i am very happy that my dear old mom is finally seeing the truth about the "truth".
what hit her like a ton of bricks is the latest wt.
study article that exalts the governing body and pretty much negates everything the bible students and russell, the founder of the watchtower, ever said was truth!.
So happy for you about your mom!! I think even older ones can finally see. I think more older ones will be leaving, or going inactive at least. Some may not go out full force, but will be able to truthfully and conventiently say "because of my health problems, expenses, etc."
Best wishes to you both.
total speculation of course, but if they are good marketers every attendee will leave the event with a shiny new new world translation.
They may do an annoucement, but state as funds/donations come in, 'then' this 'new' 'new' world translation 'may' be out 'soon.'
Really their distraction of moving expenses, packing up, construction work upstate has probably got them into a 'frenzy.'
here's a bit of a story for you... .
on the weekends, i go to a local restaurant/coffee shop and spend some time there reading, studying, taking notes, etc.
i also get a light breakfast with my 6 to 10 cups of coffee.
That's a good one! :)
in the spanish website extj one forum user shows evidence that on the 18th and 19th of september in chile the government calls to honor the nation displaying the national flag everywhere.
failure to do so is liable to a fine.
you can see the photos here: http://www.extj.com/showthread.php?23799-celebracion-de-la-patria-y-la-doble-moral-de-los-tjs-auspiciado-por-la-watch-tower/page2.
When I think of the tens of thousands little JWs children (including me) having to sit or stand but not salute, facing ridicule or worse, taking the brunt of it all those school years,, all for nothing. When it's ok for JW adults putting up flags so as to not have to pay a fine.. just makes me furious!!!
in the spanish website extj one forum user shows evidence that on the 18th and 19th of september in chile the government calls to honor the nation displaying the national flag everywhere.
failure to do so is liable to a fine.
you can see the photos here: http://www.extj.com/showthread.php?23799-celebracion-de-la-patria-y-la-doble-moral-de-los-tjs-auspiciado-por-la-watch-tower/page2.
Wiki:
"Public buildings and private residences are required to display the flag on Navy Day (21 May), National Day (18 September) and Army Day (19 September). If the flag is displayed incorectly or not displayed at all during these days, the person responsible may be fined."
i have heard that a lot of the english congregations in mexico are shutting down... they are condensing 5 congregations into one, or in some areas even disbanding the only english congregation.
jw's who have been living in mexico for many years and probably were sheltered by being in the english congregations will now have to move to spanish congregations.... .
ilttatt.
Too many U.S. JWs going to Mexico to "serve where the need is greater." Haha. Pub. to population in Mexico 2012 is one pub per pop. of 150. U.S. stat is one pub per pop. 262!
The need is 'greater' in the U.S. now. Haha. The "English" congs. not increasing. The 'English' need help.
The WTS want those who are retiring or whatever to keep their money in U.S. because the WTS wants/needs their money more!
it seems the finland branch has taken over the work from estonia, latvia and lithuania (see http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/offices/finland/).
Wiki says there are "30 Zones." There is an organizational "lopping" of branches for sure. May help with expenses and better control as well.
if the wbts is just another business?
then what do the gb get out of all this?.
tim cook (ceo apple) makes around 378 million a year.. donald trump makes around 60 million a year.. i understand the wbts may have vast property holdings, stocks, bonds, and revenue from donations.. but i can't grasp the incentive for the gb to make this stuff up.
Unquestioned adoration.
it seems the finland branch has taken over the work from estonia, latvia and lithuania (see http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/offices/finland/).
So how many branches does that leave now?
2012 Report listed 96.
up to about 5 minutes ago... i still had the notion that maybe jw's predicted something and got it right... that the league of nations was going to rise and become the united nations.
i think that jw prophecies/predictions are like a shotgun: shoots many projectiles, one of them has got to hit.
you cannot predict 5 different things and then, when one of them gets partly fulfilled, drop the other 4.5 things, change the 1/2 thing you predicted that was right and make it seem like that was the only thing you predicted, and make the entire one point fit after the fact.. reading watchtower literature throughout the years (1879 till now), and then coming here and getting awesome explanations from people like leolaia and other researchers, i finally understand the claim that most apostate websites make: the wt has a 100% prediction failure rate.. they were lucky that something big happened in 1914... but now i am much wiser and i know that everything they predicted for 1914 did not turn out as they predicted... 1914 has been a date with many different hats... from the start of armageddon, to the beginning of the last days... etc.... thank you very much jwn for completely opening my mind.
Fortune tellers know how to play the fame. Nostradamus, some will claim, prophesied or did interpretations, but not accurate either.
