Posts by truthseeker100

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Is Watchtower imploding? 10 reasons why the end could be nigh

by WildeLover in

http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/is-watchtower-imploding-10-reasons-why-the-end-could-be-nigh.

i dont know how to hyperlink the link above,.

it's a link to an article by cedars on the possibility of the wt imploding?.

truthseeker100

I agree that a mass exodus is not going to happen for a variety of reasons, but I also think the publishing house that they enjoyed for a century or so is over. Just like many newspaper and magazine publishing houses that are former shells of themselves. The big major ones are still around but their influence is somewhat diminished.

This is why the WTBTS is selling the expensive properties in NY and elsewhere they are no longer needed. At least now they will have to continually adapt with the internet and compete to get their message out. That's why the indifference witnessed in the trolley cart witnessing

Then there is the third world countries were they can continue with publishing the way they have always done at least for now.

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Yet more trolley (in)activity

by konceptual99 in

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i am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.

whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.

i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.

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Sofia Lose " I ain't wasting my time, looking weird, in some public corner. No way!"

That's exactly the way I felt going door to door as a child. LOL

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Do you celebrate National Junk food day. July 26th. My suggestion, a Gripe Day.

by James Mixon in

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some of you may find this to be silly, a grip day.. ok, how many knew we have these days.. 1)national fast food day.

2) chick-fil-a , annual cow appreciation day.

july 14.

truthseeker100

Well everyone it's international Pi approximation day 7/22. Actually 22/7=3.14

That's the first thing I said to the wife when we woke up this morning. She looked at me as if I had two heads. Who knows what evil lurks in a women's mind? LOL

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Potential for new meeting?

by campaign of hate in

i've mentioned it in a few threads, but i'd like to make it a thread of it's own.. i'm going to make the prediction the gb will schedule a new meeting once a month, starting in jan 2016, for watching the jw broadcasting program.

at the moment it's up to each cong to organize a viewing, but soon the gb will take over the arrangements.. i make this assumption based on the fact that they know that a substantial quantity of pubs are not tuning in every month.. by scheduling a meeting once a month, it's easier for the gb/elders/organisation to gauge how many people are watching, and to make sure everyone is fully indoctrinated with what the gb are saying.

it will also keep the rank and file busy busy busy.. if i was a cult leader, that's what i would do.

truthseeker100

Its a possibility, the latest thing for Kingdom Halls to have a large screen up on the stage, where the monthly broadcast could be viewed.

Not that something like that would bring to mind images of George Orwell's 1984. Would it Finkel ? LOL.

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So much "growth"! JW Land double sided coin

by thedepressedsoul in

i'm finding it more and more funny how every wt article for the public or congregation, including jw broadcast talks about all this "growth" and how fast jehovha's organization is speeding up!

yet everything behind closed doors, insider information, elder letters and sales paint a very different picture.

i have news for you gb members!

truthseeker100

This makes me think that the same could eventually happen in the third world where expansion does exist for now, that a saturation point will come and the JW org will nevertheless be in control of even greater wealth and large numbers of dim-witted believers loyally breeding new child members... just like they did in the Catholic Church.

There is however a dramatic difference; the Roman Catholic Church has a magisterial hold over its vast but diminishing membership based on the myth of an apostolic inheritance from Jesus’ appointment of Peter. The Watchtower religion makes its claim by contrast as a doomsday cult, not of this world, which can never claim the ‘earthly’ authority as does its envied and supremely successful rival.

The authority of a doomsday cult arises from the confidence in the accuracy of its predictions...

Half Banana: Very astute observations about the Catholic Church and the JW doomsday cult.

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Why some smart people believe the JWs/Bible

by jws in

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i consider myself smart.

go ahead, laugh.

i have a sense of humor too.. but i grew up a jw and also believed in the bible.

truthseeker100

I just went along going through the motions paying lip service to this odd religious belief system I was born into

Me too Jookbeard. I can honestly say that there was not a time while being a JW that I felt comfortable with it. Maybe that's why I never brought anyone "into the truth" even though I had the opportunity on many occasions to do so. I was sort of like those people that walked really slow from house to house hoping to find not at homes.

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Facing up to the reality of the world

by purrpurr in

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since becoming atheist i have been paying more attention to world events and issues.

this is giving me some worry's when i see what's going on.

as a jw i could just dismiss stuff saying "armageddon is coming, jehovah will look after us" etc etc now of course i can't do that.

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Purr Purr

There are more humans alive right now leading longer and healthier lives than at any time in human history. So unless you live in North Korea there is no greater time to be alive. We routinely deal with health issues for example on a world wide scale that would have wiped out millions in the past.

Life is not perfect by any means but just imagine if you were on a space ship headed for earth could you think of a better time to be arriving than now? Our biggest challenge now as people is to make sure we don't become victims of our own success by overpopulating and allowing petty differences to force us into warring with each other. Education and not indoctrination is key to this and I am sure that scares the hell out of a lot of religiously minded people but I think we'll figure it out. Who knows what the rest of this century will bring?

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JW Broadcasting is dying.

by John Aquila in

once a month about 15 to 20 elderly jw publishers would meet at the kingdom hall and one elder was assigned to set up the system so they could view jw broadcasting.

these publishers were long time pioneers, former elders, and long time publishers who know nothing about computers or the internet.

they are the last batch of those expecting the generation that saw 1914 or understood it--- to not die off.

truthseeker100

I think in the developed world we are going to see similar occurrences like this in the next few years. The witnesses waited far too long to embrace the information superhighway,

In the developing world lets hope the internet develops rapidly.

Sad days really for publishing empires like newspapers and the WTBTS,

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JW Broadcasting is dying.

by John Aquila in

once a month about 15 to 20 elderly jw publishers would meet at the kingdom hall and one elder was assigned to set up the system so they could view jw broadcasting.

these publishers were long time pioneers, former elders, and long time publishers who know nothing about computers or the internet.

they are the last batch of those expecting the generation that saw 1914 or understood it--- to not die off.

truthseeker100

I remember back in the 60's carrying a booklet published by the WTBTS that was to be used to teach people how to read so they could understand the bible. Now the same organization abandons their elderly who swallowed all that tripe hook line and sinker.

I can't help but feel sorry for those elderly ones.

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What can you tell me about this painting?

by Esse quam videri in

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some weirdo in a throne above a herd of sheep.