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  So much "growth"! JW Land double sided coin

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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!

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  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.

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  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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  2. friends

  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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.
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  So much "growth"! JW Land double sided coin

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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!

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  I hope you are wrong in your assessment Orphan Crow but chances are you are probably right.

  The only hope then is that the developing world develops fast and everyone has easy access to the information of the evil internet. Sort of mankind's revenge of the Tower of Babel scenario.
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  Trump is a funny guy. Attacks John McCain

  by James Mixon in

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  the guy don't realize when he attack john mccain he alienated every men .

  and women who served in the military.

  and this is coming from a guy that.

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  Nimrath your Grandfather being a contributor to the Doolittle raid sound like he would have been a great guy to talk to about the war. Your Father's contributions as a merchant marine should not be overlooked either. The merchant navy here in Canada too kept Great Britain fed and supplied and many ships that were sent out ended up at the bottom of the North Atlantic. They were sitting ducks.

  I grew up around many of that Greatest Generation and they were cut from a different cloth indeed. While some glory grabbers like John McCain are out there there most of that Greatest Generation that I knew personally had to be cajoled into telling some of their stories.

  My hat is off to them and that includes the Merchant Navy as well as the aging Vietnam Vets many of whom weren't treated right.
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  July 19th Watchtower Summary. Insanity

  by Lemonp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just got back from the wt study and it overall was just so blindingly biased and leading.. i had to read it from the platform too, i hope they couldn't see the confounded look on my face as i read this craziness out!.

  first we consider the faith of abel, enoch, noah, abraham, isaac and jacob, and moses.. all of these people are held up as sterling examples of blind faith, with the article pointedly saying that their imaginations sustained their faith in gods promises for them.

  no mention anywhere at all that all of these characters saw and talked to angels, spoke to god himself, saw and performed miracles, or any of the other feats experienced by these characters.

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  The fact that their paradise is to be achieved on the back of the slaughter of billions of helpless men, women and children seems to bother them not a jot.
  

  I use to wonder about things like that too Blues and as a child it scared the hell out of me. I think that most JW's just don't think things through enough.
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  Human Potential is Awesome - We Visited Pluto Today

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  nasa's probe "new horizons" was launched in 2006 and since then has been speeding across 3 billion miles of space to the most distant planet in our solar system.. the first pictures arrived today with higher resolution images due tomorrow.. i fu~~ing love science.. more details from the bbc here.... .

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  I wish we have technology that would allows us to investigate space beyond the solar system like Oort clouds that would tells us more about origin of our Sun and Earth.
  

  Prologos and KaiKin give us time. We will do it. To an old guy like me it just seems like yesterday before we even had knowledge of planets outside our solar system. Things like Halley's comet were looked upon as superstitious lore. May you live long and prosper.