given the proliferation of websites, youtube channels, books and other forms of media attention focusing on the extreme policies, teachings and scandals of the watchtower bible and tract society; where does this now leave the governing body's credibility?.
CREDIBILITY: 1. the quality or power of inspiring belief.
2. capacity for belief. - Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
They never had any credibility to begin with, except with the adherents of the Jehovah's Witness religion. No one else really takes notice or cares.
i am looking for the book the harp of god.
i am told it has some crazy passages in it.
can anyone put up some quotes of the book?
"I am told it has some crazy passages in it." - blownaway
The craziest one of all is on the title page of the 1921 edition:
"This generation shall by no means pass away until all these things occur."
i thought it was bad enough that jw`s put in weekly reports of fs hours every month in the d2d work when in fact the average publisher would never mention this "good news of the kingdom" to the householder .. more often than not it would be something like some mundane thing about what they have observed about the householders property whether they have kids ,what a lovely garden they have before being cut off by the householder with i`m not interested knowing jw`s are trying to convert them/sell them the watchtower and closing the door.. yet the jw goes away happily putting in a report telling jehovah they have spent so much time in the fs witnessing about him and the kingdom of christ jesus...... cart witnessing is even a worse lie ,why ?
because jw`s make no attempt to witness to anybody they expect people to come to them to be witnessed to which of course never happens .
they spend hours upon hours a month telling jehovah by their fs reports they hand in how much they have witnessed for him ,when in fact they have done nothing of the sort .. they chit chat among themselves witnessing to nobody for hours on end and then lie in their fs report they have been witnessing for jehovah ?.
Time counting has always been fraudulent. It's all bull$hit! My ex pioneer partner padded his hours from day one. He currently serves as an Elder and fill in Circuit Overseer. Jehovah's Witnesses are all about appearances........................lies mean nothing to them.
loyalty appears to be the buzzword constantly promoted by the gb at the moment.
we hear it at conventions, assemblies, and meetings.. let's face it loyalty covers so much.
shunning of family, friends etc.
New World Translation = Not Worded Truthfully!
again with the pants... tony, if you can't stop looking at young men in tight pants don't take it out on the rest of us.
https://www.facebook.com/john.cedars.5/posts/868329653345317.
"Everything old is new again." Slim cut trousers for men follow a cyclical fashion pattern. I personally don't like them but would never have the audacity to tell someone else that they could not wear them.................especially invoking the distaste of some invisible Deity that I claim to represent. Rather than project his personal issues onto members of the congregation,Tony might do better to follow the Biblical advice of JOB: "I have made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman (or in Tony's case, a young man)" JOB 31:1 NIV
again with the pants... tony, if you can't stop looking at young men in tight pants don't take it out on the rest of us.
https://www.facebook.com/john.cedars.5/posts/868329653345317.
Anthony Morris III is one human being I just will not respect. Witness or not, he is full of SH!T right up to his eyeballs. Haughty, arrogant, self righteous, self satisfied, judgmental, bigoted, opinionated and DOGMATIC are all adjectives that are not strong enough to describe the image he projects. His poor wife and children probably can't wait for him to be taken to his heavenly reward.
i live in a very rural part of the northeastern united states.
after 9 years of waiting, the local witnesses are getting their new kingdom hall.
it is being built on a back road next to a sandpit.
UPDATE:
This just happened within the last half hour. One of my customers came up to me in the parking lot at work and wanted to exchange pleasantries. Eventually, the conversation came around to that 'new building those people have on the back road.' I laughed and said, Yes, that is the new Kingdom Hall. He said (quote verbatim) : "That is the ugliest church I have ever seen. It looks like a prison to me." The Governing Body certainly has used discernment in making the new Kingdom Halls inviting to the general public.!
do you think the gb live in big, posh houses??.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4diruxmqh4.
Actually, I think that you are on to something, DesirousOfChange. When I was at Watchtower Farms in the 1970's, the Society had many outside residences just for this purpose. Walter Ludtke, the Assistant Construction Overseer, lived in one of these homes with his wife and children. John Appeltauer, the Farms dentist and his wife also lived in a private residence owned by the Society. This is nothing new but seems to be growing exponentially.
(And you are correct..............the 'we're going broke' image is all bullshit and spin, contrary to the belief of some posters here.)
do you think the gb live in big, posh houses??.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4diruxmqh4.
This is great work! I tried to research this very same thing on Thursday at work but could not gain access to the Orange County Registry of Deeds. After researching the Registry of Deeds for Brooklyn, I wanted to know how much money the Organization got for their properties and how much of it was invested upstate in the new Warwick Vatican. Thank you for this research. This bears looking into further!
greetings, dreamers:.
i guess it's never going away: daytime carryovers of jw-related stuff seeping into my dreams.. the majority of these dreams take place at conventions but with really weird trappings.
last night i dreamed i arrived at the site with no books, no lunch, nothing but my car keys.
