It has been my experience that jw's today know little to nothing about 1874, 1914 or 1919 and most certainly cannot explain it let alone find any scriptural reasoning for any of it. Talk about the inches of the pyramid thing, or other crazy things (miles to cedar something or other? my mind must be going...) and a jw will laugh and say that jw's used to believe lots of funny things. Any attempt to compare those days to now and you just get the deer in the headlights look. New light and all that....
Posts by carla
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201914 a doctrinal lie that created an entire religion the Jehovah's Witnesses
by Finkelstein inwhen you think about it the jws was foundationaly created upon a single core doctrine which was created close to a 100 years ago, that is the doctrinal year of 1914 .. the leader(s) of the ibsa in 1919 proclaimed that jehovah had selectively chosen them or him as it were by j. rutherford, they also self identified themselves as the anointed class the faithful slave.. from all of these expressive endeavors a new religion sprung up eventually calling themselves the jehovah's witnesses.
years and decades followed where more and more people were lured into the faith making themselves subservient devoted members as well, some also identifying themselves as the anointed class.
the jws proclaimed through their leaders (gb) that they were true loyal witnesses to jehovah's will and purpose, but were they really ?
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JW food bank?
by peacefulpete inmy parents local congo has been participating is a food box program.
apparently the food is coming from a janesville hub and given to jws only.
does anyone know the source of the food?
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carla
2 Cheeseheads on one thread! (now three) small world. I mentioned to my jw that the boxes were not from the kh but rather a federal program of some sort and after some hemming and hawing he agreed that was so. Apparently some jw's seem to know this.
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Are You Satisfied With The Way The News Media Acts?
by minimus init would be a wonderful thing if the news media tried to exercise some fairness when they report the news or editorialize on a matter.
if the news media does not stop showing bias, i would like to see sanctions of some sort on the cnn’s of the world.
i really don’t think they can make the media fair but it would be nice..
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carla
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Worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.
by smiddy3 indoes anybody know what this message will contain ?
is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?
or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.
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carla
They want to end all human leadership/government? I say they start with the gb of the jw's!
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another reason pandemic benefits org
by Magnum ini've already posted in an earlier thread how the pandemic benefits the org in that it presents it an excuse to go completely electronic and sell all buildings (if that's what it wants).
however, there is another way the pandemic benefits the org; it presents it an excuse for declining numbers.. many of us have wondered just how much of a downturn there's been in jw land in recent years.
we've wondered whether the org was playing with the numbers to make the situation appear better than it was.
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carla
One other thing it allows them is to at every damn opportunity in the current world situation (pandemic, mayhem, etc..) they can slip in "it will all be better some day". It is driving me nuts, I know full well my jw is dreaming of paradise earth and not that anything will get better in our lifetime.
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In my country the preaching work is over
by cookiemaster inthe jws in my country can't preach to anyone these days and they're going crazy.
i live in romania and initially during the covid-19 lockdown they were very enthusiastic about preaching.
they've since held daily "field service meetings" on zoom.
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IICSA and NO apologies regarding child abuse
by Fadeaway1962 inhttps://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witness-child-abuse-sex-18717755 .
no collective regret or any acknowledgement that child sexual abuse had happened among jws..
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carla
Excellent article that will really educate the non jw world about how things really are dubland.
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No, They Will Never Notice!
by Atlantis insince the watchtower has already made this bible public, i can put a link out here.. no, the rank & file will never notice the words "governing body" have been inserted into acts 15: 1-35 in the 2019 new world translation, matthew to acts.. click the image to make it larger if need be.. https://postimg.cc/sqvdl10w petra!
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carla
Ask them to get a hold of an old KIT and compare. They won't and will find the request highly suspicious. I speak from experience. Took the elder months to get my newbie jw a copy then he wouldn't read the darn thing and had to return it. Why wouldn't he read it? because, like an idiot, I told him some ex jw's had read it and left the org because if it.
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So according to wt. Doctrine, If you die one day before Armageddon...
by nowwhat? inyou will be resurrected.
but if you live one more day when armageddon starts you will die a horrible death with no chance of a resurrection.
makes sense to me!.
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carla
I tried to tell my jw's family about this odd doctrine, as like so many they don't believe it.
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meditation now OK
by tottenkopf ini see ken flodine spelling saying in the new zoom assembly that you should meditate.
when i was in the cult that was a huge no no.
it was called blanking your mind and the demons could take control.
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carla
Awesome! now if I should ever get caught meditating my jw can't say jack! If their definition is fluid as so many jw words are they are like trying to pin down a jello shot. It is so easy, I almost feel bad when I try to make my jw define a word.