations under his jurisdiction.
This would wipe out an entire layer of middle management - a layer that could be fertile for apostasy.
