I have no intention of ever being a Witness again, but when i look at my family i wonder if they are better living in the ignorance they call spiritual paradise.
Many people seem to have a need for religion. Is it better if they remain as they are? I can't recommend any other religion to my family so is it better that they continue believing in a Witness paradise than leaving and having no crutch to support them? I really feel some of my family would be worse off without religion.
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Is being a Witness really so bad? Is religion bad in general?
by jwfacts ini have no intention of ever being a witness again, but when i look at my family i wonder if they are better living in the ignorance they call spiritual paradise.
many people seem to have a need for religion.
is it better if they remain as they are?
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New member of the Governing Body from Australia
by jwfacts injeff jackson has just been appointed to the gb.
he is a family friend from tasmania, a little island at the bottom of australia.
he is about 50 and claimed to be annointed when i think he was in his late 30's, as a great shock to everyone.
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I hadnt realised this thread had lived on. There are some amazing thoughts in here.
When i said the new book is softer, i mean that it hedges a lot of things to make it appear nice to the reader. The way it says what was expected to happen in 1914, everything is worded very carefully so that no one can easily accuse them of lieing.
I guess i just live in hope of change because my family are all refusing to pull their heads out of the sand. I do believe that the internet will have a rapidly growing detrimental affect on the Org. The internet will soon be used continually be almost everyone and more witnesses will have to stumble on "the truth." I can only see this as being beneficial for those that truly want truth. Unfortunately for those that are left, this could leave a far higher percentage of hardliners in the organisation. -
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Disfellowship article, ideas please
by jwfacts ini have written an article for my parents.
they are somewhat influential in the org and i am trying to convince them to push for changes to current disfellowshipping policy, not that i hold out too much hope.
anyway, i would like what i have written checked for accuracy.
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Thanks again, Ingenuous that was very thorough.
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The Da Vinci Code is what convinced me finally that the JW's are wrong. When i started to research what was written in the DaVinci code i started to uncover a lot of the connections between the Freemasons and Russell. I was totally stunned to see all the information in the Studies in the Scriptures on pyramids and that the knights templar was on the Watchtower. Though the work is fiction, the symbology crept into a number of modern religions.
I have a book I have just started reading that is non fiction (or at least claims to be well researched) that looks at paintings of Da Vinci etc and it does seem he was very much a follower of John the Baptist and did mock Jesus in a number of paintings.
For anyone that is not aware of all the Freemason symbols Russell borrowed when forming the 'Witnesses' i put an article up at http://jwfacts.com/index_files/Page576.htm and a bit on Russells Zionist stance at http://jwfacts.com/index_files/Page576.htm -
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Disfellowship article, ideas please
by jwfacts ini have written an article for my parents.
they are somewhat influential in the org and i am trying to convince them to push for changes to current disfellowshipping policy, not that i hold out too much hope.
anyway, i would like what i have written checked for accuracy.
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Thanks everyone, I will post it as a thread when I have updated it.
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Interesting statistic about JWs in this week's Newsweek
by lucky ini just got this week's newsweek in the mail.
the cover story is "spirituality in america".
page 54 has a table listing change in religious self-identification between 1990 and 2001. the four bottom religions, with negative percentages, are jehovah's witnesses (-4%), jewish, rastafarian, and protestant.
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The 6% divorced is interesting as that is quite high, and probably the same as the general American population. In Australia only 5% of the population is divorced.
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Disfellowship article, ideas please
by jwfacts ini have written an article for my parents.
they are somewhat influential in the org and i am trying to convince them to push for changes to current disfellowshipping policy, not that i hold out too much hope.
anyway, i would like what i have written checked for accuracy.
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I have written an article for my parents. They are somewhat influential in the Org and I am trying to convince them to push for changes to current disfellowshipping policy, not that i hold out too much hope.
Anyway, i would like what i have written checked for accuracy. If anyone has any ideas i have posted the article at http://jwfacts.com/index_files/Page805.htm -
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Hot News-New GB members
by truthsetsonefree inhey ya'll, t was announced this morning at the breakfast table that there are two new members of the governing body.
they were formerly "helpers" or "given ones.
" anthony morris raised a family and then went into the traveling work.
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I dont think many people that have spent their lives devoted to the organisation can even admit to themselves there is something wrong. I doubt he will admit to any wrongdoing. But it may be possible to justify minor changes going forward.
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I speak to a lot of witnesses my age and i would say most are somewhat apostate. Many know the teachings are suspect, but are staying involved for family and friends.
Even many that feel they are 100% devoted have their own ideas about things. Very few people that i have spoken to believe only JW's will be saved at Armageddon. -
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Hot News-New GB members
by truthsetsonefree inhey ya'll, t was announced this morning at the breakfast table that there are two new members of the governing body.
they were formerly "helpers" or "given ones.
" anthony morris raised a family and then went into the traveling work.
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I am, or probably should say was a friend of Geoff Jackson. I studied with his Father-in-Law when i was a teenager. He is from Tasmania, a little island at the bottom of Australia. He is about 50 and claimed to be annointed when I think he was in his late 30's in around 1990, as a great shock to everyone. There was a lot of discussion about his annointing, but he was a special pioneer so people decided it must have been legititmate.
He has spent years as a special pioneer in the Pacific Islands. Special pioneered on Tuvalu, wrote the first Tuvaluan dictionary, was a personal friend of the King of Tuvalu. He went on to be on the Fijian Branch committee.
He has a great sense of humour, and is very intelligent. I would like to see what he does to the GB. His wife is very sweet, one of the gentlest people I have ever known.
I really see the religion changing over the next 20 years. There will be a lot of softening of doctrine and eventually the religion will become more mainstream. The latest release 'what does the bible really teach' is written in a very broad and soft way, and with newbies like Geoff on the GB there is the opportunity for some of the ridiculous stances to be changed. Geoff is smart enough to see that there is no growth in developed countries and that something needs to be done about it.