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What's Is The Goal Of This Religion?

by pale.emperor in

what's is the goal of this religion?.

i mean, if it's for money they could do a lot more like other religions do: tithing, paying for prayers from the gb, selling "miracles", selling "blessed" items, selling courses.. if its for power then what are they hoping to do with that power?

they dont seem to do anything.

Wild_Thing

The only goal that I have ever seen JWs have is to grow numbers. Grow members, grow hours, grow the number of memorial attendance, grow number of languages they can print their garbage in.

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What is the purpose of life?

by slimboyfat in

while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

Wild_Thing

What is the purpose of life? The answer is simple. The purpose of YOUR life whatever purpose YOU decide to give it.

For someone else to have to tell me what the purpose of my own life is sounds a little presumptuous. I swear, JWs can't think about anything on their own ... not even what the purpose of their own life is.

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Contradictory Information on the Life of Geoffrey Jackson

by Wild_Thing in

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in geoffrey jackson's autobiography published in in the watchtower, he states that him and his wife went to serve as missionaries on the island nation of tulavu in 1979, and there were only 3 baptized witnesses in all of tulavu, and he translated all of the witness literature into the tuvaluan language in 1980, printing it right there on the island.

the article says they served as missionaries there until 1985 when they were assigned to the samoa branch.. .

in july, 2008, the watchtower society penned a letter to the un human rights council about the treatment of jws in tuvalu.

Wild_Thing

conceptual99 ... I have started doing research on the governing body members, just for my own self, and I ran across it on the internet through one of my google searches. I was trying to look up the history of JWs in Tuvalu since that is where Jackson was first a missionary, and jackpot ... I hit the motherload.

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Contradictory Information on the Life of Geoffrey Jackson

by Wild_Thing in

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in geoffrey jackson's autobiography published in in the watchtower, he states that him and his wife went to serve as missionaries on the island nation of tulavu in 1979, and there were only 3 baptized witnesses in all of tulavu, and he translated all of the witness literature into the tuvaluan language in 1980, printing it right there on the island.

the article says they served as missionaries there until 1985 when they were assigned to the samoa branch.. .

in july, 2008, the watchtower society penned a letter to the un human rights council about the treatment of jws in tuvalu.

Wild_Thing

You mean ... the Watchtower lied to the U.N.? That is so shocking! I can't believe it!

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Geoffrey Jackson: Published Author

by Wild_Thing in

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this is so bizarre to me.. https://www.amazon.com/tuvaluan-dictionary-tuvaluan-english-geoffrey-jackson/dp/982902704x.

https://www.amazon.com/introduction-tuvaluan-geoff-jackson/dp/9829027023/ref=oosr.

Wild_Thing

For Jackson to note that the Australian. Government printed it is boastful but he has also said that he turned down a scholarship when it is highly unlikely that he was ever offered one.

Exactly! Don't you love how they word things in their autobiography: "Would I accept a scholarship to go to university?" But notice the question isn't answered and it is never stated that he even actually scholarship. And it is highly unlike that an Australian 15 year old boy in 1971 headed for dropping out would be offered a scholarship from any university.

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Geoffrey Jackson: Published Author

by Wild_Thing in

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this is so bizarre to me.. https://www.amazon.com/tuvaluan-dictionary-tuvaluan-english-geoffrey-jackson/dp/982902704x.

https://www.amazon.com/introduction-tuvaluan-geoff-jackson/dp/9829027023/ref=oosr.

Wild_Thing

Jenny was his JW Australian wife he married. They were both assigned as missionaries to the island nation of Tuvalu. He has an 8th/9th grade education tops. I don't know the education level of Jenny, but I doubt it was more. Neither of them knew how to speak the language before becoming missionaries there.

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Contradictory Information on the Life of Geoffrey Jackson

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

in geoffrey jackson's autobiography published in in the watchtower, he states that him and his wife went to serve as missionaries on the island nation of tulavu in 1979, and there were only 3 baptized witnesses in all of tulavu, and he translated all of the witness literature into the tuvaluan language in 1980, printing it right there on the island.

the article says they served as missionaries there until 1985 when they were assigned to the samoa branch.. .

in july, 2008, the watchtower society penned a letter to the un human rights council about the treatment of jws in tuvalu.

Wild_Thing

In Geoffrey Jackson's autobiography published in in the Watchtower, he states that him and his wife went to serve as missionaries on the island nation of Tulavu in 1979, and there were only 3 baptized Witnesses in all of Tulavu, AND he translated all of the Witness literature into the Tuvaluan language in 1980, printing it right there on the island. The article says they served as missionaries there until 1985 when they were assigned to the Samoa Branch.

In July, 2008, the Watchtower Society penned a letter to the UN Human Rights Council about the treatment of JWs in Tuvalu. In it they summarized the history of the Witnesses in the island nation, claiming that Geoffrey Jackson was not assigned as a missionary there until 1984:

This is quite a discrepancy. Can anyone make sense of it?

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Geoffrey Jackson: Published Author

by Wild_Thing in

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this is so bizarre to me.. https://www.amazon.com/tuvaluan-dictionary-tuvaluan-english-geoffrey-jackson/dp/982902704x.

https://www.amazon.com/introduction-tuvaluan-geoff-jackson/dp/9829027023/ref=oosr.

Wild_Thing

This man dropped out of school when he was 15. He does not have any formal education beyond 8th, possibly 9th grade. But he wrote a dictionary and a grammar book. That the Australian government printed "as a gift" to these Island people. I would really like some verification on that.

From: https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/ws20150815/let-many-islands-rejoice

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